]S3 'jnk\ do) HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY W PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE DELAWARE TO THE PRESENT TIME BY WILLIAM W. H. DAVIS, A.M. President of the Bucks County Historical Society, Member of the American Historical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the Western Reserve Historical Society; Author of "El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People, " " History of Gen, John Lacey: " " The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico ; " " History of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment;" ""History of the Hart Family;" " Life of Gen. John Davis;" "History of the Doylestown Guards;" "The Fries Rebellion; " " History of Do3lestown, Old and New;" Etc. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED WITH A GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNT\ Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of WARREN S. ELY Genealogist, Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Librarian of the Buck^ County Historical Society, AND JOHN W. JORDAN, LL.D. Of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. \ '^OLUME III — ILLUSTRATED NEW •)RK CHICAGO THE LEWIS JL,TIBLISHING COMPANY ^?05 •,'**f -^^ i l4Q Entered According to Act of Congress IN THE Office of the Librarian of Congress, in the Year 1905, BY The Lewis Publishing Company. INTRODUCTORY The present volume forms a fitting supplement to the ample historical nar- rative from the pen of General W. W. H. Davis. For its preparation especial thanks are due to Mr. Warren S. Ely, of more than merely local fame as a genealogist and historian. Out of his abundant store of material and through familiarity with the official records of Bucks and adjoining counties, he has been enabled to write with care and intelligence the genealogical history of various branches of leading families in Bucks county, and his sketches will be readily identified by all who are familiar with the methods which he has observed so successfully in making investigations into ancestral fields in response to many exacting requisitions by individuals and family associations. He has also, in this work, dealt largely with the personal history of leading men of affairs in his native county, and his facile pen can be readily traced by the great mass of readers in that region who for years have been familiar with his clear and cogent writings along the lines which he has pursued with that genuine enthusiasm becoming to one who holds in proper appreciation the sturdy race from whom lie sprang and among whom he was reared, and who possesses the ability of rightly weighing their lives and achievements. An earnest effort has been made to give an authentic history of most of the early settlers, as well as of those who later found homes in this historic county, and their descendants down to the present time, giving special attention to the part taken by them in its history and development. It has been impossible, however, to give as full an account of some of the old families as might have been desired, by reason of the paucity of data furnished, many families of more or less prominence in the aff'airs of the county, at different periods, being with- out exact records of their family line, and it being, of course, impracticable in a work of this general character for the publishers to undertake extensive and expensive researches in untrodden paths. Neither was it possible for Mr. Ely to revise and verify all the data furnished by the representatives of the families treated of in the work. It can be said, however, with reference to the bio- graphical matter contained in this volume that in its preparation the publisher^ have observed the utmost care as to accuracy and authenticity, so far as lay in their power. In all cases the sketches have been submitted to the subject, or present representative of the family, for correction and revision, and the pub- lishers believe that they are placing before the public, in the contents of this volume, a valuable adjunct t,'^ the narrative history of the events in this historic county, to which General Dcv'is has devoted nearly a lifetime of painstaking iv INTRODUCTORY and intelligent research, by giving some authentic account of most of the families that have participated in those events, and following these genealogical and historical sketches with some account of the present gei '.'ation, on whom and their descendants the grand old county must depend for the maintenance of the high standard of citizenship that has characterized her in the past. An effort has also been made to give some account of the descendants of Bucks county ancestry who have wandered from their alma mater and distinguished themselves in the various- walks of life in other sections. We believe, therefore, that we have rendered a lasting service to posterity in gathering together and placing in enduring form much valuable information that would otherwise soon have been irretrievably lost through the passing away of many custodians of family and other records, and the consequent dispersion of such matter. The publishers desire to express their appreciation of the assistance ren- dered them and their editors in the preparation of this work, by various persons wdio have placed at their disposal the result of valuable researches made on genealogical and historical lines for private purposes. As stated therein, much of the data in reference to the Holland families who w^ere the first actual settlers on the Neshaminy in Northampton, Southampton and adjoining parts of War- minster, Bensalem, Middletown and Bristol townships, is the result of more than twenty years of research conducted on these lines by R. Winder Johnson, of Philadelphia, very little if any of which has been heretofore published. Again, much of the data in reference to the early German settlers in upper Bucks, whose part in the history of the county has probably never received proper recognition, is the result of exhaustive researches made by Mr. Ely, in which he was materially aided by the Rev. A. J. Fretz, of ]\Iilton, New Jersey,, who has devoted years of unselfish work to these lines. ]\Iany others have con- tributed more or less to the value of the work by giving us the benefit of their valuable researches. THE PUBLISHERS. INDE PAGE Abbott, Francis.' *. I95 Abbott, John I95 Abbott, Joseph 195 Abbott, Joseph D 195 Abbott, Mary S 196 Abbott, Timothy 195 Adams Family T] Adams, James 7^ Adams, John 78 Adams, Joseph \V 80 Adams, Samuel 79 Afflerbach, Abraham 532 Afflerbach, George 531 Afflerbach, John F 531 Afflerbach, John H 532 Alderfer, John K 597 Alderfer, John Isl 597 Alderfer, Joseph 597 Allabough, David W 505 Allabough, Henry 50^ Allabough, Henry S 505 Althouse, Albert C i^d Althouse, Arndt 34° Althouse, Daniel 340 Althouse, Elias 341 Althouse, Elmer E 340 Althouse, Frederick 341 Althouse. "Milton D 341 Althouse, Samuel K 367 Altho ise, Tobias 366 Andalusia 1 58 Anders, Asher K 368 Anders, INIatilda 369 Anders, Solomon 369 Anders, William 368 Andres, William \\' 369 Anderse, Paul 368 Andress, Jacob 3^58 Angeny. Davis F. . . . .' 424 Angeny, Jacob 424 Angeny, John 424 Armitage, Amos 622 Armitage, Amos, Sr 622 Armitage. Samuel 622 Atkinson Family 163 Atkinson. Howard W 168 Atkinson, Silas C 166 Atkinson, Stephen K 167 Atkinson, Thomas 6 Atkinson, T. Howard 165 Atkinson, Thomas 0 164 \tkinson, William 6 Atkinson, William H 166 PAGE Bachofer, John C 618 Bailey, Emily 504 Bailey, George 503 Bailey, George W 504 Balderston, Charles S 573 Balderston, David 671 Balderston, John 573 Balderston, John W 573 Balderston, Oliver 573 Balderston, Robert L 671 Banes Family '/22 Banes, Samuel T "22, Baringer, Henry 444 Baringer, Irvin Y 410 Baringer, William 410 Barnsley Family -3^4 Barnsley, John 243 Barnsley, John 314 Barnsley, Joseph 314 Barnslej', J. Herman 243 Barnsley, Lydia H 315 Barnsley, Thomas 243 Barnsley, William .314 Barrow, John 615 Bartheman, Francis 667 Bartleman. Theodore 667 Bassett, Samuel 4*^8 Bassett, Samuel T 408 Baum, Heinrich 235 Baum Henry 235 Baum, Joseph 235 Baum, William , 234 , Bean, Henry W^ Bean, Wilson W 3?-> Beans, Nathan 349 Beans, Stephen 349 Beaumont, Andrew J 406 Beaumont, Charles F 406 Beaumont. John A 683 Beaumont, Thomas B 683 Beck, John B 593 Beck, Joseph 593 Bell, Frank F 264 Bell, John 265 Berger, Henry 640 Berger, J. Fennell 640 Bergey, Jonas G 645 Bergey, Wilson S 645 Beringer. Amos N 329 Beringer, Amos S \^^ Beringer, John 329 Beringer, Nicholas 32S Betts.' Charles IM 389 ^\ VI INDEX PAGE Betts, C. Watson 5 • 5 Bctls, John . 389 Betts, Stephen 5^5 Betts, Thomas 5I5 Betts, Wilham 5i5 Biddle, Charles 15H Biddle Family 158 Biddle, Nicholas 159 Biehn, Michael M 334 Biehn, Milton A 334 Bigley, Adam 248 Bigley. Charles. D 248 Bigley, Isaac 248 Birkey Family 625 Birkey, Henry W 628 Birkey, Isaac M 629 Birkey, John 627 Birkey, John W 629 Birkey, John Y 625 Birkey, Peter 626 Birkey, feter 625 Birkey, Samuel 625 Birkey, Thomas H 627 Birkey, William J. A., Jr 628 Birkey, William J. A., Sr 627 Bishop, John H 643 Bishop, Samuel 643 Black, Andrew A 427 Black, Clarence R 259 Black, George E 427 Black, John 258 Black, John P 258 Black. Wilmer S 259 Bloom, Peter D 598 Bloom, William 598 Bond, Cadwalader D 710 Bond, Lewis R 709 Boutcher, Benjamin 641 Boutcher, Benjamin W 64T Boutcher, Joseph 641 Boyer, Daniel M 436 Boyer, John S 436 P.raddock, Katherine 615 Bradshaw, James 430 Bradshaw. John W 429 Bradshaw, Samuel 429 Biadshaw, Thomas 429 Bradshaw. William. Jr 43° \ Branson, Edwin R • 693 vBranson, Isadore C 693 I'ranson, Isaiah 692 B/anson, Jacob 692 Branson, James L 692 Branson, Sarah E ; 693 Branson, William 692 Breen, James 3,^6 Breen, Patrick 336 Brinker, Aden H 588 Brinker, John 588 Broadhurst, Horace G 392 Broadhurst. Samuel E 392 Brooks, Abram 593 Brot)ks, William L 593 Brown. Benjamin 240 Brown, Charles 240 Brown, John 240 Brown, Joseph 352 Brown, Levi 352 Brown, Robert 239 Brown, Robert S ,, . . . 240 PAGE Brown, Samuel 239 Brown, Stacy 352 Brown, William 683 Brown. William B 352 Brown, William H .- 683 Brunner, Harvey S 484 Brunner. Solomon 484 Buckman, Abden 684 Buckman, Benjamin 684 Buckman. Edward H 233 Buckman, Elihu S 233 Buckman, Franklin 232 Buckman. James R 684 Buckman. Walter 233 Buckman. Zenas 232 Buehrle, Frederick F 377 Buehrle, Josejjh 377 Buehrle, William 377 Bunting. Edwin M 185. Bunting Family 184. Bunting John S . . . . 186 Bunting, Joseph 185 Burges, Daniel 214 Purges, Family 214 Burges, Joseph 214 Burson. Benjamin 614 Burson, Edward 614 Burson Family 614 Burson, Joseph 614 Burton, Anthony 22S Burton, Elwood 229 Burton, John 228 Cadwallader, Algernon S 604 Cadwallader, Charles AI 375 Cadwallader, Eli. Jr 718 Cadwallader, Franklin 588 Cadwallader. George S 588 Cadwallader. Jacob 588 Cadwallader. Jacob 663 Cadwallader. James L 663 Cadwallader. John 375 Cadwallader. Samuel C 663 Cadwallader. Washington 717 Cadwallader, Yardly 376 Candy, James B 528 Candv. Thomas D 52S Carrel!, Ezra P 299 Carrell, Ezra R 390 Carrell, Jacob 300 Carrell. James 300- Carrell. James .591 Carrell, Joseph ,^or Carrell, Joseph 391 Carrell, Joseph, Jr .3«/0 Carter, James 61 g Carter. J. Harris 619 Carver. A din (^185 Carver. Charles H 084 Carver. John 040 Carver. Mahlon '>4f> Case. Alexander J 433 Case. Peter 433 Case. Theodore L 433 Cassel, Isaac 27 f Cassel, Levi 271 Cassin. Isaac S \99 Cavanaugh, Francis 606 Chambers, Alexander 508 Chambers, Thomas P 5^7 \ INDEX vii PAGE Chapman, AlM-ahani 380 Chapman, Arthur 380 Chapman Family 379 Chapman, Henry 380 Chapman, John 379 Chapman, Joseph 380 Christy, Alexander 615 Christy, Henry 615 Church, Eleazer F 501 Church, Richard 501 Church, Watson P 500 Clarendon, Thomas 550 Clarendon, Thomas, Sr 550 Claxton, George 555 Claxton, John B 555 Claxton, Thomas B 555 Clayton, Amos K 556 Clayton, William B S56 Clunn, Joseph F 652 Clunn, Robert 652 Clymer, Christian 1 236 Clymer, Christian T 236 Clymer, Eli L 270 Clymer, Henry, Jr 270 Clymer, Henry S 236 Clymer, Jacob F 88 Clymer, John H 2S^ Clymer, Lee S 86 Clymer, Robert L 282 Clvmer, William C 88 Clymer, William H 87 Comfort, Annie 203 Comfort, George 204 Comfort, George M 127 Comfort, Henry W 126 Comfort, John 203 Comfort, Samuel 204 Conrad, Charles 2,S7> Conrad, James 257 Convent of the Blessed Sacrament.... 526 Cooley, William J 281 Cooper, Alfred M 330 Cooper, John W 686 Cooper, William B 330 Cooper, William R 330 Cope, Adam 567 Cope, Addison C 566 Cope, Amandus H _^22 Cope, B. Frank 286 Cope, Charles E 349 Cope, George B 349 Cope, Jacob 322 Cope, John 567 Cope, John 67S Cope, John F 678 Cope, jNIilton L 678 Cope, Tobias G 567 Cope, William S 567 Cornell, Adrien 52 . Cornell Family Sr Cornell, George W 53 Cornell, Hiram 684 Cornell, Ira H 684 Cornell, James C 684 Cornell, John S 237 Cornell, John S., Sr 238 Cornell, Joseph M 54 Cornell, Wilhelmus 52 ~^ 'Courter, Jacob 607 *Courter, Jacob H 607 PAGE Cox, Ezekiel B ^, 623 Cox, Reeder 023 Craven, Charles 712 Craven, James R 71 j Craven, Joseph 248 Craven, Linford R 247 Craven, Thomas 712 Cressman, Abraham S 579 Cressman, Anthony 579 Cressman, Anthony 079 Cressman, David D 579 Cressman, Henry 679 Cressman, Henry 579 Cressman, Jacob 405 Cressman, Jacolj 579 Cressman, Josiah L 405 Cressman, Philip S 679 Cressman, Tobias H 405 Crewitt, Alfred 496 Crewitt, John A 496 Crewitt, Richard C 496 Crispin, Silas 43 Croasdale, Jeremiah W 546 Croasdale, John W 546 Croasdale, Roliert 546 Croasdale, Robert M ..... 545 Crouse, Andrew J 704 Crouse Family 702 Crouse, Frederick 703 Crouse, Jacob W 703 Crouse, Michael, Jr 703 Crouthamel Family 55S Crouthamel, George 538 Crouthamel, Jacob S. Crouthamel, Noah O. Crouthamel, Peter R Crouthamel, Washington O. Cunningham, Joseph T Cunningham, Matthew Cunningham, Matthew C. . Cunningham, Thomas Curley, John Curley, Thomas Dager, Charles T. . . Dager, Frederick Dager, John Dana, Anderson, Jr Dana, Richard Dana, Robert S Dana, Sylvester Darlington, Edward !*> Darlington, Hemy T. Darlington, Thomas Davis, John Davis, William W. H Deemer. Charles ... Deemer, Elias Deemer, George li.. Deemer, Johan G . . . . Deemer, John Deemer, John Deemer, Michael ... Deemer, Michael ... Deemer, Oliver J Delp, George Detweiler, Aaron C. Detweilef, Christian Detweiler, George . , Detweiler, Henry 67 r 558 .S58 67 1 537 5.36 536 .11)0 325 3-^5 3^5 5-'T 5-2 ^' 5-: I 522 510 510 Sro 46 45 359 470 359 358 470 47 1 3> > 47 f 358 731 68.=^ .56 r 677 -iJ Vlil INDEX Delwciler, Henry . . . . Detwciler, Isaac C... Detweiler, Isaac H. . . Detwciler, Jacob . . . . Detwciler, Jacob L... Detweiler, John A... Detweiler, John C... Detweiler, Joseph . . . Detwciler, Mahlon C. Detweiler, Martin . . . Doan, Amos Doan, Harry P Doan, J. Oscar Doan, Wilson Dobbins, Joseph K . . . Doll, Charles M Dolton, Charles Dolton, Richard L... Dorland, John Doron, Thomas E. . . Doron, William E. . . Douglass, George . . . . Douglass, James . . . . Doyle, Charles C Doyle, Edward Doyle, Henry H Doyle, Joseph Doyle, Lemuel H.... Doyle, Samuel Doyle, William Drexel, Joseph W. . '. Drexel, Lucy W Du Bois, Charles E.. . Du Bois Family Du Bois, Jacob Du Bois, John L. . . . Du Bois, John L., Jr. Du Bois, Louis Du Bois, Louis ] )u Bois, Peter Du Bois, LTriah Dungan Family lungan, Isaac )ungaiM /ames Dungan, Jesse , Dungan, John Dung?n, Thomas ... Dungan, Thomas . . Dungan, Wallace » . . Duvner, Charles E. . . Duiiicr, Charles F. . . . ?AGE 68 ^ 677 561 631 561 561 b77 S6i 631 561 685 685 323 43S 726 348 348 496 620 620 617 617 456 454 456 455 454 455 454 525 525 194 192 192 . 194 194 192 193 193 193 ~2o6 20S 206 20S 207 208 206 331 331 Eastburn, Charles T . . 19 Eastburn Family 15 Eastburn, H ugh B 17 Eastburn, Joseph ... lO Eastburn, Moses \6 Eastburn, .Robert 16 Eastburn, Robert 15 Eastburn, Robert 17 Easlliurn, Robert K 21 Eastburn, Samuel 21 Eastburn, Samuel C ....,,.. 20 Eastburn, William T 18 Edwards, Benjamin R 335 Edwards, Hugh 335 Ellis, Charles • ■ . 5^4 Ellis. Joseph A 564 Ellis, Rowland ' 564 i*' - Daniel 426 PAGE Ely, Edward N 451 Ely Family 127 Ely, Heman 448 Ely, Joseph 451 Ely, Justin 448 Ely, Warren S -. : 132 Ely, William L 426 Erdman, Andrew 305 Erdman. Daniel 305 Erdman, George 686 Erdman, John ' 305 Erdman, Milton K 686 Erdman. Owen 305 Erdman. William S 305 Erwin, John 313 Erwin. John 314 Erwin, Joseph 314 Erwin, Joseph J 313 Evans, Caleb 388 Evans, Wilson C 388 Everitt, Aaron 413 Everitt. David 413 Everitt. Ezekiel 412 Everitt. Jesse C 412 Everitt, Samuel 413 Fackenthal, Benjamin F 451 Fackenthal, IMichael 451 Fackenthal. Peter 451 Fackenthal, Philip 450 Faust, Alfred H 356 Fell. Benjamin 186 Fell, Benjamin 266 F"ell, Byron ,M 266 Fell, David 219 ■ Fell. David X 73 Fell, Ely 266 Fell, James. B 266 Fell, Jesse 186 Fell. Tohn 266 Fell, John A 186 Fell, Jonathan 219 Fell, Joseph y^ Fell, Joseph 218 Fell, Joseph "oo Fell. Lewis W 218 Fell, Preston J 187 Fell. Seneca 266 Fell. Wilson D. .37 Felty. Victor H ." -^i,7 Felty, William 547 Flack. Joseph, Jr ^7Z THack, Joseph. Sr :^72, Flack, Roland 37?, Flagler. George W 428 Flagler, Peter 428 Flower^, Amos S .^55 Flowers, Thomas K 554 Flowers, William 5.S4 Flum, Frank H ' . . 272 Flum, Frederic 272 Folkir. Howard 0 205 Forrester. George W 626 Foulke. Benjamin G 90 Foulke, Caleb 90 Foull.e. Charles E o 'i Foulke, Eleanor ■.-. 0 1) I'Vudke. Everard i... o. ■ J'oulke Family Bf < Toulke, Hugh 9 ^ IXDEX IX PAGE Foulke. Hugh 89 Foulke. Job R 91 Foulke. Thomas QO Foulke. William H 91 Freed. Henry 444 Freed, Henry W 444 Freed, John 444 French, Bennett M 714 French, J. Andrew 713 French, William 714 Fretz, Abraham 360 Fretz, Abraham 401 Fretz. Abraham J 401 Fretz. Alfred E 307 Fretz, Christian 401 Fretz, Clayton D 307 Fretz, Ely 433 Fretz. H. Erwin 432 Fretz. Henry L 3('r Fretz, Jacob 3>(^o Fretz, John 360 Fretz, John 401 Fretz, John E 146 Fretz, John S. . : I47 Fretz, Joseph H • 3f>o Fretz, Mahlon M 43-2 Fretz, ?^Iartin 401 Fretz, Oliver H i-'O Fretz, Philip H I43 Fretz, Philip K 43-^ Fretz, Ralph J '. i47 Fretz, S. Edward 30H Fretz, William 120 Fulmer, Daniel 406 Fulmer. Xoah 406 Fulmer. Oliver A 406 Garges. Abraham 257 Garges. Edward 3 '6 Garges. Henry 257 Garner. Samuel 344 Garner. Sannul J ' 344 Garner. Samuel S 344 Geil, John 15- Geil. Samuel I5- Geil, William E 15^ George, Jacob, Jr 43'^ George, Jacob. Sr 4.^8 Gibson. Andrew 653 GibsGii. Andrew J 653 Gilbert Hiel 647 Gilbert. Maris 647 Gilke^on. Andrew W 345 Gilkeson. Franklin 345 "Gillam. Harvey, Sr 540 Gillam, Simon 540 Gilliam. Harvey H . 540 Gilliam, William 54° Girton. Garret B 367 Girton. James 5^8 Gotwals. Daniel 581 Gotwals. Jonas 581 Gray. Dean (191 Gray. John .\55 Gray. John ]M 365 Gray. Samuel 355 Gray, Samuel S J56 Gray, Thomas H (")i Greup, John +3' Griffee, Howard ^I ' >5-' PAGE Griffee, Peter 652 Griffith, Amos 616 Griffith, Austin E 616 Griffith, John W 616 Grim, Adam 301 (irim, F. Harvey 301 (irim, George M 306 Grim, George W 301 (irim, George W 306 Grim, Webster 210 Groff. Charles S 571 Groff, Isaac S 477 (iroff, Jacob • 477 Groff, Jacob 571 Ciroff, James E 477 Groom, Ezekiel A 543 Groom, Jonathan 543 Groom, Thomas 543 Groover. Andrew 711 Gross, Daniel 209 Gross, Henry W 209 Gross, Jacob 362 Gross, John 363 r,ross, John A 362 Gross, John L ;j63 Gross, Joseph N 209 Grundy, Edmund 365 Grundy, Joseph R 365 Grundy, William H 365 Gruver, John 711 Gruver, Jonas H 711 Gulick. Christopher S 289 Gulick h'amily 288 (iulick. Hendrick 288 (iulick, Joachim 288 Gulick, Merari 289 Gulick, Samuel 288 Gulick, Samuel S 289 Gumpper, John J i' 347 (iumpper. Thomas K 347 Hagerty, James 443 Hagerty, John 44 ' Hagerty, Preston W 4'^ Haldeman, Abel G 6'^^ Haldeman, Charles (\^^ Haldeman. Daniel "^^ Haldeman. Edwin K ^^^ Haldeman. Tohn • ^~ Hall, C. Harry W2 o Hall Family I4T ' Hall, ^ifatthias H tji; Hall, William W 150 Hancock. Charles W 516 Hancock. John 516 Hancock, Joseph L 5f6 Hancock, Samuel 516 Haney, Anthony 051 Haney, Michael 65 1 Haney, Michael G 651 Haring, Charles C 611 Haring, Charles C, Sr 611 Harley. Jrjhn 647 Harlcy, Jonas S 647 Harpel, Amos 405 Harpel, Conrad ^.05 Harpel, Harvey F 404 Harpel, John 405 ITarrar. James S 240 1 larrar, Joel J . 249 INDEX PAGE Harris, Theopliilus 336 Hart, B. Frank 42 Hart, George 45 Hart, George 320 Hart, James 45 Hart, James 319 Hart. John 42 Hart, John 318 Hart, Joseph 45 Hart, josnua 2t)4 Hart, JosialT 320 Hart, William 319 Hart, William H , . 45 Hartley, George W., Jr 279 Hartley, William H 279 Hartzel, Abram G 609 Hartzel, l-'rancis D 609 Harvey, George T 158 Harvey, Joseph 488 Harvey, Lydia A . 488 Harvey, Theodore P 488 Heacock, J^oel 636 Heacock, Joel L 636 Headley, Amos B 612 Headley, Joseph J 612 Headley, Heaney, Heaney, Heaton, Heaton, Heckler, Heckler, Heckler, Heckler, Heckler, Hedrick, Hedrick, Heinlein Heiulein, Heller, Heller, Heller, Heller, ' leller, eller. Thomas 612 Nicholas L 424 Thomas 424 Frank ■....; 727 Mathias 72J Allen H 333 Calvin F 33^ John R 333 Nari F ■ ■ 333 Samuel 33o David ■...-■ 646 John K 646 Family .' 308 George . ■ 308 David 310 el Iyer, llyer, llyer, llyer, Jacob 310 Johan M ■ • 310 Josiah B 310 William J .-• • 309 Yost 310. Amos S 381 Anderson 381 Howard A -55^ Valmore M 381 William -55^ 485 485 Benjamin 495 Cornelius 495 Family 494- 495 496 335 335 Edwin John r D Di Dv ^^'-llyer, I:cmmerly, Hei.-rierly, Hendricks, Hendricks, Hendricks Hendricks, John C Hendricks, Joseph A Heritage, John B . . . . Heritage, John F. . . Heritage, Joseph B . Heritage, Joseph D.. Heston, George T. . Heston, Jesse S. . . Hibbs, James C Hibbs, John G . . . Hibbs, Si)encer H Hibbs, William . . Hicks, Fdward I' Hicks Family . . . . Hicks, George A . . . 5^9 5-^9 532 53-2 576 576 576 576 1 12 no 112 PAGE Hicks, Penrose 1 14 Hiester, Maria C 87 Hiester. William 87 Hill. Harry C 469 Hill. Humphrey 469 Hill. John H 469 llillborn, John 621 Jlillborn, William 621 Hillpot, Samuel S 231 Hinckle, Casper 380 Hinckle, Philip 380 Hines, A. J 473 Hines, William C 474 Hhikle, Albert G. B 380 Hinkle. Elias 707 Hinkle, Joseph 381 Hinkle, Tobias C 707 Hinkle, William 381 Hobensack, B. Frank 369 Hobensack, Isaac 369 Hobensack, Isaac C 720 Hobensack, Wilkins 610 Hobensack, William 719 Hogeland, Abraham 396 Flogeland, Daniel 395 Hogeland, Derrick K 39c; Hogeland, Elias 396 Hogeland Family 395 Hogeland, Frank 396 Hogeland, Horace B 397 Hogeland, Isaac 396 Hogeland. John 397 Hogeland, JNIorris 398 Hogeland. William S 397 Hoguet, Louis A 241 Holbert, Nathan 706 Holbert, William 705 Holbert. William M 705 Holcomb. Isaac W 608 Hplcomb. John 608 Hoi combe, Charles 320 Flolcombe, John 321 Holcombe, IMary 320 Holcombe, Oliver H 320 Holcombe, Richard 320 Holcombe. Sarriuel 321 Hotchkiss, Clarence D 478 Hotchkiss, George W 478 Hotchkiss, Samuel 478 Hough. Benjamin 12 Hough. John 8 Hough. John S 8 Hough. Oliver 11 Hough, Richard 5 Plough. William H 74 Howell. David 562 Howell. Timothy ....". 562 Hunsicker. Abraham 514 Hunsicker. Isaac 514 Hunsicker. Isaac ]\f . . 514 Hunsicker. Jacob 514 Hunsicker, Valentine 514 Hutc-hinsr>tvEdward S ^44 1 i 'isinger. Albert 688 1 iisinger. Edward 6SS Iredell. Charles T ■;63 Ire.loll. Robert 364 Ireland, Charles G 705 Irif land. Rachael P 704 INDEX \n PAGE Irwin, John 689 Irwin, Nathan D 637 Irwin, Mrs. N. D 637 Ivins, Aaron ^_^^ Ivins, Aaron 62T Ivins, Edward A 344 Ivins, Edward A 343 - Ivins, Moses H 687 Ivins, William ' H 621 Jacoby, Benjamin 142 Jacoby, Edwin J 589 Jacoby, Henry S 141 Jacoby, John 589 Jacoby, Peter 142 Jacoby, Peter L 142 James Family 60 James, Henry A ' 6^ James, Howard 1 64 James, Irvin M 65 James, Oliver P 66 James, Thomas A 67 James, Wynne 64 Janney Family 54 Janney, Randle j^. . ^z, Janney, Stephen T 50 Janney, Thomas ^6 Janney, William S 60 Jarrett, Alvin J 661 Jarrett, Solomon 661 Jenkins, John [^34 Jenkins, Joseph ^34 Jenkins, Phineas 534 Jenkins, Stcphei),' . 534 Jenkirs, Wilii^m . 5*^4 Jenkii Zirhary T 534 Jet;'-- .'ctmily .. ' -^,S Jenks, George A \o Jenks, John S -^ Jenks, Phineas 39 Jenks, Thomas -. 38 Jenks, William H 41, Jenks, William P 41 Johnson, Casper ! . . . 347 Johnson, Charles ;^T^y Johnson, Clark 242 Johnson, Edward W 98 Johnson, Elmer L 242 Johnson, H. Watson 221 Johnson, Isaac S 102 . Johnson, Jesse L : . . . . 243 Johnson, John 237 Johnson, John R 237 Johnson, Lawrence gS .Johnson, Martin 237 Johnson. JNlilton 347 Johnson. O. James 337 Johnson, Richard M 347 Johnson, R. Winder \36 Johnson, Robert M 266 Johnson, Samuel A 715 Johnson.' William 254 Johnson. William 266 .Tones, Catherine J 667 Jordan, Alexander 475 Jordan, A. Hayes 474 Jordan, Frederick. Jr 475 ■Jordan, Henry ^75 "Kanll, George 6^8 Kaiill, John H 6,^?> Keeler, Keeler, Keeler, Eli E. K. PAGE ^ Wesley ^^q John ,75 Kemi, Daniel D jgf, Keim, Daniel M ig6 Keim, Nicholas 196 Keith, Sipron C ocQ Keller, Abraham 509 Keller, Christopher "' c;o9 Keller, Joseph ;;;;' rog Keller, Lewis cnR Keller, Mahlon .... J', Kelly, William F.. Jr... . 387 Kelly, William F., Sr [[[] 3X7 Kerbangh, Benjamin F 642 Kcrbaugh, Josiah ] * 642 Kilcoyne, John J . . 242 Kimble, Al)el ^^q Kimble, Richard 51^0 Kimble, Seruch T 550 Kimble, William 550 King. John F 472 King, John G 472 King, ]\Lnrtin 472 King, ^lorton 612 King, Peter gj King, Samuel M 612 Kirk, Amos W: 551 Kirk, Charles '^-y Kh-k, Edward R ^^j Kirk, Isaac ^'c^i Kirk, Thomas \'^i Kiser, Edwin 479 Kiser, Harvey S 478 Kiser, Samuel 47Q Kline, George H 342 Kline, Henry K 341 Kline, Isaac 347 ynight, Alfred ggi H-o -'ht, 'Amos 5g8 KniglK r A iiej-, ggj Knight. 1 sirlc 7 s^gg Knight. Jonathan * . . c;gg Knight. ., Sarah J 660 Knoll, Frank L ^4^ Knoll, Lewis ' / _ ,^^'- Kolb. Henry \j] Kooker, Henry ., ^j Kooker, Jacob , - , . 442 .^ Kooker, Peter ' 442 ^l^ Kramer, Abraham ,, ' Kramer, Samuel R Krause, Carl G Krause, Charles B 680 Krauskopf, Joseph 276 Kratz. Abraham 268 Kratz. Abraham 689 Kratz. David N 577 Kratz. Henry M 268 Kratz. Henry R 648 Kratz. Jacob 268 Kratz. John c,yj Kratz, John S . . 68g Kratz. Philip 1577 Kratz. Valentine 268 Kratz. William 648 Kratz. William D 348 Kreiss, Peter 5 f8 Kreiss, Peter L 518 Krusen, Wilmer 261 •5" . ()8o INDEX. PAGE Kulp, Abraham 316 Kulp, Abraham' M 587 Kulp, Harry N 410 Kulp, Harvey S 586 Kulp, Jacob H 586 Kulp, Jacob S 411 Kulp. John L 316 Kunser, Andrew 553 Kunser, Henry 553 Kunser, ]\Iichael 553 Lampen, Garret H 407 Lampen. Michael 407 Lampen, Michael, Jr 407 Lamnen, Simon 407 Landis, Isaac M 619 Landis, George 354 Landis, George M 354 Landis, Henry 436 Landis, Jacob 354 Landis, Jacob S 619 Landis, John M 693 Landis, Michael A 436 Landis, Samuel B 353 Lapp, Abraham 594 Lapp, Henry B 594 Lapp, Jacob 594 Large, Henry C 484 Large, William M 484 Larue, Albert C 282 Larue. John B 282 LaRue Family 180 LaRue, Moses 182 LaRue, Nicholas 183, LaRue, William H 183 Larzelere, Benjamin 446 Larzelere, Jacob 446 Larzelere, Nicholas 446 Larzelere, William 446 Laubach, Anthony 499 Laubach, Charles -, ■• 500 Laubach, Christian . . /T" 498 Laubach Family • • ' 49^ Laubach, Fredenv k 385 Laubach. Joha/i ' G 499 Laubach. Jobh G 499 Laubach, Samuel H 498 Lauderbach, Charles J 659 Lauderbach, Harris V 659 Li ar, George 385 i.ear. Henry 386 1 eatherman. Aaron 690 Lcatherman. Eli 440 Leatherman. Henry L 361 .[>eatherman, Jacob 41S l-eatherman, Jacob Y 361 Leatherman, Joseph 690 Leatherman. Joseph 418 Lehman, Arthur C 483 Lehman, Harry C 483 Lehman, Michael 483 Lehman & Sons : 483 Leidy. Cornelius W 4.15 Leidy Family S87 Leidy, H. Frank 588 Leidy. Levi 435 Leidv, Samuel G 587 Leigli. Thomas 306 Leigh, Wiliiam B 306 Leister, John 53S P.^GE Leister, Johnas 539 Leister, Thomas R 538 Lengil, Peter 542 Lengel, Samuel R 542 Lerch, David 429 Lerch, George W 429 Lerch. Samuel 429 Lewis, David M 324 Lewis, Joseph M 324 Lippincott, Joshua 668 Lippincott, Theodore 668 Livezey, Edward 728 Livezey, Edward, Sr 728 Lodge, Abel 607 Lodge, John 607 Longstreth, Daniel 302 Longstreth, Edward 302 Loux, Andrew 439 Loux, Mathias i 439 . Loux. Mathias J 4.S9 Lovett, Daniel 661 Lovett, Henry 307 Lovett. Jonathan 307 Lovett, R. Pittield 661 Lovett, William 307 Lundy, J. Wilmer 114 Lundy, Richard 114 Lynn. Alexander 574 Lynn, Lewis M 574 Lynn, Victor V 574 IMacKenzie, Farrell 610 MacKenzie. Richard 610 Alagill, Alfred 602 Magill, Edward W 449 iSIagill, C. Howard 601 Magill, w atsoi. r" 4; M -.gill. William 449 Magill, William 602 IMarple, Alfred . 283 ]\[arple, Frank H 284 ^Larple, F. M 2^i Marshall, Alfred 501 Marshall, Caleb H 502 ]\Iarshall, George M 447 Marshall, Harriet P 44S ]\Iarshall. Robert 502 ]\Iarshall. Se.th 447 Marshall, Thomas 501 Jklartin, Adam 37- Martin, A. Oscar 4S2 :Martin, Allen S -'S'8 Martin, George ,-72 ^Lartin, George ' ■r)2 Martin. Jonas iSj ]\Iartin, Michael '02 Martin, Reul)en A r - Martindell, Edwin W -N i Martindell, John 507 Martindell. Jonathan \V 580 Mason, Ernest ' 3.^8 ]\Iason, Joel v-^ Mason, Joel M ...v^ ]\rathew, Simon I'li ^ilathews, Charles H i^'O ]\Iathews, Charles H 1 ' 3 Mathews. Charles J 417 Matliews, Lawrence J 417 Matlack. William .i.| McDowell, Robert 374 McDowell, William 374 McTlhatten, D. J 3H7 ;McIlhatten, Samuel P 387 ]\IcKinstry, George 327 McKinstry, Henry 246 INIcKinstry, H. Martyn 247 jMcKinstry, Jesse 328 McKinstry, Nathan 246 McKinstry, Nathan 327 IMcKinsfry, Oliver 328 McKinstry, Robert 246 IMcKinstry, Samuel 328 McKinstry, Wilson B 246 McNair, James 637 IMcNair, James M 637 INIcNair, Solomon 637 Mershon, Joab C 644 Mershon. William C 644 ]\feyer. Christian 269 jMeyer, Hans 224 IMeyer, Henry 440 Meyer, John 224 IMeyer, "Samuel 269 Meyers, Isaac 441 IMeyers, John H 440 IMeyers. John 0 44T Michener, Burroughs 367 jMichener, Ezra 584 INIichener, Isaiah 584 ]\Iichener, IMarmaduke 367 Michener, Meschach 367 IVIichener, Samuel 367 ]\Iiles Family 665 Miles, Griffith 665 Miles, Joseph 665 Miles, Sanmcl 665 Miles, William G 665 TMill. George 589 Mill, George G 589 Mill, Solomon 589 Miller, A. J 281 Milnor, J. Cambv S7S Milnor, William "B 575 Mininger, William H 232 Minster, Ell wood W , 362 INTinster, Nicholas 362 INIinster, William S 362 Mintzer, St. John W 411 iMitchell, Allen R 520 Mitcliell. Gove 520 INIitthell, Henry 520 IMitchell, Joim 520 Mitchell, Pearson 520 Moll, James D 435 ]\[oll. John 435 Moll, John G 435 Mollov, Harry F 262 Molloy, John B 581 TMolloy, Nicholas E 262 Moon, Charles 602 Moon, Daniel 215 TMoon Familj . . 212 Moon, James .... 602 PAGE Moon, Mahlon 213 Moon, Moses 213 Moon, Moses 602 Moon, Owen, Jr 214 Moon, Roger ' 212 Moon, William 214 Moore Family 440 Moore, Henry ■ 449 Moore, Henry 11 579 Moore, Jesse H 579 Moore, Jesse P 579 Moore, Mordeci 449 Moore, Richard 449 Morgan, Daniel 308 Morgan, David 416 Morgan, Enoch 416 Morgan Family 308 Morgan, John M 416 Morgan, j^Irs. Lizzie Bell 311 Morris, Effingham B 456 Morris, Israel W 456 Morris, Mrs. Robert J , 180 Morris, Peter H 601 Morris, Theodore 601 Morris, William T 601 Morrison, A. J 137 Morrison, Joseph 138 Morwitz, Edward 463 Morwitz, Joseph 464 Moyer, Abraham '. 269 Moyer, Abraham D 234 Moyer, Abraham G 220 Moyer, Abram F 708 Moyer, Allen G 219 IMoyer, Christian 219 Moyer, Harvey W 221 Moyer, Henry A 1 70 Moyer, Henry G 169 Clover, Flenry 0 269 IMoyer, Isaac H 708 ^ — Moyer, Levi S 2Sj Moyer, Peter 233 Moyer, Samuel 220 Moyer, Sanniel B 269 IMoyer, William G 245 Murphy, Felix A 67S Murphy, John 676 Murray, Charles 357 [Murray, Joseph D 331 Murray, Mahlon 357 Murray, William H 33^ T^Iyer, Benjamin 630 Myer Family • 630 Myer, Isaac 630 Myer, Isaac, Jr 630 Myers, Aaron F 359X-_ Myers. Abraham F 431 Myers, Abraham G 25T Myers, Abraham M 2ST Myers, Christian 582 Myers, Christian M 224 Myers, Eliza B 226 Myers, Emma E. B 259 Myers, Francis F 25T IMyers, Henry 251 Myers. Henry 431 Myers, Henry F 725 Myers. Jacob 582 IVfycrs, Joseph F 359 MV INDEX PAGE Myers, Newton 582 Myers, Oliver 725 Myers, Samuel 225 Nase, Barndt 574 Nase, Herbert S 574 Nash, Abraham 423 Nash, Abraham 571 Nash, Abraham D 571 Nash, Mary A 423 National Farm School 276 Naylor, Jesse P 662 Naylor, William 662 Neamand. Harry 403 Neamand, John 403 Neamand. William 403 Negus, John 426 Negus, Stephen W \ . . . 426 Negus, Thomas C 426 Newell, William C 157 Nichols, H. S. P 138 Nightingale, Charles R 464 Nightingale, Henry B 465 Nightingale, Samuel 464 Nonamaker, Aaron 239 Nonamaker, Henry 239 Nonamaker, Noah S 239 Ozias. George 700 Ozias, John A 700 Paddock, Naomi A 635 Paddock, Phineas 635 Paist, Andrew C 554 Paist, James ]\I 553 Paist, Jonathan 553 Paist, Joseph H 553 Parry, Benjamin 68 Parry, Daniel yi Parry, Edward R 70' "^arry Family 67- Parry, George R 70- Parr}% Henry C 287 Parry, Isaac 226- Parry, Isaac 227 Parry, Isaac C 25(? Parry, Jacob 227' Parry, John , ; . . 68^ Parry, John 287 Parry, Old Mansion 71 Parry, Oliver 69 Parry. Oliver P 71- Parry, Philip 287 Parry. T?icliard R 70 Parry, Thomas 67- Parry, Thomas 227 ifarry, Thomas 287 Parry. Thomas F 287 Parry. William B 288,^ Parsons, Charles A > . 400 Parsons Family 400 Parsons, Isaac 400 Patterson, Daniel T 50 Patterson, James 513 Patterson, James 411 Patterson, Jesse 41 r Patterson, Samuel A. W 50 Patterson, ThoiDas H SO P^.xsnn, AMiert S 693 Paxson, Charles 693 / PAGE Paxson, Edward M 154 Paxson, Jacol) 155 Pax=on, James 154 P' son, J. Warren 350 xson, Mrs. J. Warren 349 1 axson, Phineas 693 Paxson, Thomas 754 Paxson, Thomas 155 Paxson, William 154 Pemberton Family i Pemberton, Henry 4 Pemberton. Phineas 4 Penrose, Evan 699 Penrose Family 293- Penrose, Jarret 294 Penrose, Jonathan 382 Penrose, Robert 293 Penrose, Robert 294. Penrose, Samuel 294 Penrose, Samuel J 296- Penrose, William 294 Penrose, William 295 Penrose, William 699 Percy, Frank 434 Percy, Thomas ^ 434 Phillips, Francis M 339 Phillips, Horace G 339 Pickering, H. Augustus 530 Pickering, Henry Y 517 Pickering, Henry Y 669 Pickering, Isaac, Jr 530 Pickering, John 517 Pickering, John 669 Pickering, Jonathan C 531 Pickering, Joseph 531 Pickering, Thomas E 670 Pickering, Yeamans 317 Pickering. Yemans 670 Pollock, James 480 Poore, Daniel 697 Poore, John B 696 Poore, Robert A 698 Praul, Amos T 447 Praul, Elias 662 Praul, Elisha C 569 Praul, Francis 447 Praul, Isaac 447 Praul, John 447 Praul, John 569 Praul, William 662 Preston, Albert W 666 Preston, Joseph G 666 Preston, Paul 666 Preston, Silas 666 Price, Daniel B 213 Price, David 260 Price, David 40^ Price Family - 1 3 Price, James j.'v Price, John i .^ Price, John ^^^ 260- Price, John ^^^5 Price, John N ^JBfck. Price, Nathan Price, Nathaniel Price, Samuel G .^o Price, Samuel G , 466 Price, Smith 2U0 Price, William H 665 Purdy Family 45? IXDEX XV PAGE Purely, Harry R 460 Purely, John 458 Purdy, John M 459 Purdv, Thomas 459 Purdy, William 458 Pursell, Brice 151 Pursell, Howard 150 Pursell, John 151 _ Quick, Armitage B 546 Quick, Ezekiel 546 Quick, Joseph G . 5.16 Quinby, George H 386 Quinby, Henry R 597 Quinby, Isaiah 386 Quinbj', James 386 Quinn. Hiel G 55^ Quinn, John 558 Radcliff, Elisha 453 Radcliff, George W 660 Radcliff, James 453 Radcliff, Jarrves 660 Radcliff. John 452 Radcliff, John L 704 Radcliff, Rachael P 705 Radcliff, Samuel K 452 Radcliff, Thomas S 704 Ramsey, Edward 425 Ramsey, John. Jr 425 Ramsey, John, Sr 425 Ramsey, William 425 Randall. Amos 2^2 Randall, Eber 253 Randall, James V 2^2 Reed, Andrew 468 Reed, David 600 Reed, George I\I 694 Reed, Jacob 467 Reed, Johann P 467 Reed, Michael H 468 Reed, Robert 600 Reed. Willoughby H 467 Reeder, Eastburn 22 Reeder, Frank K 694 Reeder. Joseph E 23 Reeder, Mahlon H 694 Reeder, Merrick 2,^ Renner, Adam 422 Renner, Jr.cob • 422 Renner, John 422 Renner, William 422 Rhoades. Charles H 25S Rice, Charles 569 Rice, Hampton W 506 Rice, Joseph 506 Rice, Oliver J 568 Rice, Robert 568 Rice, Samuel H 506 Rice, William 506 RicharcKf .n, Edward 256 Rich" -d -en, Joseph 256 Richardson, Joshua 255 Richardson Mary ; 256 Rickert. Hei v R 713 Rickert, Isasf^ 713 Rickert. John • : 44° Rickert, Mary L 440 Rickert. Reuben 1 713 Rickey, John ' 727 PAGE Rickey, ^largaret W 727 Ricke}', Randal ^27 Rickey, Randal H ^^27 Ridge. Daniel 585 Ridge, Lloyd 585 Ridge, Louis A 355 Ridge. William W 585 Riegel, Ida J 423 Riegel, John L 423 Riggs Family 631 Riggs, Joseph 631 Riggs. Samuel 631 X^ Robbins, Isaac 1 570 Robbins, John 57a Robbins, Joseph 570 Roberts, Annie E ;i26 Roberts, Edwin 326 Roberts Family ;^26 Roberts, Lewis 251 Roberts, Robert ^^26 Roberts, William P 251 Rockafcllow, William 657 Rockafellow, William H 657 Rodman, John 162 Rose, Edward B 712 Rose, John 658 Rose. OHver P 658 Rose, Thomas 658 Rosenberger, Abraham B 675 Rosenberger, Artemus 418 Rosenberger. Daniel 563 Rosenberger. Harrington B 563 Rosenberger. Henry 418 Rosenberger. Isaac 67^ ■ Rosenberger, Isaac R }.6t, Rosenberger, Jacob D 419 Rosenberger, Joseph 563 Ross, George 81 Ross, George 83 Ross, Henry P 82 Ross, John 82 Ross, Thomas 81 Ros^, Thomas S2 Roth, Jacob B 258 Rubinkam, G. W 393 Rubinkam. Nathaniel 393 Rufe. George 302 - Rufe, John 30:: Rufe, John Z 596 Rufe, Reden 302 — Ruff. Jacob ^02 ^ Rumpf. Frederick 055 Rumpf, Joseph F 655 Rush, Jacob ^i 293 Rush, William 293 Ruth, Henry P 539 Ruth. Joseph S 539 Ryan, John 476 Ryan, William C 4/6 Satterthwaite. Giles 646 Satterthwaite, Henry W 646 Savacool, Aaron 291 Savacool, Enos 291 Savacool Family 290 Savacool. Jacob 290 Savacool, Jacob 291 Savacool. W. Elmer 292 Savacool. William P. 291 Scarborough, Enos T) . I7S>' XVI INDEX PAGE Scarborough Family 1/5 Scarborough Family 178 Scarborough, Henry W 178 Scarborough, Hiram 179 Scarborough, Isaac 180 Scattergood, Caleb 578 Scattergood, William A 578 Schaeffer, Andrew '. 624 Schaeffer, John .' 624 Schaffer, Conrad ' 681 Schaffer, Gotfrey '575 Schaffer, John . ' 575 Schaffer, Joseph B 575 Schaffer, Samuel 68r Scheerer, Christian 238 Scheerer, Jacob 238 Scheetz, Albert F 384 Scheetz, Conrad 383 Scheetz, Erwin 385 Scheetz Family 383 Scheetz, George 383 Scheetz, Harvey '. 385 Scheib, John 541 Scheip, George \V 541 Scheip, John L 541 Schenck, Courtland 660 Schenck, Joseph H 660 SchloUer, Abraham 565 Schmitt, Harry B 488 Schmitt, Leonard 488 Schneider, Jacob 583 Scott, Abraham 512 Scott. Joseph ]M 547 Scott, Josiah 512 Scott, Josiah E 512 Scott, Josiah N 513 Scott, Rachel 513 Scott, Samuel 512 Scoit, Thomas 346 Scott, Wilford L 547 Scott, William 346 Search, Christopher 592 Search, Jacob M 326 Search, Jacob ]\I 592 Search, Theodore C 592 Sells, Holmes T,2y Sells, John D 327 Shaddingcr. Abraham 653 Sbaddinger, Andrew 653 Shaddingcr, Edward E 572 Sh;ddineer, Hannah G 653 -iliacidinger. Henry R 572 Sbaddinger, Jacob L 572 Sbaddinger. John W 675 Shamp, David 429 Sliamp, Jonathan 429 Shari)loss. Charles W 669 Shearer, Jesse 488 Shellenberger. Conrad 292 Shellenberger Family 292 Shellenberger, John L 292 Shellenberger, Jacob S 293 Shelly, Andrew B 200 Shel ',y, Emanuel N 353 Shcilv, PTenry S 58^ Shelly, Henry S 682 Shelly, Jacob L 585 Shell}', Joseph W 200 Shell} , Samn. i t,^t, Sboll\ S;:mml qS; PAGE Shelly, Samuel D 353 Shelly, Samuel M 682 Shepherd, Carlile 480 Shepherd, Cornelius 481 Shepherd, Henry C 481 Shepherd, John C 481 Shepherd. Joseph 481 . Sherm, John 677 Sherm, John B 677 Sherm, William H 577 Sherwood Catharine J 667 Sherwood, Harry M 596 Sherwood, John 667 Sherwood, William 595 Sherwood, William E 595 Shoemaker, Harry J 296 Shoemaker, Isaac 297 Shoemaker, James 297 Shoemaker, James 298 Shoemaker, Jesse 298 Shoemaker, Peter 296 Shoemaker, Peter, Jr 297 Siddall, John E 556 Siddall, Joseph H 556 Siegler, Charles L 304 Siegler, C. Louis 304 Siegler Family 303 Siegler, INIathevv .' 303 Siegler. Peter 304 Sine, Darius 542 Sine, John 542 Sine, Joseph 542 Slack, Abraham 562"" Slack, Abraham 654 - Slack, Abraham 673 , Slack, Abram K 562 - Slack, Albert 6^9 - Slack, Albert E ■. . 673 Slack, Cornelius 562 - Slack, Cornelius 654- Slack, David 639 . Slack, Edward M 654 - Slack, Edward T 639 _ Slack, Elijah T 673 ^ Slack, John 639 - Slotter. Jacoh 674* Slotter, J. Titus 67^ Slotter, John F 565 Slotter, Samuel 565 Smith, Charles J (134 Smith, Charles B . 511 •Smith, Fdnumd 618 Smith, Elias E 5tt Smith, Horace T 6\y Smith, James 656 Smith, James P 656 Smith, John D 339 Smith, Jonathan 635 Smith Joshua ^118 Smith, Joseph L 2O,- Smith. i\Iartin H. 339 Smith, Robert fnr Smith, Thomas M>' Smith, Thomas S fii.^ Smith, William -'03 Smith, William 635 Snyder, y\mos H 591" Snyder, George 583 Snydev, Henry H 583 Snvdcr, John 19S INDEX xvu Snyder, John H Snyder, Martin L Snyder, Martin L Snyder, Robert B Solliday, Jacob Solliday, Peter Souder, Cliristopher Souder, Henry Souder, Henry H Springer, John StackhoTise, Amos Stack-house, Asa INI Stackhouse, Benjamin Stackhouse, Charles Stackhouse Family Stackhouse, Henry Stackhouse, Henry W Stackhouse, Isaac Stackhouse, Isaac Stackhouse, James R Stackhouse, John H Stackhouse, John H Stackhouse, Robert Stackhouse, Thomas, Jr Stackhouse, Thomas, Sr Stapler, John Stapler, John M Staplery Stephen Stapler. Susanna , Staplerl Thomas, Staveley, William Staveley, William R Steeb, Friedrich Stever, Abraham Stever, John Stever, John H Stever, Reuben B St. Francis Industrial School. Stintsman, Samuel Stintsman, Silas Stintsman, Thomas Stockton, Isaiah V Stockton, John Stockton. Lendrum Stonebach, Jacob T Stonebach, Sylvester H Stoneback, Robert Stoneback, Worman Stout, Abraham Stout, Abraham B Stout, Enos Stout, Jacob B Stout, Harrison C Stout, Henry H Stout, Jacob Stout, Lewis K Stout, Mahlon H Stout, Oliver Stout, Oliver A Stover, Abraham F Stover, Henry S Stover, Jacob Stover, Jacob Stover, John J Stover, Ralph Stover, Samuel . . Strawn, Charles F Strawn, Daniel Strawn, Johnson Strawn, Thomas ... ...... 'AGE 198 197 198 591 730 ■ 730 613 613 61S 686 489- 489^ 420 420 419 682 6S2 419 420 682 ■420 420 490 ' 419 419 4S6 486 4S6 604 486 649 649 .^56 402 402 40.> 402 414 232 232 232 600 600 600 63s 635 676 676 84 345 203 85 345 202 84 203 84 20 r 203 428 582 226 583 582 428 226 590 =;9o 678 500 PAGE Strawn, Thomas 678 St. Stephen Reformed Church 531 Stuckert, Amos 278 Stuckert, Henry 277 Stuckert, Henry C 277 Stuckert, William H 277 Stuckert, William R 27S Summers Family 490 Summers, ]\Iartin 491 Summers, Philip 491 Summers, Samuel 491 Summers, William 492 Swallow, Charles R 313 Swallow, Francis R 313 Swartley, Abraham M 267 Swartlej^, George 439 Swartley, Henry D 241 Swartley, Henry S 267 Swartley, John 222 Swartley, John 223- Svvartley, John C 85 Swartlc3% Levi 222 Swartley, Levi M 223 Swartley, Philip R 85 Swartley, Philip 222 Swartley, Philip 439 Swartley, Philip C 240 Swartz, Abram 680- Swart /c, Abram V 679 Swart/C, Andrew 670 Swartz, Jacob i I ! 230 Swartz. Thomas I' 230 Swartzlander. Frank 187 Swartzlander. Frank B 189 Swartzlander, Gabriel 18S Swartzlander, Jacob 188 Swartzlander, Joseph R 190 Swope, Reuben 0 276 Taylor. Benjamin • 536 Taylor, Benjamin J 109 ■ Taylor, Charles L 104- Taylor, Joseph ^;^~ Taylor, Timothy ^t,/ ■ Taylor, Thomas 104 • Taylor, William S 267 Terry. Charles B, 603 Terry, Millard F 603 Terry, William 603 Thatcher, Samuel B 716 Thomas, .Abiah 494 Thomas, Hiram 494 Thomas, Job 40 .^ Thomas, Joseph 223 Thomas, Oliver M 492 Thomas, Thomas 403 Thompson, Albert 66ji Thompson, Albert J 663 Thompson, John 502 Thompson, Warner C 663 Tierney, J. J., Country Home 44S Titus, PYancis, Jr 437 Titus, Jacob 437 Titus, Oliver P 437 Titus, Tennis 437 Titus. William 437 Tomlinson. Aaron 342 Tomlinson, B. Palmer 714 Tomlinson, George 343 Tomlinson, Homer 675 xvm INDEX PAGE Tomlinson, John 6y^ Tomlinson, Joshua 342 Tomlinson, Richard 342 Tomlinson, Robert K 714 Tomlinson, William 342 Torbert Family 724 Torbert, James 72 y ■Torbert, James, Jr 724 Torbert, John K 725 Trauch, Edward H 323 Trauch, Peter . 434 Trauch, William H 322, Trauch, William H 434 Trauger, Elias 368 Trauger, Xoah G 36S Trego, Amos K 35^ Trego, Edward 398 Trego, Harry R 350 Trego, Jacob 350 Trego, James 35^ Trego, John 2,31 Trego, John K 351 Trego, Mahlon 398 Trego, William 351 Trego. William . . . .' 35 1 Troemner, Eliza B 427 Trumbauer. George 43 ^ Trumbauer, Henry 431 Trumbauer, John 695 Trumbauer, Micliael S 695 Trumbauer, William P 43^ Turner. Mary A 166 Twining, Amas H 7or Twining, Charles 4.09 Twining, Cyrus B 624 Twining, David 70 r Twining, Edward W 410 Twining, F. Cvrus 624 Twining, Jacob, Jr 62}, Twining. Sara E 701 Twining, Stephen 409 Twining, Stcohen B 408 Twining, William. Jr ! 408 Twining, Wilmcr A 623 Umstead. David R 445 Umstead. Jonathan R 445 Umstead, William 4J5 L'ndcrwood. Owen L 360 Underwood, Reuben L 360 V'anarlsdalen, Cyrus T 279 ^'an Artsdalen, Garret ?8o Van Artsdalen, Henry H 2X1 Van Artsdalen, Isaac 28c Van Art-dalen, Tames 28r Van Artsdalen. James, Jr 281 Van Artsdalen, John 2S0 Van Artsdalen. Silas 2.8r Van Artsdalen, Simon 279 Vandegritt. Charles S. 2>3 Vandea:rift Family 3'^ Vandegrift Frederic B ?,?, Vandegrift, George V .36 Vandegrift. John G 34 Vandegrift. J. Wilson },7 Vandegrift. Lewis H 3(J Vandegrift. Lemuel 34 Vandegrift. Moses 34 \'andegrift. Sanuiel A 35 PAGE Van Hart, Charles 430 Van Hart, Charles 670 Van Hart, David 430 Van Hart, Frank W 645 Van Hart, Jacob 570 \'an Hart. Jacob 645 \'an Hart, IMichael A 570 Van Hart. Michael A 645 \3.n Horn. Christian 94 Van Horn Family 92 Van Horn. Henry 96 Van Horn. Isaiah 96 \"an Horn, Richard H 97 \'an Horn, Samuel S 97 Van Pelt Family 102 Van Pelt. Joseph 104 Van Pelt. Seth C 103 \'an Pelt. William 104 Van Sandt. Albert 26 Van Sandt, Cornelius 25 Van Sandt, Garret ■ 27 Van Sandt, George 27 Van Sandt, Jacobus . . . 26 Van Sandt, Johannes 26 Van Sandt, Stot^el 24, \'ansant Family 24- Vansant, Howard 28 Vansant, James T 28 Vansant, John F 261 Vansant, John H 261 Winsant, Martin Y. ^ 29 Vansant. Nathaniel 29 Void, Frederick R 329 Void, Frederick, Sr 329 Waidelich, John H 544 \\'aidelich, Michael F 544. Walker. Edwin C 542 Walker. Elias 542 Walker. Holcombe 633 \\'a!ker. Peter 542 Walker. Phineas 633 \\'alker, Rober-t 633 Walker. William L 6,^2 Wallace, James 462 Wallace, James 463 Wallace, John B 463 AN'allace. Robert 462 Wallace. William S j6r Walter. John 672 Walter. John B 317 Walter. Jo^^enh B 672 WaUcr, Michael 672 Walton. Heston J54 Walton. Isaiah 255 Walton. Jeremiah 254 Walton. Thomas 25,=; Walton. William 298 Wambold, Abraham H 404 Wambold. Xoah 404 Wanger. George 1.34 Wans ?r. Irvinsr P 133 Washhvrn. J. H 277 Watson. Henry 1^7 Watson. Henr}- ^^' 664 Watson. Jenks G 620 Watson. Josep'i 66a Watson, John 136 Witson. Samuel \ 620 \\'atson, William 136 INDEX XIX PAGE Weaver, Brice 382 Weaver, Isaac 382 Weaver, Stacy L 382 Weber, Frank 560 Weber, George . . . ^ 560 Webster, Hugh B.. 557 Webster, Jesse G 557 Weisel, Ehner P 729 Weisel, Francis S 7:^^ Weisel, Henry 730 Weisel, Oscar W 731 Weisel, Samuel 730 Weiss, George 44' Weiss, Henry W 441 Wharton, Thomas L 525 White,-^ Charles A 726 White, George 698 White, Howard P 244 White, James , 638 White, Jonathan 244 White, I,ednum L 726 White, Thdmas 658 White, William 244 White. William H 698 Wildman, Alfred M 651 Wildman. Charles 648 Wildman, George K 315 Wildman, John 657 Wildman, Joshua 315 Wilkinson, Abraham 421 Wilkinson, Charles T 420 Wilkinson, Eleaser 421 Wilkinson, Frederick R 174 Wilkinson. John 421 Wilkinson, Lawrence 420 Wilkinson. Ogden.D '. 171 Wilkinson, Samuel 420 Wilkinson. William 420 Willard Family 398 Willard. Jacob 695 Willard, James V ^()S Willard, James V 399 Willard, Jes-e 399 Willard. J. Monroe 399 Willard, Lewis ()95 Williams, Anthony 701 Williams, Barzilla \* 2~s Williams, Benjamin 272 Williams, Benjamin 274 Williams, Carroll R 273 Williams. Charles 701 Williams, Cyrenious 497 Williams, Edward 272 Williams Family 27 ^ Williams, Henry T 72S Williams, Jeremiah 273 Williams, John 275 Williams, John 728 W^illiams, John S 272 Williams, Neri B 497 Williams. Samuel 272 Williams, Thomas 497 Williamson, Edward C 664 Williamson Family 216 Williamson. Jesse 664 Williamson, John 218 Williamson, Josephus 218 PAGE Williamson, Mahlon 217 Williamson, Mahlon . 664 Williamson, Peter 217 Williamson, William 217 Wilson, Ebenezer C 378 Wilson, Isaac 378 Wilson, John D 205 Wilson, Joshua ^78 Wilson, Joseph H 378 Wilson, Samuel 519 Wilson, William E 519 Wilson, William E 520 Winder Family 100 Winder. Jacob M loi Winner, Samuel 565 Winner. William P 565 Wismer. Christian 505 Wolfingcr, Jacob D 6og Wolfinger. Reuben S 6og Wood. Benjamin G 715 Wood, George 715 Wood. Joseph 715 Woodman, Edward 548 Woodman. Henry 549 ^Voodman. Isaac N 548 Worstall. Edward D 371 Worstall, Edward H 191 Worstall. George C 190 Worstall. John igo Worstall, Joseph 190 Worstall, Joseph 191 Worstall. Josepli. Tr 371 Worstall, Joseph, Sr 371 ^X^irthineion. Amasa 721 Worthington, Amos S 352 Worthington, Amy 672 Worthington, Benjamin M 672 Worthington. Elisha 559 Worthington. Harriet L 559 Worthiifgton, John 710 Worthington. Joseph 559 Worthington. Lewis 352 Worthington. Lewis 710 \\'orthington. T. S 721 Wright. William P 650 Wynkoop, Garrett 354 Wynkoop, John 354 Wynkoop. Philip 354 Wynkoop, \Villiam 118 Yardley, Achsah 604 Yardley, Charles G88 Yardley Family 122 Yardley, John 122 Yardley. Mahlon 688 Yardley, Robert ^[ 125 Yardley, Samuel 124 Yardley, William 604 Yardley. William 688 Yardley. William W 688 Yerkes, Harman 75 Yerkes, Herman 75 Yerkes, Stephen 76 Yocum. Israel 599 Yocum. Jonathan 599 Yocum, William D 599 BUCKS COUNTY. THE PEMBERTON FAMILY. Four miles south of Morrisville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the mainland, near the Delaware river, opposite Biles' Island, there is an old family graveyard, dating back to the ninth decade of the seven- teenth century. It is one of the oldest graveyards in the county, if not in the state. Within its walls, measuring two rods square, lies the remains of four gen- erations of one family, all of whom died in the short space of fifteen years. There rest the five j'oung children of Phineas and Phebe (Harrison) Pemberton, as well as both the parents of these children. Near them also repose their grandparents. Ralph Pemberton, and James Harrison and Anne his wife; and adjoining lies the remains of their great-grandmother, Agnes Harrison, born in one of the last years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Not often, even in a well settled and long established country, is found such a number of generations, en- compassed by one enclosure. The early history of the family that lies buried in this ancient burying ground is so closely inter- woven with the history of the founding of Penn's colony on the Delaware and the causes that led up to that event, and so typical of that of most of the early families that formed the van guard of the Quaker emigrants to Pennsylvania, — ex- plaining, as it does, the motive that led these early settlers to leave the land of their birth' and seek homes in an unknown wilderness — that we wish to preface a brief account of the family with some account of the early sutTerings of the Society of Friends, of which they were representa- tive members. Let us take a glance at the condition of the Friends in England, prior to Penn's establishment of his colony in America. The development of Quakerism in Eng- land under, let us say, the reign of Henry VIII, would have been an impossibility: but the growth of popular government and freedom of thought which were so firmly established by the genius and power of Oliver Cromwell, rendered possible that which would have been entirely impossible a century earlier. All the force of gov- ernment, however, and all the power of the church were thrown against the So- ciety of Friends, and no means were spared 1-3 to persecute them and subject them to ignomy and contempt. No class of life- or society was spared in these persecutions. Many of the early converts to Quakerism were of noble birth or people of power and influence in the realm. William Penn was "the companion of princes and the dispenser of royal favors." Thomas El- wood was «of gentle birth, being nearly related through his mother to Lady Wen- man. George Barclay was of good stock and a fine classical scholar. Yet all these men, because of their religious convictions, were frequently imprisoned, sometimes herded with the lowest felons and vilest prostitutes — "nasty sluts indeed they were," says Elwood in his autobiography. "Re- member," said Phineas Pemberton, in an epistle that was intended as a preface to the "Book of Minutes of the Yearly Meet- ing of Friends," on the setting up of that body at Burlington, New Jersey; "Remem- ber, we were a despised people in our native land, accounted by the world scarce worthy to have a name or place therein ; daily liable to their spoil ; under great sufferings, by long and tedious imprison- ments, sometimes to the loss of life — ban- ishment, spoil of goods, beatings, mock- ings, and ill treatings ; so that we had not been a people at this day had not the Lord stood by us and preserved us." (Friends' Miscellany, vol. vii, p. 42.) His descrip- tion is not overdrawn : "Come out," they cried before Phineas Pemberton's door in 1678 ; "Come out, thou Papist dog, thou Jesuit, thou devil, come out." He was several times imprisoned in Chester and Lancaster castles, being confined in the latter prison in 1669 nineteen weeks and five days, and this, too, before he was twenty-one years of age. James Harrison, who lies buried beside Phineas Pemberton and who was his father-in-law, was very active as a minis- ter among Friends and was imprisoned in 1660, in Burgas-gate prison for nearly two months; in 1663 in the county jail of Wor- cester; in 1664, 1665 and 1666 in Chester castle : "But none of these things," says Phineas. were done unto us because of our evil deeds, but because of the exercise of our tender consciences towards our God." Nor were these cases exceptional ; to such a pitch of nervousness had the government HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. been wrought by the various plots, and so great was the fear of Catholic ascen- dency among the people at that time, that later, in t6S6, when James 11 issued the general pardon to all who were in prison on account of conscientious dissent, over twelve hundred Quakers — perfectly inof- fensive and harmless subjects as they were — were released, "many having been im- mured in prison, some of them twelve or fifteen years and upwards, for no crime but endeavoring to keep a good conscience to- wards God." It was from this English barbarism and English oppression that William Penn in- vited his fellow Friends to join him in what he called his "Holy Experiment" in America. Accordingly, on the sth of the 7th month (September), 1682, the Pember- tons and Harrisons, with other families, sailed from Liverpool in the ship "Sub- xnission" for Pennsylvania. As it may be of interest to their descendants we give below the list of passengers on the "Sub- mission." This list is taken ,from James Pemberton Parke's mss. account of the Pemberton family, 1825. It is from this >manuscript that the account of the family ^published in the Friends' miscellany, vol. vii, is drawn. The latter, however, con- tains only a partial list of the passengers given below. Our list also contains some particulars not included in the list given :in the "Sailing of the Ship Submission" in vol. i, no. i, of the "Publications of the Genealogical Society of .Pennsylvania," Philadelphia, 1895. Passengers on board the ship "Sub- xnission." Ralph Pemberton, Bolton, Lancashire, age 72; servants, Joseph Mather, Eliza- beth Bradbury. Phineas Pemberton, Bolton, Lanca- shire, age 33 ; servants, William Smith, servant of Phineas Pemberton, came in Friends' Adventure, arrived 7th mo. 28, :l682. Phebe Pemberton, wife of Phineas, daughter of James Harrison, age 23 Abigail Pemberton, daughter of Phineas, age 3 years. Joseph Pemberton, son of same, aged pne year. James Harrison, Bolton, Lancashire, age 57 years: servants, Joseph Steward, Allis Dickerson, Jane Lyon. Agnes Harrison, Bolton, Lancashire, mother of James, age 81. Ann Harrison, his wife, Bolton, Lanca- shire, age 61. Robert Bond, son of Thomas Bond, of Waddicar Hall, near Garstang, Lancashire, age 16; being left by his father to the tu- ition of sd. James Harrison. Lydia Wharmsby, of Bolton afsd., age 42- Randolph Blackshaw, Hollingee, in the Co. of Chester, servants, Sarah Brad- bury. Roger Bradbury, and Elinor his wife and their children Hager, Jacob, Joseph, Martha, and Sarah. Alice Blackshaw, his wife, and their chil- dren, l^liebe, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Neiie- miah, Martha and Abraham, the latter died at sea, 8 mo. 2d, 1682. Ellis Jones, and Jane his wife. Coun- ty of Denby or Flint, in Whales, and their children, Barbara. Dorothy, Mary and Isaac Jones. "Servants of the Gov- ernor Penn these came." Jane Mode and Margery Mode of Wales. daughters of Thomas Winn, and the wife of sd. Thomas Winn ; servants, Hareclif Hod- ges, servant of Thomas Winn. James Clayton, of Middlewitch, Chester, blacksmith, and Jane his wife, and cliil- dren James, Sarah, John, Mary, Joshua and Lydia. The list conforms to the account given in the original "Book of Arrivals" in the handwriting of Phineas Pemberton, now in possession of the Bucks County Historical Society. The list given in the Publications of the Genealogical Society, above referred to, gives, in addition to the above, "Rich- ard Radclif, of Lancashire, aged 21," and Ellen Holland, whose name adjoins that of Hareclif Jones ; "Joseph* Clayton, aged 5," and omits Joshua Jones ; and gives age of Barbara Jones as 13, gives "Margery and Jane Mede, aged 11 1-2 and 15, respective- ly. It also gives "Rebeckah Winn. 20 years," but omits the name of — Winn, wife of Thomas. In re, Winn and Mode, see "Pen- na. Magazine of History and Biography," vol. ix, p 231, also "Genealogy of Fisher Family, 1896, pp. 15, 199, and "Ancestry of Dr. Thomas Wynne," 1904. James Settle, captain of the ship "Sub- mission," was by the terms of his agree- ment to proceed with the ship to the "Del- aware River or elsewhere in Pennsylvania, to the best convenience of the freighters," but through his dishonesty they were taken into Maryland, to their very great disad- vantage where after a severe storm they had enconntered at sea, on 8 mo. 2. 1682, they arrived in the Patuxent river, on the 30th of October, and unloaded their goods at Choptank. Here James Harrison and Phin- eas Pemberton, his son-in-law, left their respective families, at the house of Will- iam Dickenson, and proceeded overland to the place of their original destination, the "falls of the Delaware," in Bucks county. William Penn, who had arrived on Octo- ber 24, was at that time in New York ; Harrison and Pemberton had hoped to meet him at New Castle. When they arrived at the present site of Philadelphia they could not procure entertainment for their horses, and so "spancelled" them and turned them into the woods. The next morning they sought for them in vain they having strayed so far in the woods that one of them was not found until the following January. After two days searching they were obliged to proceed up the river in a bont. Philadelphia was not then founded, and the country was a wilderness. James Harrison had received grants of 5,000 acres of land of Penn, when in Eng- ,GNES WIFE OF.iMMAilllEL,liAKHjSQ^„ - ■ • BORN: i.eCi-, 0iTO,AUGJ>687 HER SON-- JAMES HARRISON . ',.B.' fSgS-'- 0. ■0Ct.-8- IBB! ■'%:,':: HIS WIFE ANKE (H»TH1 HARRfSW^' ,J^^^.fEB-J3- f623-4- D. March 5 168S-30: "^ ' HCmCHIta PHCEBE ,;iFE^OF FHINEAS PEMBEHTON B. APRIL T J&60 0. Get. 30 (396 RALPH PEMBERTON- B . JAN.3 l6(0-it :D: JULY'a.f687v , i,^ HiSSOHPHlHEASPEMBERTOffi B •£« 30 I649-50 D.MAR^.H I ll&rZ ^ IVE OF HJS CHIUBREN ^'EST THEIR PUBLICLI3:^^.;^Y ASTON, LENOX AND TILCEN FOUNDATlCNS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, land, a short time before his departure for America. Most of this land was sub- sequently located in Bucks county. In the following spring, 1683, Harrison and Pem- berton brought their families and house- hold goods from Maryland to this county, Harrison stopping at Upland, now Ches- ter, on the way south, to attend the first Assembly, to which he had been elected. Until Phineas could erect a house in Bucks county, he and his family stayed at the house of Lyonel Brittian, who had arrived in Bucks, 4 mo. (June) 1680. On 11 mo. ly, 1683, Phineas Pemberton purchased a tract of 500 acres on the Delaware, oppo- site Grecian's (later Biles') Island and built a house there. It must have been a satisfaction to him, after the storms at sea and wanderings on land, to have his fam- ily at last under his own roof-tree. This plantation he called "Grove Place." He appears, however, at first to have called it "Sapasse." since letters to him from friends in England in 16S4 were addressed, . "Sapasse, Bucks County." It was part of a tract of over 8,000 acres of land, pur- chased by Penn from an old Indian king, and had once been a royalty called "Sep- essain." (On Peter Lindstrom's map of 1654, in Sharp and Westcott's "History of Philadelphia," vol. i, p. 75, the name ap- pears as "Sipaessing Land"). The old bury- ing ground before referred to was located on this tract. Being desirous of erecting • a more comfortable home for his family, Phineas Pemberton finished one in 1687. •On the lintel of the door was this inscrip- tion :, 'P. P. 7 D. 2 mo. 1687. The initials signifying Phineas and Phebe Pemberton. This lintel is now in the pos- session of the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia. This house Pem- berton moved after his second marriage to another tract of land five miles distant and more in the interior. It was taken ' down in 1802 by his grandson, James Pem- ■ berton. In the year 1687 a great deal of sickness prevailed in the colony, and Phin- eas Pemberton lost his father, Ralph Pem- berton, and his father-in-law, James Harri- son. Agnes Harrison, the mother of James, also died. Three years later Anne (Heath) Harrison, the widow of James died; and in 1696 Phineas lost his wife Phebe, who died 8 mo. 30, i6g6, exactly fourteen years after her arrival in Patuxent river, Mary- land. On the i8th day of May, 1699, Phineas ■ Pemberton married, at the Meeting House at Falls. Alice Hodgson, "of Burlington, in the Province of West Jersey, spinster, daughter of Robert Hodgson, late of Rhode Island, deceased." The following names, as witnesses appear on the marriage certifi- •cate : Ann Elett, Ann Jennings, Elenor Hoopes, Mary Baker, Abigail Sidwell, Eliz. Browdon, Sarah Surket, Mary Webster, Phebe Kirkbride, Sarah Jennings, Grace Lloyd, Mary Badcoke, Elizabeth Badok, Ann Borden, Elizabeth Stacy, Sarah Stacy, William Croasdell, George Browne, John Surket, Junr., Joseph Large, Peter Webster, Seth Hill, Edwd. Penington, Tho. Brock, Joseph Kirkbride, John Jones, Jeremiah Langhorn William Ellett, John Biles, Saml. Beakes, Arthur Cooke, ' John Simcocke, Saml. Jennings, • Thos. Duckett, Jos. Growdon, Mahlon Stacy, Henry Baker, Richard Hough, Will. Dunkin, Isaac Mariott, Peter Worrall, Edward Lucas. Abraham Anthony, John Cooke, -^ John Sidwell, Robert Hodgson, Philip England, Mary Yardley, Abell Janney, Jos. Janney, Mary Williams, Abigail Pemberton, Eliz. Janney. Joseph Pemberton, Israel Pemberton, Thomas Yardley, Rand'l Blackshaw, Joseph Mather. Alice Dickerson, Martha Drake, Joseph Borden, John Borradaill, The original certificate is in the posses- sion of p descendant. Mr. Henry Pember- ton, of Philadelphia. Phineas had no chil- dren by his second wife. After his death she married, in 1704, Thomas Bradford, being also his second wife. She died Au- gust 28, 1711. James Harrison was at an early date the friend and confidant of Penn. "He was," says Proud, "one of the Proprietor's first Commissioners of Property, was divers years in great esteem with him, and his agent at Pennsbury, being a man of good education and a preacher among the Quak- ers." In the library of the Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania at Thirteenth and Locust streets, Philadelphia, (Penn mss. Domestic Letters) there are many original letters from Penn to Harrison, some of them written before Penn left England. They undoubtedly belong to the collection of Pemberton mss.* now owned by the His- *This collection, mounted in about one hundred volumes, extends over a period of about two hundred years from a date before the birth of Penn to within modern times. It was presented to the Society in 1891 by Henry Pemberton, of Philadelphia, and com- prises mss. of the Pemberton, Harrison, Galloway, Rawle, Shoemaker, Clifford and other families. Two volumes of letters now in the " Etting Collection" of the same Society, belonged originally to this collec- tion as they are docketed on the outside in the liand-. writing of James Pemberton. Harrison was a member of the first provincial council, which met in Philadel- phia on tlie tenth day of the first month, 1682-3. In the same year lie was a member of the committee to draw up the charter of the colony. In 168.5 he was appointed by Penn as chief justice of the supreme court, but declined to serve: but the following year he accepted the position of associate justice. He was Penn's steward and agent in Pennsylvania until his death, on October 6, 1687. His daughter Phebe mar- ried Phineas Pemberton, the 1st day of 11 mo. ( Janu- ary ) 16T6-7. at the house of John Haydock, in Coppull, near Standish. Lancashire. England, under the super- vision of Hardshaw Monthly Meeting of Friends. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. torical Society, since they contain an index drawn in the handwriting of Phineas Pem- berton. Many of these letters from Penn are interesting in that they contain refer- ence to matters current in the earliest days of the colony, and also occasionally give a picture of political life in England. Phineas Pemberton took an active part in the public affairs of the colony as well as of Bucks county. He was a member of provincial council in 1685-7, 1695, and 1697- 9; was a member of assembly 1689, 1694, 1698 (the latter year he was speaker), and in 1700, and a member of Penn's council of state in 1701. But it was in the affairs of Bucks county, where he lived, that his activity and usefulness was the greatest and his work of the most value. He was beyond doubt the most prominent man of his time in the county and the most ef- ficient, as shown by the mass of records he has left behind him in his own hand- writing, and by the number of official po- sitions he filled. In addition to filling the local positions of register of wills, recorder, and clerk of all the courts, he held for a time the positions of master of the rolls, register general, and recorder of proprie- tary quit-rents for the province ; and the records of the county up to the time of his fatal illness are entirely in his handwrit- ing, and are models worthy of imitation by officials of our day. The records of the different courts left by him are invaluable to the historian, and greatly superior to those of his successors in office in the matter of lucidity and completeness. Many of our historians have noticed and acknowledged this fact, which is apparent to all that have had access to them. Buck, in his "His- tory of Bucks County," referring to the records left by Pemberton, ;says, "they comprise the earliest records of Bucks coun- ty offices, and, though they have been re- ferred to by different writers, comparative- ly little has been heretofore published from them. To us they have rendered valuable aid and we must acknowledge our indebt- edness for information that could, possi- bly, from no other source have been ob- tained." In like manner Battle, in his "His- tory of Bucks County," writing on the same subject, states. "From that period (i. e. 1683) until disabled by a fatal illness, save an unimportant interval, the records of the county were written wholly by his hand; and in them he has left a memorial of him- self that will not be lost so long as the his- tory of the commonwealth which he helped to establish shall be read."* Phineas Pemberton died March i, 1701- 2, at the age of fifty-two years, and was_ *The Records of Arrivals " published in vol. ix. of Penna. Mae. of History and Biography, was compiled by Phineas Pemberton. although through an editorial oversight it is not accredited to him therein. Tin's record has proved very vahiable in Keneali^siral and historical research. The original Kecord of .<\rrivals in Bucks County in Pemberton's handwritinK is in possession of the Bucks County Historical Society, while that of Philadelphia and elsewhere is in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. buried in the old graveyard above referred to. "Poor Phineas," wrote Penn to Lo- gan on September 8, 1701, "is a dying man, and was not at the election, though he crept, (as T may say) to Meeting yester- day. I am grieved at it ; for he has not his fellow, and without him this is a poor country indeed." Again, in a letter from London to Logan in 1702, Penn writes, "I mourn for poor Phineas Pemberton, the ablest as well as one of the best men in the Province. My dear love to his widow and' sons and daughters." Samuel Carpenter, in a letter to Penn. quoted in J. Pemberton Parke's niss., writes, "Phineas Pemberton- died the ist mo. last, and will be greatly missed, having left few or none in these parts or adjacent, like him for wisdom, in- tegrity, and general service, and he was a true friend to thee and the government. It is a matter of sorrow when I call to mind and consider that the best of our men are taken away, and how many are gone and how few to supply their places." ()f the nine children of Phineas and Phebe (Harrison) Pemberton, but three survived him for any length of time : Abi- gail, who married, November 14, 1704, Stephen Jenkins, and settled in Abington township — her descendants being the founders of Jenkintown — Priscilla, mar- ried, 1708-9, Isaac Waterman, and set- tled at Hohnesburg; and Israel, the only son, who lived to manhood, mar- ried 2 mo. 12, 1710, Rachel Read, daughter of Charles Read, a provincial councillor. He was an active and in- fluential Friend, and for nineteen consecu- tive years a member of colonial assembly. He left three sons: Israel Jr., born 1715; James, born 1723; and John, born 1727. Of these, John, who was a prominent preacher among Friends, left no issue, and James left only daughters, one of whom married Dr. Parke, and another Anthony Morris. Israel Jr. married Sarah Kirkbride of Bucks county, and had two* daughters, and one son, Joseph, who married Ann Gallo- way of Maryland, first cousin of Joseph Galloway, the Bucks county loyalist, and died at the early age of thirty-six, leaving a large family, of whom John Pemberton' born in 1783, was in 1812 the only male representative of the family in America. He married Rebecca Clifford, and left a large family, of whom Henry Pember- ton, of Philadelphia, referred to in this sketch, was the fifth. A complete geneal- ogy of the descendants of Phineas Pem- berton will be found in Glenn's "Geneal- ogy of the Lloyd, Pemberton and Parke Families," Phila., 1898. Isreal, James and John, the sons of Israel and grandsons of Phineas. were prominent in the religious, political, social and business life of Phlia- dclphia, where their descendants are still found. Further accounts of the Pemberton Fam- ily, may be found in Appleton's "Cyclo- paedia of American Biography," vol. iv, p. 706; Westcott's "Historic Mansions of HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Philadelphia," p. 494; Sarah E. Titcomb's "Early New England People," p. 52 j "Glenn's Genealogy;" and "Friends' Mis- cellany," vol. vii, both before referred to. RICHARD HOUGH AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. Richard Hough, Provincial Councillor from Bucks county, for many years one of the most prominent figures in the Provincial Assembly, as well as in all the affairs of the Province and Bucks county, justice of the county court, etc.. was a native of Macclesfield, in the county of Chester, England, and came to Pennsyl- vania in the "Endeavor" of London, arriving in the Delaware river 7th mo. 29, 1683 (O. S.), bringing with him four servants nr de- pendents— Francis Hough, (probably a younger brother or nephew), Thomas Wood (or Woodhouse) and Mary his wife, and James Sutton. He settled at once in Bucks county on land doubtless previously pur- chased, though patented later. This land consisted of two tracts fronting on the Delaware in Makcfield township, one of them in what became later Upper Make- field and covered the present site of Tay- lorsville, and the other' lying along the original (bift not the present) line of Falls township in Lower Makefield. On the lower tract fronting on the river about one- fourth of a mile and extending inland about three miles, Richard Hough made his home and erected his tirst and only I'ucks county home, a stone house, (one of the earliest to be erected of that material) from a quarry on his plantation which Penn con- sidered of so much importance that he or- dered a memorandum be entered in the land-office, "that ye great quarry in Rich- ard Hough's and Abel Janney's lands be reserved when they come to be confirmed, "being for ye public good of ye county." On this plantation lived six generations of the eldest male branch of the family, part of it remaining in their possession until about 1850, when they removed to Ewing township, Mercer county, New Jer- sey. Richard Hough took an active part in all the affairs of the county, political, so- cial and religious. He was a member of Falls Meeting of Friends and his character and attainments gave him an important place in its proceedings. Prior to the erec- tion of the Falls Meeting House, the Bucks Quarterly Meeting as well as meetings for worship were frequently held at his house. He was there, as elsewhere, intimately as- sociated with Phineas Pemberton, Thomas Janney, William Yardlej-, William Biles, Nicholas Wain, Joseph Kirkbride and others, who, with him, were the leaders in the affairs of the county and province, though some of them, notably William Biles, with whom he was intimately associated in private affairs, differed from him in provin- ■cial politics. Biles being the Bucks county leader of the Popular party, with strong Democratic tendencies, while Richard Hough was a strong adherent of the Pro- prietary party headed by James Logan. Richard Hough began early to engage in public affairs, and represened Bucks county in the Provincial Assembly in 1684, 1688, 1690, 1697, 1699, 1700, 1703, and 1704-5; and member of Provincial Council, 1693 and 1700. He was one of the commission to divide the county into township in 1692; was one of the justices of the coun- ty count, and appointed in 1700, with Phin- eas Pemberton and William Biles, by Will- iam Penn, a "Court of Inquiry" to inves- tigate the affairs of the province. This bare record of the positions filled by Richard Hough can give but a very inadequate idea of the real position he filled in the af- fairs of the county and province, careful perusal of the records of both disclosing that he was one of the foremost men of his day. William Penn in a letter to Lo- gan, 7 mo. 14, 1705, replying to one of Lo- gan reporting the death of Hough, says : "f -lament the loss of honest Richard Hough. Such men must needs be wanted where selfishness and forgetfulness of God's mer- cies so much abound." Richard Hough was drowned in the Delaware March 25, 1705, while on his way to Philadelphia from his home in Bucks county. By his will dated May I, 1704, his home plantation of 400 acres was devised to his eldest son, Rich- ard, one half to be held by his wife Mar- gery, for life. His upper plantation, next the Manor of Highlands, went to his sec- ond son John ; 350 acres and his Warwick plantation mentioned as 570 acres, but real- ly nearly 900 acres, was devised to his youngest son Joseph; 271 acres, "next to John Palmer's," and 475 acres in Bucking- ham, purchased of his brother John, in 1694, were to be sold. The Warwick tract was one originally taken up by his father- in-law, John Clows, and purchased by Rich- ard Hough of the heirs, and remained the property of his descendants for many gen- erations, some of it for nearly two centu- ries. His daughters Mary and Sarah were given their portions in monej'. His wife Margery, son Richard, and "friend and brother," William Biles, were made execu- tors. Richard Hough married 8 mo. 17, 1683T 4, Margery Clows, daughter of John and Margery Clows, theirs being the first mar- riage solemnized under the control of Falls Meeting. John Clows and Margery his wife and their children, Margery, Rebec- ca and William, came to Pennsylvania in the same ship with Richard Hough, from Gawsworth, Cheshire. Three other chil- dren, John, Joseph and Sarah, had pre- ceded their parents, arriving in the "Friends' Adventure" 7 mo. 28, 1682. John Clows be- came a large landowner in Bucks county and represented the county in the Pt-ovin- cial Assembly in 1683 and 1684. He died 7 mo. 4, 1687, and his widow Margery '' mo. 2, 1698. The eldest son John fV '^'"~ 1683; Joseph married ElizabetK^^ ^ ^ ^^~ "" -^ ^ .800-67; was HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. William. Sarah ITanfield; Sarah, John Bainbridffe, of New Jersey; Margery, Rich- ard Hough ; and Rebecca, John Lambert^ of Nottingham, New Jersey. The children of Richard and IMargery (Clows) Hough were: 2. Marj' Hough, born 6 mo. i, 1685, died November ii, 1720; married April 6, 1690, William Atkinson, of Bristol, Bucks coun- ty, 'Pennsylvania. 3. Sarah Hough, born 4 mo. 7, 1690, married first, 4 mo. 23. 1708, Lsaac Atkin- son, brother of William; and (second) Leonard Shallcross. in 1724. 4. Richard Hough, married first, 171 1- 12, Hester Browne, and (second) 7 mo. 27, 1717, Deborah Gumley. 5. John Hough, born 7 mo. iS, 1693, married, 1718, Elizabeth Taylor. 6. Joseph Hough, born 8 mo. 17, i695_. died Mav 10, 1773; married 1725, Elizabeth West, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- beth (Dungan) West. Thomas Atkinson, father of William and Isaac Atkinson, was a minister of the So- ciety of Friends, and was born at Newby_. Parish of Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire. England. He married Jane Bond at Knar- esborough Meeting. 4 mo. 4, 1678, and in 1681, with his wife and son Isaac, born March 2, 1679, came to America and set- tled for a time in Burlington county. New Jersey, but soon after removed to Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he bought a plantation. Thomas died 9 mo. I, 1687, and the following year his widow Jane became the second wife of William Biles, before mentioned in this narrative. Another son, Samuel Atkin- son, married Ruth Beakes, widow of Will- iam Beakes and daughter of Mahlon Stacy_, of West Jersey. This family of Atkin- son held high rank in colonial times. An account of Thomas Atkinson was published in a "Collection of Memorials of Deceased Ministers and others" (Phila. 1787) and also in "The Friend." vol. 27. In vol. 28 of "The Friend" is also a memorial of his wife, under the name of Jane Biles. William Atkinson was a resident of Bris- tol borough and a member of town council there ; was collector of excise eleven years, 1738-1749. coroner of Bucks county 1721, I73I-5' and 1737-1740; county commissioner 1722. He was for nearly thirty-three years an elder of Falls Monthly Meeting and a trustee for its real estate. He died in Bris- tol, October 29, 1749. The children of William and I\Iary (Hough) Atkinson were as follows : (l). Sarah, born i mo. 10, 1704-S, died 10 mo. 1706. (2). Hannah, born January 25, i7o6-7_, died December 9. 1760; married May, 1734. John Hall, of Bristol, his third wife. John Hall was a son of Robert Hall from the city of Westminster, England, who was the first coroner of Bucks county, and by his sec- d. .jvife, Elizabeth, daughter of George possessu-om Buckleburv. Berkshire, Eng- while thai , ,- ,,„ . , ., ", possession d.cestor of the WhUe family of Bucks county. John Hall was a councilman of Bristol; member of Assembly 1717 and 7740 to 1750; several times sheriff of Bucks county; a justice of the county courts, and succeeded his father-in-law, William Atkinson, as collector of excise. He was born 6 mo. 12, 1686. and died 11 mo. 10, 1768; married first Rebecca Rad- cliffe, daughter of James Radcliffe, an emi- nent minister among Friends and an early settler in Bucks county, for whom Radcliffe street in Bristol is named. He married (second) January, 1715, Sarah Baldwin^ daughter of John and Sarah (Allen) Bald- win, and granddaughter of Samuel Allen, who came from Chew Magna, Somer- set, England, and founded a family of high standing in Bucks county and Philadel- phia. (3). William Atkinson, born 9 mo. 19, 1707. married 7 mo. 24, 1734. Sarah Pawley, daughter of George and Mary (Janney) Pawley, of Philadelphia (see Janney fam- ily). William Atkinson, Jr., was one of the early shipbuilders of Philadelphia, an industry for which that city is famous. (4). Mary Atkinson, born 7 mo. 19, 1713, married July 9, 174S, at the First Presby- terian Church, Philadelphia. Daniel Bank- son, of Bensalem, son of Daniel and grand- son of Captain Andreas Bankson, one of the leading men among the early Swedish settlers at Philadelphia, whose descendants still hold a high place among the old families of that city. (5)- Joseph Atkinson, born 10 mo. 5,. 1716, married first, 10 mo. 8, 1743, Janet Cowgill and (second) in 1762 Sarah Silver. He was a prominent man in Bristol borough, where his descendants are still people of high social standing. He succeeded his father as trustee of the real estate of Falls Meeting. (6). Sarah Atkinson, born 9 mo. 4. 1719, died 2 mo. 7, 1726. William Atkinson married (second) June 5, 1722, Margaret Baker, daughter of Henrv Baker, well known in the early annals of Bucks county and had five children : Ra- chel, Rebecca, Samuel, Isaac, and Thom- as. Rachel, the eldest, born 2 mo. 23^ 1723, died 5 mo. 8, 1803, married 10 mo. 18. 1750, Thomas Stapler, son of John and Esther. (See Stapler Family). 3. Sarah Hough married Isaac Atkinson,, another son of Thomas and Jane, born in Yorkshire, March 2, 1679, died in Bris- tol township, Bucks county, January 3,. 1720-1, where he was a landowner. They had issue : Jane, born 6 mo. 6, 1709, married 172S. John Wilson, of Middletown. son- of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson, and grandson of Henry Baker above men- tioned, and left numerous descendants in Bucks: (2) John; (3) Thomas. Sarah (Hough) .Atkinson married second in 1724, Leonard Shallcross, by whom she had nO' children. 4. Richard Hough, eldest son of Richard and Margery, (Clows) Hough, inherited his father's home plantation of 416 acres HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 7 and lired thereon during his life. He sold ICO acres and his heirs about lOO acres more, the remainder going to his son Hen- ry, and from him it descended to his grand- son Phineas Hough, who sold it about 1850. Richard Hough, Esq. was one of the lead- ing men of his time in Bucks county and took an active part in public affairs at a time when they were almost entirely in the hands of his cla.ss of gentlemen of landed estate. He was a justice of the peace and of the county courts for many years, and a member of Falls Meeting. He married February, 1711-12, Hester Brown, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Baker, before mentioned, who had been the widow of Thomas Yardley, and of William Brown of Chichester, Chester county, Pennsylvania. Richard and Hester had one child, Richard, who died young. He married (second) 7 mo. 27, 'ijf?, Deborah Gumley, (widow of John Gumley, of Philadelphia, formerly New Castle county) and had issue as follows : 8. William Hough, died without issue prior to 1755. 9. Deborah, married Thomas Davis, of Lower Makefield. 10. Margery, married Jonathan Saults, of Philadelphia. 11. Henry Hough, born 8 mo. 11, 1724 (O. S.) died 8 mo. 27, 1796, married 10 mo. 22, 174S, Rebecca Croasdale: see forward. 12. Mary, born 1726, died 1802 ; married 2 mo. 12, 1752 (O. S.) Anthony Burton, Jr., of Bristol. (See Burton Family). II. Henry Hough, son of Richard and Deborah, inherited 215 acres of the Make- field homestead and lived thereon the life of a country gentleman, taking little part in public affairs. He was a member of Falls Meeting. He married 10 mo. 22, 1748, Re- becca Croasdale, born 1727-8, died 1800, daughter of William and Grace (Harding) Croasdale of Newton township and had eight children as follows: 13. Sarah, born 1751, married 1775, John Watson. 14. John, born 1753, married Hannah Watson and Mary Yardley. 15. Deborah, born 1755, died 1773, unmarried. 16. Mary, born 1759- 17. Jesse, born 1761, died 1794, married Mercy Merrick. 18. Rachel, born 1764, died 1793, married David Heston. 19. Rebecca, born 1766, married Isaiah Ross, grandson of Thomas Ross, an eminent, minister among Friends and the ancestor of the eminent jurists, an account of whose family is given elsewhere in this work. 20. Henry, born 1768. 14. John Hough, born 9 mo. 16, 175,3., eldest son of Henry and Rebecca (Croas- dale) Hough, lived on his father's planta- tion in Lower Makefield. He was a mem- ber of Falls Meeting, but was married by the Rev. William Frazer, a Church of Eng- land minister, in 1782, to Hannah Watson, and they had one child, Beulah. He mar- ried (second) about 1790, Mary Yardley, daughter of Richard and Lucilla (Stack- house) Yardley, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas Janney, Provincial Councillor. (See Yardley, Stackhouse and Janney fam- ily sketches in this volume.) The children of John and Mary (Yardley) Hough, were: 22. Phmeas, born 12 mo. 20, ijdo, died 5 mo. 6, 1876; 23. Lucilla, born 12 mo. 24, 1788, died 2 mo. 9, 1883, married Abraharti Bond nf Newtown, son of Levi and Hannah (Merrick) Bond, and a descendant of Phineas Pemberton, whom James Logan styles "The Father of Bucks County." (See Pemberton Family). Phineas Hough (22) inherited a part his grandfather's plantation in Lower Make- field and lived thereon until sixty years old ; selling it in 1850 he removed to Ewing township, Mercer county, and resided with his son William A. Hough until his death in 1875. He married Elizabeth Carlile, by whom he had no issue. On February 25, 1819, he married Deborah Aspy, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth Aspy, of Makefield, and had the following children: 24. William Aspy Hough, born December 4, 1819, died December it, 18S8, married Eleanor Stockton ; see forward. 25. John Hough, born November 26, 1879, became a Methodist minister and removed to Dela- ware, where he married Rebecca E. Dukes. 26. Mary S., born July 7, 1824, married Ja- cob Hendrickson, of Mercer county. New Jersey. 27. Samuel Yardley Hough, born, February 14, 1827, died August, 1862, mar- ried Wealtha Allen, from Massachusetts, and removed to Kansas, where he died. 28. Phineas, born January 24, 1830, died May 28, 1869, . in Philadelphia ; married Lizzie E. Lynn. 29. Benjamin Franklin, born March 16, 1833, lived in Philadelphia, unmarried 30. Edwin W., born April 27, 1837, died in Philadelphia, April 30, 1863, of disease contracted in the army, having served in the celebrated Anderson Cavalry, i6oth Regiment, P. V. William -Aspy Hough (25) was born on the old homestead near Yardley, but in early life removed to property purchased in Ewing, New Jersey, and died there. He married Eleanor Stockton, of the disting- uished family of that name in New Jersey and they were the parents of five children : 31. John Stockton, see forward.- 32. Will- iam Henry, died while a student at Rut- gers College. S3. Horace G., who inher- ited and is living on his father's plantation in Ewing. 34. Thomas J., and 35. Mary Emma, both died young. John Stockton Hough, M. D. (31) eldest son of William A. and Eleanor (Stockton) Hough, was born on the old Hough planta- tion in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, December 5, 1845, and while a child removed with his parents to New Jersey. His edu- cation was obtained in the Ewing school, 1850-58; Trenton Academy, 1858-60; Mod- el School, Trenton, 1860-61 ; Fort Edward Institute, New York, 1861-62; Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., iS-'6?-63: Polvtechnic College, Philadelphia, civil engineering course, 1864-67; Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, 1865-68 ; received degree of M. D. at the University in 1868, and of Master of Chem- istry at the Polytechnic in 1870. He lec- tured on botany, Philadelphia, 1866-67; was 8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY appointed adjunct professor of Chemistry. Central High School, Pheladelphia. i868_^ resident physician, Philadelphia Hospitalj 1868-9; lecturer on Physiology, Wagner In- stitute, Philadelphia, 1868-69 Philadelphia Dispensary, 1869; Lying-in Charity Hospit- al, 1869; medical adviser U. S. Life Insur- ance Company, 1869-73 ! Berkshire Life In- surance Company. 1875 ; and practiced medi- cine in Philadelphia 1S69-74. While physi- cian at Philadelphia Hopsital he made orig- inal discoveries in reference to trichinae. He invented a plan for fireproof huilding construction in 1870, and was the inventor of various surgical instruments in 1868- 70. He was the author of about thirty pa- pers and pamphlets on hygiene, biology, speculative physiology, social science, vital statistics, population and political economy, published in medical and scientific journals in this and foreign countries, from 1868 to 1886. These papers attracted much at- tention, and some were translated, and published in foreign languages, and through them membership in various learned socie- ties was conferred on him. and a sketch of his life was published in Johnson's and Appleton's Encyclopaedias, and in the En- cyclopaedia Britanica. His magnus opus was a bibliography of medical literature of the fifteenth century, intended to be en- titled ''Incunabula Medica." He had lists printed of all the known medical books oj that time, of which there were about 1.500, and sent copies of it to public libraries and private collectors all over the world, with the request to mark on the list such books as they had copies of. and to make certain remarks about them and return the lists. He also visited many important li- braries and most of the famous Universi- ties in France, Germany, and Italy, and mas- tered the languages of these countries, mak- ing eleven voyages to Europe in connection with this mammoth work, and traveled extensively in this country. Before his death nearly all the lists sent out had been returned, but he had not finished the com- pilation (which, besides the matter con- tained in the lists, was to include biogra- phies of all the authors) when death over- took him. It is to be sincerely hoped that some day the work so well begun will be taken up and finished. During this period of his life he also gathered together a li- brary on medical and related subjects es- timated to contain lo.ooo titles. It was his desire that this library should be kept intact. I-iut leaving no will, it was sold by his administrators to the College of Physi- cians, who transferred about 1,900 volumes to the library of the University of Pennsyl- vania. He was much interested in local history and the history of old Bucks county families, and furnished considerable mater- ial for Davis's "History of Bucks County," first edition. 1876. In 1890 he purchased a property in Ewing township, where he had always retained his voting residence, and named it Alillbank, and spent the remainder of his life there. He also owned, with his brother Horace, a farm in Hopewell town- ship, and a half interest in the Ewing flour mill near his home. He took a deep interest in that section where his boyhood was spent, and devoted great efforts for work of road improvements in that section, capably serv- ing in the capacity of county supervisor of roads. John Stockton Hough. M. D., as eldest son, back to Richard Hough. Provincial Councillor, was the head of the Hough fam- ily of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was one of the revivers of the Aryan "Order of St. George, of the Holy Roman Empire in the Colonies of America, which was found- ed by Sir Thomas Forsythe, Viscount de Fronsac, a British-American officer, with the allies fighting the Revolution in France, who in 1798 was given authority by Em- peror Joseph II to organize the American families who were descended from noble European blood, or from officers holding royal commissions in the colonies. A num- ber of persons were admitted during the early j'ears of its existence, but it was not thoroughly organized until 1879. when some of the members met in Boston for that pur- pose, and it was more formally organized in the rooms of the IMaryland Historical Society. October 28, 1880. Dr. Stockton-Hough, as he styled himself, was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, being confirmed by Bishop Stev- ens in Philadelphia in 187^. He married first, January 29, 1874. Sarah Macomb Wetherill. daughter of Dr. William Weth- erill, of Fatland. Montgomery county. Penn- sylvania, a descendant of Christopher Wethrul. of West Jersey, ancestor of the well known Philadelphia family of that name. She died in Florence, Italy, in 1875, leaving an only daughter, Frances Eleanor Agrippina Etrusca Hough, who was born in Florence, December 30, 1874, and died un- married at Millbank, April 4, 1893. Dr. Hough married (second) June 30. 1887, in New York City, Edith Reilly, daughter of Edward and Anna Russun (Rogers) Reilly, of New York. Her father was a graduate of Yale, and a large mine owner in the west, and her mother's ancestors were prominent in Delaware and the eastern shore of Mary- land. Dr. Stockton-Hough was a member of the Grolier Club and University Club of New York. He died at Millbank, May 6, 1900. DESCENDANTS OF JOHN HOUGH. SECOND SON OF RICHARD AND MARGERY HOUGH. 5. John Hough, second son of Richard and Margery (Clows) Hough, born 7 mo. 18, 1693. in- herited his father's upper tract adjoining the Manor of Highlands and included in Upper Makefield in 1737. It comprised 359 acres. It is not known how he disposed of it, and he left no will, and none of his children are known to have resided upon it in later years. It is probable that he conveyed a portion of it to the Taylors, his wife's brothers, as a descendant of Mah- lon K. Taylor, who married Elizabeth JOHN STOCKTON HOUGH TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Hough, a great-granddaughter of John_ Hough, inherited it and founded Taylors- ville. John Hough was a justice of the Bucks county courts for several years, and his death is said to have occurred while filling this position some time after 1733. He married 11 mo. 1718, at Falls Meeting. Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Philip and Julianna Taylor, of Oxford township, Phila- delphia county. Her brothers removed to Bucks county and founded a wealthy and in- fluential family there. The children of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough were: 40. John, born 11 mo. 3, 1720, died 1797, married Sarah Janney ; see forward. 41. Joseph, born 5 mo. 20, 1722, died 1777; married 1746, Lydia Hurst, and their descendants removed to Loudoun Coun- ty, Virginia, w'here one of his children married a Washington. 42. Benjamin Hough, born 4 mo. 14, 1724, died 2 mo. 10, 1803, removed to Phila- delphia when a young man, accumulated a fortune, and spent the latter part of his life in traveling in the interests of religion. He lived for a time in Wilmington, Dela- ware, later at Nottingham, Cecil county, Maryland, and about 1771 located in Little Britain township, Lancaster county, where he died. He married first, 1748, Elizabeth West, daughter of Thomas, of Wilmington^ by whom he had three children, of whom only Benjamin survived his father. He mar- ried (second) 1781, Sarah Janney. widow of Isaac Janney, of Cecil county, Maryland. Their only child, John, died at the age of seven years. 43. Isaac Hough, born 9 mo. 15, 1726, died 4 mo. 13, 1786, married Edith Hartj see forward. 44. William Hough, born 11 mo. i, 1727-8, married 1749, Sarah Blaker. daugh- ter of Samuel and Catharine of Warwick, Bucks county. 45. Thomas Hough, born 11 mo. 2, 1729-30, died 5 mo. 18, 1810; married 1857, Jane Adams; 1784, INIary (Bacon) Wistar. He removed to Philadelphia in early life and became one of the wealthy men of that time. He lived at No. 20 Pine street. By first wife had six children, all except two of whom died young; Elizabeth married James Olden, of the New Jersey family, and "Betsy Hough's wedding" is referred to in the "Journal of Elizabeth Drinker," one of Mrs. Drinker's daughters being a brides- maid. Jane, the other daughter, married Halladay Jackson, of the Chester county family, well known in Friends' annals. One of her sons was John Jackson, the min- ister. One of her descendants is Mrs. Isaac H. Clothier. Mary (Bacon-Gilbert) Wis- tar, the second wife of Thomas Hough, was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Test) Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Cumberland county. New Jersey. She married first, Thomas Gilbert, of Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, and (second) Richard Wistar, whose family is prominent in the social life of Philadelphia to this day. There was no issue by the second marriage. 46. Septimus Hough, born 4 mo. 21, 1731, died in Philadelphia 9 mo. 3, 1749. 47. Elizabeth, born 12 mo. 15, 1732-3, married Nathan Tomlinson. 48. Bernard, born ir mo. 15, 1734-Sj said by an old record to have died "in France." 49. Martha, born 4 mo. 22, 1737, married David Bunting, son of Samuel and Priscilla (Burgess) Bunting, of the Bucks county branch of the descendants of Anthony Bunting, who came from Matlock, Derby- shire, and settled in Burlington county. New Jersey. 50. Samuel, born 2 mo. 15, 1739. John Hough (40) eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed to Loudoun county, Virginia, where he became a very large landed proprietor, and built a fine mansion known as "Corby Hall." He was an elder of Farfax IMonthly Meeting, and represented his Quarterly Meeting in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; was well known in northern Virginia, and held in high esteem not only by the members of the Society of Friends but by the "cava- lier" gentry of that section, with whom some of his children and grandchildren intermar- ried. When a number of prominent Phila- delphia Quakers were exiled to Winchester. Virginia, during the Revolution, by or- der of the supreme executive council, John Hough visited them and was active in se- curing their release. A number of his let- ters on this subject are preserved in the Pemberton mss. collection in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He is mentioned in the diary of George Wash- ington, on the occasion of the latter spend- ing a night at Corby Hall, and in other places. John Hough married, in 1742, in Bucks county, Sarah Janney, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Biles) Janney, a granddaughter of Thomas Janney and of William Biles, both provincial councillors from Bucks county, and among the greatest of the founders of the county. Their nine children all married and reared families, most of them intermarrying with Virginia families, though some of the married into Bucks county families who had migrated to Virginia. They have left many disting- uished descendants, among whom may be mentioned, Emerson Hough, of Chicago, novelist, historian and journalist, author of "Mississippi Bubble," and "The Way to the West," etc. Isaac Hough (43) fourth son of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed early in life to Warminster township. Bucks county, where he purchased about 236 acres of land. He married, September 24. 1748, Edith Hart, born May 14, 1727, died March 27, 1805, daughter of John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart, of Warminster, and sister of Colonel Joseph Hart, of the continental army, county lieutenant ; member Bucks County Committee of Safety, etc., one of the most prominent figures in the Revolu- ionary struggle in Bucks county. (See Hart family). Her father, John Hart, was sheriff lO HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXrV. of Bucks county, justice of the county courts, coroner, etc. She was a granddaugli- ter of Thomas Holme, surveyor-general of Pennsylvania and sometime president of Provincial Council. of Pennsylvania, former- ly of the Parliamentary army in the civil war in England. Also great-granddaughter of Captain William Crispin, acting rear admiral in the British navy, and one of Penn's commissioners for settling the Col- ony in Pennsylvania ; and of Captain John Rush, also of the Parliamentary army, an- cestor of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, etc. She was granddaughter of John Hart, from Witney, Oxfordshire, an early minister among Friends who joined the Keithians, and finally became a Baptist preacher, one of the most learned men of the colony, and of Silas Crispin who, through his mother, Anne Jasper^ was a first cousin to William^ Penn. Isaac Hough left the Society of Friends and joined the Baptists, to which sect his wife belonged. In 1775 he joined the Warminster Company of Associators, in the Second Battalion of Bucks County Mi- litia, Colonel John Beatty. In July, 1776, he was appointed by the County Committee of Safety one of the committee to distribute allowances to families in need whose hus- bands were in the military service. On Au- gust 29, 1777, he was appointed one of the members of the committee from Warminster to attend to the driving off of cattle to pre- vent them from falling into the hands of the British. The children of Isaac and Edith (Hart) Hough were as follows: 60. Eleanor, born August 20, 1749, died March i, 1802; married 1766, Thomas Cra- ven, and had nineteen children. The fam- ily removed to Virginia during the Revo- lution. 61. Elizabeth, born August 21, 1751; married 1771, Silas Gilbert, her first cousin, son of William and Lucretia (Hart) Gil- bert, and removed to Maryland. He was lieutenant in ist Battalion, Bucks County Militia, 1777. 62. Susannah, born June 28, 1753 ; mar- ried 1773, Benjamin Jones, whose family furnished several members of Assembly and justices of Bucks county in colonial times. 63. John Hough, born March 12, 1755 ;■ married 1774, Charity Vandoren. He was a member of Warminster Associators 1775, and afterwards in Virginia militia. He moved to Philadelphia after the Revolution, and .later to Moreland, Montgomery county. 64. Mary, born May 19, 1757, died un- married. 65. Isaac Hough, born September 15, 1759, died March 17, 1801 ; member Warm- inster Associators; removed to Philadelphia after Revolution ; many years chief clerk of United States Mint. One of his descend- ants is Judge Robert T. Hough, of Hills- borough, Ohio, sometime solicitor of Intern- al Revenue at Washington, D. C, recently candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio. Isaac married first Elizabeth Houghton ; second, Mrs. Elizabethi Eberth. 66. Thomas Hough, born October 7, 1761 ; removed to Philadelphia ; said to have been on otlficer in war of 1812; married' 1790, Hannah Tompkins. 67. Oliver Hough, born August 27, 1763^ died January 18, 1804; see forward. 68. Rev. Silas Hough, born February- 8, 1766, died May 14, 1823. Baptist minister^ also practiced medicine in Bucks and Mont- gomery counties. Married his cousin, Eliza- beth Hart, daughter of County Treasurer John Hart. 69. Joseph Hough, born June 17, 1768, died July 3, 1799: married Elizabeth Marple. 70. William Hough, born September 12, 1770; died unmarried. Oliver Hough (67) son of Isaac and Edith (Hart) Hough, became a large land- owner in Upper Makefield, Bucks county. Hough's Creek, (formerly Milnor's Creek) took its name from him. In the latter part of his life he resided in Dolington. He mar- ried at Horsham Meeting, 4 mo. 16, 1790, Phebe Cadwallader, born 11 mo. 5, 177^, died 7 mo. 13, 1842, daughter of Jacob and Phebe (Radcliffe) Cadwallader, of War- minster. She was a descendant of Henry Baker before alluded to in this narrative, and from John Cadwallader, one of the prominent ministers among Friends, who died while on a religious visit to the Island of Tortola in 1742; also of Johannes Cas- sel and Thones Kunders, two of the princi- pal founders of Germantown, and from Jan Lucken, the founder of the Lukens family in America. Her brother, Hon. Cyrus Cadwallader, before referred to in this volume, was in state senate 1816-25. The children of Oliver and Phebe (Cad- wallader) Hough were; 71. Elizabeth, died young. 72. Rebecca, born 1792, married 1820, Joseph Johnson. 73. Mary, born 1794; married 1822, Samuel Yardley, a well known merchant of Doylestown, later of Philadelphia. 74. Elizabeth, born 1796, married 1817, Mahlon Kirkbride Taylor, founder of Taylorsville. 75, 76, 77. Isaac, Rachel and Phebe, all died young. 78. Oliver, born 2 mo. 14, 1804, died 7 mo. 20, 1855 ; born at Dolington, lived there until his marriage, when he removed to the Doron farm in Middle- town township ; soon after removed to a farm just outside Newtown borough on Yardley turnpike, where five of his chil- dren were born. In 1842 removed to Doy- lestown, and in 1846 to Philadelphia. Dealt largely in real estate, owning besides Bucks county property, coal and timber lands in Upper Lehigh Valley, also in Michigan, Tennessee and elsewhere. He died in Au- gusta. Georgia, July 20, 1855, while on a trip to Louisiana to view the property of the Louisiana Canal Company, of which he was a director. He was a member of Spruce Street Friends' Meeting, Philadel- phia. Oliver Hough married. 3 mo. 15, 1832. Martha Briggs, daugiiter of Joseph and YORK ASTON, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. OLIVER HOUGH HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1 1 Martha (Dawes) Briggs, of Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and had issue : Rebecca Jarrett Hough, died unmarried ; Phebe Alice, unmarried, member Civic Qub and Browning Society, Philadelphia, and of Bucks County Historical Society ; managing committee of Friends' Central School, Philadelphia ; ]\Iary Yardley Hough, unmarried; from 1876 to 1897 proprietor and editor of "The Children's Friend," a juvenile magazine; author of numerous short stories for children; Elizabeth Tay- lor, died in childhood. Martha Dawes Hough, unmarried, elder of Spruce Street, Meeting, manager of Friends' Home for Children. Philadelphia, and Friends' Board- ing House Association, Philadelphia. Oliver, died 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee, of camg fever, was a private in i6oth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunters, 15th (Anderson's) Cavalry. Isaac, see forward. The Misses Rebecca J., Phebe A., Mary Y. and Martha D. Hough lived for over forty years at 1340 Spruce -street. Philadelphia. In April, 1904, they removed to the old William Linton Mansion, 24 South State street. Newtown, Bucks county, a picture of w'hich ap- pears in this volume. They inherited this house from their aunts Letitia and Fran- cenia Briggs. Isaac Hough, son of Oliver and Matha (Briggs) Hough, was born in Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania and moved to Philadelphia, with his parents when a child. He was a merchant, and engaged in the shipping trade with the West Indies. He was a charter member and director of the Maritime Exchange of Philadelphia, is a member of the Philadelphia Bourse ; direc- tor of the Finance Company of Pennsjd- vania, and member of the Philadelphia Fencing Club, the Merion Crick- et Club, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, and of the Union League. He married first, in 1867, Anna Alexander Duff, daugh- ter of Edward Duff, common councilman, and member of the board of health of Phila- delphia, by his wife, Mary Jane Diehl, a descendant of Captain Nicholas Diehl, a Revolutionary soldier and a member of the Committee of Safety of Chester county, of noble birth in Frankfort, Germany. Isaac and Anna A. (Duff) Hough were the par- ents of one child, Oliver Hough, 2d Lieutenant. Company 8.. 3d Regiment, Infantry. Penna. Vol. Spanish American war, T898. to whom we are indebted for the foregoing history of the Hough fam.ily as well as data on numerous other 'families published in this volume. He is a member of the Bucks county Historical Society and has contributed a number of valuable papers to its Ar- chives. He is the author of a number of papers on genealogy and local his- tory and is now- at work on an exhaust- ive history of the Hart and Atkinson families. Is a member of a number of patriotic Societies. Isaac Hough mar- ried (second) in 1877. Emilia Antionette, vsndow of Francis Thibault, of Phila- delphia, and had one son, John Boyd, who died in 1895. OLIVER HOUGH, son of Isaac and Anna A. (Duff) Hough, was born in Philadelphia, September 3, 1868, has lived in that city until the present time, and for about two years past has had a transient residence with his aunts, the Misses Hough, at the William Linton Mansion, at 24 South State street, New- town. He received his early education at private schools, and entered the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in the class of '88, re- ceiving the degrees of B. S. and P. C. on completion of course. He has been presi- dent, vice-president, secretary and treasurer,. Class of '88, and two terms secretary of the University of Pennsylvania Cricket As- sociation. For thesis required for technical degree (P. C.) he made three original re- searches in chemistry, described under the titles : I. "An Attempt to Introduce Iodine into Parabroma-benzoic Acid"; II. Some Salts of Meta-nitro-para-bromo-benzoic Acid" ; HI. Some Compounds of Monochlo- ro-dinitrophenol". Nos. I and II were pub- lished in the "Journal of the Franklin In- stitute," December, 1891. No. HI resulted in the discovery of twelve previously un- known chemical compounds. .He has written a number of magazine and newspaper articles of historical or bio- graphical character, the principal ones be- ing: "Richard Hough, Provincial Council- lor," (Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog., XV- III, 20) ; "Captain Thomas Holme, Sur- veyor-General of Pennsylvania and Provin- cial Councillor,"' (Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog., XIX, 413. XX 128, 248) : "Cap- tain William Crispin, Proprietary's Commis- sioner for Settling the Colony in Penna." (read before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, January 10, 1898, and pub- lished in Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog.. XXII, 34) ; and "Thomas Janney. Provin- cial Councillor," (read before Bucks Coun- ty Historical Society, July 20, 1897, and published in Bucks county newspapers). In politics Oliver Hough has been secre- tary and chairman of the Seventh Ward Association, Municipal League of Philadel- phia ; a member of several committees in charge of independent candidates' cam- paigns (one of which resulted in the elec- tion of Alexander Crow, Jr., as sheriff of Philadelphia county) ; and from 1896 to date has represented the Fourteenth Divis- ion, Seventh Ward, in many conventions of the Republican party. ]\Ir. Hough joined the National Guard of Pennsylvania as a private in Company D, First Regiment, In- fantry, August 10, 1893 ; elected second lieutenant Company G, Third Regiment, Infantry, June 10, 1897. Served again with Company D, First Infantry, on riot duty at Hazelton, Pennsylvania, October, 1902. Is a member of the "Old Guard" of Company D. He was mustered into the United States service for the Spanish War as second lieutenant. Third Penna. Volunteer Infantry, July 12 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 22, 1898; detailed as acting assistant quar- termaster, A. A. commissary of subsis- tence, and A. A. ordinance officer ; served in camps at Fernandina, Florida, and Hunts- ville, Alabama ; mustered out October 22, 1898. Mr. Hough is or has been a member of the following organizations : Society of Co- lonial Wars (by descent from Richard Hough, Thomas Janney and other early Bucks countians) ; Sons of the Revolution (by descent from Isaac Hough of the Bucks County Associators) ; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and local historical societies of Bucks county, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and Harford county, Maryland ; Genealogical Society of Penn- sylvania (historian and member board of di- rectors) ; American Catholic Historical So- ciety of Philadelphia ; Friends' Historical Society (England) ; Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain) ; Franklin Insti- tute of the State of Pennsylvania ; ]\Ierion Cricket Club of Haverford, Pennsylvania ; and Markham Club of Philadelphia. ANCESTRY OF BENJAMIN HOUGH, OF WARRINGTON. Joseph Hough, youngest son of Richard and Margery (Clowes) Hough, a sketch of whose life and distinguished services is given in the preceding pages, was born in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, September 19, 1693, and died in Warwick township, now Doylestown, May 10) '^773- By the will of his father he inherit- ed the Warwick plantation, originally taken up by his grandfather, John Clows, and pur- chased by his father in 1702. It comprised 841 acres as shown by a survey when di- vided between his two sons Joseph and John by deeds dated May 2, 1761, and lay on "both sides of the Neshaminy, on the lower line of the present township of Doyles- town, extending from the Bristol road to Houghville, or "The Turk." It was divided almost equally between the two sons in 1761, the Neshaminy being the dividing line for about one-third of the distance. John getting the end next Houghville, and Joseph the western end. Joseph Hough, Sr., married "out of meeting," his wife being Elizabeth West, daughter of Nathan- iel and Elizabeth (Dungan) West, and granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas Dun- gan, who came from Rhode Island to Bucks county in 1683, and of Nathaniel West, of Rhode Island. Nathaniel West, Jr., was living at the time of the marriage of his daughter, on the Rodman tract, adjoining the Hough farm, which would imply that Joseph Hough had taken up his residence in Warwick prior to his marriage. A Jo- seph Hough was dealt with at Falls Meet- ing for marrying out of unity May 9, 1726, but whether Joseph of Warwick, or Joseph Hough, son of John and Hannah, who was about the same age, cannot be ascertained from the records. He evidently retained a nominal membership, as his son Joseph was considered a member at Buckingham at the time of his marriage in 1756. The children of Joseph and Elizabeth (West) Hough, were as follows : 1. Sarah, married James Radcliffe. son of Edward and Phebe (Baker) Radcliffe, and grandson of James Radcliffe, the preacher, and of Henry Baker, whose dis- tinguished services have been previously referred to. 2. Martha, born 1728, died 1785, married William Evans, son of Lewis Evans, a trooper in the battle of Boyne. For their children, see "Fox, EUicott & Evans Fami- lies," Chas. W. Evans, Buffalo, N. Y., 1882. Four married Ellicots. 3. Mary, married Samuel Gourley, of Wrightstown, Bucks county. 4. Rebecca, married (first) a George, and (second) Samuel Williams, of Gwynedd. 5. Joseph, born 1730, died January 6, 1818. 6. John Hough, second son of Jeseph and Elizabeth (West) Hough, lived on the 414 acre tract conveyed to him by his father in 1761, as before recited, in Warwick township. Was probably not a member of the Society of Friends, though he adhered to their principles. His name appears on the roll of "Non-Associators" in 1775. He married, October 31, 1767, at St. Michael's and Zion Church, Philadelphia, Ruth Will- iams, and' had issue five children, viz: Jo- seph, who married Eleanor Miller, who after his death married John Meredith ; Thomas married (first) Ann Mathews, and (second). Lydia (Mathews) Drake, her sister: John, married Rebecca Thomp-. son ; Mary, married Robert Walker of War- rington; and Charlotte, died January 14, 1 81 5, married John Meredith, who after her death married her brother's widow, Eleanor (Miller) Hough. John Thompson Hough, the wealthy inventor and manufact- urer of safes, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of John and Rebecca (Thomp- son) Hough. 7. Margery Hough, married Hugh Shaw. 8. Elizabeth Hough, married Robert Tompkins. 9. Hannah Hough, died April 18, 1819, married Simon Meredith, an uncle to John", who married Charlotte, daughter of John Hough. A grandson of Simon and Han- nah married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hough ; see below. 5. Joseph Hough, Jr.. eldest son of Jo- seph and Elizabeth (West) Hough, born 1730, lived on the 420 acres conveyed to him by his father in Warwick. He was a -mem- ber of the Society of Friends and was dis- owned for marrying out of meeting in 1756, but continued to adhere to their principles and was a "Non-Associator" in 1775. He married, in November, 1756. Mary Tomp- kins, daughter of Robert Tompkins, Esq., of Warrington. She died August 8, 181 1, at the age of seventy-five years. They had issue: i. Joseph, died 1796, married Re- becca Radcliffe, daughter of John and Re- becca (West) Radcliffe, niece of his aunt HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. 13 Sarah's husband, and a descendant of Na- thaniel West, as was her husband. 2. John who died young. 3. Richard, who married Pamela Walton. 4. Elizabeth, who married Henry Ditterline. 5. John, who married Mary Meredith. 6. Robert, who married (first) Francis Martin, of Maryland, and (second), Rachel Hopkins, of the Johns Hopkins family of Maryland, lived and died in Baltimore, and has left many distin- guished descendants there. 7. Septimus Hough married Edith Wilson, daughter of Robert and Mary (Lundy) Wilson, of New Jersey. See Lundy Family. 8. Ben- jamin Hough. See forward. 9. Jacob, died young. 10. Lydia, who married Elias Anderson. 11. Charlotte, died unmarried. 12 and 13. Isaac and Jacob died young, and 14. Mary, married (1808) Dennis Con- rad, a descendant of Thomas Kunders, one of the founders of Germantown. John Hough, son of Joseph and Mary (Tompkins) Hough, was a prominent man in the community. He inherited a part of his father's plantation near Houghville. generally known as "The Turk," and when the county seat was about to be removed from Newtown laid out streets there and made a plan of a town, and offered the site for the court house and public buildings. He was a large land owner and owned the Turk Mills at Houghville, and exten- sive warehouses in Philadelphia. He donat- ed the land on which the Doylestown Acad- emy was built, and was one of the commis- sioners of the lottery authorized by the legislature to raise $3,000 to complete the Academy. He married Mary Meredith, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Mathew) Meredith, and niece of Simon Meredith, who married Hannah Hough, and had issue : John, who married Eliza Stuck- ert, and Harriet Ann Pierce, and Mary, who never married. 8. Benjamin Hough, son of Joseph and Mary (Tompkins) Hough, was born Janu- ary 25, 1770, and died May 16, 1848. He purchased from his father in 1797 and 1806, and later of his brother, Septimus Hough, portions of the old ancestral homestead, and at his death owned the greater part of the 400 acre tract, and lived thereon all his life. He was a prominent man in the community and filled many positions of pub- lic trust. He was a director of the poor in 1818, and served as a director of Doyles- town Bank in 1832. He married, August 24, 1791, Hannah Simpson, born July 26, 1770, died April 3, 1848, daughter of John and Hannah (Roberts) Simpson, of Hors- ham, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and a sister to John Simpson, the grand- father of General Ulysses Sirnpson Grant.* John Simpson, her father, was iDorn in 1738, and died August 16, 1804. His wife, Hannah, was a daughter of Lewis Roberts, of Ab- ington, and a sister to Colonel William Roberts, of New Britain, colonel of milit- ia during the Revolution and a sheriff of Bucks county. Hannah (Roberts) Simp- son died at the residence of her son-in- law, Benjamin Hough, in Doylestown township, January 22, 1821, aged seventy- nine. The children of Benjamin and Han- nah (Simpson ) Hough, were as follows: I. John Simpson, born 1792, married, 1818, Elivia Lunn. 2. Joseph, born 1798, mar- ried Jane Cowell, and lived for many years in Tinicum ; was brigadier general of Penn- sylvania Militia. 3. Anne, born 1794, mar- ried George Stuckert. 4. Benjamin, see forward. 5. Silas, born 1804 married Sophia F. Moser, and their son, John S. Hough, was a candidate for governor of Colorado on its admission in 1876. 7. Hannah, born 1807, married, November 16, 1826, Daniel Y. Harman, member of Penn- sylvania legislature in 1836, etc. 8. William Simpson, born i8og. married Elizabeth Neely. 9. Samuel Moore, born 1812, mar- ried Elizabeth N. Harman, sister of Dan- iel Y., and (second) his wife's niece, Ara- minta Beans, daughter of Isaac and Biie»-'M7a^ U»^ (Harman) Beans. He was adjutant of 33d Pennsylvania Regiment, of which his brother, Joseph, was colonel. 10. Mary_, born 1814, married John Barnsley, of New- town. See Barnsley Family in this work. Benjamin Hough, Jr., son of Benjamin and Hannah (Simpson) Hough, was born on the old homestead in Warwick, now Doylestown township, January 25, 1801. He was a merchant and farmer, and at one time owned and conducted the store at Buckingham. He later purchased the Bar- clay farm, later the Radcliffe farm at War- rington, which then included the site of the present store at Warrington, across the turnpike from the farm, a small triangular piece of land, whereon he erected a store building and conducted the mercantile busi- ness there for many years. He also pur- chased the farm now occupied by his grand- son, Benjamin Hough, where he died in 1853. He was married by the Reverend John C. Murphy, February 5, 1824, to Ma- ria Wentz, of New Britain, and they were the parents of ten children, viz : John, who removed to Valva, Illinois; Ellen, who married John S. Bryan; Silas, see forward; J. Finlay, who was a miller, lived first in Bedminster, later in Buckingham, died at Atlantic City, was the father of Dr. Hough of Ambler ; Mary Jane, who married Ed- ward Buckman, of Newtown, she died Sep- tember 27. 1905; Anna, for many years a school teacher, died at Newtown in Septem- ber. 1900; Simpson and Samuel H., twins, the former removed to Illinois and the latter for many years a miller in Warwick, War- *General U. S. Grant twice visited the section where his maternal ancestors resided, the first time soon after his graduation at West Point in 1843. The young cadet then was entertained at the liouse of his great-uncle and aunt, Benjamin Hough, Sr., and wife Hannah Simpson, and was conveyed thence to visit the old Simpson homestead in Horsham, where his grandfather , John Simpson, was born. In 1J<,53 he re- visited Bucks county and' stopped at the house of his relative, Robert McKinstry, vihose mother, Mary Weir, was a sister to Grant's grandmother, the wife of John Simpson. H HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. minster and Hatboro, died in Hatboro in 1903; Benjamin, a soldier in the civil war, died at Leadville, Colorado, March 13, 1890; Henry, for many years a teacher in Doyles- town and elsewhere, was appointed during President Grant's term to a position in the Pension office at Washington, D. C, and died there in 1901 ; and George, still liv- ing in Valva, Illinois. Silas Hough was born and reared on the Warrington homestead, and on his marri- age removed to the farm on which his son Benjamin now resides. He was a successful and prominent farmer, and filled many positions of public trust, frequently acting as guardian of minors and as execu- tor and administrator in the settlement of estates. In politics he was a Republican^ and took an active interest in the questions of the day, but never sought or held pub- lic office. He married, March 3, 1855, Han- nah Horner, daughter of James and Ann (Long) Horner, of Warminster, Bucks county, both of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Si- las and Hannah (Horner) Hough, were the parents of four children, of whom three died in childhood, leaving Benjamin Hough as only surviving heir. Hannah Hough died in 1890, and Silas in 1892. Benjamin Hough, only son of Silas and Hannah (Horner) Hough, was born on the farm on which he still resides, in Warring- ton township, March 12, 1854, and it has been his place of residence almost continu- ously to the present, covering over half a century. He acquired a common school education, supplemented by a course at the Doylestown English and Classical Seminary. He was reared to the life of a farmer, and on his marriage he brought his bride to the old farm which he conducted until 1883, when he removed to Chester county and spent two years there on an experimental farm. After the death of his father he re- turned to the homestead, having in the meantime gained new knowledge of modern farming methods which he adapted to the use of the home place. He made substantial improvements and greatly improved the ap- pearance of his beautiful home on the Doylestown and Willow Grove Turnpike and Trolley line, overlooking the beautiful valley of the Neshaminy. Mr. Hough is a Republican in politics and takes a keen in- terest in public affairs, but has never been an aspirant for office. He has filled the position of school director and other town- ship offices. He married, September 28, 1876, Sarah Patterson, daughter of Jesse R. and Mary (Myers) Patterson, both na- tives of Bucks county, and granddaughter of William and Sarah (Rubinkam) Patter- son, the former a native of Pittsburg, and the latter of Bucks county. William Patter- son was of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, and inherited the sterling as well as the genial qualities of his ancestors. He was a farmer in Bucks county, and reared a family of seven children, viz : Jesse, the father of Mrs. Hough; Mrs. Susan Bolin- ger, Margaret, William, of Doylestown : Sheridan T., a farmer near Peoria. Illinois; Joseph, who died in the army during the civil war; and Thomas, who died in Illi- nois. Jesse Patterson, father of Mrs. Hough, was reared on his father's farm and early in life learned the miller's trade which he followed for many years. He was at one time the owner of the mills at Edisob, Bucks county, which he operated when the mill was destroyed by fire. He rebuilt and operated the mill during the civil war, and later turned his attention to farming. In 1880 he removed to Chester county, where he bought a farm and carried on agricul- tural pursuits until his death in 1885, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife, Mary Myers, who was a daughter of Tobias My- ers, of German descent, died in 1901. Her mother, a Miss Puff, was of English de- scent, and her brothers were Philip Puff, a merchant of Philadelphia, and Henry Puff, a carpenter. Jesse and Mary Myers Pat- terson were the parents of three children, of whom the youngest died in infancy, Sa- rah, Mrs. ^ Hough, was the eldest. Her brother William is a prominent farmer in Chester county. Mrs. Hough is a member of the Baptist Church of Doylestown. Benjamin and Sarah (Patterson) Hough, are the parents of two children, Frederick F., born September 27, 1879, at present a school teacher in Bucks county, who was born on the old homestead in Warrington, and William P., who was born in Chester county, September 7. 1885. WILLIAM H. HOUGH. More than a century has passed since the Hough family was established in Bucks county, for here occurred the birth of Charles Hough, the grandfather of William H. Hough, his na- tal year being i8or. He followed farming throughout his entire life and gave his political support to the Republican party. He held the office of supervisor for a num- ber of years and was always faithful in matters of citizenship. The moral develop- ment of the community was also of deep interest to him. and his life was in harmony with his professions as a member of the Society of Friends. He married Miss Sus- an Neal, and they became the parents of ten children, six of whom have passed away. The living are: Rachel, the wife of Tames Lonsdale; Jasper, a carpenter of Lang- horne. Pennsylvania: Henry; and Martha, the wife of James Subers. Henry Hough, son of Charles Hough, was born in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, in 1838, and when a lad of twelve j-'ears went with his parents to the farm upon which his son William now resides. There he as- sisted in the development and cultivation of the fields and continued to engage in agri- cultural pursuits until 1861, when he estab- lished a hardwnre business in Yardley. con- tinuing it for thirly-three years. In 1894 'le sold this and removed to Solebury. where he has since given his attention to farming. Throughout his mercantile career he en- joyed an unassailable reputation, and his business life has ever been characterized by HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. .straightforward dealing and persistency of purpose. His efforts, too, have been directed along lines that have proved of value to his community, and at the same time have pro- moted individual success. He was one of the organizers of the Yardley Building and Loan Association, and for twenty-five years served as its treasurer. He was also one of the organizers of the Yardley National Bank. He held the office of school director for a number of years, the cause of educa- tion finding in him a warm friend; and his political allegiance has ever been given to the Republican party. He married Miss Elizabeth Parent, of New Jersey, and they l)ecame the parents of two children : Mar- tha, deceased; and William H. William H. Hough was born November 17, 1856, and acquired his education in the •common schools of Yardley. When not occupied with his text books he assisted his father in the store, and was thus identiefid with mercantile interests for twenty-four years. In 1880 he opened a grocery store in Yardley, which he conducted with fair success for ten years. Since that time he has been engaged in the butchering busi- ness in connection with farming, and his "keen discernment and enterprise have brought to him very creditable and grati- fying success. Socially he is connected with the Improved Order of Red Men, No. 170, of Trenton, New Jersey, in which he has passed all of the chairs, a fact which indicates his popularity with his brethren of the fraternity. William H. Hough was married to Miss Anna Ford, a daughter of George and Anna Ford, of West Chester, Pennsylvania. They becarne the parents of seven children, of whom one died in infancy. The others are : Bertha J., wife of William J. Wilson ; Edward T., Lillian I., Mabel C, Elsie and Bess, all at home. EASTBURN FAMILY. The name of Eastburn is an old and honorable one. It originates in Yorkshire, England, where the Manor of Esteburne, (East stream) was created early in the Elev- enth century. It comprised the par- ishes of BingJey and Thwaite-Keighly, from whence the Eastburns emigrated to America six centuries later. The name "de Eastburn" appears as a sur- name as early as 1200, and the more familiar names of Robert and John East- burn in 1583. The first of the name to migrate to Penn's Province was John Eastburn. of the parish of Bingley. who brought a certificate from Brigham Monthly Meeting of Friends to Phil- adelphia, dated 5 mo. 31, 1682. He pur- chased 300 acres of land in Southamp- ton towMiship, Bucks county, in 1693, and married Margaret Jones, of Philadelphia 5 mo. 2, 1694. He died in Southampton about 1720. His children were: Eliza- beth, born 8 mo. 16. 1695: John, born ■ 6 mo., 22, 1697; Peter, born i mo. 5, 1699; Thomas, born 9 mo. 22, 1700. Their mother died in 1740. There was also a daughter Mary, who married Thomas Studham. Elizabeth married Thomas \Valton. of Southampton. Thomas died in 1748, leaving a widow Sarah and daughter Margaret. The eldest son John left several descendants. ROBERT EASTBURN, probably a brother of John, at least son of another John, of the parish of Thwaite-Keighley, Yorkshire, married Sarah Preston, daughter of Jonas, of the parish of Rostick. near Leeds, England, 3 mo. 10, 1693. Their children were: Esther, born 8 mo. 27, 1694, married 1717. Jonathan Livezey, ancestor of the Solebury family. Benjamin, born 7 mo. 15, 1695, died ,1741; surveyor general of Pennsylvania from 1733 to 1741, w'ho married Ann Thomas in 1722, but left no issue. John, born i mo. 12, 1697, married Grace Colston, and settled in Norriton, Montgomery county, Pennsj-lvania, where many of his descendants still re- side. INIary, born 11 mo. 17, 1698, died un- married. Samuel, born 2 mo. 20, 1702, died 1785 in Solebury, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania; married Elizabeth Gillingham. Joseph, born l mo. 21, 1704, died un- married. Sarah, born 12 mo. 10, 1706; married 1734, Hugh Thomas, of Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. Robert, born 2 mo. 7, 1710; married 1733, Agnes Jones; was captain in French and Indian w-ar of 1756-8 under General Forbes, and was captured by the Indians in March, 1756, and carried to Canada and held until November, 1757. He, however, lived to render valuable service to Philadelphia Committee of Safety at the outbreak of the Revolu- tion. He was the father of Rev. Joseph Eastburn, founder of the Mariners' Presbyterian Church, in 1818, and sev- eral other children. Elizabeth, the youngest child of Rob- ert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, was born after the arrival of her parents in Philadelphia. The family as above given brought a certificate from Brigham Friends' Meet- ing in Yorkshire to Philadelphia, dated 12 mo. 6, 1713, and removed to Abing- . ton in 171.-;. Robert died 7 mo. 24, 1755, and Sarah 8 mo. 31, 1752. Samuel Eastburn, third son of Robert and Sarah, born in Yorkshire, 2 mo. 20, 1702, came to Philadelphia with hi^ pa- rents in 1713. In 1728 he married Eliza- beth, daughter of Yeamans Gillingham of Oxford, Philadelphia county, and re- moved to Solebury township, Bucks county, near Centre Hill, where he fol- lowed' his trade, that of a blacksmith, as well as the conduct of a farm of 250 acres which he purchased in 1734. He i6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. brought a certificate from Abington Meeting, dated March 6, 1729, to Buck- ingham Meeting, of which he became one of the most active members, serving as overseer and clerk for several years. He was recommended as a minister m 1770, and travelled in that capacity through various parts of this state, as well as in New Jersey, New York and New England. He was also a prom- inent man in the community in which he lived. He donated the land upon which the first school house was built at Cen- tre Hill, which was known for many years as "The Stone School House" be- fore Centre Hill was known as a vil- lage. He died in 1785. His children were: Benjamin, born 2 mo. 11, 1729, died II mo. 21, 1735. Joseph, born 12 mo. 18, 1730, died 10 mo. 29, 1780; married 1753, Mary Wilson. Ann E., born 12 mo. 18, 1732; married 1754, Joseph Pugh, son of Daniel, of New Britain. Mary, born 2 mo. 16, 1734; married William Edwards. Sarah, born 3 mo. 23, 1736; married 1756, Benjamin Smith. Robert, born 6 mo. 23, 1739; married 1763, Elizabeth Duer; 1784, Rachel Pax- son. JOSEPH EASTBURN, born 1730, died 10 mo. 23, 1780, inherited from his father one-half of the homestead, 125 acres, and purchased considerable other land in Solebury, part of it being a tract of land purchased of Richard Pike in 1763, a portion of which is still in the tenure of his great-great-grandson, Eastburn Reeder. He married, i mo. 17, 1753. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Canby) Wilson, of Bucking- ham, and had by her eleven children, as follows: Joseph, born 7 mo. 16, 1754; married ^777, Rebecca Kitchin, daughter of Will- iam and Sarah Ely Kitchin. Benjamin, born 7 mo. 4, 1756; married 1778, Keziah Ross and removed to Maryland. Samuel, born 6 mo. 20, 1759; married 1781, Macre Croasdale, and in 1786, Han- nah Kierkbride. John, born 4 mo. 28, 1760; married 1788. Elizabeth Wiggins, and in 1808, Hannah Hillborn. Rebecca, born 4 mo. 4, 1762; married i8to. George Pierce. Thomas, born 5 mo. 14, 1764; married 1795, Mercy Bailey. Mary, born 6 mo. 22, 1766; married 1790. Joseph Phipps. James, laorn 8 mo. 27, T768, married 1/91, Merab, daughter of John and Sarah (Simcock) Ely. Amos, born 12 mo. 25, 1770; married T7QS. Mary Stackhouse. David, born 4 mo. 7. 1773; married 1801. Elizabeth Jeanes and removed to Delaware. Elizabeth, born 1776, died 1777. Mary, the mother, died 11 mo. 19, 1805. JOSEPH EASTBURN, born I7S4, died 5 mo. 16, 1813, inherited from his father the Pike tract of land in Sole- bury, and lived and died thereon. He married Rebecca Kitchin, 9 mo. 19, 1777, and had seven children, of whom only five, all daughters, grew to maturity, and only the eldest, Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 13. 1778, married. She became the wife of Merrick Reeder, Esq., in 1802. An account of their descendants is given on another page of this work. ROBERT EASTBURN, youngest son of Samuel and Elizabeth Gillingham Eastburn, born 6 mo. 23, 1739, died 1816, married (first) 11 mo. 22, 1763, Eliza- beth Duer, and took up his residence on a part of the homestead farm where he was born, and spent the rest of his life there. His children by Elizabeth were: Sarah, born i mo. 12, 1766; married Thomas Phillips. Moses, born 4 mo. I, 1768; married 1790, Rachel Knowles. Elizabeth, born 1770, died 1775. Aaron, born I mo. 10, 1773; married 1796, Mercy- Bye. Ann, born 12 mo. 27, 1775, married 1798, John Comfort. Robert married (second) Rachel Paxson, a widow on 9 mo. 16, 1784, and had two children: Letitia, born 1793. married 1816, Samuel Metlar; Samuel, born 1800, married 1821, Mary Carver. MOSES EASTBURN, born 4 nio. i, 1768, died 9 mo. 28, 1846, married 10 mo. 21, 1790, Rachel, daughter of John and Mary Knowles. Mary Knowles, the elder, was a daughter of Robert and Mercy (Brown) Sotcher, and grand- daughter of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, Penn's faithful stewards at Pennsbury, and also granddaughter of George and Mercy Brown, and a cousin to General Jacob Brown. The children of Moses and Rachel Knowles Brown who grew to maturity were: John, born 1791, removed to the west; Elizabeth, born 1793, married 1813, Samuel Black- fan; Robert, born 1794, removed to the west; Jacob, born 9 mo. 14, 1798, married 1829, Elizabeth K. Taylor; Mary, born 9 mo. 15, 1800, married 1829, Thomas F. Parry; Sarah, born 1804, married John Palmer; and Moses, born 5 mo. 9, 1815, married 1845, Mary Anna Ely. Rachel Knowles Eastburn died 4 mo., 1843. Moses Eastburn, son of Moses and Rachel, born 5 mo. 9, 1815, died 9 mo. 27, 1887, was a worthy representative of this old family. He was possessed in a marked degree of the best elements of good citizenship, quiet and unassuming in demeanor, but determined and un- swerving in his devotion to principle and right. Though never holding any political office he held many positions of trust, and was always active in promot- ing and maintaining local enterprises for the benefit of the people of his na- tive county. He was for many years a HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 17 manager and afterwards president of the Bucks County Agricultural Society; one of the organizers and most active mem- bers of the Solebury Farmers' Club; a manager of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Mutual Insurance Association of Bucks County, probably the largest local in- surance company in the county, and for many years its president, (1877 to 1886); a manager of the Lahaska and New Hope Turnpike Company, and its president for many years prior .to his death; a manager of the Doylestown and Buckingham Turnpike Company from 1864 until his death; a manager of the Lambertville National Bank, and school director for many years. He was an active member of Solebury Monthly Meeting of Friends, being for thirty-tive years clerk of the Meeting, and in every position he discharged its duties with ability and fidelity. Few men have been more honored and respected for sterling qualities than he. He was married 4 mo. 16, 184s, to Mary Anna, daughter of Hugh B. and Sarah M. Ely, of Bucking- ham, where she was born, 11 mo. 30, i8t6. She died in Solebury, 7 mo. 2, 1879. Moses Eastburn inherited the farm upon which he was born and spent nearly his whole life there. It is now the property of his only son, Hugh B. Eastburn. The children of Moses and Mary Anna (Ely) Eastburn were: Hugh B., born 2 mo. 11, 1846; and Fannie, born 10 mo. 27, 1847, died 1851. HUGH B. EASTBURN, of Doyjes- town, lawyer and banker, was born on the Solebury farm, 2 mo. 11, 1846. He attended the public schools of the neigh- borhood until 1859, and then entered the Excelsior Normal Institute at Carvers- ville. graduating in 1865. For two years he taught in the Boys' Grammar School at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadel- phia, and subsequently in the Friends' Central High School. While there he began the study of law under the pre- ceptorship of Hon. D. Newlin Fell, now justice of the supreme court, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in the spring of 1870. In June, 1870, he was appointed by State Superintendent Wick- ershani to fill a vacancy in the office of county superintendent of schools in Bucks county, and was elected to that position in 1872, and re-elected in 1875. Mr. Eastburn resigned the office of county superintendent in 1876 and en- tered the law department of the Univj^r- sity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to' the Bucks County bar in August, 1877. In 1885 he was elected district at- torney on the Republican ticket, receiv- ing a handsome majority, though the county was at that time Democratic. Mr. Eastburn was one of the organizers of the Bucks County Trust Company in 1886, and has been one of the board of directors since organization and its pres- ident since 1895, and trust officer since 2-3 1892. He has always been deeply inter- ested in educational matters, and his voice and pen have been potent in every movement for the advancement of -edu- cation in his native county and state. He was for several years a member of the board of trustees of the West Chester Normal School, and has been a member of the Doylestown school board since 1890, and is now its president. In poli- tics he is an ardent Republican, and has taken an active interest in the councils of his party. He has been its represen- tative in many district, state and national conventions. He was married 12 mo. 23, 1885, to Sophia, daughter of John B. and Eliza- beth S. (Fox) Pugh, of Doylestown, and has two sons: Arthur Moses, born 9 mo. 27, 1886; and Hugh B., Jr., born 2 mo. II, 1888. ROBERT EASTBURN, of Yardley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, 3 mo. -J 1833, is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth K. (Taylor) Eastburn. Jacob Eastburn was a son • of Moses and Rachel (Knowles) Eastburn, mentioned in a foregoing sketch, and was born oh the old Eastburn homestead in Solebury, September 14, 1793. He married in 1829 Elizabeth K. Taylor, who, like Rachel (Knowles) Eastburn, was a descendant of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, through the marriage of their daughter Mary to Mahlon Kirkbride. On the marriage of Jacob Eastburn his father purchased for him the farm now owned by John H. Ely, adjoining the homestead, and he spent the re- mainder of his life thereon. Jacob East- burn was a prominent and successful business man and farmer. His elder brother Robert had heired a farm at Limeport, but, going west when young, had died without issue, whereby the farm descended to his brothers and sis- ters, subject to the life estate of the father, Moses Eastburn. During the life- time of Moses the farm, which was a valuable one, as it included the then profitable lime kilns, quarries and wharfage on the canal, was occupied by Phineas Kelly. At the death of Moses Eastburn, in 1846, Jacob, as the eldest surviving son, was induced to take charge of this valuable plant and man- age it for the heirs. He entered into a partnership with the late George A. Cook, who had been a clerk under Mr. Kelly, and the new firm built up a pros- perous and profitable business. They eventually purchased the interest of the other heirs and continued the business until the death of Jacob Eastburn, which occurred August 26, i860. Jacob East- burn was an active and prominent man in the community, though never holding any elective office other than school di- rector and was frequently called upon to act as guardian.' trustee or executor i8 HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. in the sclllcniciil of estates, ami held many positions of trust, lie was an ac- tive anil consistent member of Sole- bury Friends' Meeting. Jacob and Eliz- abeth Eastburn were the parents of ten children, viz.: William T. and Anna, both of whom died in infancy; Robert, the subject of this sketch; Ellen Y., wife of Samuel Hart, of Doylestown township, born 10 mo. 27, 1834; Mary Anna, born 2 mo. 29, 1837, now widow of J. Simpson Belts; George, born 11 mo. 25, 1838, a prominent educator of Phil- adelphia; Elias and Timothy, twins, born 12 mo. 28, 1840 — the former, now deceased, was a sheriff of Bucks county, and the latter is still living in Solebury; Rachel, died in infancy; Sarah, born 10 mo. 15, 1845, now deceased, was the wife of Mark Palmer, of Lower Makefie'ld. Elizabeth K. Eastburn the mother, died 8 mo. 21, 1877. Robert Eastburn was born and reared on the Solebury farm, and received a good education. Arriving at manhood, he was married, 2 mo. 12, 1857, to Eliza- beth, daughter of Joseph E. and Letitia (Betts) Reeder, and in the following spring began farming on the Pownall farm at Limeport, purchased by his father-in-law. His wife Elizabeth died there 11 mo. 6, i860, and the following spring he sold oi.it and returned to the homestead. His father having died the preceding summer, he as eldest son and executor was occupied in the settlement of the estate and the conduct of the business for the next two years. These were trying times for the Quaker-bred youth of our section, the civil war hav- ing broken out, and excitement ran. high. Though bred and trained as non-com- batants, religious principles and parental injunction and restraint were insufficient to restrain many from responding to the numerous calls for men to go to the front in defense of our country. This family of four grown-up sons was no exception to the rule, and only the con- tention as to who should go and who remain at home to care for the widow and faim, probably prevented their early enlistment. Finally, when the rebels had entered our own state, the strain was too great, and three of the boys (Robert, George and Elias) enlisted in an emergency company formed at Doylestown, and started for the front, leaving Timothy to care for the home interests. Fortunately the tide of in- vasion was turned and the boys were gone but a few weeks, and came home to make peace with the grim elders of the meeting for their transgression of the discipline. In' 1866. one year after the close of the war by the active work of our late friend, John E. Kenderdine, a prominent and active worker in Sole- bury Meeting, assuming the position that the boys going to the front were no more guilty than those at home con- tributing to the war, an acknowledg- ment of their deviation from one of the cardinal points of their faith (that of opposition to war) by in any way giv- ing encouragement to the government in its armed support, was prepared and signed by forty-seven of the fifty male members of that meeting. Of that list but fourteen are living at this time. In the summer of 1863 Robert East- burn purchased the interest of his father in the lime business and removed to Yardley, where an ofifice for the sale of the lime had been long established, and formed a partnership with George A. Cook, under the firm name of Eastburn & Cook, which lasted several 3^ears. Later he embarked in the coal and fer- tilizer business at Yardley, which he continued until 1897. In addition to this business, having been elected a justice of the peace in 1874, he started a real estate and general business agency, which he has continud to the present time in connection with the settlement of many estates and the transaction of official business, Mr. Eastburn having held the oftice of justice until the pres- ent time, a period of thirty years, Robert Eastburn married (second) on Octootr 1:0, 1863, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles White, of Solebury, and took up his permanent residence in Yardley. His wife died 11 mo. 5, 1866, and on 8 mo. 12, 1875, he married (third) Anna Palmer, who died 3 mo. 8, 1901. By his first marriage, with Elizabeth Reeder, Mr. Eastburn had two children: William T., born 8 mo. 31, 1859, married Alada Blackfan, and is now living at New Hope; and Jacob, born 11 mo. 6. i860, now living in New York city. By his marriage with Anna Palmer he has one son, Walter N., born 2 mo. 6, 1881, mar- ried II mo. II, 1902, Isabel Frances Stanbury, and now living in New York. WILLIAM T. EASTBURN, of New Hope, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Reeder) Eastburn, was born in Sole- bury, 8 mo. 31, 1859. At the death of his mother, 11 mo. 6, i860, he went to live w'ith his grandparents, Joseph E. and Letitia Reeder, and was reared in their h-^me in Solebury. He received a good ec'ucj.tion. and upon his marriage began farming at his present residence, where he has ever since resided. At the death of his grandfather in 1892 he was devised this pronerty and the farm upon which he was born at Limeport. Mr. Eastburn is a progressive and intelligent farmer, and has gradually improved the propertv since it came under his tenure. He is a member of Solebury Friends' Meeting. He was married 10 mo. 5, 1887. to Alada E., daughter of the late'William C. and Elizabeth (Ely) Blackfan, a lineal de- scendant of Edward Blackfan and Re- becca Crispin, the latter being a first / HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 19 cousin to William Penn. William T. and Alada E. B. Eastburn have four children; viz.: Sybil Ethel, born 4 mo. 6, 1890; William B., born 4 mo. 30, 1894; Edward B., born 2 mo. 9, 1898; and Jo- seph Robert, born 10 mo. 20, 1901. CHARLES TWINING EASTBURN, ■of Yardley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, one of the most active and successful young business men of Bucks county, w^as born in Newtown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1873, and is a son of Franklin and Mary Eliza- beth (Twining) Eastburn, both of whom -are descendants of the earliest English settlers in Lower Bucks. Mr. Eastburn' is a descendant in the seventh genera- tion from Robert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, who migrated from Yorkshire, England, in 1713, through their son Samuel, who settled in Solebury town- ship, Bucks county, in 1729. An account of the first three generations of this family is given above. Amos Eastburn, son of Joseph and Mary (Wilson) Eastbtirn, and grandson of Samuel, above mentioned, was born in Solebury township, 12 mo. 25, 1770, be- ing the ninth of eleven children. His father died when he was ten years of age. Early in life he learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and followed that vocation in connection with' fafm- ing in Buckingham and Solebury town- ships, until 181 1, when he removed to Middletown township and settled upon 135 acres of land that had been the prop- erty of the ancestors of his wife since 1699, nearly the whole of which is now included in the borough of Langhorne Manor, where he died 10 mo. 16, 1823. He married, 4 mo. 23, 1795, Mary Stack- house, born in- IMiddletown township, ■daughter of Jonathan and Grace (Com- fort) Stackhouse. granddaughter of Isaac and Mary (Harding) Stackhouse, and great-granddaughter of Thomas and Ann (Mayos) Stockhouse, an account of whose arrival in Bucks county in 1682 is given in another part of this work. The land upon which Mrs. Eastburn spent nearly her whole life was part of a tract of 350 acres taken up by her great-grandfather (the last named Thomas Stackhouse) in 1699. and had been successively occupied by her di- rect ancestors down to the death of her father, Jonathan Stackhouse, in 1805, when fifty-five acres thereof was set apart to her as her share of her father's estate. Her husband later purchased of the other heirs an additional seventy-six acres adjoining, and it was her home from 181 1 until her death, i mo. 31. 1831. Amos and INIary (Stackhouse) Eastburn were the parents of three chil- ■dren: Grace, born in Buckingham, i mo. 29. 1796, died in Fallsington in 1875, unmarried; Jonathan, born in Bucking- ham, 12 mo. 25, 1797, died in Middle- town, 4 mo. 9, 1840, married Sidney Wil- son and had children: Mary Ann, Amos, Joseph Wilson and Isaac S.; and Aaronj born m Buckingham, 8 mo. 23, 1804, died in Newtown township, 2 mo. 6, 1889. Aaron Eastburn, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was reared from the age of seven years on the Langhorne Manor farm. His father died when he was nineteen years of age, and he re- mained with his mother until 1828. when he purchased the farm where the subject of this sketch was born, in Newtown township, and spent his remaining days thereon, dying 2 mo. 6, 1889, in his eighty-fifth year. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and a trustee of P^alls Meeting. He married 5 mo. 22, 1831, Sarah Cadwallader, daughter of Cyrus and Mary (Taylor) Cadwallader of Lower Makefield town- ship, granddaughter of Jacob and Phebe (Radclifife) Cadwallader, great-grand- daughter of Jacob Cadwallader, and great-great-granddaughter of John Cad- wallader. a native of Wales, who wa= an early settler in \\'arminster township and a noted minister among Friends. Through her mother, Mary Taylor, she was a great-granddaughter of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, William Penn's trust- ed stewards at Pennsbury. the former of whom was for many years a member of colonial assembly. Aaron and Sarah (Cadwallader) East- burn were the parents of five children: Mary C, born 5 mo. 10, 1832, married Charles Moon; Cyrus, of Lower Make- field, born 12 mo, 2, 1833, married Ase- nath Haines; Charles, died in infancy: Mercy, born 7 mo. 11, 1838, married Charles Albertson; and Franklin. Franklin Eastburn; father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was the youngest child of Aaron and Sarah, and was born on the Newtown homestead, 11 mo. 2, 1842, and resided thereon until 1896 when he moved to 2107 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, where he now resides. He married. 10 mo. 28, 1869. Mary Elizabeth Twining, daughter of Charles and Eliza- beth (West) Twining, of Yardley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of two children: Sarah C, born in 1871, now the wife of George William Balderston. of Trenton, New Jersey, and Charles. Charles Twining Eastburn was born and reared on the old homestead in Newtown township, and acquired his education at the public schools and at Friends' Central School at Fifteenth and Race streets. Philadelphia, and Stew- art's Business College at Trenton, New Jersey, leaving the latter February 28, 1892. The day following his leaving bus- iness college he entered the employ of Stephen B. Twining, in the stone quarry business, at Stockton. New Jersey. Upon 20 IIISrONV Of BUCKS COUXTY. the death of Mr. Twining, in July, 1894, he assumed charge of the entire opera- tions. The following year he purchased the business, and has increased and ex- panded it from year to year until he is now the largest cleaier in his line of trade in Eastern Pennsylvania, operating ex- tensive quarries at Stockton, New Jersey, Lumberville, Yardley, Neshaminy Falls, and in Clearrteld, Elk and Jefferson counties, Pennsylvania, and filling large contracts for furnishing stone to the Pennsylvania and other railroad com- panies, and for many large public and private building operations all over the country, employing from four hundred to seven hundred men in the conduct of his business. He also owns and con- ducts the homestead farm in Newtown township. Mr. Eastburn married, January 8, 1903, Margaret B. Phillips, daughter of Theo- dore F. and Emma B. Phillips, of Lang- horne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of one child, Sarali P., born June 17, 1904- Mr. and Mrs. Eastburn are members of the Newtown Presbyterian church. Mr. Eastburn is a Republican in politics, and has taken an active interest in the success of his party. He is a member of Newtown lodge, No. 426, F. and A. M. SAMUEL COMFORT EASTBURN. Among the most enterprising business men of lower Bucks county is Samuel Comfort Eastburn, of Langhorne bor- ough. He is a son of Joseph and Eliza- beth (Comfort) Eastburn, and was born in Middletown township, Bucks county, August 2, 1848. An account of the first three generations of the paternal ances- tors of the subject of this sketch is given in other pages, he being a descendant in the sixth generation of Robert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, who came from' Yorkshire to Philadelphia in 1713. and settled near Abington. Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, a year later. Sam- uel Eastburn, the great-great-grand- father of Samuel C, removed to Sole- bury township, Bucks county, in 1729. His son, Robert Eastburn, and his first wife, Elizabeth Duer, were the great- grandparents of both the subject and his wife, Elizabeth (Maule) Eastburn. Aaron Eastburn, youngest son of Rob- ert and Elizabeth (Duer) Eastburn, born I mo. 10, 1773, married in 9 mo., 1796, Mercy Bye, of Buckingham, and lived in Solebury, dying at the age of seventy-three years, 3 mo. 24, 1846, and Mercy, his widow, dying 2 mo. 21, i8j8. aged seventy-four years. They were the parents of ten children, seven daughters and three sons. Joseph Eastburn, the ninth child of Aaron and Mercy, and the only son who married, was born in Solebury township, 4 mo. 18, 1814. He was reared in his native township of Solebury, but on his marriage, 11 ma. 19, 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sam- uel and Elizabeth Comfort, of Middle- town, settled on a portion of his fath- er-in-law's farm in Middletown. At the death of Samuel Comfort in i860 this farm descended to his daughter, Eliza- beth C. Eastburn, and a part of it is the present home of the subject of this sketch. The children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Comfort) Eastburn were: Samuel C, born 8 mo. 2, 1848; Anna^ born 6 mo. 24, 1852, married John G. Willetts; and Thomas, born 8 mo. 21,. 1853. Joseph Eastburn, the father, died 10 mo, 31, 1891. The maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were among the early Quaker settlers of this section. John Comfort was a resident of Amwell tovvn- ship, Hunterdon county, where he died' in 1728. He brought a certificate from Flushing, ■ Long Island, to Falls Meet- ing, 12 mo. 3, 1719. In 1720 he married Mary, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson, and had by her three children: Stephen, Sarah and Robert. Stephen Comfort married Mercy Croas- dale, and settled in Middletown town- ship, where he acquired several large tracts of land. He died in 1772, leaving sons Stephen, John, Ezra, Jeremiah, Moses, and Robert; and daughters Grace and Mercy. Stephen Comfort (2), mar- ried Sarah Stevenson, and settled on his father's farm on the Neshaminy, near Parkland, and later purchased consid- erable adjoining land, most of which be- came the property of his son Samuel at the death of his father in 1826. The other children of Stephen and Sarah Comfort were, Stephen, David and Jeremiah. Samuel Comfort lived upon the Nesh- aminy homestead until about 1850, when he removed to the village of Attleboro, where he died in i860, leaving children: Mary Ann; Jesse; Elizabeth, wife of Jo- seph Eastburn, and Samuel. He was a prominent man in the community and filled many positions of trust. Samuel Comfort Eastburn was reared on the Middletown farm, and received his education at the Langhorne Acad- emy and at Westtown Boarding School. He later took a course at Crittenden's Commercial College, Philadelphia. He engaged in railroad surveying for a few- years, and then in the dry goods busi- ness in Philadelphia, where he remained for ten years. In 1880 he took an agency for the Provident Life and Trust Com- pany of Philadelphia, in the life in- surance department, and has been con- nected with it ever since, now holding" the position of general agent for Cen- tral Pennsylvania. Mr. Eastburn is an enterprising and successful business man. and has been closely identified with most of the vast improvements in and about his native town of Langhorne in HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 21 the last twenty-five years. In 1886 he organized and developed the Langhorne Improvement Company, purchasing for it the 620 acres of land upon which the present borough of Langhorne Manor is built. In 1887 he built the Langhorne water works, which now supply water to the three boroughs of Langhorne, Langhorne Manor and Attleboro, and in the same year he built the Langhorne brick works. In 1888 he organized the Langhorne Electric Light Company. He was treasurer and superintendent of the Langhorne Manor Inn, now the Foulke and Long Institute. Me has been largely instrumental in the sale and development of suburban real estate, and has been for many years a foremost advocate of the improvement of the public roads. He has always been an ardent advocate of progress and improvement, and has been a potent force along these lines in the communit)^ in which he lives. In religion he is a member of the orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. In politics he is a Republican, though never a seeker or holder of other than local office, be- ing for some years a justice of the peace, and filling other local offices. He married May 3, 1876, Elizabeth L.. daughter of Joseph E. and Sarah (Com- fort) Maule, of Philadelphia, who was torn 2 mo. 10, 1851. She is a grand- daughter of John and Ann (Eastburn) Maule, the latter being a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Duer) Eastburn, and a sister to Aaron Eastburn, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. The children of Samuel C. and Eliza- beth (Maule) Eastburn are: Herbert Maule, born 3 mo. 25. 1877; Samuel Arthur, born 10 mo. 3. 1878; Joseph Maule, born 4 mo. 25, 1880: and Howard Percy,' born 2 mo. 15, 1887. Herbert is the general agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company at Trenton, New Jersey; Samuel A. is district agent for the Provident Life and Trust Com- pany at Williamsport. Pennsylvania; Jo- seph M. is superintendent of the Red- wood Lumber Manufactory, at Samoa, California, for Hammond & Co.; How- ard P. is a civil engineer in the em- ploy of the Good Roads Commission of Pennsylvania. All of the brothers are successful in their chosen careers, and all are single. ROBERT KIRKBRIDE EAST- BURN, Decea.sed, of Langhorne. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Mor- Tisville, Bucks county, January 20, 1825, and was a son of Samuel and Huldah (Wooley) Eastburn and grand-on of Samuel and Hannah (Kirkbride) East- burn, the last named Samuel being a son of Joseph and Mary (Wilson) Eastburn, of Solebury, Bucks county, g-randson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Gil- lingham) Eastburn. and great-grandson of Robert and Sarah (Preston) East- burn, who were married in Yorkshire, England, 3 mo. 10, 1693. An account of the first three generations of the de- scendants of Robert and Sarah (Pres- ton) Eastburn, and some account of their earlier antecedents in England, is given in the preceding sketches. Samuel Eastburn, son of Joseph and Mary (Wilson) Eastburn, of Sole- bury, was born in that township, 6 mo. 20, 1759. He was reared on the old Solebury homestead, still in the tenure of the descendants of Joseph and Mary, and early in life learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he followed during the active j^ears of his life, in connec- tion with farming in -various parts of the county. His father died when Sam- uel had just arrived at the age ot twen- ty-one years, and prior to the death of the grandfather, who died in 1785. Under the will of the latter, Samuel acquired title to a part of the old homestead on the borders of the present borough of New Hope, and he followed his trade there until 1787, when he purchased a farm of loi acres adjoining the home- stead, which he conducted in connec- tion with his trade until 179^- At about this time, having sold his farm, he re- moved to White Marsh, Montgomery county, where he operated a smith shop until 1803, when he removed to Morris- ville, Bucks county, and purchased a portion of the Robert Morris tract and located thereon. He followed his trade in connection with farming at Morris- ville for some years, and died at that place, 4 mo. S, 1822, at the age of six- ty-four years. He was twice married, having married 4 mo. 12, T781, Macre Croasdale, who died 4 mo. 31, 1782; his son Joseph, by this marriage, horn i nio. 13, T782, died in infancy. He married again, 5 mo. 15. 1788, Hannah Kirk- bride, daughter of Robert and Hannah (Bidgood) Kirkbride, of Doylestown, granddaughter of Mahlon and Mary (Sotchcr) Kirkbride, and great-grand- daughter of Joseph Kirkbride and John Sotcher. both of whom, as well as Mah- lon Kirkbride, were provincial pustices and assemblymen for many years, and the most prominent men of their time in Bucks countv. Samuel and Hannah (Kirkbride) Eastburn, were the parents of nine children, viz.: Robert, born i mo, 31, 1789. died 7 mo. 28, 1796; Samuel, see forward: Jonathan, born 9 mo. 2, 1792. married first Beulah Gaskel. and second Sarah Crozier; David, born 2 mo. 23, 1795, married Louisa Willing; Mahlon. born 9 mo. 9, T797. died unmarried, 12 mo. 7, 1870; Hannah, born 12 mo. 7, 1799, married Aaron Ivins, in 1839; Kirkbride, born i mo. 23, 1803, married Ann Reeves; Macre, born 2 mo. 14, 1806, died unmarried; and Ruth, born i mo. 20, 1810, also died unmarried. 22 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Sanuul Eastbiini. son of Sam- uel and Hannah, was born in Solebury, Bucks county, lo mo. 7, J 790. His early boyhood days were spent at White Marsh, where his parents resided until he was in his thirteenth year, the re- mainder of his life being spent in Falls township and Morrisville borough, Bucks county. He married, in 1813, Huldah Wooley, and they were the pa- rents of seven children, viz.: Lewis, born 8 mo. 5, 1814; Elwood, born 11 mo, 22, 1816; Robert K., the subject of this sketch; Caroline, born 3 mo. 17, 1832; Maria Ann, who married and removed to the west; Hannah K., born g mo. 13, 1835; and Edward. Robert Kirkbride Eastburn, third son of Samuel and Huldah, was born and reared at Morrisville. At the age of nineteen years he became a school teacher and taught in the nearby townships of Bucks county for several years. He later removed to Philadelphia, and w-as engaged in the manufacture of furniture, after some years becoming a member of the firm of Reeves & Eastburn, in which he con- tinued for a member of years. His health failing, he was induced to accept a position as book-keeper for a mining company in New IMexico, and removed there with his family, and remaiped twelve years, entirely regaining his health in that delightful climate. While in New JNIexico his duties required him to make his home in a rough mining camp among a turbulent element, not al- ways controlled or animated by the re- fining influences of civilization, where every one except he went armed, and human life was held exceedingly cheap. Mr. Eastburn always refused to carry arms, and, by his fearless though kindly defense of right and justice, won an in- fluence among the rugged miners, and successfully enacted the role of peace- maker in many little disturbances in the camp, where he had the respect of all who knew him. He returned to Bucks county in 1894 and purchased a handsome home on Richardson Avenue, Langhorne, where he lived until his death on Febru- ary 26, 1897, and where his widow still resides. He held to the faith of the So- ciety of Friends, in which he and his ancestors had been reared, and his firrn though kindly disposition won the re- spect and esteem of all who knew him. Mr. Eastburn married, April 12, 1859, Aliriam Ivins, daughter of George Mid- dleton and Sarah (Buckman) Ivins, of Penns Manor, Bucks county, where her paternal ancestors had resided for sev- eral generations, she being a grand- daughter of Aaron and Miriam (Middle- ton) Ivins, and great-granddaughter of Aaron and Ann {"Cheshire) Ivins. On the maternal side she is a granddaughter of James and Sarah (Burroughs) Buck- man, the former of whom was a son of William and Jane I'uckman, and a de- scendant of William Buckman, who* came from England and settled at New- town in 1684, and the latter a daughter of John and Lydia Burroughs, and granddaughter of Henry and Ann (Palmer) Burroughs, who came from New Jersey and settled in Lower ]\Iake- field, being a son of John Burroughs,, who was born at Newtown, Long Island, in 1684, and died in Ewing, New Jersey,, in 1772, and the last named John being a son of John and Margaret (Wood- ward) Burroughs, of Long Island and a grandson of John Burroughs, who came from England to Massachusetts prior to 1639, and died at Newtown, Long Island, in 1678, at the age of sixty- one years. To Mr. and Mrs. Eastburn were born two children, both born in Philadelphia, viz.: Henry Kirkbride, born November 19, i86i; and Edward Ivins, born March 17, 1866. Henry K. Eastburn is now engaged in the wool business in Philadelphia; he married, January 17. 1884, Carrie Gideon, of Phil- adelphia. Edwin I. is also a resident of Philadelphia. Mrs. Eastburn, accompanied her hus- band to New Mexico, and spent twelve years in that territory. She now resides in Langhorne borough where she is highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. EASTBURN REEDER, one of 4he most prominent farmers and dairymen- in Bucks county, was born June 30, 1828, upon the farm on which he now resides, and which had been the prop- erty of his ancestors for five generations from 1763. Charles Reeder, great-great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, born in England, 6 mo. 24, 1713, came to America in 1734 and settled first near Philadelphia, removing later to Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, where he purchased 200 acres of land in 1765; he died there in 1800. He mar- ried in 1737, Eleanor Merrick, daughter of John and Eleanor (Smith) ]\Ierrick, of Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia county. John Merrick was a Friend, a native of Herefordshire, England, v«ho came to Pennsylvania and settled in Lower Dublin township. In first month, 1702. he declared intentions of marriage, at Abington Friends' Meeting, with Elea- nor Smith, and was married the follow- ing month. He died in 1732. His eldest son John subsequently removed to Wrightstown, having married Ilananh Ilulme. and was the ancestor of the Merricks of lower Bucks. Charles and Eleanor (Merrick) Reeder were the pa- rents, of eleven children, viz.: Joseph, born 0 mo. 3, 17.18, removed to New Jer- sey, (his son John is supposed to be the ancestor of the Rceders of Easton, 0^ w Q W W ^; ID pq H CO < O Q < W H c/i W :^ o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 23 Pennsylvania) ; Charles, born 6 mo. 15, 1743; Benjamin, born 3 mo. 29, 1746, settled in NorthumberlancJ count3% Penn- sylvania; Jesse, born 8 mo. 25, 1748, was drowned in the Delaware river when a young man; David, born S mo. 3, 1750, married, in 1776, Elizabeth Montgom- ery; Abraham, born 7 mo. 8, 1752, mar- ried in 1780; Elizabeth Lee, of Wrights- town; Merrick, born 7 mo. 31, 1754, mar- ried in 1773, Elizabeth Collins; Hannah, born 8 mo. 15, 1756; Eleanor, born 2 mo. 3. 1758; John, born li mo. 29, 1761; and Mary, born 9 mo. 15, 1764. Merrick Reeder, seventh son of Charles and Eleanor, was reared on the Makeficld farm, and on arriving at man- hood married Elizabeth Collins, and followed the vocation of a farmer. He was a tenant on the "Canaan Farm" in Upper Makefield for several years. Hi t8io he and several of his children re- moved to Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. He had thirteen children, viz.: Benajah, born 11 mo. 30, 1774, mar- ried Elizabeth Pownall, of Solebury, and removed to Muncy, in 1810; Merrick, born 2 mo. 8, 1776, .was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch; Jonathan, born 6 mo. ID, 1777, married Sarah Palmer, and removed to Muncy; David, born 8 mo. 23, 1778, married Rachel Pownall, and removed to Muncy; Han- nah, born 4 mo. 11, 1780, married Sam- •uel Winder, and removed to Muncy; Mary, born 10 mo. 29, 1781, married John Robinson; Rebecca, born 5 mo. 20, 1783, died unmarried; Elizabeth, born 4 mo. 3, 1785, married Thomas Osborn and re- moved to ]\Iuncy; Charles, born 4 mo. 18, 1787, married Elizabeth Clark and re- moved to Baltimore. Maryland, where he has descendants; Andrew, born 6 mo. 12, 1789, married Anna Kemble, and re- moved to Muncy: John, born 5 mo. 18, 1791, married Rebecca Ellis, and re- moved to Muncy; Eleanor, born 11 mo. 4, 1793, married John Ross, and re- moved to Muncy, Lycoming county, with her parents; Jesse, born 8 mo. 19, 1796, married first Elizabeth Fell, and (sec- ond; Mary Fell, her sister; settled in Buckingham and is the grandfather of E. Wesley Keeler, Esq., of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Merrick Reeder, Jr., second son of Merrick and Elizabeth, born in Make- field, 2 mo. 8, 1776, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was reared on a farm in Upper Makefield, and received a good education. He came to Solebury as a school teacher in 1800, and in 1802 married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Kitchin) East- burn. He was a man of good business ability, and was for many j^ears a justice of the peace in Solebury and New Hope borough. Soon after his marriage he settled on a portion of the Eastburn farm, (purchased by Joseph Eastburn, Sr., in 1763), and at the death of his father-m-law, Joseph Eastburn, Jr., in 1813, it was adjudged to him in right of his wife, and is now the property and home of Simpson B. Michener, of New Hope. Merrick Reeder was a surveyor and scrivener, and an active and useful man in the community. P^is wife, Eliza- beth Eastburn, died 9 mo. 7, 1833, and he married (second) in 1836, Sarah Simpson. He died in i mo., 1851, aged seventy-five years. (For Eastburn an- cestry of subject of this sketch, see East- burn Family). Merrick and Elizabeth (Eastburn) Reeder were the parents of three children: Joseph E., born 3 mo. 28, 1803; David K., born 10 mo. 29, 1804, married Elizabeth M. Reeder, a daughter of Charles M. Reeder; and William P., born 4 mo. 26, 181 5, married Mary Reeder, also a daughter of Charles M. Reeder. David K. Reeder heired his father's portion of the old plantation in Solebury and lived and died in that township in 1887. William P. removed to Philadelphia, and died in 1885. Joseph E. Reeder, son of Merrick and Elizabeth, born in Solebury township, 3 mo. 28, 1803, was a farmer, and resided during his whole life on the parental acres. He married 4 mo. 11, 1827, Le- titia, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Blackfan) Betts, of Solebury, who bore him two children; Eastburn, the subject of this sketch; and Elizabeth, born i mo. 20. 1831, died November 7, i860, married Robert Eastburn in 1857. Joseph E. Reeder died 7 mo. 28, 1892. aged eigh- ty-nine years, and Letitia, his wife, died 12 mo. 2, 1892, aged ninety-one years. Eastburn Reeder, born on the old homestead of his ancestors, June 30, [828, has spent his whole life thereon. He received a good education, and on arriving at manhood turned his whole attention to the farm. He married, 12 mo. 15 1853, Ellen, daughter of John E. and Martha (Quinby) Kenderdine, and the following spring took charge of the home farm, which he conducted person- ally until 1898 a period of forty-four years, since which time he has retired from its active management. In 1872 he becv.me interested in the breeding of Jer- sey cattle, and his handsome herds were the pride of the county for many years. He has always taken an active interest in the elevation of the calling of a farrner and the improvement of methods of till- ing and utilizing the soil- He was one of the original thirty-three members of the Solebury Farmers' Club organized in 1871, and its first secretary, and is still one of its most active members. He was the representative of Bucks county in the State Board of Agriculture from 1877 to 1893, sixteen years; was ap- pointed by Governor Robert E. Patti- son. May, 1893, State Dairy and Food Commissioner, the first commissioner under the law creating the office, and served until JuJy, i89S. He was active 24 HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY. in the prosecution of the manufactures of oleomargarine and other imitations of pure food, and placed the office on a high plane of usefulness to the farmer. He is also the author of numerous pa- pers on farming and dairying, and has done much to influence legislation for the protection and betterment of the farmer. He was a member of the Sole- bury school board for nine years, from 1865 to 1874, and its secretary for six years. In politics he is a Republican of the independent type. In religion is an active and earnest member of Solebury Meeting of Friends, as were his ances- tors. Since his retirement from the ac- tive management of his farms he has devoted considerable time to literary pursuits, and has published a book en- titled "Early Settlers of Solebury," and also a "History of the Eastburn Earn- ily." Eastburn and Ellen K. Reeder are the parents of four children: Watson K., born October 3, 1854, the present sta- tion agent for the P. & R. R. R. at New Hope, who married 1879, Mary C. Beans, of Johnsville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, born 6 mo. i, 1857. married in 1880, Newton E. Wood, of Moreland, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania; Letitia, wife of Dr. George W. Lawrence, of East Berlin, Connecti- cut, married in 1892; and Martha, wife of Charles Janney, of Solebury, married in 190.3. THE VANSANT FAMILY. The Vansants of Bucks county are descend- ants of a common ancestor, Gerret Stof- felse Van Sandt or Van Zandt,* (other- wise Garret Van Sandt, son of Stoffel or Christopher), who emigrated from the Netherlands, probably from Zaan- dani in North Holland, or Zandberg in Drenthe, in or about the year 1651, and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, on the records of which town he is fre- quently mentioned as Gerret Stoffellse. He was one of the fourteen patentees mentioned in the patent from Governor Thomas Dongan, May 13, 1686, for the Commons of New Utrecht, "on behalf of themselves and their associates, the present freeholders and inhabitants of the said towne." His land was located at Yellow Hook, "under the jurisdiction of the town of New Utrecht." He was a magistrate of New Utrecht in 1681. * For much of the information contained in this sketch, more especially that pertaining to the early generations of the family, we are indebted to R. Win- der Johnson of Philadelphia, who has made extensive researches covering nearly twenty-five years pertain- ing to the ancestry of the Vansants and other Holland families from whom he is descended. He is himself a descendant of Garret Vansandt, through liis son, jacobus (') . and his fourth son, Isaiali X'iinsant. who married Charity VanHorn, and their daugliter. Sarah, who married Christian Van Horn, tlie descent being shown more in detail in the article in this volume on the VanHorn Family. By deed dated July 31, 1695, lie con- vej'ed his Yellow Hook plantation to Derick Janse Van Zutphen, and re- moved to Bucks countj', where Joseph Growdon on 12 mo. 10, 1698-9, conveys to him 150 acres in Bensalem township, and on the same date conveys a like tract adjoining to his son Cornelius. It is probable that he was located for a time in New York, as he had two chil- dren baptized at the Dutch Reformed church there in 1674 and 1676, respec- tively. It is generally conceded that he was twice married, as the record of the baptisms above mentioned gives the name of his wife as L3'sbeth Gerritz, while the later baptisms at New Utrecht and Flatbush churches give it as Lys- beth Cornelis. It is, however, possible that in one instance her father's sur- name is used and in the other his first name as was common on the Dutch records. Cornelius Gerrets was a mem- ber of the Dutch church at New Utrecht. Garret Vansand died intestate in Ben- salem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, prior to June 5, 1706, the date upon which his ten children make a con- veyance of his land purchased as before stated in February, 1698-9. The record of baptism of seven of his ten children appears at the Dutch church of New Netherlands, and will be given in con- nection with a sketch of each child, ta- ken in regular order of birth, later in this article. The names of the ten chil- dren were: I. Stoffell; 2. Cornelius; 3. Josias; 4. Harman; 5. Albert; 6. Johan- nes; 7. Jacobus; 8. George; 9. Jesina, and 10. Garret. (Harman was really the third child in order of birth, and Josias fourth). I. STOFFEL VAN SANDT, eldest son of Garret, was born in the province of New York about the year 1670, and took the oath of allegiance at New Ut- recht, Long Island, as a native of New Netherlands, in 1687. He probably re- moved to Bucks county at the same time as his fatlier, in 1699. He was a member of the Bensalem Dutch Re- formed church, with wife Rachel Cour- son ; having joined by certificate in 1710. He seems, however, to have become a member of Abington Presbyterian church at its organization in 1714, and was made one of its elders. He purchased of Henry Paulin on May 23, 1706, 300 acres of land in Middletown, 200 acres of which he con- veyed to his sons Garret and John, and died seized of the balance in 1749. He was a justice of Bucks county. 1715-18, 1723-27, and a member of colonial as- sembly, 1710, 1712, 1714, 1719. His chil- dren were: i. Jannctje. baptized at Brooklyn, September 3. 1693, married November 3. 171 1, William Renherg. 2. Garret, baptized at Brooklyn. May 4, 1695. probably died young, as the soii Garret, mentinned later, was ceriai^ily HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. 25 a younger man. (These children above were by Stoffel's first marriage with An- netje Stoffels, who probably died prior to the removal to Bucks county.) The chil- dren of Stoffel by his second marriage with Rachel Corson, daughter of Hen- drick Courson, were eight in number and as follows: 3. Joshua, married February 20, 1728, Catharine Johnston, and settled in Kent county, Maryland, on land conveyed to him by his father, October 28, 1728. — >4. John, who married Rebecca Cox, of Philadelphia, August 19, 1728, and set- tled in Middletown, on land conveyed to him by his father in 1738, and died there in 1750. leaving daughters Ann, Elizabeth, Catharine, Rebecca and Mary and one son, John. S. James, who was baptised at Abing- ton as an adult September 16, 1716, and had children, i. Rebecca, 2. Flora, 3, John, 4. Jacobus, baptized there 1719- 1733- — 6. Garret, purchased land of his fath- er in Middletown in 1742, died there in 1789. leaving large family of children; see forward. 7. Elizabeth, who married John Enoch in 1718, and left a large family. 8. Alice, or Alshe, married Samuel Rue and left a number of children. 9. Rachel, married Lewis Rue, March 24. 1736, and left children. ID. Je.sina. who never married. II. CORNELIUS VAN SANDT, son of Garret (i) was born in New York, probably about the year 1672. On 12 mo. ID, 1698-9. he purchased 150 acres of land adjoining his father in Bensalem township. Bucks county. On May 4, 1714. he conveyed this tract to Thomas Stevenson. It was probably in exchange for land in Cecil county, Maryland, as on the same date Stevenson conveyed to him 1,035 acres on the west side of Elk river, in New Mnnster township, Cecil county, Maryland. He was bap- tized at Pennypack Baptist church, Sep- tember 14, 1712, and in 1714, with wife Dericka. was "dismissed to Welsh Tract" Baptist church in Pencader Hun- dred, New Castle county. This church was organized by a colony of Welsh Baptists at Milford Haven, wdien about to embark for America, in 1701. On ar- riving in America they located at Pen- nypack. where they remained until 1703. when they located in New Castle on land donated to them by James James, and were ever after known as the "Welsh Tract Baptist Church." Cor- nelius Vansarjt remained a member of this church, and was buried there May I. 1734- His will, probated in Cecil county, mentions wife Mary and chil- dren Cornelius, Garret and Rebecca, all apparently minors. He evidently mar- ried a second time after his removal. III. Harman' Van Sandt, son of Gar- rett and Lysbeth Gerritz, was baptized at the Dutch Reformed church of New York, June 10, 1674, and died in Bensa- lem township, Bucks county, in 1759. He purchased August i, 1704, 250 acres of land in Bensalem of Thomas Stevenson, and on April 26, 1712, 250 more. On May 26, 1713, he purchased 125 acres which had belonged to his brother Johannes, and devised it in his will to his daughr ter Catharine, wife of Daniel Severns. On May 20, 1741, he purchased 100 acres for his daughter Gazina, wife of Jacob Titus. He also purchased in 171 1 56 acres in Southampton, which he con- veyed to his brother Jacobus. Harman Vansant was three times married. His first wife, whom he married in New Utrecht, was Elizabeth Brouwers. He married (second) in 1733 Jane Joudon, and (third) oji November 9, 1738, Judith Evans, who survived him. She had been twice married before becoming the wife of Harman Vansant, first to Cornelius McCarty, and second to John Evans, both of Basalem township. The children of Harman Vansant were as follows, all probably by Elizabeth, his first wife: I. Garret, who died in 1755, leaving a widow Mary and four children — Har-'' man, Peter, Elizabeth and Garret. Har-" man, who married Eleanor Vandegrift, was the administrator of his father in I7SS> and executor of the will of his grandfather in 1759. He was devised by the latter 125 acres of the land whereon his father had lived, and subsequently purchased considerable other land in Bensalem where he died in 1815. His children were: Jacob, baptized at South- ampton church, July 7, 1754: Joseph; Mary Van Horn; Eleanor, wife of Rob- ert Wood; Sarah Cox; Ann Pleamess and Garret. Peter was devised 100 acres of land by his grandfather. Elizabeth and Garret were the ancestors of practically all the Vansants of Bensalem. 2. Gazina, who married Jacon Titus and lived on land devised to her by her father. She died prior to April 30, 1772, leaving children; Elizabeth, who mar- ried Ephraim Phillips, of Burlington, New Jersey; Olshe. who married Joseph Seaborne, of Warwick, Bucks county; Catharine, who married John Baker, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey; Charity, wife of Samuel Sutton, of Byberry, Jacob. Se- ruch and William, of Bensalem; and Sa- rah of Byberry. 3. Elizabeth, who married May 6, 1719, Volkert Vandegrift, and had nine chil- dren, and died before her father. See Vandegrift Family. ' 4. Katharine, who married Daniel Severns and lived on land in Bensalem devised to her by her father. 5. Harman, who married Alice Craven, daughter of James Craven, of Warmins- ter, Bucks county, and died in 1735, leaving four children, mentioned in his father's will in 1755. three of whom were James, Harman and William. James 26 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUXTY. was born in 1731, and died in Nortlianip- ton, January 31, 1798; he married Aug- ust 23, 1756, Jane Bennett, daughter of William and Charity Bennett, and set- tled in Northampton in 1764; James and Jane were the ])arents of thirteen chil- dren: Harman, married Alice Ilogeland and settled in Warminster; Charity, wife of John Corson, Esq.; William; Charles; Elizabeth; Eleanor, wife of John Brown; Richard; Isaac; John; Alice; James; Aaron, and Mary. Harman, son of Har- man and Alice (Craven) Vansant, mar- ried Catharine Hogeland, and died in Warminster in 1823; was many years a justice; he left but one child, Elizabeth, wife of James Edams. William died in Warminster in 1805 IV. Josias Van Sandt, son of Garret and Lysbeth Gerritz, was baptized at the Dutch Reformed church of New York, October 29, 1676. but as we find no further record of him he probably died in childhood. V. ALBERT VAN SANDT, son of Garret (i) was baptized at Flatbush, May 13, 1681. He married November 8, 1704, Rebecca Vandegrift, daughter of Leonard and Gertje (Ellsworth) Van- degrift. He probably removed with the rest of the family to Bensalem, Bucks county, as he joined in the deed conveying his father's real estate, but in 1708-9, in connection with his bro- ther-in-law, Jacob Vandegrift, purchased 500 acres of land in St. George's Hun- dred, New Castle county. He seems also to have purchased land in Georgetown, Kent county, Maryland, which he con- veyed to his brother George, May 14, "^737- 111 1743 lie and his wife Rebecca, of St. George's Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, joined in the deed for his father-in-law's real estate in Bensa- lem. After this date and prior to De- cember 16, 1751, the date of his will, he married a second wife, Sarah, who is named as executrix. His children were: Elizabeth, baptized October 3, 1705, mar- ried a Joudon; Leonard, baptized No- vember 5, 1707, probably died young, not mentioned in will; Harmanus; James; John; Garret; Christina, mar- ried a Dushane; Rebecca, married a Mar- tin; and Ann, who married a Brown. VI. JOHANNES (or John) VAN SANDT, born on Long Island, son of Garret (i), married at the First Pres- byterian church of Philadelphia, 12 mo. 17, 1702, Leah Grocsbeck, probably daughter of Jacob Groesbeck, who ac- companied the Vansants from Long Isl- and .to Bensalem and purchased land there. John Vansand, as he signed his name, purchased August I, 1704, 125 acres of land in Bensalem of Thomas Stevenson, but reconveyed it to Stev- enson, May 17. 1714, and the latter im- mediately conveyed it to Harmon Van- Sandt before mentiontd. On the same date Stevenson conveyed to him 500 acrs of land on Elk River, Cecil county, Maryland. It is probable that his in- tention to move to Maryland was- frustrated by his sickness and death. His will is dated October 30, 1714, and was proved the sixth of the following January. It devises to son John forty shillings, and to his wife Leah his per- sonal estate and the use of his Mary- land real estate, if not sold, during life for "the educaticui and maintenance of. herself and children." Believing that it will be necessary to sell his Maryland real eistate, he empowers Stofifel Van- sand and Bartholomew Jacobs to sell it. If not sold, to be valued and divided between the two boys, they paying their sisters their equal shares. The only child mentioned was John. It is possible that the other of "the two boys" was Gar- ret, who had a number of children bap- tized at St. Stephen's church, Cecil county, beginning with 1721. A daughter Rachel was baptized June 5, 1711. TJ^'-ijACOBUS (or James) VAN SANDT, son of Garret (i), was baptized at Flat- bush, Long Island, February 15, 1685, and removed with his father to Bensa- lem, Bucks county, in 1699. He married at the First Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, on January 7, 1707-8, Re- becca Vandegrift, daughter of Nicho- las and Barentje (Verkerk) Vandegrift, who had come to Bensalem from Long Island at the same date as the Vansants, (See Vandegrift Family). Jacobus and his wife joined the Bensalem church, Neshaminy branch, at its institution in 1710. On April 7, 1711, Benjamin Hop- per conveyed to Jacobus Vansand, of Bensalem, yeoman, 100 acres of land in Southampton, and on January I, 1712, his brother Harman Vansandt and Eli- zabeth his wife conveyed to Jacobus fif- ty acres adjoining the 150 which had been purchased by Harman of Ezra Bowen, June 13, 171 1. He later purchased 144 acres of land of Cornelius Egmont, which he devised to his son Nicholas. The will of Jacobus Vansandl, of South- ampton, is dated December 12, 1744. a"fl was proven January 9, 1745- It devises to son Jacob the 150 acre farm on which he dwelt, reserving certain p-ivileges to his wife Rebecca: the Egmont farm to son Nicholas: mentions daughters Eliza- beth and Rebecca as having received their shares, the latter being ceceased; sons Jacobus, Garret and Isaiah, and grandson Charles Inyard, to have equal shares. The will names "kinsman John Vansand" and friend Nathaniel Brittian as executors, but they renouncing, as also did the widov/, letters were granted to the sons James and Nicholas. The will is signed "J. V." His widow Re- becca survived him two years, leaving will dated November 18, 1746, and ])roved January 13, 1746-7. and men- tions the sanfe children, and grandson diaries Inyar)llege in 1891. and for one winter filled the position in that institution as teacher in the banking department. He then accepted the position of bookkeeper for .Augustes Beitney, which he filled for six j-ears. and then entered into the em- ploy of Walton Bros., grain merchants of Philadelphia, as bookkeeper, and after a short time was promoted to the posi- tion of general superintendent, haying general charge of their large warehouse. The firm has for many years done a HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 29 large business, and is one of the largest dealers in that line in Philadelphia. In politics Air. Vansant is a Republican, and takes an active interest in the af- fairs of the town in which he lives. He has been for many years a member of the borough council, and is now filling the position of clerk of that body. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Bristol Lodge No. 25, F. and A. M. He is also a member of Neshaminy Lodge, No. 422, L O. O. F., of Hulmeville, of which he is a past grand. He married, November 12, 1895. Cora Wilson, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Snyder) Wilson, of Trenton, New Jersey, and a granddaughter of Chris- topher and Sarah (Snyder) Wilson. They are the parents of two children, Ella Praul, born February 23, 1900; and Elisha Praul, born March 9, 1904- ANCESTRY OF MARTIN V. B. and NATHANIEL VANSANT, of South- ampton. Captain Nathaniel Vansant, only son of Nicholas and Mary (Brittian) Van- sant, of Southampton, was born on the old homestead in that township, March 13- 1745- At the outbreak of the Revolu- tion he was a resident of Bensalem town- ship having purchased a farm there in 1777. He was commissioned first lieu- tenant of the Associated company of that township. From the very beginning of the arming for the conflict with the mother country, the Vansants were fore- most in oft^ering their services for home defense and militia service. Garret and Peter were members of the Bensalem company; Garret. of Southampton, brother of Nicholas, ^.nd uncle to Cap- tain Nathaniel, was second lieutenant of the Southampton company in 1775. and was second lieutenant of the Fifth Com- pany of the First Battalion in the re- organization of 1777- Nicholas, father of Captain Nathaniel, and Jacob, his brother were both members of the Southampton company in 1775. In i\Iid- dletown. George and John, sons of Gar- ret and grandsons of Stophel, were mem- bers of the Associated company of that township. James, son of Harman and grandson of Harman. Sr.. the only mem- ber of the family in Northampton, joined the Associated company there in 1775. Peter, of Lower Makefield, son of Isaiah and grandson of Jacobus, was captain of the company of that township, and his brother Cornelius was second lieutenanh^ The member of the family, however, who rendered pre-eminent service and suffered untold hardships in the defense of his country was Captain Nathaniel Vansant. of Bensalem. He was commis- sioned a captain January 5, 1776. in Col- onel Robert Magaw's Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp, in which there was a large number of Bucks coun- tians. who through the treachery of Ma- gaw's adjutant, were badly routed at Fort Washington, New York, on No- vember 16, 1776, and 2,700 American sol- diers were taken prisoners, including Magaw and almost his entire command. Captain Vansant was captured with the rest, and for two years suffered the hor- rors of imprisonment in the floating hells in New York harbor and the loathsome warehouses in the city. Many of the let- ters written home to his wife while a prisoner are in the possession of the Bucks County Historical Society and of members of the family. The quaint chapeau worn by him in the service is also in possession of the Historical So- ciety. Captain Vansant married August 27, 1768. at the Dutch Reformed church of Southampton, Hannah Vansandt. There seems to be some dispute about the maiden name of Hannah Vansant; both the church records and that of the grant- ing of the license by the civil authorities give it as Vanzandt, while his descen- dants claim that her name was Brittian, the same as that of the Captain's mother. It seems to be conceded that she was his cousin, and it is probable that she was the daughter of his uncle, James Vansandt. who married Margaret, daugh- ter of Hendrick and Hannah (Field) Breece. Hannah was born January 16, 1746, and died August 19, 1818. The chil- dren of Captain Nathaniel and Hannah Vansant were as follows: Harman, who died of yellow fever in Philadelphia dur- ing the epidemic of that disease in the city, about the close of the century; and Nicholas, born February 25, 1771. died April 19. 1850. Nicholas, as only surviving child of Nathaniel and Hannah Vansant, inher- ited the real estate of his father, who died August 8, 1825. intestate. He lived and died on the old homestead in South- ampton, which remained in the family for six generations and until 1889, when it was sold, a period of at least one hun- dred and fifty years. Nicholas married Alary Larzelcre. daughter of Nicholas and Hannah (Brittian) Larzelere of Ben- salem township. She was born Septem- ber 8, 1772, and died October 27, 1863. The children of Nicholas and Mary (Larzelere) Vansant were: 1. Alary, born September 6. 1795, mar- ried Jacob Vansant, and had two chil- dren, Franklin, who married a Hogeland, and Angelina. 2. Nathaniel, born April 14, 1797, mar- ried z\lice Vanartsdalen; see forward. 3. Elizabeth, born February 24. I799, married Silas Rhoads, and had one child, Alary Ann, who married William Go- forth. 4. Benjamin, born February 14, 1803. died June. 1869; married (first) Sarah Campbell, born Alarch 7. 1810, died Alarch to. 1853: and (second) Jane Lu- kens. The children of the first marriage 30 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. were: Lendrum L., born October 4, 1832; Elizabeth R., who married J. Paul Knight; Harriet P., who married George Shoemaker; and Charles R., who mar- ried Carrie Saurman. The only child of the second marriage was Dr. Benjamin Vansant. 5. Nicholas L., born September 7, 1807; married Margaret Vandegrift, and had two children, Mahlon and Marj^ Ann. The children of Nathaniel and Alice (Vanartsdalen) Vansant, were: 1. Mary Amanda, born March 26, 1824, married Anderson Leedom, and had three children: Thomas, deceased; Alice, wife of John Tomlinson; and Nathaniel, who married Martha Comly. 2. Casper R., born April 3, 1826, died June 26, 1881, married Ellen Field, and had two children: Nathaniel, born Oc- tober 12, 1859; see forward; and Levi, who married Ida Sickle. 3. Nicholas B., born January 28, 1828, went to California, where he probably died. 4. Hiram R., born January 12, 1831, •died September 19, 1888. 5. Jacob W., born March 7. 1833: mar- ried Esther Buckman, and had five chil- dren: Alice, who married William Brad- field; Watson, who married a VanReif; Howard, who married Lydia Stout; Leonard, who married Sarah Yerkes; and Mary who married Horace Blaker. 6. Howard S., born February 13. 1835; married Elizabeth Fetter. He died July 9, 1866. 7. MARTIN VAN BUREN VAN- SANT, born on the old homestead in Southampton, February 4, 1839. He was reared on the old homestead and edu- cated at the public schools. He learned the trade of a miller, and was engaged in the milling business at Churchville for a number of years. At his father's death in 1883 he purchased the old homestead in Southampton, and subsequently sold it to Dr. Benjamin Baer, of Philadelphia. Mr. Vansant was never married. In pol- itics he is a Democrat. He never held other than local offices, having filled that of assessor, which office, by the way, was held by his great-great-grandfather under Colonial authority, the original commission being in possession of the Bucks County Historical Society. NATHANIEL VANSANT, son of Casper (4) and Ellen (Field) Vansant. was born at Somerton. Philadelphia county. October 12,. 1859, but was reared in Southampton township, Bucks county, and educated at the local schools. His father purchased a farm in Southamp- ton in 1870, which he conveyed to Na- thaniel in 1888, and he has always fol- lowed the life of a farmer. In politics he is a Democrat. He has filled the of- fice of school director for several years. He was married in September, 1888. to Wilhelmina Depew, and they are the parents of two children: Blanche, born March 10, 1890; and Viola E., born Oc- tober 8, 1892. THE VANDEGRIFT FAMILY is of Holland descent, their progenitor being Jacob Lendertsen Van der Grift (that is, son of Lenerd) who with his brother Paulus Lenertsen Van der Grifc, came from Amsterdam about 1644 and settled in New Amsterdam. Both of the Van der Grift brothers were in the employ of the West India Company. Paulus was skipper of the ship "Neptune" in 1645, and of the "Great Gerrit"' in 1646. He was a large landholder in New Amster- dam as early as 1644. He was a member of council, 1647-1648; burgomaster 1657- 1658, and 1661-1664; orphan master 1656- 1660; member of convention, 1653 and 1663. On February 21, 1664. Paulus Leendersen and Allard Anthony were spoken of as "co-patroons of the new settlement of Noortwyck, on the North River." He had five children baptized ai the Dutch Reformed church, and he and his wife were witnesses to the baptism of five of the eight children of his brother Jacob. Paulus Leendertsen Van der Grift sold his property in New Amster- dam in 1671, and returned with his fam- ily to Europe. Jacob Lendertsen Van die Grifte, bot- tler, of New Amsterdam, in the service of the West India Company, on Septem- ber II, 1648, granted a power of Attor- ney to Marten IMartense Schoenmaker, of Amsterdam, Holland, to collect from the West India Company such amounts of money as he (Van die Grift) had earned at Curocoa, on the ship "Swol". em- ployed by that company to ply between the island of Curocoa and New Nether- lands. The early records of New Am- sterdam give a considerable account of this ship "Swol." It carried twenty-two guns and seventy-six men. In 1644 it was directed to proceed to New Amster- dam, and on arriving, "being old." it was directed to be sold. Another boat was', however, given the same name, be- ing sometimes mentioned as the "New Swol." On July 19, 1648. Jacob Lendertsen Van der Grist was married at New Am- sterdam to Rebecca Fredericks, daugh- ter, of Frederick Lubbertsen. On March 7. 1652, he sold as attorney for his father-in-law, fifty morgens and fifty-two rods of land on East river. On Febru- ary 19, 1657, Jacob Leendersen V.nn die Grift was commissioned by the burgo- masters and schepens of New Amster- dam as a measurer of grain. To this ap- pointment was affixed instructions "that from now nobody shall be allowed to measure for himself or have measured by anybody else than the sworn meas- urers, any grain, lime or other goods HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 31 which are sold by the tun or schepel. or come here from elsewhere as cargoes and in wholesale, under a penalty of £3 for first transgression, £6, for sec- ond and arbitrary correction for the third." In 1656 Jacob Leendertsen Van- dergrift was made a small burgher of New Amsterdam. In 1662 he was a resi- dent of Bergen, New Jersey, where he subscribed toward the salary of a min- ister. On April 9, 1664, he and his wife, Rebecca Fredericks, were accepted as members of the church at "Breukelen," upon letters from Middlewout, (now Flatlands); his residence on the west side of the river must, therefore, have been of short duration. On May 29, 1664. then living under the jurisdiction of the village of Breukelen, Long Island, he applies to council for letters of ces- sion with committimus to the court, to relieve him from his creditors on his turning over his property in their be- half, he being "burdened with a large family, and on account of misfortune be- fallen some years ago, not having been able to forge ahead, notwithstanding all efforts and means tried by him to that end, etc." There are records of a num- ber of suits prior to this date, in which he appears either as plaintiff or defen- dant. In 1665 he was living on the strand of the North river, New Amster- dam, where he is assessed towards pay- ing the expense of quartering one hun- dred English soldiers on the Dutch burghers. On. October 3, 1667, he re- •ceived a patent from Governor Nicolls for land on the island of Manhattan, on the north side of the Great Creek, which he sold to Isaac Bedloe, in 1668. He probably removed at this date to Noord- wyck. on the North river, where he pur- chased in 1671 the land of his brother Paulus, who had returned to Amster- dam. In 1686 he appears as an inhabi- tant of Newton, Long Island, where he probably died, though the date of his death has not been ascertained. His widow removed with her children to Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1697, and was living there in 1710. The children of Jacob Lendertsen and Re- becca Fredericks Van der Grift, baptised at the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, were as follows: 1. IMartje. baptised August 29. 1649, married Cornelius Corsen. March^ 11, 1666. He was baptised at New York, April 23, 1645. being the son of Cor- nelius Piterse Vroom. and Trynt.ie Hen- dricks. After the death of Vroom, Tryntje had married Frederick Lub- bertsen. the grandfather of Marytje, father-in-law of Jacob Lendeert=en Van der' Grift. Many descendants of Corne- lius Corssen and Marytje Van de Grift still reside in Bucks county. 2. Christina Van de Grift, baptised February 26, 1651, married (first) Oc- a widower, by whom she had two chil- dren, Abraham and Jacobus. She mar- ried (second) April 14, i68r, Daniel Veenvous, from Beuren, in Gelderland, by whom- she had five children — Wil- helmina, Rebecca and Contantia; two others also named Rebecca died in in- fancy. 3. Anna Van de Grift, baptised March 16, 1653, married, September 29, 1674. *Jacob Claessen Groesbeck. They re- ;^tober 9, 1678, Cornelius Jacobse Schipper, moved to Bucks county with the rest of the Vandegrift family in 1710, but little is known of them other than that he pur- chased land in Bensalem adjoining that of his brothers-in-law, and that two of • his daughters married into well known families of Bucks. Their children were; Rebecca, baptised June 23, 1673; Eliza- beth, baptised September 4, 1677; Leah, baptised February ir, 1680, married 12 mo. 17, 1702, Johannes Van Sandt; Rachel, baptised November 21, 1682, mar- ' ried November 8, 1704. James Biddle; and •' Johanna, baptised August 9, 1685. 4. Leendert (Leonard) Van de Grift, baptised December 19, 1655, died in Bensalem, Bucks county, 1725; married, November 20, 1678, Styntje Ellsworth. He, with his three brothers and two brothers-in-law, purchased land in Ben- salem in 1697 of Joseph Growdon, Leon- ard's purchase being two tracts of 135 and 106 acres respectively. He subse- quently purchased seventy-four acres of his brother Frederick. He and his wife were received at Bensalem church in 1710, and he was appointed junior elder. On December 30, 1715- he was commis- sioned a justice of the peace. Letters of administration were granted on his estate February 18. 1725, to his eldest son Abraham, known as "Abraham. Van- degrift, by the River." The children of Leonard and Styntje (Ellsworth) Van- degrift were: i. Jacob, baptised Septem- ber 20, 1679; 2. Christoffel, baptised Au- gust, 1681, married July 7, 1704, Sarah Druith; 3. Rebecca, baptised December 15, 1683, married November 8, 1704, Al- bert Van Sandt; 4. Abraham, baptised July 4, 1686, married October 17, 1716, Maritje Van Sandt, died March, 1748, leaving six children — Leonard, of Ben- salem; Garret and Abraham, of Philadel- phia: Christine, wife of Yost Miller, of Salem county. New Jersey; Mary, wife of Mathew Corbet, and Jemima, wife of George Taylor, of Chesterfield, New Jer- sey. 5. Anneken, baptised April 7, 1689, married Andrew Duow. 6. Elizabeth, baptised at Brooklyn, October 8. 1691, married May 23, 1710, "Francis Kroeson. 7. Annetje, baptised June 12, 1695, mar- *Nicholas (or Claes^ Groesbeck. father of Jacob: was a carpenter of Albany. New York, in 1662. On October 10. 1696 deoosed th^t he was seventv-»wo years old. His will dated January 3. 1706-7, mentions wife Elizabeth, son Jacob and others. 32 HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. ried December 22, 1715, Cornelius King. Ail of the above children of Leonard Vandegrift removed to New Lastle count}', Delaware, prior to the dealh of their father, except Abraham, to whom they conveyed the real estate in Bensa- leni in 1743. The above named heirs of Abraham conveyed the same to Leonard, eldest son of Abraham, in 1761. 5. Nicholas Vandegrift, baptised May 5, 1658, married at New Utrecht, Long Island, August 24, 1684, Barentje Ver- kirk, daughter of John Verkerk. They settled at New Utrecht, where he took the oath of allegiance to James II in 1687, and where he purchased land in . 1691. He removed to Bucks county with his brothers and bothers-in-law in 1697, conveying his Long Island land after his removal. On July i, 1697, Joseph Grow- don conveyed to him 214 acres in Ben- salem. He joined the Bensalem church in 1710, and became a junior deacon. The records of the Dutch Reformed church show the baptism of three children, viz.: Rebecca, baptised July 26, 1685, mar- ried II mo. 7, 1707, Jacobus Van Sandt; Jan, baptised January i, 1691, married ]\Iay 5, 1721, at Abington Presbyterian church, Anna (or Hannah) Backer; and Deborah, baptised April l, 1695, mar- ried Laurent Jansen,* or Johnson. Nich- olas Van de Grift removed to Sussex county, Delaware, conveying his land in 1713 to Jacob Kollock, whose .w'idow Mary in 1722 conveyed it to Folert, son of John Vandegrift. 6. Frederick Vandegrift, baptised Au- gust 20, 1661. purchased of Joseph Growdon on July i, 1697, 106 acres ad- joining that of his brothers in Bensalem township, Bucks county, a part of which he conveyed a year later to Leonard Vandegrift. If ever a resident of Bucks count}', he probably remained but a short time. 7. Rachel Vandegrift. youngest daugh- ter of Jacob, was baptised at New York, August 20. 1664, and. married, in 1689. Barent Verkerk, son of Jan, and brother to his brother Nicholas's wife. Barent Verkerk purchased in 1697 a tract of land in Bensalem adjoining his brothers- in-law, all the deeds being from Joseph Growdon. and bearing the same date, July I. 1697. He died in 1739, leaving children: Jacob: John; Mary, married Niels Boon; Constantina. married James fitchet; Dinah, married James Keirll; and another daughter, who married an Underwood. 8. Johannes Vandegrift, youngest son of Jacob Lendertsen and Rebecca Fred- erics Van der Grift, was baptised at New York. June 26. 1667, and died in Ben- *Laurent Jansen, or Lawrence Johnson, was doubt- less son of Clans Jansen. who purchased several tracts of land in Bensalem some years earlier than the Vandegrifts. He died in 1723. 'devising his lands to his sons Lawrence, John and Richard. The fami- lies later intermarried. • salem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1745- He married, September 23, 1694, Nealkie Volkers, widow of Cor- nelius Cortelyou, who was living at date of his will in 1732, but died before 1740. He married (second) July i, 1741, Eliza- beth Snowden, a widow. He purchased 196 acres in Bensalem of Joseph Grow- don, adjoining the tracts of his brothers and brothers-in-law, the deed bearing date July i, 1697. He was an elder of the "Sammeny" church, having joined it at its organization in 1710. His will dated March 16, 1732, proved March 28, 1745, devises to son Abraham the farm he lives on, for life, and if he die with- out issue it is to go to his surviving brothers and sisters. Some years later the children of Johannes entered into an agreement by which the land was to vest in the heirs of those deceased, even though they did not survive Abraham, and inasmuch as Abraham died without issue in 1781, the subsequent conveyances of the land throw light on the family connections. In 1786 the representatives of Jacob, Rebecca, Christana, and Hel- ena conveyed the land, 160 acres, to Jacob Jackson and later a partition thereof was had between Jackson and Abraham Harman and Cornelius, sons of Fulkert. The children of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift were: i. Fulkert, born 1695, died 1775; married May 6, 1719, Elizabeth Vansandt. and (second) August 10, 174^, Marytje Hufte. He was a considerable landholder in Bensalem. He had five sons: Folkhart, Harman, Abraham, Cornelius and John; and three daughters: Alice LaRue, Elizabeth Krusen and Elinor, most of whom have left descendants in Bucks county. 2. Jacob, baptised at New York, October 14, 1696, died in Bensalem in 1771, mar- ried Choyes Toulej^ October 23, 1716. 3. Abraham, born 1698, died 1781, mar- ried, but had no issue. 4. Rebecca, mar- ried John Van Horn, died 1786. 5. Chris- tiana, married November 8. 1722, Joseph Foster. 6. Lenah, married a Fulton. 7. Esther, baptized in Bucks count}'. May 10. 1710. Most of the Vandegrifts of Bucks county are descendants of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift. Leonard, grandson of Leonard, remained in Ben- salem, and the land originally settled by his grandfather descended to his son. Captain Josiah Vandegrift. John, son of Nicholas, became a large landholder in Bensalem; he died in 1765, leaving sons: Nicholas. Jacob, John. Joseph, for many years an innkeeper in Bensalem; and daughters: Catharine Sands; Esther, who married John Houten; and Rebecca Vansciver. Of the sons, John married' Ann Walton, May 28. 1761. and had chil- dren: Joshua. Joseph, John, Jonathan, and ]\Iary. The father died in 1777. and the widow Ann married Charles Fetters a jear later. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 33 Jacob Vandegrift, son of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift, baptized at New York, October 14, 1696, was but an infant less than a year old when his parents settled in Bensalein township, Bucks county. He married, October 2;^, ■ 1716, Charity Touley. He became a large landholder and a prominent man in the community. He died in 1771. His children were,! John, died 1805, in Ben- salem, leaving live children, viz. :i Jacob, who settled in Northampton township; ( John;VjJane, who married a Johnson; _, Bernard, settled in New Jersey; and Ab-"" ' raham, who married Catharine Vande- grift a granddaughter of Fulerd. 2. Ber- nard, who was devised 200 acres in Up- per Dublin township, and settled there- on; 3. Jacob, who was devised by his father 200 acres of land whereon he was living at his father's death. 4. Charity (or Catharine) who married John Praul, January 20, 1757. 5. Helen (or Elinor) who married Harman Vansant. Jacob Vandegrift, third son of Jacob, married first Catrintje Hufte, May 19, 1753. and (second) Sarah Titus, Febru- ary 5, 1775, as before stated he settled on 200 acres belonging to his father which descended to him at his father's death. He died in May, 1800, leaving five children; Jacob, married Elinor ; David, married Sarah — '■ ; William Bloomfield, the grandfather of Senator Vandegrift; Mary married Bennett; and Elizabeth, who married Daniel La- Rue. William Bloomfield Vandegrift in- herited from his father considerable real estate. He was the youngest son, and had just arrived at his majority when the will of his father was proved in 1800. He married Christiana Saunders. His death occurred in 1854! HTs' children were seven in number, viz.; Sarah Ann, married Charles Tomlinson; Eliza L., married Jacob Johnson ; Eleanor, married Enos Boutcher; Alfred; Charles Souders ; William M., married Eliza Boutcher and Susan, married Peter Conover. Alfred Vandegrift was born in Ben- salem township in 1807, and died there ' in 1861. In 1849 his father conveyed to him and his brother jointly a store prop- erty at Eddington, where they conduct- ed a mercantile business until the death of Alfred in 1861. In 1849 he also pur- chased of his father 31^^ acres on the Buck road, which had been the prop- erty of his ancestors for several genera- tions. He married Catharine Gibbs, daughter of John Gibbs, and granddaugh- ter of Richard Gibbs, who was sheriff ^of Bucks county in 1771, and a promi- nent public man. His children were: John Gibbs, born September 2, 1834; William Bloomfield; Elinor, wife of William Lynesson Sayre; Charles Soud- ers, Jr.; Augustus: Henry S.; Lewis H.; Susan ; Mary : Christina ; Alfred and Eliza- beth LaRue. 33 HON. CHARLES SOUDERS VAN- DEGRIFT, son of Alfred and Catherine (Gibbs) Vandegrift, is a worthy representa- tive of an old and eminent family. He was born in Bensalem township, August 20, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm, and attended the public schools until fifteen years of age, when he entered Captain Alden Partridge's Military School at China Hall, in Bristol township, where he remained for two years. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of his uncle and namesake, Charles S. Vande- grift, Sr., in the country store at Ed- dington, where he remained as clerk and proprietor until 1873, when he sold out the store, and in connection with J. and E. Thomas opened a lumber yard on the Delaware at Eddington. This partner- ship continued until 1890, when he re- tired from the firm. Since that time he has been employed in the settlement of estates and the transaction of public business. In 1882 he was elected to the state senate and served four years. He was an active member of the upper house, and served on the ways and means, agriculture and other important committees. In politics he is a Democrat, and has served as representative to Dis- trict, State and National conventions. He has always taken an active interest in local matters, and served his township officially at dififerent periods. He is presi- dent of the Good Roads Association of Bensalem township, and one of its most active and efficient members. He is a di- rector of the Farmers' National Bank; president of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Mutual Insurance Company of Bucks and Philadelphia counties; president of the Doylestown Publishing Company; and treasurer and trustee of the Vande- grift Burial Ground at Cornwells. He is a past master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. F. and A. M.; of Harmony Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M.: and St. Johns Coni- mandery. No. 4, K. T., of Philadelphia, and is the district deputy grand master for the eighth district. He is a member of The Netherlands- Society of Phila- delphia. Mr. Vandegrift married, March ir, 1862, Mary Hannah Rowland, daughter of Charles Rowland, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. To this marriage have been born two children : Frederic Beas- ley, born December 22, 1862: and George Bloomfield, born May 22, 1864. The lat- ter died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Van- degrift are members of the Presbyter- ian church. FREDERIC BEASLEY VANDE- GRIFT, son of Senator Charles S. Van- degrift, was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia, and at Smiths' Commercial College, after which he en- tered the office of John W. Hampton, Jr., 34 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. custom house broker of Philadelphia, where he remained for eight years. He then entered into the business himself with offices in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, and was also import freight agent. He continued to conduct the busi- ness of a custom house broker until his death. In 1893, feeling the necessity of a technical knowledge of the law in the transaction of his business, he entered himself as a student at law in the office of William S. Stanger, Esq., in Phila- delphia, and was admitted to the Phila- delphia bar in 1897, and was admitted to practice in the United States courts in January, 1899, but died on March 7, 1899. Frederic B. Vandegrift made a close study of the tariflf on imports and be- came an expert on that subject. Among the papers prepared and published by him on the subject was one on the Mc- Kinley Tariff, and another on the Ding- ley Tariff. He received an order for 1,500 copies of his work on the Dingley Tariff from the United States government, a copy of which was to be sent to every United States consul throughout the •world. He received the prize offered by the United States government for the most perfect paper on the tariff. Mr. Vandegrift became a distinguished mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity. He was made a Mason on March 8, 1884, by his father, Past Master Charles S. Vande- grift, and became master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, in 1888; joined Harmony Chapter, R. A. M.. in 1889, and was elected king in 1899, which office he held at the time of his death. He joined St, Johns Commandery, K. T., in 1894, and held the office of captain general at the time of his death. He joined the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, January 18, 1895. and on June 21st re- ceived his thirty second degree, S. P. R. S. He was also a member of Lulu Tem- ple^ A. A. O. N. M. S., and was repre- sentative of University Lodge in the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania at the time of his death. On November 16. 1887, he married Harriet Elizabeth Har- vey, of Philadelphia. This marriage was blessed with four daughters: Gertrude, Evelina, Lorame and Genevieve, all of whom are being educated at the Friends' Schools of Philadelphia. JOHN GTBBS VANDEGRIFT, eldest son of Alfred and Catharine (Gibbs) Vandegrift, and brother to Hon. Charles S. Vandegrift. the subject of the pre- ceding sketch, was born in Bensalem township, Bucks county, September 2, 1834. He was educated at the public schools, and later received an academic education. He was reared on the farm, ^nd for several j'cars followed the vo- cation of a farmer. In /§73 he pur- chased the store at Eddington and fol- lowed the mercantile business there for the rest of his life. He was a 'justice of the peace for twenty years, and filled many positions of trust. He took a deep interest in educational matters, and was for many years a member of the school board, acting as its secretary. He was a vestryman of the Episcopal church. In politics was a Democrat, but never sought or held other than local office. He was a member of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. F. and A. M.; of Harmony Chapter, R. A. M.; and St. Johns Com.- mandery, K. T. Mr. Vandegrift married March 27, 1861, Mary Jane Creighton, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Ash- ton Creighton. She was born May 10, 1832, at Holmesburg, Philadelphia, and died May 4, 1895. John G. Vandegrift died April 11, 1901. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Vandegrift, Kath- erine and Lemuel. Lemuel Vandegrift was born August 13. 1864. He was reared on a farm and attended public school. At the age of seventeen years he entered his father's store to assist him in the business, and at his death succeeded him in its con- duct. He was also elected a justice of the peace to succeed his father. He is a vestryman of the Episcopal church. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a mem- iaer of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. F. and A. M., Philadelphia Chapter, R. A. M., and St. Johns Commanderj^ K. T. Mr. Vandegrift was married, April 6, 1893, to Mary Ella Carey, daughter of Seneca and Mary Ella (Moore) Carey. They are the parents of two children: Lem- uel Creighton, born July 26, 1895, and Marian Katharine, born July 8, 1897. Their eldest child, John G.. Jr., died in infancy. These children are being edu- cated in the public school of Bensalem. MOSES VANDEGRIFT. In the pre- ceding sketch of the descendants of Ja- cob Lender tsen Van der Grifte, who came from Holland in 1644 to New Am- sterdam, where he married in 1648, Re- becca Fredericks Lubbertsen. is given an account of the baptism and marriage of Johannes Van De Grift, youngest son of Jacob and Rebecca, and of the birth and marriage of his children. From two of the sons of Johannes and Nealkc (Volk- ers) Vandegrift is descended the subject of this sketch. Folkhart, the eldest, and Jacob the second son. Folkhart (or Fulkerd) Van de Grift, eldest son of Johannes, was born in the province of New York in 1695. and was therefore but an infant when brought into Bucks county by his parents in 1697. He became a large landholder in Ben- salem, a man of importance in the Dutch '.^^Voa^cUc^^ ^/Jlo-s^ ^m^id^^A.^^ ^^ l>c.W 'PUBil yoliK ^^'^^Any ASTO-', L-,,. TlLDtlH Fr X Af-l .9 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 35 colony in Bucks, and a member of the Bensalem church. He was twice mar- ried, first on May 6, 1719 to Elizabeth Van Sandt, and second on August 10, 1742, to Marytje Hufte. Neither wife survived him. He died in November, 1775. Of his nine children, Fulkhart, Elizabeth, Harman, Alshe, Abrahaiii, John, Cornelius and Elinor, the first eight are mentioned in his will. Abraham Vandegrift, borrt about 1725 married Femmentje Hufte about 1752 and had six children. He died in Ben- salem township about 1800. The children were: Elizabeth, baptized at Southamp- ton church August 18, 1754, married John DeCoursey, and had eight children; Mary, married Benjamin Severns; Ab- raham; and Catharine, who married Ab- raham Vandegrift, her second cousin. Jacob Van de Grift, second son of Jo- hannes and Nealke, baptized at New Amsterdam, October 14, 1696, was the grandfather of Abraham above mention- ed. John Vandegrift, eldest son of Ja- cob, known as "John Vandegrift, Es- reaching manhood. Thomas Jenks married, 3 mo. 19, 1731, Mercy Wildman, daughter of John and Marah (Chapman) Wildman, of Middle- town. The former, born in Yorkshire, England, in 1681, came to America with his parents, Martin and Ann Wildman, in 1690, and the latter, a daughter of John Chapman, the pioneer settler of W'rightstown, had married first John Croasdale, John Wildman being her sec- ond husband. Thomas Jenks, on his mar- riage, settled first in his home in Buck- ingham and three years afterward re- moved to a tract of land in Middletown township, two miles southeast of New- town, along Core creek, containing 600- acres. Upon this tract he erected prior to 1740, a fulling mill one of the first in the county which was operated (by the family) until his death, doing a large business in dyeing, fulling and finishing the homespun goods of his neighbors, the early settlers of lower and middle Bucks. His ledger "C," ex- quisitely written and kept still in good preservation, is now in possession of his great-grandson, William H. Jenks. of Philadelphia. It covers the years 1743- 56, and contains his accounts with near- ly all the early families of Bucks east of the Neshaminy. He was an active and energetic business man, and retained his mental and physical faculties in a re- markable degree to extreme old age. He died at Jenks Hall (erected by him ir» 1734) from the effects of injuries re- ceived in being thrown from a wagon, 5 mo. 4, 1797, in the ninetj'-eighth year of his age. He had in the truest sense of the word "grown up with the country."" Arriving in Bucks county w^hen far the greatest part of it was a primeval w-il- derness, still inhabited bj' the Indians,, he lived through its entire colonial per- iod, and saw his country recover frorr» the shock and trials of its war for in- dependence, and become a thickly settled prosperous and enlightened community. He w-as six years older than Dr. Frank- lin, and thirty-two years older than George Washington, yet he survived the former seven 3'ears. and the latter sur- vived him but little over two years, though both had lived to see the fruition of their long and noble struggle for their country's good. His wife Mercy died 7 mo. 26. 1787. aged seventy-seven years, after a married life of over fifty- six years. They were the parents of six children, as follows: T. Mary, born 4 mo. 20. ^JH- died 1803: married Samuel Twining. 2. John, born 5 mo. I. 1736. died 1791, married in 1785, Sarah W^eir. His son HISTOR]^ OF BUCKS COUNTY. 39 John Wildman Jenks, born 6 mo. 21, 1790, studied medicine and removed to Jefiferson county, Pennsylvania, where he died 4 mo. 4. 1S50. He married in 1816, Mary Day Barclaj', who bore him ten children, most oi whom were distin- guished in their professions, the young- est, George Augustus Jenks, being a member of the Forty-fourth United States Congress, and the Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania in 1898. 3. Thomas, born 10 mo. 9. 1738. died 5 mo. 30, 1799, married, in 1762, Rebec- ca Richardson, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Paxson) Richardson, of Middle- town. 4. Joseph, born 12 mo. 22, 1743, died 5 mo. 1820; married 6 mo. 22, 1763, Eliza- beth Pearson, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Duer) Pearson; see forward. 5. Elizabeth, born 3 mo. 15, 1746, died 12 mo. 30, 1808; married 12 mo. 23. 1762, William Richardson, son of Joseph and Mary (Paxson) Richardson. 6. Ann. born 9 mo. 8, 1749. died about 1812; married 2 mo. 20, 1770, Isaac Wat- son. Thomas Jenks, second son of Thomas and Mercy, was born and reared on the homestead in Middletown, and spent his whole life there. He was a prominent and influential man in the community. He served as a member of colonial as- sembly for the year 1775, and w^as a member of the constitutional convention of 1790, and was the first member of the state senate from Bucks under the con- stitution then adopted, and served con- tinuously in that body until his death. May 4, 1799. For the first six j^ears of his service the district which he repre- sented was composed of the counties of Delaware, Chester and Bucks, while dur- ing his last two terms the district con- sisted of Chester, IVIontgomery and Bucks. He was an active member of the upper house and served on many im- portant committees. He married, in 1762, Rebecca Richardson, and they were the parents of nine children, eight of whom lived to mature age. They were as follows : 1. Rachel, born 5 mo. 23, 1763, died 2 mo. 12, 1830; married 10 mo. 19, 1786, Thomas Story. 2. Mary, born 3 mo. 12, 1765, died in infancy. 3. Joseph R., born 9 mo. 16. 1767, died 6 mo. 26, 1858: married first to mo. 10, 1792, Sarah Watson; second, 6 mo. 6, 1809, Ann West; and third. 2 mo. 29, T844, Ann Ely of Philadelphia, a widow. Joseph R. Jenks was a prosperous and prominent merchant in Philadelphia. 4. Mercy, born 10 mo. 20. 1769. died 10 mo. 19. 1836; married 10 mo. 18, 1792, Abraham Carlile. 5. Thomas, born 2 mo. 4. 1772- died 2 mo. 27. 1828: married first, in I797. Thomazine Trimble, and second, in 1816, Rachel Wilson. 6. Rebecca, born i mo. i, 1775, married I mo. 15, 1801, Jonathan Fell. 7. Mary, born 7 mo. 9, 1777, died in 1854, unmarried. 8. Phincas, born 5 mo. 3, 1781, died 8 mo. 6, 1851, married first, Eliza Mur- ray, and second, Amelia Snyder, see for- ward. g. Ruth, born 8 mo. 19. 1788. died 2 mo. 16, 1843, married 11 mo. 8, 1810, Joseph Dickson. DR. PHINEAS JENKS, eighth child of Thomas and Rebecca (Richardson) Jenks, was reared on the old homestead in Middletown. He chose the medical profession, and was a student of the cele- brated Dr. Benjamin Rush, and a gradu- ate of the University of Pennsylvania. He began the practice of medicine in Newtown, and continued to practice there until his death in 1851, becoming one of the eminent physicians of his day. He was the first president of the Bucks County Medical Association, and con- tinued at its head until his death. He took an active interest in the affairs of his county; state and neighborhood, and was one of the influential and prominent men, outside of his profession. He was a member of the state legislature for five years, 1815-19, and a member of the con- stitutional convention of 1837-38. He was one of the organizers of the St. Lukes Protestant Episcopal church at Newtown, of which he was rector's war- den for many years. He was a good extemporaneous speaker, and was al- ways counted on to lend his aid to any meritorious project in the neighborhood. He was twice married. His first wife was Eliza Murray, daughter of General Francis Murray of Newtown, wdiom he married 3 mo. 20, 1806. She died 3 rno. 16, 1807, leaving one daughter, who died in' infancy. He married (second) on 3 mo. 28, 1820. Amelia Snyder, daughter of Governor Simon Snyder. She was born June 21. 1791. and died August 6, 1859. They were the parents of seven chil- dren, three of whom, (Simon Snyder, Frederick A. and Henry L.) died in childhood, the latter being a twin broth- er of General A. Jenks. Esq. Those who survived were: Elizabeth M.. born July 29. 1822, died March 29, 1887; married Rev. Joseph I. Elsegood, rector of Trin- ity Protestant Episcopal church of East New York, Long Island, who died in 1884. William Wallace Jenks, born il mo. 2, 1825, a merchant in Philadelphia; he died 7 mo. 20. 1857. P. Frederick Jenks. born February 27. 1832, studied medicine and located at St. Louis, Mis- souri, soon after his graduation. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the First Missouri Light Artillery, and was in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing. He 40 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY died at St. Louis, t mo. 9. 1863, from diarrhoea contracted in the service. George A. Jenks, Esq., the only surviv- ing child of Dr. Phineas and Amelia (Snyder) Jenks, was born at Newtown, October 9, 1829. He received his ele- mentary education at the Newtown Academy, and then entered the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated July 4, 1850. He entered him- self as a student at law with James C. Van Dycke, Esq., of Philadelphia, then United States district attorney, and also entered the law department of the Uni- versity, where he took a full course, and on July 3, 1853, the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws were con- ferred upon him. On April 16, 1853. he was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia, and on October 8, 1855, was admitted to practice in the circuit and district courts of Pennsyl- vania, having. been admitted to practice in the supreme court on January 13, 1854. He practiced law in Philadelphia from 1853 to '1859, when he removed to Newtown, and was admitted to the bar of his native county, of which he is now the senior member. He is a careful stu- dent, and his thorough knowledge of the law and sound judgment have made him a safe counselor. In his long practice he has had many intricate cases to un- ravel, and in the vast number of dis- puted cases as to questions of law, re- ferred to him by the courts as auditor, he has seldom been reversed in either the lower or upper courts. He has filled the office of justice of the peace for forty-four years, and has served his bor- ough in the position of school director for nineteen y^ears ; and filled the ofiice of chief burgess for seven years. He has always been actively interested in all that pertains to the interest of the local- ity in which he lived, and has been con- nected with nearly all the meritorious local enterprises of his town. He is president and one of the directors and active supporters of the Newtown Li- brary, as was both his father and grand- father, George A. Jenks having served as a director for over forty years, and presi- dent for about thirty years. He is a member of the Bucks County Historical Society, and has always been actively interested in its work, and has furnished several historical papers for its archives. He is a member of Newtown Lodge, No. 427, F. and A. M., of which he was the first master, and Newtown Chapter, No. 229, R. A.-M., of which he was the first high priest, and served as district deputy grand master for the district for five years. He is a member of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal church of Newtown, of which his father was one of the founders. He was married, June 15, i860, to Ella Davis, daughter of Jesse and Susan B. Davis, and they have been the parents of two children, Sylva P. and Elizabeth M., both of whom died in early childhood. In politics he has been a lifelong Republican, but has never sought or held other than local office. Joseph Jenks, third son of Thomas and Mercy (Wildman) Jenks, was boni and reared on the old homestead in Middletown. He married, 6 mo. 22, 1763, Elizabeth Pearson, born in 1744, died 1768, daughter of William and Eliza- beth (Duer) Pearson, and granddaugh- ter of Enoch and Margaret (Smith) Pearson, of Buckingham, Enoch Pearson being a native of Cheshire, England, hav- ing come to Bucks county with his par- ents, Edward and Sarah (Burgie) Pear- son, in 1687. Joseph and Elizabeth (Pearson) Jenks were the parents of three children: Margaret, born 6 mo. 6, 1764, died 1841; married li mo. 12, 1783, Samuel Gillingham. William, born 8 mo. 12, 1766, died 12 'mo. 5, 1818; mar- ried 10 mo. 28, 1790, Mary Hutchinson. Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 21, 1768, died 1828, married, in 1787, Isaiah Shinn, of New Jer- sey, who was a general in the war of 1812. Joseph Jenks married a second time, 4 mo. 25, 1770, to Mary Ingham, who lived but a few years after tlTe mar- riage, and he married a third time, on 5 mo. 30, 1776, Hannah Davids; neither of the last two wives left issue. William, only son of Joseph and Eliza- beth (Pearson) Jenks, was a lifelong .resident of Bucks county, following the vocation of a farmer and miller on the homestead. He died at the early age of forty-two years, leaving a widow and ten children, six of whom were minors at the time of his death. His wife Mary was a daughter of Michael and Margery (Palmer) Hutchinson, of Lower Make- field township, a descendant of two old and prominent families of Makefield. The children of William and Mary (Hutchinson) Jenks, were: 1. Joseph, born 9 mo. 12, 1792, died il mo. 19, 1869, married 5 mo. 29, 1827, his second cousin, Eliza Jenks, daughter of Joseph R. and Sarah (Watson) Jenks. 2. Rebecca H., born I mo. 30, 1794, died 4 mo. 21, I797- 3. Michael Hutchinson Jenks, born S mo. 21, 179s, died 10 mo. 16, 1867. He was a surveyor and conveyancer, as well as a justice of the peace, for very many years, and did an immense amount of local business, and was a very fine pen- man and draughtsman. He was county commissioner for the term of 1830-2, county treasurer in 1834, ^n associate judge of the county, and represented his district in the twenty-eighth congress, as well as filling a great number of other positions of trust. He was four times married; first, in 1821, to Mary Ridg- way Earl, who was the mother of his nine children. His third daughter, .^.nna Earl, became the wife of Alexander Ramsey, first governor of Minnesota, and United States senator from that r ^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 41 rstate. His other wives were Mary Can- by, Ann Higgins and Sarah Leeclom. 4. Eliza Pearson Jenks, born 2 mo. 14, 1797, died 12 mo. 13, 1884; married 10 mo. 13, 1825, George Yardley. • 5. Charles, born 12 mo. 31, 1798, died 8 mo. 5, 1823; married 4 mo. 16, 1823, Mary Ann Newbold. 6. Margery, born 8 mo. 5, 1800, died I mo. 31, 1802. y1 Hannah, born 6 mo. 17, 1802, died 9 Ano. 17, 1822, unmarried. 8. Mary Palmer Jenks, born i mo. 25, 1804, died 2 mo. 15. 1875; married 12 mo. 27, 1827, Edmund Morris. 9. Margaret, born 9 mo. 24, 1806, died 12 mo. 20. 1825, unmarried. ID. William Pearson, born 12 mo. 17, 1807, die*d 9 mo. 17, 1886, married 5 mo. t6, 1837, Elizabeth Story; see forward. 11. Ann, born 2 mo. 26, 1810, died 4 mo. 15, 1870, married 10 mo. 12, 1831, Charles M. Morris. 12. Susan W., born 6 mo. 3. 1812, died 7 mo. 25. 1857; married 7 mo. 4, 1838, Franklin Fell. WILLIAM PEARSON JENKS, the tenth child of William and Mary (Hutch- inson) Jenks, was born and reared in the old homestead at Bridgetown, in Middle- town township. After finishing school he went to Paterson, New Jersey, where he learned the trade of a machinist. In 1828 he became interested in the manu- facture of cotton yarns at New Hope, where he remained until 1832. In 1833 he went to Madison, Indiana, in the in- terest of the firm in Paterson with whom he had learned his trade, and remained there two years, establishing a factory -for the manufacture of cotton goods. In 1835 he accepted the position of man- ager of the Union Factories near Elli- cott's Mills, Maryland, then the largest plant for the manufacture of cotton goods south of New England. He re- mained there until the autumn of 1846, when he was obliged to resign his posi- tion on account of failing health, and took a trip to Brazil to recruit. He re- turned in the summer of 1847 and joined Tiis wife and three children in Phila- delphia. Having regained his health, he was desirous of again engaging in busi- ness, and in the fall of that year joined Evan Randolph and formed the firm of Randolph & Jenks, cotton merchants, and did an extensive and prosperous bus- iness. He retired from active participa- tion at the close of the year i860. The firm continued, however, under the same name, the present members being his two sons. John Story Jenks and William H. Jenks, Evan Randolph, his partner, who married his only daughter, Rachel Story Jenks, in 1864, having died 12 mo. 3, 1887. William Pearson Jenks died 9 mo. 17, 1886, aged nearly seventy-nine years. He was a man of marked ability as a merchant, and his life was full of active and intelligent energy. He pros- pered in his business and business enter- prises, and took an interest in many of the financial institutions in Philadelphia. His wife, Elizabeth Story, born 3 mo. 6, 1807, was a daughter of David and Rachel (Richardson) Story, of New- town, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas Story, a native of Northumber- land, England, who came to Pennsyl- vania with William Penn on his second visit, in the ship "Centerbury," arriving at Chester 10 mo. i, 1699. He settled in Bucks county, and in i mo., 1718, mar- ried Elizabeth (Wilson) Buckman, widow of William Buckman, of Newtown, who bore him one son, John Story. Thomas Story died 9 mo. 10, 1753, at the age of eighty-two years. His son, John Story, was born 11 mo. 26, 1718-19. He married 5 mo., 1747, Elizabeth Cutler, daughter of Thomas and Eleanor (Lane) Cutler, and lived all his life in the neighborhood of • Newtown. He died 11 mo. 10, 1804, at the age of eighty-six, and is buried at Wrightstown. His son, David Story, was born 4 mo. 20, 1760, and died 2 mo. 23, 1833. He married 4 mo. 19, 1792. Rachel ^Richardson, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Jenks) Richardson. They had six children: i. Rebecca, born i mo. 15, 1793. died 9 mo. 22, 1870; married 5 mo. 20, 1824, Dr. Ralph Lee, of Newtown. 2. Hannah, born 3 mo. 23, 1794, died 4 mo. 13, 1876: married 5 mo. 16, 1837, John C. Parry, of New Hope. 3. John, born i mo. 15, 1796, died 10 mo. 22, 1844:. mar- ried 4 mo. 28, 1831, Esther A. Allibone. 4. William Story, born 9 mo. 10, 1797, died 9 mo. 16, 1822. unmarried. 5. Mary, born 3 mo. 23, 1800, died 5 mo. 22, 1846, un- married. 6. Elizabeth, born 3 mo. 6. 1807, died I mo. 11, 1878, married 5 mo. 16, "1837, William Pearson Jenks. John Story Jenks was born near Elli- cott City, Maryland,' 10 mo. 29, 1839, and came with his parents to Philadelphia in 1846. He married, 10 mo. 27, 1864, Sidney Howell Brown, and has three daughters, all of whom are married and reside in Philadelphia. William H. Jenks was born in Mary- land, II mo. II, 1842, and married in Philadelphia, 9 mo. 9, 1869, Hannah Mif- flin Hacker He has two sons, William Pearson Jenks and John Story Jenks, both of whom are business men of New York City, and two daughters who are married and reside in Philadelphia. John Story Jenks and William H. Jenks, as before stated, succeeded their father, William Pearson Jenks, in the firm of Randolph & Jenks, and now com- prise that firm. They have been pros- perous merchants, and are interested in many of the financial, beneficial, social and political institutions of the city. They are worthy descendants of their Bucks county ancestors, for whom they entertain the most profound love and re- 42 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. spect. They are both members of the Bucks County Historical Society, and take a lively interest and pride in the county where their first ancestors on all branches were early settlers, and where all their later ancestors were born and reared. B. FRANK HART, of 2010 Wallace street, Philadelphia, retired manufacturer and business man. was born in Warminster, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1825, and removed to Philadelphia when a young man and engaged in manufacturing interests there, where he has since resided. He has, however, always kept in touch with the county of his birth, and takes spe- cial pride in his distinguished Bucks county ancestry. On the paternal side all his direct ancestors from his father, John Hart, to his great-great-great-grandfather, John Hart, were prominent officials of the countv and members of the law making body of the province and state, from Bucks county, making five successive generations to serve in tliat capacity. John Hart, the ancestor of the Warmins- ter (Bucks county) family of the name, was a son of Christopher and Mary Hart, of Witney, Oxfordshire, England, where he was born November 16, 1651. A brother, Robert, remained in England, a younger brother Joseph migrated to Jamaica, and the only sister Mary, born April i, 1658, accompanied her brother to Pennsylvania in 1682. The family were members of the Society of Friends, and John brought a certificate from Friends at Witney. He had purchased of William Penn, July 16, 1681, 1,000 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania. Of this 480 acres were lo- cated on the Poquessing, in Byberry, Phila- delphia county, and the balance in War- minster township, Bucks county. The for- mer was surveyed by virtue of warrant dated September i, 1681, and on this John Hart located on arriving in Pennsylvania, and erected a house on the banks of the Poquessing. The Warmin,ster tract was surveyey 7 mo. 25, 1684, and lay along the north side of the street road near Johns- ville. It became the residence of John Hart in 1697 and remained the home of his des- cendants for several generations. John Hart was early identified with public af- fairs. He was a member of the first as- sembly of the province, from Philadelphia county, and his name is attached to the first charter of government, granted by Penn to his colonists, dated at Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 2, 1683. He was a minister among Friends, and the earlj' meetings of the So- ciety were held at his house from 1683 to 1686, when the meeting house was erected "near Takony." He was clerk of the meet- ing for many years. In i6gi he joined George Keith in his famous schism against Friends, and was one of his ablest advo- cates, and, when Keith's radical doctrines had carried him and his followers out of the Society, he united with the Baptists in 1697, and became their preacher at the meeting house originally erected by the Friends. He later became assistant preach- er at Penncpack Baptist church, but was never ordained. He removed to Warmins- ter in 1697. selling his land in Byberry, ex- cept one acre which was reserved as a burying ground. He died in Warminster, September, 1714. in his sixty-third year. He had married in the fall of 1683, Susannah Rush, daughter of William and Aurelia Rush, who had come to Pennsylvania in 1682 and settled in Byberry, and a grand- ■ daughter of John Rush, who commanded a troop of horse in Cromwell's army. Sus- annah, after the death of her husband, re- turned to Byberry and died there February 27, 1725. John and Susanna (Rush) Hart were the parents of five children ; John, the ancestor of all of the name who remained in Bucks county ; Joseph who married Sarah Stout, April i, 1713, and died in 1714, without issue; Thomas, who inherited a portion of the land and conveyed it to his cousin, James Rush, in 1731, and left the county ; Josiah, who removed to New Jer- sey, and ]\Iary, who died unmarried. John Hart, eldest son of John and Sus- annah (Rush) Hart, wa^ born in Byberry; July 16, 1684. He does not appear to have occupied so important a place as his father in public affairs, though he held many posts of honor and responsibility. He was sheriff of Bucks county, 1737-8-9. and 1743-4-5, and 1749; coroner of Bucks county, 1741 and 1748; was commissioned justice June g, 1752, and was succeeded by his son Joseph in 1761. When he was sworn in 1757, the record states he was "old. and impaired by apoplexy." He followed his father in mat- ters of religion and united with the Bap- tists and was baptized at Pennepack November 15, 1706, by the Rev. Evan Mor- gan, and was thereafter closely associated with the sect. He was one of the organ- izers of Southampton Baptist church in 1746, and served as clerk, deacon &nd trustee, until his death ]\Iarch 22, 1763. He inherited from his father a large por- tion of the Warminster homestead and erected the family mansion there in 1750. He married November 25. 1708. Eleanor Crispin, daughter of Silas and Esther (Holme) Crispin, and grand-daughter of Thomas Holme, Penn's surveyor general, and oi Captain William Crispin, one of Penn's commissioners for settling the col- ony of Pennsylvania. Though the latter never reached Pennsylvania, he was so closely identified with Penn and his family as to be of interest to Pennsylvanians. He was born in England in 1610, and was commander of the ship "Hope" in the ser- vice of the Commonwealth, under Crom- well, in 1652. In May. 1653. he was sent with the expedition against the Dutch, as captain of the "Assistance." under Rear Admiral William Penn. the father of the founder, and remained the remainder of that year cruising on tlie Dutch coast and preying uiion their commerce. In 1654 'i^ psjK ' " H * HJ ■',.'' i ~=^9K ** ,i; l^=:-Jj ■ ''~*Sf •1 ^^9 .i '- if %« O f m ffi UJ r^ 2 — 3 00 n [^ H CO —i 1^ — D en m -1 cc < Q. Q- < d 1- u (C 01 < :s: X u z Z) X CD o -) q: UJ _l H o U on li- — o x Q 01 < < t- 10 liJ S o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 43 was captain of the "Laurel," in the British squadron, sent against the Spanish pos- sessions in America, arriving at Bar- badoes, January 29, 1654-5. He partici- pated in the capture of jamica, May 17, 1655, was named as one of the commis- sioners for supplying Jamica, and remained there when Penn returned to England, but following him soon after, and with him retired to Kinsale, Ireland, where he lived for about twenty years. On Penn re- ceiving the grant of Pennsylvania he named Captain Crispin as one of the three "Commissioners for the Settleing of the present Colony this year transported into ye Province," as stated in his letter of in- structions, dated September 30, 1681. Cap- tain Crispin, with his fellow commissioners John Bezar and Nathaniel Allen, sailed for Pennsylvania, but in different ships, Crispin sailing in the "Amity," which was blown off after nearly reaching the Dela- ware capes and put into Barbadoes for repairs. Crispin died there, and the "Amity" returned to England, and, return- ing to Pennsylvania in April, 1682, brought over Thomas Holme, Penn's surveyor gen- eral, who also succeeded Crispin as com- rnissioner. Captain William Crispin mar- ried Anne Jasper, daughter of John Jasper, a merchant of Rotterdam, and a sister to Margaret, wife of Admiral Sir William Penn, and mother of the great founder. William and Anne Crispin were the parents' of four children: Silas, above referred to, who came to Pennsylvania^ with Thomas Holme, and later married his daughter Esther; Rebecca, who married. August 24, 1688, Edward Blackfan, son of John Black- fan, of Stenning, county of Sussex, Eng- land ; Ralph, who remained in Ireland and Rachel who married Thomas Arm- strong and also remained in Europe. Edward Blackfan prepared to come to Pennsylvania, where William Penn had directed land to be laid out to him, but died before sailing, in 1690. His widow Rebecca and their only son William came to Pennsylvania and located in Bucks county at Pennsbury, where she lived for a number of years. She married, in 1725, Nehemiah Allen, son of Nathaniel, the com- missioner. William, the son, married Elea- nor Wood, of Philadelphia, and located in Solebury, Bucks county. They are the ancestors of the now numerous family of Blackfan. Captain Crispin married a second time, and had eleven children, most of whom located in the West Indies. Silas Crispin, only son of the Captain by his first marriage, in 1684 located in Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia county, where he lived the rest of his life, dying May 31, 171 1. He married a second time. Mary, daughter of Richard and Abi- gail Stockton, and widow of Thomas Shinn, who after his death married a third time, September 11, 1714. Richard Ridgway, Jr.. son of Richard Ridgway, who was one of the earliest English settlers on the Delaware in Bucks county. Silas and Esther (Holme) Crispin were the parents of eight children^ six of whom lived to maturity: Sarah, married Lesson Loftus, of Philadelphia; Rebecca, married Joseph Finney ; Marie^ married John Collett ; Eleanor, married John Hart; Esther, married Thomas Rush; Thomas, married Jane Ashton, and lived on his father's plantation in Lower Dublin ; and William and Susanna who died young. By the second marriage Silas Crispin had six children ; Joseph, who removed to Dela- ware; Benjamin, of Chester county; Abi- gail, married John Wright, of Chester county ; Silas ; Mary, married Thomas Earl, of New Jersey; and John. John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart were the parents of ten children, viz :- T. John, born September 10, 1709, went to Virginia, where he was killed June ir, 1743 by the accidental discharge of a gun. 2. Susanna, born April 20, 171 1, mar- ried March 31, 1731. John Price, and died two years later, leaving an only child^ Joseph Price. 3. William, born JMarch 7, 1713, died October 7, 1714. 4. Joseph, born September r, 1715. died February 25, 1788; see forward. 5. Silas, born May 5, 1718, removed in early life to Augusta county, Virginia. • At the organization of Rockingham county ht became a resident of that county, filling the position of judge, sheriff, etc. He died without issue October 29, 1795. 6. Lucretia, born July 22. 1720, died December 15, 1760; was twice married, first, October 15, 1741, to William Gilbert, who died about 1750, and on March 5, 1752, to John Thomas ; had three sons by first marriage, and a son and two daughters by the last. 7. Oliver Hart, born July 5, 1723, was for thirty years pastor of a Baptist church at Charleston, South Carolina, 1749-80, and fifteen years at Hopewell, New Jersey; died December 31, 1795. 8. Edith, born 1727, married Isaac Hough ; — see Hough Family. 9. Seth, died at age of nine years. 10. Olive, died in infancy. Colonel Joseph Hart, fourth child and eldest living son of John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart at the death of his father, was born in the old family mansion in Warminster. September i. 1715, and died there February 25. 1788. He was an active member of the Baptist church of South- ampton, and a deacon from its organiza- tion in 1746. and succeeded his father as clerk and trustee in 1763. He entered into public life at an early age; was sheriff of Bucks county 1749-51 : justice of the county courts 1764 to the time of his death. He was ensign of Captain Henry Kroesen's company of Bucks County Associators in 1747, and captain in 1756 of a Bucks county company. His most valuable services were however rendered during the Revolutionary contest, during which period to write of him is to write the history of the struggle in Bucks county, where he was in the fore- 44 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY front from the "protest" at Newtown. July 9, 1774, when lie was appointed one of the committee from Bucks to meet the "Com- mittee from the respective counties of Penn- sylvania" at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774. until independence was established, almost always representing his county in the var- ious conferences and conventions, serving as chairman of the committee of safety, county lieutenant, etc. He was commis- sioned colonel of the first battalion raised by the committee of safety, and took it through the Jersey campaign of 1776. He was vice-president of the convention that met in Carpenter's Hall. June 18, 1776, and was twice chairman of the committee of the whole in that famous convention. In 1777 he was elected to the supreme exe- cutive council, and served until October, 1779, when he became lieutenant of Bucks county. He was register of wills and re- corder of deeds of Bucks county, 1777 to his death in 1788, being the first person com- missioned for these offices by the surpreme •executive council. He was elected in 1782 to represent Bucks county on the "board of censors," and on June 7, 1784, was commissioned by council as judge of the courts of common pleas and quarter ses- ■sions. The records fully verify the truth of the lines inscribed on the tomb erected to the memory of him and his wife at South- ampton; "His long and useful life was almost wholly devoted to the public ser- vice of his country; while the lives of both ■were eminent for piety and virtue." He married October 8. 1740, his cousin Elizabeth Collett, daughter of John and Marie (Crispin) Collett. and granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Rush) Collett. She was born in Byberry, May 14, 1714, and died February ig, 1788, six days be- fore her husband's death. They were the parents of six children, all sons, William, John, Silas, Josiah. Joseph, and another Joseph, the first having died in infancy. William, the eldest died in 1760, at the age of nineteen, unmarried. John the second son of Colonel Joseph and Elizabeth Hart, born November 29, 1743, was treasurer of Bucks county during the revolution, and was filling that position when the treasury at Newtown was robbed by the Doans and their gang of outlaws, October 22, 1784. He died at Newtown June 5, 1786. He married, September 13, 1767, Rebecca Rees, daughter of David and Margaret Rees, of Hatboro, and they were the parents of five sons and two daughters, of whon three died in youth. His son William was a physician in Philadelphia; John was a merchant at Jacksonville for many years, married Rachel Dungan and left numerous descendants; Elizabeth mar- ried Dr. Silas Hough, see Hough family ; Joseph died unmarried. Silas, the third .son of Joseph and Eliza- beth (Collett) Hart, born October 4, 1747, was a farmer and lived and died in War- minster; married Mary Daniel, and had ten children : Joseph, the sixth son of Colonel Joseph Hart, born July 17, 1749, is treated of in the sketch of General W. W. H. Davis, whose grandfather he was. Joseps, the sixth son of Colonel Joseph and Elizabeth Hart, and the ancestor of B. F. Hart, was born in Warminster, December 7, 1758. He was a man of liberal education and extensive information on public affairs, in which he took a deep interest, and always enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citi- zens. During the famous Whiskey Insur- rection he was paymaster of Colonel Han- na's brigade, and accompanied the army in its march to western Pennsylvania. He was a member of the state senate 1804- 1809, and as such in 1805 was chairman of the committee which reported favorably the bill for building an alms-house in Bucks county, and in 1808 introduced the first resolution in the senate for the removal of the county seat from Newtown to a more central part of Bucks county, and which resulted in the location at the pres- ent site, Doylestown, two years later. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance with the dis- tinguished men of his time in the state, as is evident by his correspondence. He mar- ried, December 25, 1783. Ann Folwell, of Warminster, whose family was one of the most respectable and influential in the county, and they were the parents of seven children, viz : Thomas, John, Charles, Lewis Folwell, Thomas, Eliza Ann, and Clarissa Maria. The first Thomas and Charles died in childhood. At the death of the father, on April 15, 181 1, the home- stead buildings and part of the home farm became the property of Thomas, the fifth son, who died in 1838, the balance being divided between John and Lewis F., who erected buildings thereon. The mother, Ann, died March 11, 1843. Eliza Ann, the eldest daughter, born December 8, 1797, married December 2, 1817, David Marple; and Clarissa Maria, the other daughter, married Joseph Carver. John Hart, the eldest son of Joseph and Ann (Folwell) Hart, born in Warminster, April 9, 1787, was a man of prominence in the county, and for many years had a considerable political influence. When the British threatened Philadelphia in 1814 he and his brothers, Thomas and Lewis, en- listed in Captain William Purdy's com- pany in Colonel Humphrey's regiment, and served in the fleld until December, when the danger having passed, they were mus- tered out of service. After the return of peace he took an active interest in the military of the county, serving at one time as colonel of militia. He served one ses- sion in the state legislature. 1832, and filled a number of local offices. He was a warm patron of Hatboro Library, founded in 1755 by his grandfather and others. He married, IMarch 10. tSio, Mary Horner, daughter of John and Mary Horner, of Warminster, who was born May 3, 1790, and they were the parents of eight children as follows -.'blisTiing . C <^ . A' : >0^-©^aA^ J§. ^a^^?^ ^^^-co-^ "^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 45 Joseph, the oldest son of John and Mary (Horner) Hart, born January 21, 1811, receiving a liberal education and grad- uated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. He followed the profes- sion of teaching for many years, and was deeply interested in public affairs up to the time of his death in 1898. He married Jane, daughter of William and Ellen Vansant, and had four children, — George W., Charles H., Mary E., and Ella S. George W. followed the vocation of a farmer, married Jennie Valentine, had one child, Charles Vincent, who received a public school education, then graduated from West Chester Normal school, re- ceiving a scholarship to Dartmouth, grad- uated from that institution and afterward from Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is now practicing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Charles H. was also a teacher, and at the time of his death, in 1881, was principal of a school in the Twenty-third Ward, Philadelphia. He was also connected with several news- papers, and enjoyed the reputation of being a deep thinker. Mary E. died in infancy. Ella S. taught school in Horsham. Mont- gomery county, for a few years, then re- turned home to attend her father in his de- clining years. She now lives in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. William H., second son of John and Mary (Horner) Hart, was born April 23, 1813. In 1845 he married Rachel Ayers, of Moreland, Tvlontgomery county. They had three children, all of whom died in infancy. James, the third son of John and Mary (Horner) Hart, born December 15, 1820, married Rachel, daughter of Isaac and Emilie Hobensack. With his family he moved to jNIaryland and located near IBalti- more, where as a farmer he continued to reside until the beginning of the civil war. Owing to the hostile feeling entertained toward northerners he was obliged to sacrifice his property and return with his family to Bucks county. He then enlisted in the First New Jersey Cavalry Regiment, in the company commanded by his cousin, Captain John H. Shelmire. In recognition of his bravery and courage he was promoted to major of the regiment, and at the same time held the commission as major in the United States army. He was repeatedly wounded, and finally killed, after the evacuation of Richmond, at the battle of Five Forks, Virginia, April i, 1865. His remains were brought home and in- terred in the Southampton Baptist burial ground, along with his kindred. He left a widow and six children, all of whom are living. George, the fourth son of John and J^Iary (Horner) Hart, born April 18, 1823, re- ceived a good thorough home education, and afterwards graduated at YalQ. In 1849 he went to California, returned to Phila- delphia, became a partner in the mercantile house of Shunway, Hart & Co., married Louisa Webb, and had four children, one of whom is still living. B. Frank, the fifth son of John and Mary (Horjaer) Hart, and the subject of our sketch, born March 22, 1825, like- wise received a liberal education and taught different schools in his native county and also in Philadelphia. He then located in Philadelphia, and was for many years associated with John P. Veree's rolling mill in Kensington, then became exe- cutive officer and general manager of one of the city passengers railways. After many years of close attention to business he retired from active life, and now resides with his family at 2010 Wallace street, Philadelphia. He is a member of the Bucks County Historical Society, and takes a lively interest in the affairs of the county with whose history his distinguished an- cestors were so closely identified. April 9, 1867, he married Anna H., daughter of Thomas Barnett, Philadelphia, and had five children. John Davis, born March 25, 1868, died in infancy; Sarah, born May 23, 1869; Mabel, born November 10, 1870, died March 14, 1873; Walter, born October 5, 1874; and Lydia, born September 11, 1876. Sara, daughter of B. Frank and Anna (Barnett) Hart, married Rev. Madi- son C. Peters, the distinguished preacher, author and lecturer of Philadelphia, and has three children, Dorothy, Anna and Frank H. Walter Horner, son of B. Frank and Anna (Barnett) Hart, gradu- ated from Colonel Hyatt's [Military School and is now one of Philadelphia's rising business men. Lydia, daughter of B. Frank and Anna (Barnett) Hart, remains at home with her parents. Thompson Darrah, sixth son of John and Jilary (Horner) Hart, born August 14. 1827, went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in business. He married Susan Snedecar, and had one child. At the be- ginning of the civil war he enlisted as first lieutenant in his cousin's (Colonel Alfred Marple's) company in Colonel W. W. H. Davis's 104th Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, and was later commis- sioned as lieutenant-colonel and commanded a brigade at the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. Ann Eliza, daughter of John and Mary (Horner) Hart, born January 17, 1817, died June, 1900. Mary Darrah, daughter of John and ]\Iary (Horner) Hart, born July 18, 1818, died. GENERAL WILLIAM WATTS HART DAVIS, a veteran of two wars, author, journalist and historian, was born at Davisville, Southampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1820, and comes of English, Welsh and Scotch-Irish ancestry, representing the commingling of the blood of these different nationalities to which we are indebted for many of the finest types of American citizenship. On the paternal side, his great-grand- 46 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY father, William Davis, was an early settler in Solebury or Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, and while tradition makes Tiim of Welsh descent, his environment and associations indicate very strongly to the the writer of these lines that he was either a native of the north of Ireland, or a son of an Ulster Scot, who had made his way to Pennsylvania with the great army of Scotch Covenanters from the province of Ulster in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. He married, about 1756, Sarah Burleigh (or Burley) daughter of John Burley, of Upper Makefield, an Ulster Scot, who had settled in Upper Makefield about 1735 with the Torberts, IMcNairs and others with whom his family later intermarried. Little is known of the life of William Davis other than that he was a farmer in Solebury and Upper Makefield, and died in the latter part of the century. William and Sarah (Burley) Davis were the parents of seven children, viz : Jemima, born December 25, 1758, married John Pitner, and removed with him first to Maryland and later to New Castle. Delaware ; John, the grand- father of General Davis, born September 6, 1760; Sarah, born October i, 1763, married Lott Search, of Southampton, Bucks county; William, born September 9, 1766, became a sea captain and died at sea ; Joshua, born July 6, 1769, removed to Maryland about 1800; Marv, born October 3, 1771, and Joseph, born March i, 1774, of whom we have no further record. John Davis, second son of William and Sarah (Burley) Davis, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in Solebury, and at the age of six- teen years became a member of William Hart's company in the Bucks county bat- talion of the Flying Camp, under Colonel Joseph Hart, and participated with it in the New Jersey and Long Island campaign of 1776. Returning with the battalion to Bucks county he participated with General Washington in the Christmas night attack on Trenton. In 1777 he enlisted in Caotain Thomas Butler's company in the Third Pennsylvania Regiment, later becoming a part of the Second Pennsylvania Regi- ment ; then transferred to Captain Joseph McClelland's company, was at the storming of Stony Point, and wounded in the foot at Fort Lee on the Hudson. 1780. He was in the Ninth, under IMcClelland. at the time of revolt in New Jersey, proceeded from there to York in January. 1781, and from there the company was ordered south under Lafayette and participated in the battle of Yorktown.- after which Davis was dis- charged on account of his disabled foot and returned to Bucks county. In 1782 he was commissioned ensign of Captain Neclev's company. Colonel John Keller's battalion, Bucks county militia, and was one of the members of that battalion to enter into active service for seven months. At the close of his military service John Davis married. June ■ 26. T783. Ann Simp'^on. daughter of William and Ann (Ilines) Simpson, of Buckingham, and rented the Ellicott farm in Solebury, where he lived until 1795, when he removed with his fam- ily to Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, where they resided until 1816, when he removed to Franklin county, Ohio, where he died January 25, 1832, at the age of seventy-two years. His wife, Ann, survived him, dying June 6, 185 T, in her eighty-seventh year. Her father, William Simpson, was born in Ireland in 17,32. and is said to have come to Pennsylvania about 1740 with his widowed mother and a- brother John, who was the great-grandfather of General U. S. Grant. William Simpson married Ann Hines, daughter of Mathew Hines, of New Britain, and lived for a time in that town- ship, removing later to Buckingham, where he died in 1816. The children of John and Ann (Simpson) Davis were: Sarah, born in Solebury, October 12, 1784; William born August 22, 1786; John, born August 7, 1788; Ann, born November 6, 1790; Samuel, born 1792, died in infancy; Joshua, born in Maryland, June 27, 17^\ Samuel S., born September, 1798 ; Joseph, born January 27, 1803, and Elizabeth, born November 18, 1805. Most of these children removed with their parents to the banks of the Scioto, where they became useful and active members of the community and en- gaged in different • branches of business and professions. John Davis, the second son of John and Ann. born in Solebury. August 7. 1788. was the father of the subject of this sketch. He removed with his parents to Rock Creek, on the banks of the Potapsico, Maryland, at the age of seven years, and was reared' to the life of a farmer. At the age of sixteen years he began to drive his father's Cone- stoga wagon with produce to Baltimore, and before he was seventeen was sent with his father's team to remove the goods of a neighbor to Pittsburg, crossing the Alle- ghenies and passing through what was then a wilderness with scattering settlers ; tUe trip occupying about sixty days. In 1808, at the age of twenty, he bought his time of his father and began farming for him- self. His opportunities for an education being limited, he supplemented what schol- astic knovvledge he had gained in his boy- hood bv the reading of books and period- icals of the day in the midst of a life of business activity. He had a thirst for knowledge, and. possessing a retentive memory, became exceptionally well in- formed on history and the issues of Amer- ican politics of the day. On one of his visits to his uncle. Lott Search, in South- ampton township, he made the acnuain- tance of his future wife, Amy Hart, daugh- ter of Josiah and Ann (Watts) Hart, who was living with her widowed mother on the old Watts homestead in Southampton, and from that time until March 13. 1813. the date of his marriage, was a frequent vis- itor at his uncle's house. ' .^my Hart was born June 30. T784. and came of distinguished ancestry, her father. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 47 Josiah Hart, being the fourth son of Colonel Joseph* and Elizabeth (Collet) Hart, born July 17, 1749, and died October 25, 1800. He was captain of one of the Bucks county companies of militia during the Revolutionary war, under his father, who was commissioned colonel of the first battalion organized in Bucks county, in 1776, for the Jersey campaign. Colonel Hart was one of the most prominent men of his day in Bucks county, serving as sheriff, 1747-1751 ; justice of the courts of Bucks county, 1764, to the time of his death in 1788, ensign of militia, 1747. In the Revolutionary struggle he was one of the leading spirits from the time he was ap- pointed on the committee of Bucks county, July 9, 1774, to attend "a meeting of the several committees of the respective coun- ties of Pennsylvania, to be held in Phila- delphia the 15th of July, instant," until independence was achieved. He was born September i, 1715, and died February 25, 1788, and was a son of John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart, grandson of John Hart, who came from Witney, Oxfordshire, in 1682, and married Susanna Rush, of Byberry. On the maternal side Mrs. Davis was a granddaughter of Stephen, and great- granddaughter of Rev. John Watts, born at Leeds, England, 1661 ; came to Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county, 1686, and married Sarah Eaton. He become pastor of the Pennepack Baptist church, 1690, and died 1702. William Watts, brother of Mrs. Josiah Hart, was prothonotary, clerk of quarter sessions, and associate justice of Bucks county. Mrs. Hart, mother-in-law of John Davis, died in 1815, at Doylestown, of typhoid fever ; also William W. Hart, a young member of the bar, her son, and Mrs. Miles, another daughter of Mrs. Hart, all dying in the George Brock house, Doylestown, within a few days, of the same fever. Soon after his marriage John Davis settled on his mother-in-law's farm in Southampton, and, at her death, in 181 5, it was adjudged to him in right of his wife, and he resided in that immediate neighbor- hood the remainder of his long and active life. He at once became active in the af- fairs of his native county, to which he re- turned while the second war with Great Britain was in progress. On news of the burning of Washington reaching Bucks county, a meeting was called at Hart's Cross Roads, now Hartsville, on Thursday, September i, 1814, to raise volunteers to take the field. The list of the men enrolled is in the handwriting of William Watts Hart, brother of Mrs. John Davis, and John Davis's name heads the list. He became ensign of the company then formed, which, after two months' camp and drill at Bush Hill, Philadelphia, proceeded to Camp Dupont, in Delaware, where their three months' service was completed. Ensign Davis, soon after his discharge, entered * See preceding sketch. the volunteer militia of the county, became active therein, and was in constant commis- sion for thirty-four years, holding in suc- cession commissions as captain, brigade in- spector, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and was three times elected major-general of the division composed of Bucks and Montgomery counties. General Davis was a natural politician, a Democrat from con- viction, and became a power in that party in Bucks county. Sturdy in the advocacy of what he conceived to be right and strong in the reasons and facts on which his con- clusions were founded, he became a strong and eloquent advocate and was "on the stump" in many of the political campaigns of his day. He was appointed by Governor Wolf, 1833, a member of the board of ap- praisers of public works and held the office three years. In 1838 he was elected to congress from the Bucks county district, and made a splendid record as a congress- man. His speech in favor of the passage of the Independent Treasury Bill, June 2/, 1840, was commented on throughout the country as a masterly and able one. He served on many important committees and took an active interest in all that pertained to the best interest of his district and ,the country at large. On March 4, 1845, he was appointed surveyor of the port of Pniladelphia, and filled that position for four years. During the forty years from 1820 to i860, General John Davis's position in the political arena was a prominent one and he was closely associated and in constant correspondence with the leading political lights of that time, A lifelong friend of James Buchanan, he used strenuous efforts to accomplish his election to the presidency. He, however, disapproved of Buchanan's Kansas and Nebraska policy, and refused to indorse it, and became estranged from many old-time comrades in the party. During all these years General Davis remained a resident of Davisville, where he operated a farm and saw mill for many years. In 1829 he built a store building there, and conducted a general merchan- dise store for many years, and filled the position of postmaster. He was an ex- cellent business man, frank and straight- forward in his dealings, and of unswerving public and private integrity. He and his family were members of the Baptist church, and he took a deep interest in religious and educational matters. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was amongst the very first to raise his voice in favor of maintaining the Union and putting down the rebellion with a strong arm. Had his age permitted would have gone to the front, as did his only son, in defense of the government he loved and served. Amy, the wife of General John Davis, died August 17, 1847, and he on April 8, 1876, and both are buried in the old graver yard at Southampton Baptist church. Their children were : Ann, who married, Decem- ber 10, 183s, James Erwin, of Newtown, 48 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. whose only surviving child married Henry Mercur, of Towanda, Pennsylvania ; Re- becca, who married, January 5, 1840, Alfred T. Duffield, who succeeded the General as storekeeper at Davisville, and died in September, 1871, and his wife in 1884, leav- ing three children : J. Davis Duffield, T. II. Benton Duffield, and Amy, wife of Judge Gustav A. Endlich of Reading; Sarah, who married Ulysses Mercur, of lowanda, later chief justice of the supreme court of Penn- sylvania; Amy, who married Holmes Sells, a practicing physician at Dublin, Ohio, later a prominent physician and druggist at Atlanta, Georgia, where they resided during the Civil war; Elizabeth, who never married, and resides at the old homestead at Davisville; and an only son, William Watts Hart Davis, the subject of this sketch, who was named for his mother's brother, William Watts Hart, a member of the Bucks county bar, who was clerk of the orphans' court of Bucks county in 1814, and resigned to go in defense of his country when Washington was burned, and was adjutant of Colonel Humphrey's Bucks county regiment. At the close of the war he returned to Doylestown and died m 1815 of typhus fever. William Watts Hart Davis was born at at Davisville, July 27, 1820. He was reared on ttie old homestead and his earliest educational advantages were ob- tained at a private school Kept by Miss Anna Longstreth, at the Longstreth home- stead nearDy; later he attended the cele- brated classical school at Southampton Baptist church, and the day school, a mile from Davisville, on the Bucks and Mont- gomery county line road. In 1832 he came to Doylestown and attended the Academy there, boarding at the public house of his father's old captain and friend, William Purdy; a few years later he attended the select school of Samuel Long, near Harts- viUe, and the Newtown Academy, finishing his elementary education at the boarding school of Samuel Aaron, Burlington, New Jersey. From the age of ten years the time not spent in school was spent behind the counter in his fathers' store, where he learned practical business methods and habits of industry from the best of teachers, by both example and precept. In 1841 he entered Captain Alden Partridge's Univer- sity and Military School at Norwich, Ver- mont, and concluded a three years' course in sixteen months, graduating in 1842 with the degrees of A. M. and M. M. S. In the same year he was appointed an instruc- tor of mathematics and commandant of cadets in the military academy at Ports- mouth, Virginia, where he remained three years. He then began the study of law in the office of Judge John Fox, at Doylestown, and in 1846, after his admission to the bar, entered the law department of Harvard University. On December 5, 1846, while a student of Harvard Law School, at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the First Massachusetts Infantry for the Mex- ican war ; was commissioned first lieutenant, December 31, 1846, of Captain Crowning- shield's company, Colonel Caleb Cushing's regiment; adjutant, January 16, 1847; aide- de-camp June I, 1847; acting assistant ad- jutant general, July 18, 1847; acting com- missary of subsistence, October 9, 1847; act- ing qtiartermaster and inspector, October 29, 1847; captain. Company I, First Massa- chusetts Infantry, March 16, 1848, spending the winter of 1847-1848 with Scott's con- quering army in the Valley of Mexico. He was one of the officers who participated in the capture of General Valencia, in a night ride of seventy miles. He was mus- tered out July 24, 1848, at the close of the war. He now returned to Doylestown, where he practiced law until 1853, when he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce (with whom he had served in the Mexican war) to the position of United States dis- trict attorney of the territofy of New Mexico, and spent the next four years in that territory, during which time he filled the offices of attorney-general, secretary of the territory, acting governor, superintend- ent of Indian affairs and of public build- ings. While there he also published a newspaper at Santa Fe in Spanish and English, and, with the assistance of an in- terpreter and his clerk he saved the valuable Spanish manuscript in the secretary's office which afterward furnished him the material from which he wrote "The Spanish Con- quest of New Mexico," that was issued from the press of the "Doylestown Dem- ocrat" in 1869. While at Santa Fe he wrote his first work on New Mexico, entitled "El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People," which Harper & Brothers puD- lished in 1857. While exercising the func- tions of government in our new territory, Mr. Davi^ met with some unique experi- ences. On one occasion, himself and party, while traveling on the plains, were cap- tured by the Arapahoe Indians, but, by the exercise of a little diplomacy, escaped seri- ous molestation. Returning to Doylestown in the fall of 1857, lie purchased the "Doylestown Dem- ocrat," then as now the organ of the Demo- cratic party in the county, and owned and edited it until 1890, when he sold out to the Doylestown Publishing Company, but continued as its editor until 1900, since which time he has devoted his time to his- torical and literary work. General Davis raised and took to the front the first armed force in the county for the defense of the country in the civil war, known as the "Doylestown Guards," of which he had been captain since 1858 as a volunteer militia organization. He served with this company through a campaign in the Shenandoah Valley under General Robert Patterson, an account of which cam- paign he later published, and which is con- sidered an authority on that subject. The company was ordered to Washington in HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 49 1861, and was the first military force to pass through Baltimore after the riots of April 19, 1861. The company being mus- tered out at the end of their three months' service, Captain Davis, by order of the secretary of war, raised at Doylestovi^n the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, and a battery known at its inception as the "Ringgold Battery," but later as "Durell's Battery," an excel- lent history of which has lately been writ- ten and published by Lieutenant Charles A. Cuffel, of Doylestown. Colonel Davis went to the front with his regiment November 6, 1861, and served throughout the war as its colonel, though frequently filling positions and exercising commands commensurate to a much higher rank. His military record during the civil war, as briefly summed up from the records of the War Department, is as follows : Captain Company I, Twenty- fifth Pennsylvania Regiment (Doylestown Guards), April 16, 1861, in the Shenandoah Valley campaign; mustered out July 26, 1861 ; colonel One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sep- tember 5, 1861 ; provisional brigade com- mander, November 11, 1861 ; commanding First Brigade, Casey's Division, Fourth Corps, November 30, 1861 ; wounded at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862 ; commanded First Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth Corps, January II, 1863 (Second Division, First Corps, March 10, 1863; commanded United States forces at Port Royal Island, South Carolina, May 27, 1862, post of Beau- fort, South Carolina, June 14, 1863; First Brigade, Terry's Division, July 8, 1863, at siege of Charleston, S. C. ; commanded U. 5. forces at Morris Island, South Carolina, January 19, 1864; District of Hilton Head, Port Pulaski, St. Helena and Tybee Islands, South Carolina, April 18, 1864; First Brigade. Hatch's Division, July 4, 1864; wounded at siege of Charleston, July 6, 1864, losing fingers of right hand ; mus- tered out September 30, 1864; brevetted brigadier-general. United States Volun- teers, March 13, 1865, "for meritorious ser- vices during the operations against Charles- ton, South Carolina." In connection with the distinguished services rendered by Gen- eral Davis in the operations before Charles- ton we publish below a letter written by Major General Gilmore, then in command of the forces there, which shows in what light his services were held by his superior officers : "Headquarters, Department of the South, "Folly Island, S. C, Nov. 26, 1863. "Col. W. W. H. Davis. 104th Pa. Vol. Inf., Commanding Brigade, Morris Island S. C. "Dear Sir :— Although entirely unsol- icited by you, directly or indirectly, I deem it my duty, as it is certainly a pleasure, on the eve of your departure for a short leave of absence in the North, to express to you, officially, my high appreciation of the zeal, intelligence, and efficiency which have marked your conduct and service during 4-3 the operations against the defences of Charleston, still pending. Much of our service here has been trying, indeed, upon both officers and men, but I have been most nobly sustained by all, and by none more zealously than yourself. I wish you a suc- cessful journey and a safe return to us. Very Respectfully, Your Obt. S'vt., (Signed) Q. A. Gilmore, "Maj. Gen'l. Com'd'g." The above letter, received on the eve of his departure for a short visit to his family and friends in Bucks county, was an en- tire and gratifying surprise to the general and is -much prized by him. The One Hundred and Fourth passed through the thick of the fight, and rendered valiant service in the defense of the Union, and left many of its numbers in their last sleep under Southern skies. General Davis was largely instrumental in securing the erection of a monument to the memory of his fallen comrades at Doylestown. At the close of the war General Davis re- turned to the management and editorship of the "Democrat." He was honorary com- missioner of the United States to the Paris Exposition in 1878; was Democratic candi- date for congress from the seventh district in 1882, and for the state at large in 1884. In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland United States pension agent at Philadelphia, and filled that position for four years. In the midst of a life of busi- ness activity General Davis has devoted much time to literary and historical work. In addition to numerous lectures, addresses and papers on historical and other subjects, he is the author of the following publica- tions, "El Gringo," 1857 ; "Spanish Con- quest of New Mexico,"* 1869; "History of One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers," 1866 ; "History of the Hart Family of Bucks County," 1867 ; "Life of. General John Lacev," 1868; "History of Bucks County," 1876; '"Life of John Davis," 1886; "Doylestown Guards," 1887; "Cam- paign of 1861. in the Shenandoah Valley," 1893; "The Fries Rebellion." 1899: "Doyles- town, Old and New," 1904, and a revised edition of the "History of Bucks County," 1905. All of these publications are consid- ered the best authorities on the subjects treated and most of them now bring in the market double and treble their original subscription price. General Davis has been *The eminent historian, George Bancroft, read the entire manuscript of the " Spanish Conquest of New Mexico" prior to its publication, and in a letter to General Davis, from Berlin, under date of February 17, 1869, said: "You are the only American I know who had the opportunity and the curiosity to investi- gate the subject, and our new acquisition is rising so rapidly in greatness and value that a new interest attaches to the romantic career of the adventurers who discovered it, and I trust that you will publish your valuable work." Thomas A. Janvier, author of the " Mexican Guide," and an extensive contributor to Spanish-American literature, in a letter to the General says: "Your history is one of the most scholarly and thoroughly satisfying works in the whole range of Spanish-American literature. It has the charm of style of the old chroniclers, and much of their charm of quaintness. with an exactneFS that is not, in all cases, an old chronicler's characteristic." 5P HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. president of the Bucks County Historical Society almost from its organization, and its success as an organization .is largely due to his untiring efforts in its behalf. Nearly his whole time since his retirement from the editorship of the "Democrat," in 1900, as well as a large part of his time prior to that has been spent in its rooms and in its service, and hundreds of books, pamphlets and curios on its shelves are of his con- tribution. At the age of eighty-five years his highest ambition is to live to see the Society successfully installed in its hand- some new building, for which it is largely indebted to his untiring zeal in that behalf. General Davis was married, June 24, 1856, to Anna Carpenter, daughter of Jacob Carpenter, of Brooklyn. New York, and of their seven children three survive: Jacob C, of Doylestown, now in the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company ; Margaret Sprague, wife of Cap- tain Samuel A. W. Patterson, of the U. S. Marine Corps, son of Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson, U. S. N.. and grand- son of Commodore Daniel T. Patterson, U. S. N., who commanded the Naval forces at the battle of New Orleans, 1865; and Eleanor Hart, residing with her father. General Davis is a companion of the mil- itary order of the Loyal Legion, a member of the Aztec Club, Survivors oi the Mex- ican War, of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Post No. i, G. A. R., Philadelphia, the American Historical Association and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and a member and one of the founders of Historical So- ciety of New Mexico. CAPTAIN SAMUEL AUCHMUTY WAINWRIGHT PATTERSON. U. S. Marine Corps, on board the United States battleship "Kentucky," of the North At- lantic squadron, U. S. N., was born at Washington, D. C, December 3. ^^>9, and is a son of Rear Admiral Thomas Harman Patterson. U. S. N., by his wife. Maria Montresor Wainwright. daughter of Colonel Richard D. Wainwright. first colonel of the United States Marine corps : and grand- son of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson, U. S. N. Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson was born on Long Island. New York, in 1786. He entered the U. S. navy in t8oo, and was a mid'^hipman on board the frigate "Phila- delphia" in the expedition commanded by Captain William Brainbridge, engaged in the blockade of Tripoli. October 31. 1803, when the frigate ran upon the rocks and the vessel and entire crew were captured and held prisoners in Tripoli for three years, until peace was declared. On Janu- ary 24. TS07. he was promoted to the rank of lieutenanl, and on July 24. 1813. to master-commander. As commander of the naval forces he co-operated with General Andrew Jackson in 1S14-15 in the defense of New Orleans, lending such support as to assure the victory over the British, and received the expression of their apprecia- tion from the U. S. congress. He com- manded the expedition sent to capture the defenses of the corsair Lafitte, on the is- land of Grand Terre, in Batavia Bay, hav- ing been made captain February 28, 1815. He commanded the frigate "Constitution," 1826-29, and was appointed navy-commis- sioner in the latter year, holding the posi- tion for four years. In 1832-36 he was in command of the Mediterranean squadron, and on his return was made commandant of the navy yard at Washington, which he held at the time of his death in 1839. Rear Admiral Thomas Harman Patter- son was born at New Orleans, May 10, 1820, entered the navy from Louisiana as actmg midshipman April 5, 1830, was pro- moted midshipman March 3, 1837, passed midshipman July i, 1842. He spent the next five years on the frigate "Macedonia " the sloop-of-war "Falmouth," acting mas- ter and lieutenant on the brig "Lawrence," West India squadron, and on the brig 'Washmgton," Coast Survey, from April 17, 1844, to October, 1848, when he was commissioned master. He was commis- sioned lieutenant June 23, 1849. and served on the sloop-of-war "Vandalia," Pacific Squadron, until October 12, 1852. At the breaking out of the civil war he was serving on the steam sloop -'jMohickan," on the coast of Africa; returning home he was put on active duty; was commissioned commander of sham gunboat "Chocura," July 16, 1862, in Hampton Roads, Vir- ginia; and was present .at the siege of iorktown, and opened up the Pamunkey river for McClellan's army, co-operating with the Army of the Potomac. In Novem- ber, 1862, he was ordered to the South At- lantic Blockading Squadron in the steamer "James Adger," which he commanded untjl June. 1865. participating in the capture of a flying battery near Fort Fisher, in Aug- ust. 1863; captured the "Cornubia" and "Robert E. Lee," and the schooner "Ella" off the North Carolina coast. He 'was senior officer in the outside blockade off Charleston. South Carolina, September 15, 1864; commanded the steam-sloop "Brook- lyn," flagship of the South Atlantic Squad- ron, from September 19, 1865. to Septem- ber 18, 1867. being commissioned captain July 25, 1866; promoted to commodore November 2. 1871, and commanded Wash- ington Navy Yard 1873-6; was commis- sioned rear admiral March 28. 1877. and commanded the Asiatic Squadron until 1880, which completed his twenty-five years of active sea duty. He retired May ro, 1882. He was elected Januarv 2. 1868. a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He died at Washington. D. C. after a, long and painful illness, April 9. 1889. He mar- ried Maria Montresor Wainwright. daugh- ter of Colonel Richard Wainwright. of the United States Marine Corps, who died in HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 51 1881. They were the parents of three sons and one daughter. Captain Samuel A. VV. Patterson entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1876, and graduated in 1882, after making sev- eral cruises as a student. After gradua- tion he was attached to the flagship "Hart- ford," of the Pacific Squadron, where he served twcr years. He left the navy in 1884, and in 1885 was appointed as a clerk in the United States Pension Office at Phila- delphia under General W. W. H. Davis, pension agent, and filled that position for four years and six months. From 1886 to 1896 he resided in Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. In May, 1896, he entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter service, where he served until January 17, 1900. He Vfas in the blockading squadron at Cuba during the Spanish- American War. He re- entered the U. S. navy in January 1900, and was stationed at the Boston Navy Yard until ordered to China, June, 1900, as second lieutenant of the U. S. Marine Corps, and was promoted to first lieuten- ant, July, 1900, during the Boxer troubles in China, where he participated in the famous march to Pekin to relieve the im- prisoned legations. At the close of the Chinese imbroglio he was ordered to the Philippines, and served on the U. S. S. "New Orleans," at China and Japan, and at Cavite and Olongapo, Philippine Islands. After two years and eight months' service abroad he was stationed for a time at the New York Navy Yard, from whence he was ordered to the Isthmus of Panama, where he served for six months. Return- ing to the New York Navy Yard he was promoted captain in November, 1903, and is now (1905) cruising on board the U. S. battleship "Kentucky," of the North At- lantic Fleet. Captain Patterson. February 18, 1886, married Margaret Sprague Davis, daugh- ter of General W. W. H. Davis, of Doyles- town. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, a sketch of whose distinguished career and ancestry is given in this volume. Captain and Margaret (Sprague) Davis Patterson have been the parents of three children, Anna Davis, born December 27, 1886, died December i. 1894: Thomas Harman, born April 15. 1889. died August 12, 1889; and Daniel Walter, born April , 14, 1891, who survives. CORNELL FAMILY. Gulliame Cor- neille, (variously spelled. Cornele, Cor- nale, Cornelise. in the Dutch records of New Netherlands) wa<: of un- doubted French origin, probably a Hue- guenot. and possibly of the same family as Pierre and Thomas Corneille, the noted dramatists and poets of Rouen, a supposition strengthened by the fact that he named his eldest son Peter, the French of which would have been '"Pierre." He settled on Long Island •early in the seventeenth century, and died at Flatbush prior to July 17, 1666, at which date his son Pieter Guilliamse paid for the burial of both his father and mother, as shown by the town rec- ords. On August 9,-1658, he procured from Director Stuyvesant, a patent for a large plantation at Flatbush, and in i66r he and his son Pieter purchased a "bouwery" and several building lots in Flatbush. He left five children Pieter, Gulliam or Gelyam, Cornelis, Jacob and Maria, who have left numerous descen- dants in Kings county. Long Island, New York, New Jersey, and in Bucks county and other parts of Pennsylvania. The name for nearly a century was spelled Cornele, with the accent on the e. Pieter Wuellemsen, as he wrote his name, the eldest son of Guilliam Cornele, was a prominent man in the early history of Flatbush and Kings county. As above stated he was joint purchaser with his father of a large plantation in Flatbush, and later was alloted other building lots in the town. He was commissioned as "Pierre Guilleaum" on October 8, 1686, a lieutenant of the Flatbush company of Kings county militia. His will is dated May 23, 1689. He married in 1675 Mar- gueritie Vercheur, or Vernelle, as the marriage record gives it. and they were the parents of at least five children: Gulliame. born 1679; Cornelis, 1681 ; Ja- cob, 1683; Maria, 1686, and Pieter. Cornelis, the second son, married Jan- netje — and had children: Johannes, bap- tised September 21, 1718; Adrien, bap- tised November 19, 1721; Cornelis, mar- ried Anne Williams in Philadelphia in 1746. and probably several others, some of whom are said to have settled in Bucks county. Pieter, the j^oungest son of Pieter and Margaret, married Catharine Lanning and settled in New Jersey. Adrien, son of Cornelis, is erroneously" confounded with Adrien, son of Guilliam, who settled in Bucks county; the former probably never lived in Pennsylvania. Gilliam Cornell, eldest son of Peter and Margaret, was born at Flatbush, Long Island, in 1679, married November 4, 1714. Cornelia Van Nortwyck, daugh- ter of Simon and Folkertje Van Nort- wyck, of Blanckenbufg, in the Nether- lands, and remained until 1723 at Flat- bush. removing from there to New Utrecht, and is said to have accompan- ied some of his children to Bucks county prior to 1750. of which latter fact we have no proof, unless a tombstone, be- side those of his sons Gilliam and Wil- helmus. in the old Dutch Reformed burying ground near Feasterville. marked "Q x C," maybe considered as such. He purchased a. "house and lot in Flatbush as early as 1708. His children as shown by the records of the Dutch Reformed churches of Flatbush and New Utrecht and from the Bucks county records, were: Adrien: Jacobus, baptised October 2, 1720: Wilhelmus, baptised July 29, 52 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1722; Gilliam, baptised October 23, 1724; Johannes, baptistnl June 16, 1727, married May 23. 1750, Maria Lott, and remained in Flatbush; Simon, baptised July 13, 1729; and Abraham, baptised October 10, 1731. Margaretta Cornell, who married Rem Vandcrbclt, of Southampton, and had a son Gilliam baptised at South- ampton in 1742, is also supposed to have been a daughter of Gilliam. Of the above named sons of Gilliam and Cornelia Cor- nell, four (Adricn, Wilhelmus, Gilliam and Simon) came to Bucks county, and settled in Northampton and Southamp- ton, and where the first three left nu- merous descendants. Adrien was the an- cestor of most of the Cornells who now reside in Bucks, and a more detailed ac- count of him will be given below. ^WILHELMUS CORNELL, born at Flatbush, Long Island, July 13, i7.-2f. probably came to Bucks county with his elder brother Adrien and their pa-- rents prior to 1740. He was married at the Southampton church, April 14, i744- to Elshe (or Alice) Kroesen. H'ls first purchase of land was in connection with his younger brother Gilliam in 1755, and consisted of three tracts of land near Churchville, eighty-two acres on the Northampton side of the Bristol road, and IIS acres opposite in Southampton, including the present site of the church. In 1762 he conveyed his interest in these tracts to Gilliam, and purchased of Jacob Duffield 2331^ acres in South- ampton, and subsequently acquired con- siderable other land there. He died Oc- tober 14, 1783, and his wife Elshe died October 8, 1802, at the age of seventy- seven years; they are buried side by side in the old grave yard af Feasterville. They were the parents of Seven children: Gilliam, born January 2, 1745, died Au- gust 17, 1755; John, born January, 1750, died January 24, 1811. leaving sons Gil- ; Ham, Wilhelmus, Jacob, John and Isaac, and daughters Elizabeth, wife of Henry Feaster, and Cornelia, wife of Gilliam Cornell; Cornelia, baptised February li, 1753, married William Craven; Margaret, baptised December 14, 1755, married Henry Courson; Elizabeth, baptised June 7, 1761; and Gilliam, baptised September 17, 1758, married Jane Craven. The lat- ter was known locally as "Yompey Cor- | nell." He was buried on his farm at Southampton Station. Gilliam Cornel, born on Long Island in 1724, married there May 23, 1750. Mar- garet Schench, and removed to Bucks county. He purchased land as above recited in 1755 in connection with his brother Wilhelmus, and purchased the latter's interest therein six years later. He died in Northampton, July 17. 178=;. and his wife Margaret died September 5, 1805. They had seven children: I. Phebe, who married her cousin Cor- nelius Cornell, the son of Simon. 2. Cornelia, baptised April 11, 1757, mar- ried William Bennett. 3. John, baptised December 31, 1758, married Catharine Sleght. 4. Abraham, baptised January 28^ 1760. died August 31, 1801, married Agnes Bennett. 5. Gilliam, baptised August 27, 1764, married Rachel and left Bucks county. 6. Margaret, baptised 1767. 7. John, baptised June 12, 1774, died young. 8. Maria, baptised August 24, 1778. Simon Cornell, born on Long Island in 1729, married Adrienne Kroesen and settled in the neighborhood of South- ampton, though probably in Philadelphia county; his sons Cornelius and John were baptised at Southampton church in 1761 and 1772 respectively. The former mar- ried Phebe, daughter of his uncle Gil- liam, and had children Gilliam, John, Cornelius, Isaac, Jane, who married Peter Bailey, and Margaret. ADRIEN CORNELL, eldest son of Gelyam and grandson of Peter Guil- liamse Cornel, was born in Flatbush, Long Island, August 22, 1713, as shown by his family Bible now in possession of Thompson Cornell of Philadelphia, a great-great-grandson, and died July 28, 1777. He was eldest son of Gelyam Cor- nell by the first marriage of Gelyam, who was a landholder in Flatbush as early as 1708. Historians have erroneously stated that he was a son of Cornelis, the brother of Gelyam. Bergen, in his "Early Settlers of Kings County," makes that statement and gives the date of his baptism as November 19, 1721, but this is effectually disprove!! by the Bible record, as well as by the will of Gilliam of Bucks county, who is shown to be a son of Gelyam and Conelia, and makes "my nephew Gilliam Cornell, son of my brother Adrien," one of the executors of his wilj^' Adrien Cornell married Mattie Hegeman, born at Brooklyn. Long Island, November I, 1718, daughter of Rem and Peternella (Van Wycklen) Hegeman, grand-daugh- ter of Elbert and Marytje (Rappalye) Hegeman, great-granddaughter of Jo- seph and Femmeltje (Remse) Hegeman,. and great-great-granddaughter of Adrien and Catharine Hegeman, who emigrated from Amsterdam in 1650, settling first at New Albany, but later removing to Flat- bush. Long Island, where Adrien was a magistrate in 1654 and died in April, 1672. Adrien Cornell removed to Bucks county prior to June 7, X739, at which date he purchased 250 acres in North- ampton township, where he was already a resident. In 1751 he purchased sixty- one acres adjoining his first purchase and 205 acres additional in 1772. Tliis land was located in the heart of the Dutch settlement known as Holland, and much of it still remains the property of his descendants. He died on his plan- tation purchased in 1739. July 27. 1777, and his wife Mattie died July 4, 1790;; (^^'f //y 9Tt ^-^f^r? P-^-pf HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 53 both are buried at Richboro. Their cliil- dren were: Gilliam, born April 26, 1741, died March 2, 1809, married Jannetje Suydam, daughter of Lambert Suydam; and Rem, born June 9, 1744, died July 18, 1825, married Peternelletje Hegeman, born 1751, died December 19, 1816. Gilliam and Jane (Suydam) Cornell were the parents of nine children: Adrien, born May 18, 1765, died Febru- ary 28, 1841, married Rachel Feaster; Abigail, born December 17, 1769, mar- ried Henry DuBois; Lambert, born July 14, 1772; James, born October 20, '1774, died April i, 1850, married first Cynthia, daughter of Rem Cornell, and second Margaret Vandegrift; Rem, born April 4, 1777, died young; Mattie, born April 23, 1779, married Aaron Feaster; Jane, born May 15, 1781, married Christopher Vanarsdalen; John, born March 29, 1783. married Elizabeth Vandegrift; and Gil- liam, born May 13, 1785, married Eliza- beth Krewsen, November 16, 180Q. In the division of the real estate of Adrien Cornell between his two sons Gilliam and Rem, the/ latter retained 203 acres of the homestead tract of 250 acres, and forty-one acres of the Vanduren pur- chase adjoining, and conveyed to his brother Gilliam the balance of the home- stead, fifty-six acres, and 205 acres pur- chased by their father of Van Horn in 1772. These lands were devised by the brothers to their respective sons, and a portion of both tracts still remain in the tenure of their descendants of the name. Gilliam divided the homestead between his sons Lambert, James and Gilliam, settling his son Adrian on eighty-five acres purchased in 1785 of William Thomson, and John on 100 acres pur- chased of Henry Dyer. Rem Cornell, second son of Adrien and Mattie (Hegeman) Cornell, born in Northampton in 1744, married Pet'er- neelitie Hegeman. and lived all his life on the old homestead in Northampton, acquiring later considerable other land in the vicinity./ He was an active and prominent man in the community, and a member of the Dutch Reformed church of North and Southampton. He died July 18. 1825, in his eighty-second year. His wife died December 19. 1816, in her sixty-fifth years, and both are buried in the old gravej-^ard at Richboro. They were the parents of three children: Mat- tie, born 1770, married John Kroeson; Cynthia, born 1776, died June 7. 1808, married her cousin James Cornell; and Adrien. Adrien Cornell, only son of Rem. was born on the old homestead in North- ampton in May, 1779, and, inheriting it from his father in 1825. spent his whole life there. He was a prosperous farmer and a good business man and acquired a large estate, owning at his death in 1857 over 700 acres of farm land and a fine mill property in Northampton, and over 400 acres in Upper Makefield township. His wife was Leanah Craven, daughter of James and Adrianna (Kroeson) Cra- ven, and Vas baptised at Churchville, February 21, 1779. The children of Adrien and Leanah (Craven) Cornell were as follows: i. James Craven, bap- tised November 4, 1804, died February I, 1865, married Judith S. Everett. 2. Eleanor, baptised January 10, 1807, mar- ried James Krusen. 3. John Leflferts, baptised January 10. 1807, died January 14, 1836. 4. Ann Eliza, baptised August 28, 1810, married James S. McNair. 5. Charles, baptised March 21, 1812. 6. Lj'dia, January 18, 1815, married Henry Wynkoop. 7. Cynthia, baptised August II, 1816, married William R. Beans. Adrian, see forward, and Mary Jane, wife of Frances Vanartsdalen. Adrien Cornell, youngest son of Adrien and Leanah (Craven) Cornell, was born on the old homestead in Northampton, December 21, 1818. He was reared on the farm that had been the home of his ancestors since 1739, and in the house erected by his great-great-grandfather in 1747. This house he tore down in 1861, and erected the present mansion house. He was an active and successful business man. He was connected for many years with the Bucks County Agricultural So- ciety, of which he was for several years president, succeeding his brother James C. Cornell in that position. He married January 8, 1840, Mary Ann Van Horn, daughter of Abraham Van Horn, who survived him many years. He died on the old homestead, September 17, 1870. GEORGE W. CORNELL, only child of Adrien and Mary Ann, was born on the old homestead. October 17, 1841, and resided there until the spring of 1904, when he removed to Newtown borough, where he now resides. He was educated at the public schools of Northampton, supplemented by a three years course at the Tennent School at Hartsville, Pennsylvania. He married October 10, 1871, Sarah C. Luken. who died May 23, 1873. On June 6, 1877, he married Eliza- beth B. Camm. his prresent wife, who is a daughter of Joseph C. and Martha (Feaster) Camm. and a granddaughter of Aaron and Matilda (Cornell) Feaster, Matilda being a daughter of Gilliam and Jannetje (Suydam) Cornell. Her pater- nal great-grandfather, John Camm, was a native of England and located in Phil- adelphia, where his son William and grandson Joseph C, were born and reared. Her father, Joseph C. Camm. lo- cated in Northampton township. Bucks county, after his marriage, and Mrs. Cor- nell was born and reared in that town- ship. On the Feaster side she is of Hol- land descent. Her great-great-grand- father, John Feaster, was born on Long Island in 1798, and died in Northampton township, Bucks county, December 19, y 54 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. \77S. His wife Mary, born in 1706, died May 28, 1774. Their son David, born April 8, 1740, married Mary Hegeman, born March 8, 1743; he died September 28, 1808, and his wife May 28, 1783. Their son Aaron, the grandfather of Mrs. Cor- nell, was born in October, 1772, and died July 18, i860. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell have no children. Mr. Cornell still owns the old homestead in Northampton, but lives retired in Newtown. In politics he is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Dutch Reformed church. Gilliam Cornell, youngest son of Gil- liam and Jannetje (Suydam) Cornell, of Northampton, was born on the old home- stead May 30, 1785. He married Novem- ber 16, 1809. Elizabeth Krewsen, and settled on a portion of the old homestead purchased by his grandfather of the Van Horns in 1772, 103 acres of which Gil- liam inherited at his father's death in 1809. His two children were: Jacob Krewsen, born September 28, 1810, and Martin H., born May 29, 1820. Jacob Krewsen Cornell was reared on the old Northampton homestead, but on his marriage purchased of Samuel Mc- Nair a farm in Southampton, at Church- ville, part of the land purchased in 1755 by Wilhelmus and Gilliam Cornell, and settled thereon. He married January 7, 1834, Elizabeth Finney, who bore him eleven children, seven of whom lived to maturity and raised families, viz.: 1. Mary, born June 26, 1835, married Charles Van Artsdalen, January 10, 1856, and had one daughter, Alice, born De- cember I, 1856, who married James L. Cornell. 2. Alice, born December 18 1837, died May 28, 1838. 3. Jane M., born August 21, 1840, mar- ried December 26, 1861, Thomas Beans, and has three children — George, William and Howard. 4. Alice L., born June 5, 1842, married (first) Henry McKinney and (second) Joseph J. Yerkes, and has a son Jacob. 5. John Corson, born August 2, 1844, a prominent merchant of Oakford, Penn- sylvania, married April, 1870, Margaret J. Stevens. 6. Jacob Krewsen, Jr., born June 10. 1846, now deputy recorded- of deeds of Bucks county; married January 8. 1884, Alice E. Woodrufif; has no children. 7. Charles F., born June 10, 1848, died August 8, 1848. 8. Gilliam, Jr., born June 22, 1849; mar- ried Januar} 24, 1878, Jane, daughter of Joseph Hogeland; one son, Joseph Rem- sen, borrt January 8, 1885. 9. Martin Harris, horn February 19, 1851, married October 7. 1874. Mary H. Agin ; now reside in Doylestown ; one daughter, Carrie Ruth, Ixirn July 7, 1884. TO. Charles Finney, born t8s3, died 1861. II. Henrietta, born 1857, died 1863, Jacob Krewsen Cornell married (s'ec- ond) Ruth Anna Morrison, daughter of' Judge Joseph J. and Ellen (Addis) Mor- rison, by whom he had the following chil-' dren : Joseph M., born December 18, 1862^ see forward ; Ella M., born October 4, 1864, married January 14, 1897, J. Warner Cornell, and has two children — Ruth and Charles; Edith, born May 10, 1870; and' Albert, born October, 1871, died July, 1872. JOSEPH MORRISON CORNELL was born on the old homestead at Churchville, Southampton township,. Bucks county, December 18, 1862, and is the eldest son of Jacob Krewson Cornell by his second marriage with Ruth Ann Morrison. He was reared on the farrn and acquired his education at the local schools. On arriving at manhood he fol- lowed farming five years in that vicinity,- and then purchased his father's farm, where he has since resided. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of his native township, and has filled several local offices. He was for three years supervisor, and has also filled the office of township assessor. Mr. Cornell was married November 27, 1884, to Emma E. Fetter, daughter of John Carrel and Mercy C. (Lefferts) Fetter, and they have been the parents of two children: John Fetter, born December I, 1887, died July 17, 1890; and Joseph M. Jr., born January 16, 1894. Mrs. Cornell was l3orn March 20. 1864,. and is one of the three children of John C. and Mary (Leffets) Fetter. Her great-grandfather, George Fetter, was one of twelve children, and was born January 13, 1768. His wife, Rebecca Wynkoop, was born August 28, 1868, and they were the parents of nine children,, of whom William, the eldest, born Oc- tober 7, 1797, was the grandfather of Mrs. Cornell. He married Sarah Carrell, De- cember 26, 1821, and had six children, of whom the eldest, John C, born August 18, 1824, was the father of Mrs. Cornell. On the maternal side Mrs. Cornell is of Holland descent, being descended from LefTet Pieterse, who came to Long Island with his parents in 1669 from Haugh- wout. North Holland, and settled at Flatbush, Long Island. His son, Pieter Lefferts, born May 18, 1680. married Ida, daughter of Hendrick Suydam. and their son, Leffertse LefTertse, was the first of the family to settle in Bucks county, where he has left numerous dscendants. THE JANNEY FAMILY of Bucks county are descendants of the Cheshire family of that name who, according to- various authorities, "are supposed to be" or "considered to be" descended from the house of De-Gisne. or Gyney, of Heverland, Norfolk, who were of French extraction, and the name' to be derivect from Guisnes. near Calais. France. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 55 The earliest lineal ancestor of the American family of Janney of whom there is any authentic record was Ran- dull Janne3% of Stiall, parish of Wilmes- lome, Cheshire, Enghvnd, who died about the year 1596, being mentioned in the will of his son Thomas Janney, made in 1602, as having left legacies to daughters of Thomas, the youngest of whom was baptised in 1595. Thomas Janney, before mentioned, was married at least twice, if not three times. Investigations re- cently conducted in Cheshire by Miles White, of Baltimore, indicate that he married first Ellen , who was bur- ied February 7, 1578, and by whom he had a daughter Alyce, who was baptised Novemoer 7, 1570, but as no further rec- ord of this Alice is found, and she is not mentioned in Thomas's will, there is no proof that the record above refers to 'J. hom;iT of Stiall. 1 He married, Decem- ber 7. 1578, Jane Worthington, who was Duried August 10, 1589, and (second) on Movember 4, 1590, Katharine Cash, of Stiall. By the first marriage he had two sons, Randle and Henry, and daughters Margerie and Maud. By the second marriage he had six children, two at least of whom died in infancy. He was pos- sessed of a considerable freehold of lands in Cheshire, which he devised to his sons Randle and Harry, and personal estate to Thomas and daughters Maud, Mar- garet and Anne. Randle Janney, the eldest son of Thomas and Jane (Worthington) Jan- ney, was baptised February 23, 1579-80, and was buried October 30, 1613. He married, July 14, 1602, Ellen Abrodd, and lived and died at Stiall, Cheshire. They were the parents of four children: Thomas, baptised June 27, 1605, died 12 mo. 17, 1677. married September 3, 1625, Elizabeth Worthington, who died 12 mo. 19. 1681-2; Randle, baptised May 26, 1608, married July 16. 1636, Anne Knevet; Heine, baptised March 24, 1610, buried March 3. 161 1; and Richard, baptised February 20, 1613, settled in Ardwick, Lancashire, where he died in 1691, wife Mary. Of these four children of Randle Janney, of Stiall, only the two eldest has special interest to the Janneys of America, as through the two sons of the former, Thomas and Henry, and Will- iam, son of the latter, are descended all the Janneys who today are scattered over the United States. Thomas Janney, eldest son of Randle and Ellen (Alrodd) Janney, baptised June 27, 1605, was married September 3, 1625, to Elizabeth Worthington, and both joined the Society of Friends soon after it came into existence, and are fre- quently mentioned in the early annals of the Society, meetings being frequently held at their house at Stiall, and later at Mobberly, Cheshire. He suffered distress of goods, was imprisoned, and otherwise persecuted on account of his faith as related in Besse's sufferings. He and others purchased and presented to the Meeting the land for the t)urial ground and meeting house at Mobberly. He was evidently possessed of consider- able property, and in his will made in 1677 left a legacy to the poor of the town. He died 12 mo. 17, 1677, and his widow Elizabeth on 12 mo. 19, 1681-2, and both are buried in the Friends' bury- ing ground at Mobberly. His will is stfi' preserved at Chester, and his name thereto is spelled Jannej^ though men- tioned in the records as Janey. His will names the children mentioned below, his brother Richard, and William Janney of Handworth. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney were: 1. Mary, baptised March 19. 1625-6, died 7 mo. 3, 1698, married 12 mo. 3, T663-4, Robert Peirson, of Pownall Fee, Cheshire, and had a son Enoch, born il mo. 30, 1665, died 8 mo. 2, 1680-I. Thomas and Robert Pearson, who came to Pennsylvania in 1683 and 1682 respec- tively, were probably related to Robert. 2. Margaret, baptised March 16, 1627, died II mo. 11, 1673, is buried at Mob- berly. 3. Martha, baptised June 6, 1630, died 2 mo. 4, 1702, married 12 mo. 12, 1672, Hugh Burges, of Pownall Fee, who died 3 mo. 23, 1713, aged seventy-four years. Both are buried at Mobberly. It was at their house, that her brother Thomas Janney, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, died in 1696, while on a religious visit to England. 4. Randle, baptised December 16, 1632, died 3 mo. 17, 1674, buried at Mobberly. 5. Thomas, the ancestor of tlie Jan- neys of Bucks county, baptised January II. 1634. died 12 mo. (Feb.) 12, 1696, and is buried at IMobberly; see forward. 6. Henry, baptised January r, 1637, died at Eaton Norris, Lancashire, 6 mo. 3. 1690. and is buried at Mobberly. He married at the house of Thomas Potts, Pownal - Fee. i mo. 3. 1674, Barbara Baguley, of Stockport, was a tailor and chapman or cloth dealer. His daughter Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 7, 1677. came to Philadelphia in 1698. and married in 1710 Pentecost Teague. a distinguished Friend of Philadelphia. Mary, born 11 mo. I, 1680, and Tabitha. born 7 mo. 29. 1687, also came to Philadelphia, the former marrying in 1708 Joseph Drinker, and the latter in 1709 William Fisher. A son Thomas and daughter Martha died in infancy. Before proceeding to give an account of Thomas Janney, the distinguished an- cestor of the Janneys of Bucks county, jt might be well to say a word or two in reference to William Janney, (son of Randle and Mary, and grandson of Randle and Ellen Alrodd Janney), whose two sons. Randle and Thorn'as, also came to Pennsylvania. 56 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. William Janney was baptised Decem- ber 8, 1641, died 8 mo. 4, 1724, and is buried among his kinsman in the old burying ground at Mobberly. He mar- ried 7 mo. 30, 1671, Deborah Webb, and was then living at liandforth; after his wife's death he removed to Morley. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and suffered persecution for his faith. Meetings were frequently held at h's house. His son Randle, born 2 mo. 10, 1677, in 1699 obtained a certifi- cate from the Meeting at Morley and emigrated to Philadelphia, where he be- came a prominent merchant, was a friend of Penn, and a large landowner in Penn- sylvania and Cecil county, Maryland. He married at Philadelphia, in 9 mo., i/OI, Frances Righton, daughter of William and Sarah Righton, of Philadelphia. Their only child died in infancy. In 1702 and 1706 he visited England, and in 1715 obtained a certificate to visit the Bermudas, but died before starting, 10 mo. 7, 1715. His will mentions his brother Thomas and his sister Mary, wife of George Pawley, who had also come to Philadelphia, and their children, De- bora. Mary, Sarah and Thomas. Thomas Janney, brother of Randle, was born in Cheshire, England, 3 mo. 18, 1679, and died in Cecil county, Maryland, about 1750. In 1702 his brother Randle obtained a certificate for him to Phila- delphia, which, with the one brought from the Morley Meeting by Randle in 1699, is preserved among the records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. In 1706 he went to England with his brother, and after his return settled in West Not- tingham township, Chester county, on land formerly owned by Randle, and later found to be in Cecil county, Marj-- land. His will was proven in Cecil county, March 22, 1751, and in it he men- tions his wife Magdalen, son-in-law Rob- ert Lashly, and children Jemima Janney, Debora Lashly, William, Thomas and Isaac Janney, who are the progenitors of the Janneys of Cecil county. Robert Lashly was Robert Leslie, who married Debora Janney, in 1740, and is the an- cestor of Charles Robert Leslie, R. A., the noted author and artist, and his"'tal- ented sisters. Deborah Pawlee, daugh- ter of George and Mary (Janney) Pauley, married 9 mo. 21, 1727, Samuel Siddons, son of Thomas and Lowrey (Evans) Siddons, who have descendants in Bucks county. Sarah Pawley, another daughter of George and Mary, married 7 mo. 24. 1734, William Atkinson, Jr., of a Bucks county family. THOMAS JANNEY, second son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney, baptised at Stiall. Cheshire, Eng- land, January 11, 1634, "was convinced of the truth as held by Friends" at the first preaching thereof in Cheshire in 1654, and the next year took up the min- istry in that sect and traveled exten- sively in England and Ireland. He mar- ried, 9 mo. 24, 1660, Margery Heath, of Horton, Staffordshire. The marriage took place at the house of James Harri- son, in the township of Pownal Fee, in which Stiall the home of the Janneys was situated. Ann, the wife of James Harrison, was a sister of Margery, as was also Jane, the wife of William Yard- ley, both of whom came with their hus- bands to Pennsylvania and settled m Bucks county in 1682, as shown by an account of each family given in this volume. They lived at Stiall, where their four sons were born, until 1683, when they followed their brothers-in-law to Pennsylvania and settled on a tract of land in Makefield, Bucks county. Thomas Janney had purchased of William Penn, 6 mo. 12, 1682, 250 acres of land to be laid out in Per .;sylvania, and it was laid out in Lower Makefield, fronting on the Delaware. He and his wife Margery, their four sons and two servants, John Nield and Hannah Falkner, arrived in the Delaware river in the Endeavor, 7 mo. (September) 29, 1683. He eventually purchased other lands in the vicinity; the tract fronting on the Delaware below the present borough of Yardley containing 550 acres was confirmed by patent in T691, and ancther tract of 1000 acres lay back of the "River Lots" and extended into Newtown and Middletown town- ships, wdiere the line between these townships joins the line of Lower Make- field. The latter tract was of irregular form and was well watered. Core creek running through it. A saw mill was erected on it soon after its occupation in 1683, and Jacob Janney erected a grist mill near the old family mansion in 1816, which was in use until a few years since, that portion of the plantation still being owned and occupied by descendants of the name. Thomas Janney was related by blood or marriage to many of the most prominent settlers of the county. William Yardley, for many years a jus- tice of the county courts and a member of provincial assembly, and James Har- rison, Penn's confidential agent in Penn- sylvania, were, as before stated, his brothers-in-law. and Phineas Pemberton, called by Logan "the father of Bucks County." was therefore his nephew, and John Brock, another prominent oificial of the county, was his cousin. Thomas Janney was also an intimate friend of Penn, who entertained a high opinion of him and mentioned him lovinglj' in many of his letters. Thomas Janney continued his labors as a minister of the Society of Friends, but that did not preclude his en- gaging actively in civil affairs, and upon his arrival in America he at once took a prominent place in the affairs of the col- ony. He was elected to provincial coun- cil for a term of three 3-ears, and was qualified as a member i mo. 20. 1684, and HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 57 was again elected and commissioned in 1691. He was also commissioned April 6, 1685. one of the justices of the courts of Bucks county, which commission was renewed January 2, 1689-90. He was one of the commission of twelve men ap- pointed to divide the county into town- ships in 1690, and filled many other im- portant official positions. In the minis- try he visited Friends' meetings in New England, Rhode Island, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and was an esteemed counsellor in all matters pertaining to the Society, as well as of the county and province. In the early part of 1695 he began to make preparations for a visit to Friends in England, executing a power of attorney to his eldest son, Jacob Janney, to trans- act business for him in his absence, and making his will, which is dated 3 mo. 21, 1695. This will was doubtless proved and recorded in the county of Bucks, but the records of the county (with the exception of deeds) from 1693 to 1713 are entirely lost, and it is only through a copy found among the papers of Samuel M. Janney. the Quaker historian, that we learn what its provisions were. He was accompanied on his visit to England by Griffith Owen, and they started by way of Maryland 3 mo. 31, 1695. Ean'ding in London, they traveled through Eng- land and Wales, visiting many meetings. Janney was taken sick in the spring of 1696, while in Derbyshire, but. partially recovering, attended the Quarterly Meet- ing in London, and then started to pay a visit to his relatives in Cheshire, and, though detained in Hertfordshire by a severe attack, eventually reached Che- shire, and so far recovered as to visit meetings there and in Lancashire, and made preparations to return to Penn- sylvania in \i mo., 1696, but, being taken* seriously ill, returned to the home of his sister. Mary Burgess, where he was born, and died there the 12th of the 12th mo., (February) 1696-7, at the. age of sixty- three years, having been a minister for forty-two years. His wife Margery sur- vived him and died somewhere between 1697 and 1700, Their children were six in number — four sons: Jacob, Thomas, Abel, and Joseph, who accompanied their parents to America; and two daughters, Martha and Elizabeth, who died in Eng- land. I. Jacob Janney, born at Pownall Fee, Cheshire, 3 mo. 18, 1662, buried in Bucks county, 8 mo. 6, 1708, married at Falls Meeting, Bucks county, 10 mo. 26, 1705. Mary Hough, born in Bucks county, 7 mo. 6, 1684, daughter of John and Han- nah Hough, of Newtown. After her husband's death she married, 3 mo. 2, 1710, John Fisher, by whom she had one child, Mary, who married in 1740 John Butler. The only child of Jacob and Mary (Hough) Janney was Thomas, born 12 mo. 27, 1707-8, died 4 mo. 8, 1788. 2. Martha Janney, born at Cheadle, Cheshire, 5 mo. 17, 1665, died there 12 mo. 4, 1665-6. 3. Elizabeth, born at Pownall Fee, 11 mo. 15, 1666-7, died 11 mo. 17, 1666-7. 4. Thomas Janney, born at Pownall Fee, Cheshire, 12 mo. 5, 1667-8, died in Bucks county. He married 9 mo. 3, 1697, Falls Meeting records, Rachel Pownall, born in Cheshire, England, daughter of George and Eleanor Pow- nall, of Bucks county. They had four children; Henry, born 4 mo. 20, 1699; Sarah, born 8 mo. 26, 1700, married 1722, Thomas Pugh; Mary, married 1725, Thomas RoutJedge; Abel, born in Bucks county, died there 1748, married June 5, 1740, Elizabeth Biles. 5. Abel Janney, born at Mobberly, Cheshire, 10 mo. 29, 1671, married in New Jersey, 1700, Elizabeth Stacy, born at Dorehouse, Yorkshire, 8 mo. 17, 1673, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, of Trenton, New Jersey. They had seven children; Amos, born 11 mo. 15. 1701-2, died in Fairfax county, Vir- ginia, 1747, married, 1727-8, at Falls, Mary Yardley, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Biles) Yardley; Rebeckah, born 9 mo. 9, 1702, died at Wilmington, Dela- ware, married Joseph Poole, of Bucks countjs born in Cumberland, England, 1704, died in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, 1767; Mahlon, born in Bucks county, 2 mo. 18, 1706; Thomas, married 1735, Hannah Biles, daughter of William and Sarah (Langhorne) Biles; Jacob, born 4 mo. 10, 1710, died in Delaware il mo. 14, 1782. married Elizabeth Levis, at Kennett, Chester county, was a prom- inent minister: Abel, removed to Vir- ginia, 1742; Elizabeth, married 10 mo. 22, 1737, John Stackhouse, and (second) David Wilson, both of Bucks county. Abel Janney. the father of the above named children, was a justice of the peace 1708-10, and a member of assem- bly 1710-21. 6. Joseph Janney, born at Pownall Fee, Cheshire, i mo. 26, 1675-6, died in Bucks county, about 1729, married at Falls Meeting, 6 mo. 18, 1703, Rebeckah Biles, born in Bucks county, 10 mo. 27, 1680, daughter of William and Joanna Biles, and had six children : Martha, married Nicholas Parker and settled in 'New Jer- sey; Ann, died young; Abel, married at Falls, 8 mo. 2. 1733, Sarah Baker, and removed to Virginia; William, married at Falls, Elizabeth Moon, born 10 mo. 16, 1719, daughter of Roger and Ann (Nutt) Moon, and removed to Virginia; Jacob, married at Falls, 1725, Hannah IngTe- dew, and removed to Virginia; Mary, married at Falls, 1720, John Hougji, of Bucks county and removed to Virginia; they are the ancestors of Emerson Hough, of Chicago, the novelist and His- torical writer, editor of "Forest and Stream." Thomas Janney, born 12 mo. 27, 1797-8, 58 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. only son of Jacob and Mary (Hough) Janney, is the ancestor of the Janneys at present resident within the county of Bucks. He married at Wrightsfown Meeting, Bucks county, lo mo. 28, 1732, Martha IMitchell. daughter of Henry and Sarah (Gove) Mitchell; the former a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Foulds) Mitchell, was born at Marsden Lane, Lancashire, and the latter was a daugh- ter of Richard Gove of Philadelphia. By the will of Thomas Janney, the pioneer and provincial councillor, he devised to his son "Jacob the house and plantation which 'we do live in and upon, with all the la7ids and appurtenances thereunto belonging," and, Jacob dying in 1708, it descended to his infant son and only child Thomas Janney, and has contin- ued to be the home of his descendants to the present day. On a visit to the old homestead in May, 1905, the writer of these lines was shown the old family Bible nearly a century old, in which was inscribed, in the quaint handwriting of long ago, the dates of the birth of the children of Thomas and Martha (Mitch- ell) Janney. Martha, the mother, died 9 mo. 19, 1785, and Thomas, the father, 4 mo. 8, 1788. Their children were: Jacob, born 8 mo. 15, 1733, died 3 mo. 26, 1761, without issue; Thomas, born 2 mo. 17, 1736, died 11 mo. 16, 1754; Rich- ard, born 8 mo. 22, 1738, died 9 mo. 5, 1766, see forward; Mary, born i mo. 18, 1741, died 2 mo. 24, 1795, married 3 mo. 19, 1788, William Linton, no issue; Sarah, born 10 mo. 19, 1743, married 11 mo. 11, 1762, Daniel Richardson, and had one son, Daniel; Alice, born 10 mo. 4, 1747, married John Dawes, and settled in New Jersey; Martha, born 9 mo. 11, 1750, mar- ried Isaac Warner. None of these sons survived their father, and the homestead was devised by his will to his grandson Jacob Janney, the only grandson of the name. Richard Janney, third son of Thomas and Martha (Mitchell) Janney, born 8 mo. 22, 1738, married, in 1764, Sarah W^orth. daughter of Joseph Worth, of Stony Brook,' Burlington county. New Jersey. She was born in 1741, and died in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, August 20. 1833. at the age of ninety-two years, having been a widow for forty years, though three times married. Rich- ard Janney died 9 mo. 5, 1766, leaving an only child, Jacob Janney. born 4 mo. 10, 1765. His widow married Stephen Twin- ing in T773, and had two children; Mary born September 16, 1774, died March 8. 1815, married Joseph Burson; and Stephen Twining, born 1776, died 1849. Her second husband dying in 1777, Sarah married (third) 2 mo. 6, 1782, James Bur- son. Of the youth of Jacob Janney, only child of Richard and Sarah (Worth) Jan- ney, little is known. Tradition relates that he lived for a time in New Jersey. If this were true, it was probably with his maternal grandparents. As his moth- er's last two husbands both resided in Wrightstown, it is probable that he was reared there or on the old homestead in Newtown, with his grandparents, Thomas and Martha Janney. Certain it is that that was his residence at the time of his grandfather's death in 1788, when he is devised the plantation and made ex- ecutor of the will of his grandfather. He married, ii mo. 16, 1792, Frances Briggs, born 10 mo. 19, 1773, died 8 mo. 21, 1851, daughter of John and Letitia Briggs, and continued to reside on the old homestead until his death, 2 mo. 19, 1820. The children of Jacob and Frances (Briggs) Janney, all born on the old homestead at Newtown, are as follows: 1. Thomas, born 8 mo. 9, 1794, died in Newtown borough, 3 mo., 1879, married 10 mo. II, 1838, Mary Kimber, daughter of Emmor and Susanna, born 2 mo. 10, 1807, and had two children: Anna, mar- ried a Bergner, and is still living in New- town; and Emmor Janney, of Philadel- phia. Thomas lived on the old home- stead until 1842, when he rented it to his youngest brother, Stephen T. Janney, and removed to Newtown. He was a large landowner in Newtown and Make- field. 2. Richard, born 3 mo. 13, 1796, died in Lower Makefield, 8 mo., 1877, married (first) Ann Taylor, and (second) Ach- sah Yardley, and lived and died in Lower Makefield. He had seven children: Mercy Ann, married Heston Lovett, of Lower Makefield, and is deceased; Tay- lor, died unmarried; Susan, married (first) Lovett Brown, of Falls, and (sec- ond) Oliver Paxson, of New Hope, where she still resides; Franklin, died in Phila- delphia; Jacob, married Matilda Ely, of Lambertville, and is living in Philadel- phia; Frances, married Jonathan Scho- field, of Lower Makefield, and is de- ceased; and Mary, married William Lin- ton, of Newtown, and is deceased. y 3. Jacob, born 4 mo. 24, 1798, married Esther Betts, daughter of Stephena and Hannah (Blackfan) Betts of Solebury, and removed to Cecil county, Maryland, and after several years residence there returned to Bucks county. and later removed with his family to IMichigan. where he died 12 mo., 1869. They had seven children: Hannah. married Amasa Atkinson; James Worth, married Loisa Beitzel; Ed- ward B., died single in Michigan; Fran- ces, married John Sumner, and is re- cently deceased: Elwood, married Al- meda Allen; Robert Simpson, married Urania Baldwin: Dr. Joshua Janney. of Moorestown, New Jersey, who married Amanda Eastburn, of Solesburj^. 4. John L., born 5 mo. 31. 1800, died on his portion of the homestead, 4 mo. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 59 12, 1872. He married Mary . Jenks, daughter of Thomas and Thomazine (Trimble) Jenks, of Middletown. (See Jcnks Family). By the will of Jacob Janney the homestead was devised to his sons Thomas and John L., and they in 1829 made partition of it and a tract pur- chased by them adjoining, the new pur- chase and a small part of the homestead on the east going to John L., where he lived and died, and where his son Thomas and daughters Elizabeth and Thomazine still reside. The children of John L. and Mary (Jenks) Janney were: Charles, married first Anna Yardley, and second her sister, Julia Yardley, was a merchant at Dolington for many years, and died on a farm in Solebury in 1902; Thomas J., who was prothonotary of Bucks county, 1895-7, and is now cashier and accountant in the office of the Newtown, Bristol and Doylestown Electric Rail- way Company at Newtown; John L., Jr., married Matilda Wynkoop, and resides in Newtown borough, though still con- ducting the old homestead farm; and Elizabeth and Thomazine, before men- tioned. 5. Martha, born 10 mo. 14, 1801, died 12 mo. 6. 1876, married Robert Simp- son, of Upper Makefield, and had five children: Jacob, of Buckingham, de- ceased, married Elizabeth Johnson; William, of Upper Makefield, deceased, married Julia Johnson; Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Smith, many years princi- pal of Doylestown English and Classical Seminary, now of Plymouth Friends' School; IMartha, wife of Albert Hibbs, of Kansas; and James, who married an Eis- inbrey, of Solebury, and died in Kansas. 6. Benjamin, born i mo. 17, 180.^, died I mo. 8, 1806. 7. Mary, born 6 mo. 8, 1805, died 7 mo. 31. 1807. 8. Sarah, born 10 mo. 21, 1806, died 10 mo. 10, 1851; married Joshua Dungan, no issue. 9. Letitia, born 9 mo. 25, 1808, died i mo, 22, 1813. 10. William, born 3 mo. 31, 1810, died 3 mo. 7, 1891, married 12 mo. 15, 1830, Rebecca Smith, daughter of William and Sarah (Moore) Smith, of Solebury, where she was born in 1810. He was a farmer in Lower Makefield for several years, and later lived retired in Newtown borough, where his widow and two daughters still reside. They were the pa- rents of nine children: Richard H., re- siding on the old Smith homestead in Solebury, married Mary Hibbs, of Pine- ville, and had three children: Dr. Will- iam Smith Janney, of Philadelphia, see forward; Sarah Smith, living with her mother in Newtown: Stephen Moore, of Newtown, married Elizabeth Nickelson, of Yardley; Oliver, of Wrightstown, married Hannah Willard, of Newtown; George, of Solebury, married Elizabeth Ellis, of Langhorne; Martha, wife of Harrison C. Worstall, a hardware mer- chant of Newtown; Rebecca Frances, died in infancy; and Mary Ella, living with her mother in Newtown. 11. Joseph, born 9 mo. 19, 1812, died 10 mo. 19, 1887, married li mo. 21, 1833, Mary Ann Taylor, daughter of David B. and Elizabeth, of Lower Makefield, lived- and died in Philadelphia. They had chil- dren: Barton Taylor, of Eniilie; Benja- min, Samuel and Joseph, of Philadelphia; Frances, wife of Joseph Lovett, of Emi- lie; Elizabeth, died in Philadelphia; and Emma, wife of Charles Walton, of Lang- horne. 12. Mahlon, born 12 mo. 15, 1815, mar- ried Charlotte Brown, and removed ta the west where he died. 13. STEPHEN T. JANNEY, young- est child of Jacob and Frances (Briggs) Janney, was born 11 mo. 15, 1817, and died II mo. 12, 1898, on the old home- stead where he was born and always re- sided. He was but three years of age at the death of his father, and remained with his mother on the homestead, and. was educated at an academy in Wilming- ton, Delaware. On his marriage in 1842, he rented the homestead of his brother Thomas, and purchased it in 1855, and continued to conduct it until his death. He married Harriet P. Johnson, born in Buckingham. 10 mo. 20, 1820, died 1891, daughter of William H. and Mary (Pax- son) Johnson, and granddaughter of Samuel and Martha (Hutchinson) John- son, all of Buckingham. (See ancestry of Hon. E. M. Paxson, where an account of the distinguished ancestry of Mrs. Jan- ney, maternal and paternal is given). The children of Stephen T. and Harriet P. (Johnson) Janney, were: Calvin D., born January 12, 1843, residing on the homestead, married March 8, 1892, Fred- erica, daughter of Frederick and Anna. M. Linton, of Newtown, who died at the birth of their only child. Frederick, December. 1892; Horace, born Septem- ber I, 1846, farmer and nurseryman at Newtown: William H., born October i, 1849, a farmer in Lower Makefield, mar- ried February 3, 1873, Anna M. Torbert, daughter of James L. and Maria (Van Artsdalen) Torbert. of Lower Makefield, and had two children: Elizabeth, wife of Erwin J. Doan, of Philadelphia, who has three children — Frances J., Anna Jean and Harriet J.; and Harriet, wife of LeRoy Suber, of Newtown. Mrs. Anna M. Janney died 3 mo. 11, 1893. and Will- iam H. married (second) June 8, 1905, Ella J. Burroughs, daughter of Robert and Phebe (Beans) Burroughs of New- town. Marietta Janney, third child of Stephen and Harriet, is still single, and resides with her brother Calvin on the homestead. Frances J. Janney, the youngest daughter, married, September 6o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 26, 1877, Wilmer A. Briggs, son of Theo- dore S. and Sarah B. (Leedom) Briggs, of Upper Makefield, and they reside at Glen Ridge, New Jersey. DR. WILLIAM SMITH JANNEY, of 1535 North Broad street, Philadelphia,, Pennsylvania( second son of William and Rebecca (Smith) Janney, was born in Lower Makefield township, Bucks •county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1833. He acquired his elementary education at the public schools, Newtown Academy, Bellevue Academy at Langhorne, and finished as a private pupil of Joseph Fell, of Buckingham. At the age of seventeen years he taught school at Brownsburg, Upper Makefield township, and later at Lumberville, in Solebury, at the same time taking up the study of medicine. He attended lectures at the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia in the winters of 1852 and 1853, and graduated in March, 1854. He practiced medicine at Tullytown, Bucks county, for two years, and in April, 1856, removed to Leavenworth, Kansas, just in time to tecome involved in the noted "Border War." Returning to Bucks county in the fall of the same year, he located at Woodsville, Mercer county, New Jerse3% where he remained until 1870. In the meantime, however, (in 1862, he enlisted in the army as assistant surgeon of the Twenty-first New Jersey Volunteers, and was promoted to surgeon of the Twenty- second Regiment. His regiment during its ten months service took part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Freder- icksburg, and the doctor had ample op- portunity for the use of his skill as a surgeon. Returning to Woodsville, New Jersey he resumed his practice, which continued until 1870, when he removed to a plantation in Caroline county, Vir- ginia, where he remained until 1874. when he resumed the practice of his pro- fession at Eighth and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, removing in 1877 to his present location, where he has since practiced. In 1880 he was elected cor- oner of Philadelphia by 20,000 majority. He was for sixteen years surgeon of the Philadelphia Hospital, and for the last fourteen years has had charge of the "hospital of Girard College, and stands deservedly high in his profession. He is a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., and of the Loyal Legion, and in politics is a Republican. He married, in November, 185s, Sarah Ellen Beans, born April, 1835, daughter of Benjamin and Mary Beans, of Lower Makefield, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. They have been the parents of four children, two of whom, a son and daughter, died in in- fancy; those who survive are: Marianna, born November 2, 1873; and William, born February 18. 1876, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, both re- siding with their father. THE JAMES FAMILY. The James family of Bucks county is of Welsh orig- in, being descended from John James and Elizabeth, his wife, who with sons Thomas, William, Josiah, and Isaac, and daughters Sarah, Rebecca and Mary, migrated in the year 171 1 from the parish of Riddillyn, Pem- brokeshire, South Wales, and settled in Montgomery township, Philadelphia, (now Montgomery) county. They were Welsh Baptists, and the vanguard of the little colony of that denomination who eight years later organized them- selves into a church known as the Mont- gomery Baptist church, of which the James family were members for many years. New Britain and Hilltown Bap- tist churches were ofifshoots of this an- cient church. The James family con- tributed largely to the moral and finan- cial support of the New Britain church for many generations. Whether the family settled originally in Montgomery or in New Britain is problematical. According to Rev. Mor- gan Edwards, the great Baptist histor- ian, the Rev. Abel Morgan, pastor of Pennypack church, preached to the lit- tle colony at Montgomery prior to the organization of the church, at the house of John Evans, who arrived from Pem- brokeshire a year prior to the arrival of the James family, and the James fam- ily formed part of the assembly. At that period all the land on the Bucks county side of the line belonged to other than actual settlers, in large tracts, and it is more than probable that the James family were tenants on some of this land. In 1720 John James and his eldest son Thomas purchased one thousand acres in New Britain township, Bucks county, including a portion of the pres- ent borough of Chalfont, and extending eastward at least two miles, and north westerly at its western end nearly as far, being in the shape of the letter L. Be- tween that date and 1726, when they made a division of the land between them, they conveyed nearly one half of this tract to the other three brothers, William, Josiah and Isaac, and William and Thomas had purchased other tracts adjoining on the northeast until the fam- il}^ owned nearly if not quite 2,000 acres, extending from Chalfont far into what is now Doylestown township, and up across Pine Run and North Branch to the old highway leading through New Galena. Two of the brothers. Josiah and Isaac, do not seem to have left de- scendants in Bucks county, though both owned portions of the original 1,000 acre purchase. Josiah married. May 21, T724, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Ferry of Great Valley Baptist church, Chester county, and a year later she was received as a member of Montgomery church, but June 16. 1727, they received a dismissal to Great Valley and prob- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 6i ably settled in Chester county. Isaac James was a blacksmith, and resided in Montgomery township. He married, No- vember 26, 1729, Ann Jones. We have no further record of him other than his conveyance of his New Britain land about 1742. Josiah had received 235 acres of the 1,000 acre purchase in 1722, and conveyed it to his brother in 1725. Of the daughters of John and Elizabeth James, Sarah, .the eldest, as shown by the records of Montgomery church, s married Benjamin Phillips, March 2, ^f 1727, but in the will of her father twen- ty years later she is mentioned as Sarah Lewis. Rebecca, we learn from the same source, was married to a miner. Mary ' was single at her father's death in 1749, K^ ' and was requested to live with her brother Thomas. Elizabeth James died prior to her husband. Thomas James, eldest son of John and Elizabeth, was born in Wales about 1690, and died in New Britain in April, 1772. As previously stated, he was one of the original purchasers of the 1,000 acres of which he retained possibly 300 acres, and in 1731, purchased over 200 acres of the society lands of Joseph Kirkbride, most of which, however, he conveyed to his sons several years prior to his death. He married. May 15, 1722, Jane Davis, and she was baptized as a member of Montgomery church, No- vember 19, 1725. They had four sons and two daughters, Thomas, the eldest, lived and died on a portion of the old plantation in New Britain, but is said to have left no issue to survive him. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, married Benjamin Butler about 1746, and had one daughter, Ann, who married (first) Thomas Morris, and (second) Moses Aaron. Benjamin Butler died about 1750. James James, second son of Thomas and Jane, married Elizabeth Eaton in 1762. His father had conveyed to him in 1755, 167 acres, part of which is now the property of the estate of Eugene James, deceased, one-half mile west of New Britain, and here he lived until the close of the Revolution, when he ex- changed v/'th Peter Eaton for land in Rov.c.n ccuirty North Carolina, and re- moved thither taking with him three of the children of his brother John. John James, third son of Thomas and Jane, received by deed from his father in 1 761 a farm of two hundred acres, and lived thereon his entire life. He was a member of the New Britian Company of Associators in 1775, and a private in Captain Henry Darrah's company, when in service under Lieutenant Colonel (later General) John Lacey, November I, 1777. He died in March, 1779. John James was twice married, first on Au- gust 13, 1762, to Magdalena Keshlen, (or Keshler) a German woman, by whom he had two children; Margaret, born 1763, died March 3, 1821, married Morgan Jame,'-.. son of John, and grandson of William James; and Benjamin James, born 1765, removed to Bryant's Settle- ment, • Rowan county, North Carolina, with his uncle James James about 1785. John James married (second) June 14, 1766, Edith Eaton, a sister to his brother James' wife, and had by her two children Catharine and James. In his will dated February 10, 1779, proved March 10,. 1779, he directs that Catharine's share of his estate be left in the hands of her "Aunt Elizabeth James;" this was the wife of James James, with whom all three of the younger children removed to North Carolina. James, the young- est son, was devised 200 acres of land in Chestnut Hill township, Northamp- ton county. Samuel James, youngest son of Thom- as and Jane, received from his father a farm of about 150 acres just northeast of Chalfont, and died there in 1804. He married, April 8, 1765, Anna Keshlen, a sister to his brother John's first wife, and had five children; i. Samuel, who married Elizabeth Shewell, and removed to Maryland, where he died in 1847; 2. Levi, who married Rebecca Polk and was the father of Samuel P. and grand- father of Levi L. James, late a member of the bar, and father of Robert James, deceased, whose son Louis H. was also a lawyer, and Lydia, who married John G. Mann; 3. Elizabeth, married Isaac Oakford; 4. Margaret, married John Wolfe; and 5. Ann James. Levi married late in life Mary Polk, nee Good, who survived him many years. William James, son of the emigrant John James and Elizabeth his wife, from whom most of the family now residing in Bucks county are descended, was born in Pembrokeshire about 1692, and died in New Britain township, Bucks county, in 1778. He seems to have been the fa- vorite son. and was the largest land- owner of the family. In the year 1725 his father and brother Thomas con- veyed to him 206 acres of the 1,000 acre purchase, and in the same year he pur- chased of his brother Josiah his allot- ment of 235 acres of the same. In 1738 he purchased of John Kirkbride 207 acres of the society lands, part of which is still the property of his descendants. He also owned other tracts of land near Chalfont. which became the property of his sons-in-law. He conveyed practical- ly all of his land to his children in his life time — in 1749 to John the 206 acres, and to Isaac the 207 acres; and in 1758 to Abel the 235 acres. William James married in 1718. The name of his wife was Mary, but nothing more is known of her. She was baptized at Montgomery church in 1719 as "Mary, wife of Will- iam James." She died about 1765. Will- iam and Mary James had five children; ^2 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY John; Isaac; Margaret, wlio married Henry Lewis; Abel; and Rebecca, who married Simon Butler, Jr. John James, eldest son of William and Mary, born 1719, died 1785, was a car- penter and joiner by trade, but, since he retained possession of his farm and re- sided thereon his whole life, it is to be supposed his principal occupation was the tilling of the soil. He married, May 20, 1740, Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis ' Evans, and was the father of ten chil- ■dren, nine of whom grew to maturity, viz: I. Josiah, born 1741, died December II, 1816, married Elizabeth Evans. 2. AVilliam, born 1742, died May 10, 1828, married January 25, 1769, Rebecca Will- iams. 3. Isaac, born 1744, married Jemi- ma Mason, and removed to the state of Ohio. 4. Ebenezar, born 1746, died 1815, had no children. 5. Simon, born 1748, died 1814, married Elizabeth Hines. 6. Morgan, born April 27, 1752, died April 18, 1816, married Margaret James, daughter of John, as before stated. 7. Elizabeth, married John Callender. 8. Mary, married Nathan Evans. 9. Alice married Thomas Mathias. Of the above Josiah and Elizabeth were the great- grandparents of Robert E. James, Esq., of Easton, Pennsylvania, and the chil- dren of William and Rebecca all re- moved to the west. The only one who left descendants in Bucks of the name was Morgan, and Margaret. Morgan James, sixth son of John and Elizabeth James, was born on the old plantation in New Britain, April 27, 1752. At the breaking out of the Revo- lution he, with his brothers Josiah, Will- iam, Isaac, became members of the Asso- ciated Company of New Britain militia. Morgan was later a private in Captain Henry Darrah's company, and was in ac- tive service under General John Lacey. His brothers, Isaac, Ebenezer, Simon and William, were also in this company. Morgan James married, as before stated, Margaret James, daughter of John and Magdalene. Their children were: i. Ly- ■dia, who married Mathew Thomas. 2. Benjamin, born November 28, 1786, died May 24, 1865, married Elizabeth, daughter of Moses Aaron, and widow of James Poole, left no issue. 3. Naomi, iDorn February 26, 1793, died November 4, 1871, married Jacob Conrad. 4. Isa- iah, born August 27, 1798, died Septem- ber 23, 1886, married Caroline James, daughter of Abel James. Isaac James, second son of Williani and Mary James, born in New Britain about 1726, received from his father in 1749 a deed for over 200 acres of land upon which he lived his entire life. He was constable of New Britain township for many years. He died very suddenly in 1766. aged about fifty years. His wife, whom he married in 1751. was Sarah Thomas, daughter of John Thomas, who •came to New Britain from Wales in 1726 and died there in 1750. The chil- dren of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas') James were: i. Abiah, born 1745, died December i, 1834, married September 22, 1773, Rachel Williams. 2. John, born 1747- a soldier in the Revolution, mar- ried Dorothy Jones. 3. Abel, born 1749, died 1798, married Elizabeth Hines. 4. Nathan, born 1754, died 1845, married Sarah Dungan. 5. Samuel, born 1760, died 1848, married Elizabeth Cornell and removed to North Carolina in 1785. 6. Us- lega, born 1762, died 1844, married Jo- seph Morris. 7. William, born 1764, died 1854, removed to Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania. 8. Benjamin, born 1766, died 1854, married Ann Will- iams. Tracy, died young. Of these, Ab- iah, Abel, Nathan, and Benjamin have descendants residing in Doylestown.and will be noticed later in this sketch. Abel, the youngest son of William and. Mary James, born about 1729, died Sep- tember, 1770, at Dover, Delaware, was in some respects the most prominent of the family m his generation. He re- ceived a liberal education and was pos- sessed of ample means and early evinced a taste for mercantile pursuits. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Thomas Howell, of Warwick, in 1756, and entered into business in Philadelphia and Dover, Del- aware, and was for several years very successful. An unfortunate speculation ruined him. and the worry and strain of his financial difficulties brought on a fever from which he died while at Dover. _/;^ His plantation of 235 acres in New Brit- - ain had been heavily mortgaged to tide him over a financial speculation and was sold. He left five sons and four daugh- ters, viz: I. Daniel, the eldest son, was a clerk for his father at Dover at the time of the failure; after his father's death r he secured a position as clerk at Dur- ham Iron Works, then operated by Jo- seph Galloway. At the closing of the furnace in 1776 he returned to Delaware and joined Proctor's Delaware regiment as a lieutenant, was promoted to cap- tain, and served throughout the war. 2. William, the second son, was also a sold- "^' ier in the Revolution, first enlisting in Captain Edward Jones' company recruit- ed in Hilltown, and later serving in Cap- tain John Spear's company in the Elev- enth Pennsylvania Regiment. 3. Mar- .^ garet, married William Kerr, of War- »* wnck. 4. John James was a noted mill- ,J* wright, and lived and died in Lower ^ Dublin township, Philadelphia county."^ 5. Mary, married Abel Thomas of Hill- town; they removed first to Harford county, Maryland, and later to Rock- bridge county, Virginia. 6. Martha, married Asa Thomas, brother of Abel.* Abel H., youngest child of ."Vbel and Mary (Howell) James, was born Jan- *Catharine, another dauehter. married Mr. Hilt, an iron master, having iron works in the extreme western end of Virginia. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 63 nary i, 1771, a few months after his father's death. VV'hen quite a youth he went with his brother-in-law, Abel Thomas, to Maryland, and a few years later to Virginia, near the Natural Bridge, where he engaged in the trans- portation of produce down the James river. The boats were built at Lexing- ton, and on reaching tidewater were sold as well as the cargo, and a new one built for the next trip. He returned to Bucks county in 1803 to marry Cath- arine Owen, daughter of Griffith Owen, Esq., of Hilltown, intending to return with her to Virginia. He was, how- ever, persuaded to remain in Bucks county, and in 1804 he opened a store at what is now Hagersville, on the Beth- lehem road, above Dublin, which he conducted a few years when he opened a store at Lewis' Tavern, in Hilltown. A few years later he purchased the store property at Leidytown and remained there one year, when he purchased the tavern and store known as Lewis', at what is now Hilltown postoffice and re- mained there until his death, June 11, 1838. His wife died August 12, 1810. and he married (second) Gainor Mathias, a widow. His children were: Caroline, born September 2, 1804, died Septem- ber 5, 1888, married Colonel Isaiah James, before mentioned; Mary, born March 6, 1806. died young. Owen, born 1807. died young. John Owen James, the great Philadelphia merchant, born March 8, 1809, died June 26. 1883. Cathar- ine Owen, who married Abel H. James, •was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, June 17, 1781. She was the eld- est daughter of Griffith Owen, Esq., and his wife Jane Hughes. Griffith Owen, the grandfather of the ■Griffith mentioned above, was a native of Wales and came to America in 1721, settling in Hilltown. He was received into Montgomery Baptist church, and on June 30, 1731, married Margaret, daugh- ter of Thomas Morgan, who it is said accompanied him from Wales to Bucks county. Griffith Owen, Sr.. was one of the most prominent men of Hilltown. He was captain of the Hilltown company of Associators in 1747-8, raised for the de- fence of the frontiers and was a member -of colonial assembly from 1749 to 1760. He died October 18. 1764. He had three sons, Owen, Ebenezer and Levi; and •one daughter, Rachel Erwin. His eld- est son, Owen Owen, married Cathar- ine Jones about T756, and had eigJit chil- dren: Abel, Elizabeth, Griffith, Edward. Owen. Margaret. Sarah and Mary. Grif- fith, the second son. was born Febru- ary 0. 1758. He was one of the trustees of Hilltown Baptist church, and a very prominent man in the community. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in t8oi. and served in that office until prevented by the infirmities of age from ■discharging its duties. He died Feb- ruary 5, 1840. His wife, Jane, was the daughter of Christopher Hughes, of Bedminster and was born September i, 1759. died January 9, 1841. Isaiah James was a very prominent man in local and county affairs, a mem- ber of New Britain Church, he always took an active part in all its affairs and was a consistent member thereof. After his marriage he lived for a number of years in Hilltown township. In 1849 he purchased the New Britain farm, now owned by the estate of his son, Eugene, and made his home thereon for several years, conveying it to Eugene in 1870. Like all the family he was an ardent Democrat in politics and always took an active part in his party's councils. He was a member of the Assembly, 1834- 1838, and Prothonotary of Bucks county 1848-1851, The children of Isaiah and Caroline James were Abel H., born April 16, 1825, died September 20, 1850. He was a man of more than ordinary culture and fine ability. He served as Deputy Prothonotary during his fath- er's incumbency of that office up to the time of his death. Isabella, born August 9, 1828, married Dr. Thomas P. Kep- hard; she is now residing in Doyles- town with her daughter Florence. Eu- gene, born March 31, 1831, died August 22, 1896, married Martha J., daughter of Abiah J. and Miranda (James) Riale. Isaiah James, the father, was for many years a Colonel of militia, and was al- most universally known as Col. James. Abiah James, eldest son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, born in 1745, died December i, 1834. He accepted the 222 acre farm of his father, under pro- ceedings in partition in 1789, but soon after' conveyed a portion thereof to his brothers. He married September 22, 1773, Rachel Williams, and had six chil- dren, viz: I. Margaret, married Joshua Riale and had. Abiah J., who married Miranda, daughter of Joseph and Mar- tha (Mann) James; Rachel who married Joseph Evana; Elizabeth, who married Josiah Lunn, Ann, and Sarah who mar- ried David Stephens. 2. Col. Nathan James, a soldier in the U. S. army who served through the war of 1812. 3. Eliza- beth who married William Hines, and had children. Nathan. Dr. A. J., deceased, late of Doylestown, Elizabeth and Emily. 4. Abiah, married Pamela Jones. 5. Martha, died unmarried, and Benjamin W., who married Elizabeth Black, daugh- ter of Elias and Cynthia (James) Black. Abel James, second son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1749, died 1798. married Elizabeth Barton, and had four children. Barton, who removed to Baltimore. Maryland. James, who re- moved to Ohio. John, who died unmar- ried and Cynthia, who married Elias Black, the latter being the parents of Elizabeth, who married Benjamin W. James. Benjamin W. and Elizabeth 64 HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. had one son, Abiah R., who married Josephine Leavitt and is now livin<,' in Doylestown township. A sketch ot their only son Wj'nne James, Esq., will follow. Nathan James, third son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1754, died 1845, niarried Sarah Dungan, and had four children, i. John D., for many years Court Crier, married Sarah Cline, and had Elizabeth who married Ashcr Cox, Nathan C, a life long member of the Bucks County bar, Sarah, who mar- ried Jacob Shade, and Henrietta. 2. Ann, or Nancy, married Jesse Callender. 3. Joseph, married, Martha Mann, and had Miranda, who married Abiah J. Riale, Wilhelmina, Charles, Joseph, Louisa, and Susan. 4. Simon, married Mary Meredith. Benjamin youngest son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1766, died 1854, was a farmer and resided in New Britain township. He married Ann or Nancy Williams, daughter of Benjamin Williams. She died in 1838. Their chil- dren were: i. Uslega, married Edward Roberts; 2. Isaac W., married Ann Mere- dith; 3. Abiah, married Charlotte Aa- ron; 4. Thomas C. never married; 5. Elizabeth M., died unmarried; 6. Sarah Maria, married (first) Hervey Mathias, (second) John G. Mann; 7. Abel, died unmarried; 8. Silas H. died immarried; 9. Oliver P., M. D., and two daughters who died 3'oung. HOWARD I. JAMES, Esq., of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, senior member of the firm of Gilkeson & James, is the sec- ond son of Eugene and Martha A. (Riale) James, of Doylestown township, whose an- cestry is given on other pages of this work, and was born on his father's farm in Doyles- town township. He was educated at the public schools and Doylestown Seminary, and read law with his brother, Henry A. James, Esq., and was admitted to the Bucks county bar May 9, 1892. He' opened an office at Bristol, Bucks county, and began the practice of his profession, forming a partnershipwith his brother Henry A., who had an office at Doylestown. In 1898 he formed a co-partnership with Hon. B. t. Gilkeson, of Bristol, under the firm name of Gilkeson & James. This firm was for many years the leading one at the local bar, and did an immense amount of legal business, the routine work of which de- volved largely upon Mr. James. At the death of Mr. Gilkeson, in 1904, Mr. James continued the business for the family, and on the admission of B. F. Gilkeson, Jr., to the bar about a year later, he became a member of the firm, the old firm name of Gilkeson & James being continued. Mr. James has been a successful practitioner, and is one of the leaders among the younger members of the bar, and highly respected by his fellow attorneys. WYNNE JAMES, lawyer and real es- tate agent, Doylestown, was born No- vember 2, 1865, in Doylestown town- ship, on a part of the plantation that had been in the tenure of his direct an- cestors for over a century, and where his father, grandfather and great-grand- father were born. He comes of the good old James stock. His great-great-grand- father Abel James, through his matern- al grandmother, was second lieutenant of Captain William Pugh's company, Fourth Battalion of Pennsylvania militia,^ and saw active service in 1777 under Lieutenant Colonel William Roberts. Several other members of the family were also in the service, among them John James and Isaac James, who served under Captain Henr}' Darrah, in the bat- talion of Lieutenant Colonel (afterward General) John Lacey, the former being a brother to Abiah James, the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Abiah James was also a mem- ber of the militia. Abiah R. James, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, as before stated, was born on the old homestead in Doyles- town township, formerly New Britain, being the son of Benjamin W. James and Elizabeth Black, the former being a son of Abiah James and Rachel Will- iams, and the latter a granddaughter of Abel James and .Elizabeth Barton. Abiah R. was educated in a school established on the home farm by his father, and where many prominent men were edu- cated under the tuition of Professor Clark, a graduate of Yale College, and an eminent educator. Arriving at man- hood he married Josephine Levitt, of Memphis, Tennessee, whose family had sought refuge in the north during the trying scenes of the civil war in their native state. At the death of his father he inherited the farm that had descend- ed from father to son for six generations, and still owns it. Failing health in- duced him to leave the farm and he and his wife live retired in Doylestown town- ship. He is a trustee of New Britain Baptist church, of which his ancestors have been members since its organiza- tion. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never sought nor held office. The subject of this sketch is the only child. Wynne James was educated at the public schools of his native township and at Doylestown English and Classical Seminary, where he graduated in 1885. He tangh't school in Doylestown town- ship for one year, in Southampton for three years, and again in Doylestown township for one year. In 1891 he en- tered as a student at law in the office of Nathan C. James, Esq., at Doylestown, and was admitted to the bar in March, 1893, since which time he has practiced law and conducted an extensive real estate business, his practice being mainly in the orphans' court and in connection HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. with real estate titles and conveyancing. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M.; Doylestown Chap- ter, R. A. M.; and Philadelphia Con- sistory; Doylestown Lodge, No. 94, L O. O. F. ; the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He was married in 1895 to Madeline Mai Gen- try, of Memphis. Tennessee, and has two children, Madeline A., and Wynne, Junior. HENRY A. JAMES, attorney and counselor at law, Doylestown, son of Eugene and Martha A. (Riale) James, was born in Doylestown borough, Octo- ber 22, 1865. Through the various in- termarriages of his ancestors, as shown by the preceding sketch of the James family, Mr. James is a descendant of two of the sons of the emigrant John James, viz: William and Thomas, and a lineal descendant of three of the sons of the former. Eugene James, the father of Henry A. James, was the son of Col. Isaiah and Caroline James, and was born at War- rington, Bucks county, where his father was at the time conducting a store, March 31, 1831. Most of his boyhood days were spent in Hilltown, where his father was engaged in the mercan- tile business. In 1849 his father pur- chased the old James plantation in New Britain, and Eugene, at the age of eigh- teen years, became its principal farmer, his father at the time being prothono- tary of the county. He remained on the farm until his marriage in 1864 to Maria A. Riale, daughter of Abiah James and Miranda (James) Riale, when he settled in Doylestown. His father-in-law, Abi- ah J. Riale, dying at about this time, Eugene purchased his interest in the mercantile firm of Bell & Riale, who conducted a store where George W. Met- lar, is now located, and became a mem- ber of the firm. He continued in the store business until the spring of 1870, when he purchased his father's New Britain farm and lived there until his death, August 22, 1896. He was an ac- ti'^e and prominent man in the commim- ity, and won the esteem of all who knew him. He held man}' positions of trust; was one of the directors of the Doyles- town National Bank, from January, 1884, until his death: president for many years of the Whitehall Fire Insurance Company; a director of the Whitehall Turnpike Company, and one of the man- agers of the Doylestown Agricultural and Mechanics Institute. Eugene and Martha A. (Riale) James were the par- ents of three children — Henry A.; How- ard I., a prominent member of the Bucks county bar; and Gertrude Miran- da, wife of Rev. Purdy Moyer. Henry .\. James was reared from the age of five years on the New Brit- 5-3 ain farm, and received his early educa- tion at the public schools. He later at- tended the Doylestown English and Classical Seminary, from which he grad- uated in 1884. In the following year he registered as a student at law in the office of J. M. Shellenberger, Esq., at Doylestown, and was admitted to the bar of Bucks county, January 30, 1888. For two years he remained in the office of his preceptor, and then opened an office for himself, and has since prac- ticed his chosen profession in all its branches, and has met with success. In politics he is a Democrat, and has taken an active interest in the councils of his party, frequently representing his home district in state, congressional and dis- trict conventions. He has been a mem- ber of the Doylestown school board for several years. He is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Bucks County Historical Society. He is one of the directors and counsel for the Whitehall Fire Insurance Com- pany, vice-president of the Fellowship Horse Company, president of the Doy- lestown Fire Company, and one of the board of censors and examiners of the Bucks County Bar Association. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., and Aquetong Lodge, No. 193. I. O. O. F. He married, April 30, 1902, Miriam Watson, daughter of ex-Judge Richard and Isabella T. (McCoy) Watson, of Doylestown. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. James are members of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, of Doylestown, of which Mr. James has been a vestryman and accounting war- den for a nuinber of years. IRVIN MEGARGEE JAMES, of Doylestown, was born in that town, No- vember 25, i860, and is a son of the late Nathan C. and Maria (Megargee) James, the former of whom was for many years a prominent rnember of the Bucks County bar, and died August 10, 1900. Nathan James, the great-grandfather of Irvin IM., as shown bj' a preceding sketch, was a son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, and a great-grandson of John James, the emigrant ancestor of the family. He Avas an officer of militia during the revolutionary war, having been commissioned first lieuten- ant on ]May 6, 1777, of the Eighth Com- pan}\ Captain John Thomas, Second Battalion, Colonel Arthur Erwin, Bucks County Militia, and was promoted May May 10, 1780, to captain of the Seventh Company. Fourth Battalion. Colonel Mc- Elroy. Captain Thomas' company was in active service in August. 1777. Cap- tain James married Sarah Dungan, daughter of John Dungan, of New Brit- 66 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ain, and had l\jur cliildrcn. viz: Jdlm D.; Nancy, wife of Jesse Callender; Jo- seph, and Simon, John Dungan James, son of Captain Nathan and Sarali ( Dnn- gan) James was the grandfather of Ir- vin James. He was an officer in the war of 1812-14, m the company of his consin. Captain Nathan James, as was also his brother Simon. John D. was crier of the courts of Bucks county for fort)' years. He married Sarah Cline. and had seven children; Elizabeth; Nathan C, above mentioned; Sarah, Silas. Hen- rietta, Mary Ann, and Elizabeth. Irvin Megargee James was born and reared in Doylestown. and was educated at the Doylestown Seminary and the Cheltenham Academy at Ogontz. Penn- sylvania. In 1879 he accepted a position as clerk in the wholesale dry goods es- tablishment of William B. Kempton & Co., of Philadelphia, where he remained for two years. The next three years he held a similar position with Riegel, Scott & Co., in Philadelphia. On July 5, 1885, he was appointed a clerk in the United States pension office at Phila- delphia, which position he filled accept- ably for five years, four under General W. W. H. Davis, and one year under his Republican successor. Pension Agent Shelmire. In 1890 he entered the employ of the Philadelphia "& Reading Railroad Company, where he remained for one year, when he accepted a re- sponsible position in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, where he remained until April, 1903. He now follows a general insurance and real es- tate business at Doylestown. Mr. James has been a member of the Doylestown school board for the past four years, and is now the secretary of the board: he is also clerk of the town council. He married, November 27. 1889. Elizabeth C. Firman, daughter of the late Samuel A. and Hannah (Doan) Firman. Their only surviving diild is Marie Megargee. born July 5. 1893. Mr. and Mrs. James are members of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church of Doylestown, of which Mr. James has been a vestryman for a number of years. DR. OLIVER P. JAMES, late of Doylestown, deceased, was the young- est son of Benjamin and Nancy (Will- iams) James, and was born in New Brit- ain township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1815-. He was a descendant in the fifth generation from John and Eliza- beth James; who emigrated from Pem- brokeshire. Wales, in 1711, as shown by the preceding sketch. On the maternal side he is said to be a descendant of the Roger Williams family of Rhode Isl- and. Dr. James was reared upon the New Britain farm, on Pine Run, and received his education at the schools of the neighborhood. At the age of nineteen, believing that a mechanical trade was his sphere in life, he took up that of a carpenter. He did not bind himself as an apprentice, as was the custom in those days, but. after assisting in build- ing a house erected for his father in 1834, lie went to Philadelphia and worked at the trade for two years. Be- coming convinced by that time that he had mistaken his calling, he abandoned the saw and plane, and in 1837 entered himself as a student of medicine in the office of his cousin. Dr. Robert E. James, of Upper Mount Bethel. Northampton county. Pennsylvania, father of Robert E. James, Esq., of Easton, and read the allotted time with the Doctor, and during the winter season attended lec- tures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he graduated in March, 1840. During his studies it de- veloped that he possessed a peculiar aptitude for his chosen profession. Dur- ing the year succeeding his graduation his cousin and preceptor, Dr. Robert E. James, was serving a term in the state legislature and the young doctor took charge of his practice in his absence. Fie opened an office in New Britain, where he soon built up a large practice. In the first or second year of his prac- tice he was appointed physician at the Bucks County Almshouse, a position he retained for seventeen years. This po- sition attracted attention to the rising voung physician, and assisted in secur- ing him a large practice that soon ex- tended into the far surrounding sec- tions. He continued his residence in New Britain until 1859, when he re- moved to Doylestown. purchasing the present Ginsley property, on Main street, the former residence of General Sam- uel A. Smith. Soon after the war he purchased the handsome residence on North Main street, where he spent the- reniainder of his life, and where his widow and dai ghter still reside. Dr. James became very prominent in the practice of his profession. Prior to his retirement from active practice, a few years btfore his death, he was one oi the most prominent physicians of the county, and enjoyed an extensive and lucrative practice. He was always close- ly identified with the interests of his town and county, and in his prime his high ability, courtly manners and kind- ly nature commanded the highest re- spect and gave him a wide infiuence among men. , In politics he was a Democrat, and from early manhood he took an active mterest in politics. In 1864 he was elected to the state senate over his old neighbor. William Godshalk. by a ma- jority of 989 votes. In 1878 he was the candidate of his party for congress from the Seventh District, and. though he rah HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 67 far ahead of his ticket in many of the precincts, was defeated by his old op- ponent, William Godshalk. In local so- cieties and institutions Dr. James took a deep interest. He was a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M., and its treasurer for many years, hold- ing that position at the time of his death. He was president of the Doyles- town borough council for several terms. He was treasurer of the Doylestown Ag- ricultural and Mechanics' Institute from its organization in 1866 to its dissolu- tion in 1892. He was for twenty years a director of the Doylestown National Bank, and was a member of the board of directors of the Doylestown and Wil- low Grove Turnpike Company, and treas- urer of the company for many years. Dr. Jai-'.es died at his residence in Doylestown on the evening of Novem- ber 19, 1894. He had been in failing Tiealth for some time, being confined to the house for upwards of a month. The cause of his death was valvular disease of the heart. Dr. James was married in 1859, to Sa- rah A. Gordon, of Montgomery county, who survives him. Their only son, Oli- ver B., died when a young man. several years ago. Two daughters survive: Martha A., wife of Rev. George H. Lorah, D. D., of Philadelphia; and Sarah M., residing in Doylestown. THOMAS A. JAMES, of Doyles- town, son of Louis H. James, is de- scended from Thomas James, eldest son of John and Elizabeth, who accompanied his father from Wales in 1710 and joined him m the purchase of the one thousand acres of land in New Britain in 1720. He married Jane Davis, May 15, 1722, and lived all his life on the old farm plantation, and died there in 1772, leav- ing Thomas; Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Butler, and second, Moses Aaron; James, John and Samuel. Samuel James, born 1730, succeeded to one hundred and fifty acres of the homestead, and married Anna Kach- line, died in 1804, leaving three children: Samuel, Levi and Elizabeth, who mar- ried Isaac Oakford. Levi married Rebecca Polk, of an old Scotch-Irish family of Warwick, whose pioneer ancestor, Samuel Polk, came from Ireland, in 1725, and after her death married Mary Good. His children by the first wife were: Robert, Samuel, Elizabeth. Lydia Ann, and Isabella. He was a prominent man in the community. He died in 1857. Robert, the son, married Ann Bayard, a relative of the distinguished Delaware family of that name. He was almost a giant in stature, modest, unassuming, intelligent, a man of unquestioned integ- rity. He participated actively in the af- fairs of the county, both politically and socially. He was elected to the legisla- ture at the same election in which Fran- cis R. Shunk was made governor, and while at Harrisburg a warm friendship was cemented between the two men. He died in his eighty-eighth year, and was survived by his wife and five children: Louis H., Nancy C., Frank, Emma C. and Louise. Louis H. married Mary E. Laughlin, of Philadelphia, studied law in the of- fice of George Lear, and as a lawyer had a large clientage throughout the county. Like his father, he took a very active part in politics, and was one of the leaders of his parity. He died in the latter part of 1900, and was survived by his wife and six children: Robert C., Helen, Thomas A., Carrie Y., Margaret C, and Mary E. THE PARRY FAMILY OF NEW HOPE, PENNSYLVANIA. ("CORY- ELL'S FERRY" OF THE REVOLU- TION.) The Parrys herein mentioned are de- scended from an ancient and honorable family, long resident in Caernarvon- shire, Wales.- THOMAS PARRY, the founder of the family in Pennsylvania, was born in Caernarvonshire, North Wales. A. D., 1680, and came to America towards the close of the seventeentU century, settling in that part of Phila- delphia county — long afterwards set aside as Montgomery county, and still so called. In 1715 he married Jane Mor- ris, by whom he had issue ten children, all born between the years 1716 and 1739 inclusive. Eight of these were sons, and two daughters, named Mary and Mar- tha. The eldest son Thomas having been born July 26, 1716. the third child, John, (ancestor of this branch) July 25, 1721, and Martha, the youngest, March 3, 1739- THOMAS PARRY, THE ELDER, born 1680, was a considerable landholder and is recorded as having been owner of over one thousand acres of land in Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, to a part of which his son John, Parry, of Moorland Manor, subsequently succeeded. Of the above thousand acres, Thomas Parry conveyed 200 acres to John Van Bus- kirk, September 2, 1725;. and 300 acres he conveyed to David Maltby, December 29, 1726. Thomas Parry was a man of most excellent good sense, and judg- ment, and he and his neighbor and ac- cmaintance. Sir William Keith. of Graeme Park. Governor of Pennsylvania under the Penns. consulted together about their internal local affairs, such as roads, etc., and certainly the roads were bad enough in their day, as Indian trails and bridle paths were frequently the best 68 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. that they had before. It is only since comparatively late years that there were turnpikes from Willow Grove, in Mont- gomery county to either Doylestown or New Hope, in Bucks county. The de- scendants of Thomas and Jane Morris Parry are to be found at the present day not only in Pennsylvania, but in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, New Jersey, and Virginia. By intermarriage the Parrys have become allied with some of the oldest colonial families in the United States, such as Tyson, Randolph, Pax- son, Morris, Waldron, Gerrish, Winslow, and others of note. A paper, stamed yellow with age, found recently among some old family papers recites quaintly that "Thomas Parrj' dyed ye 30th day of ye seventh month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and Forty Eight." (7 mo. 30, 1748). His widow, Jane Parry, survived him many years, dying September 6, 1777, aged eighty-two years. Both Davis "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania" 1876, and "Munsell's American Ancestry" Vol. 7, page 21, note the coming to America of this Thomas Parry. JOHN PARRY, of "Moorland Manor," so styled to distinguish him from an- other John of the same name, the third child of Thomas Parry, born 1680, and Jane Parry, his wife, was born July 25, 1721, married September 21, 1751, Mar- garet Tyson, daughter of Derick and Ann Tyson, and granddaughter of Re- nier (sometimes spelled Reynear) Ty- son, who, with Daniel Pastorius, the three brothers UpdegrafF, Jan Lukens, and others, came to America in 1683, from Crefeld in Germany, and were the original settlers of Germantown, Penn- sylvania. Renier Tyson was twice chief burgess of Germantown; he in early days, removed to Montgomery countjs then a part of Philadelphia county, ac- quired a large estate, and became ances- tor of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Tysons. John Parry and Margaret Ty- son Parry, his wife, had seven children: Thomas, John, Benjamin, Phebe, Stephen, David and Daniel, the eldest born August 20. 1752, and the youngest April 21, 1774. John Parry lived on the back road, near the present "Heaton station" of the North-East Pennsylvania Railroad, the road running into the old York Road at about this point. This estate was derived from his father, Thomas Parry and his house, a large double stone mansion, still stands, but has since that time been altered by car- rying the attic up square, making it now (1905) a double three-story structure, but losing in its colonial style, which was originally not unlike the "Old Parry Mansion" at New Hope, Pennsylvania, built in T784. John Parry was an elder in the Society of Friends, had many city acquaintances and, being a man of means and much given to hospitality, enter- tained largely in this ancient home in his day; it passed out of the ownership of the family, however a number of years ago. Several of John Parry's books containing his autograph and dated and an oaken and iron-bound wine chest once owned by him containing a num- ber of very thin bottles bearing curious cut devices and most of them unbroken, with the wine glasses and two small glass funnels, each dotted with cut stars gilt are still in existence and much val- ued by their owner, a great-grandson, re- siding at New Hope. Pennsylvania. .A stout gold-headed walking stick or cane of this John Parry's and engraved with his name and date, A. D., 1751, was also in the possession of his great-grandson. Judge William Parry, now deceased, and doubtless is still preserved in that branch of the family. John Parry, of Moorland Manor died November 10, 1789, his wife, Margaret Tyson Parry, surviving him for eighteen years and dying November 24, 1807. BENJAMIN PARRY, a prominent and influential citizen of Bucks county. Pennsylvania, during the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nine- teenth centuries, was the third child of John Parry, of "Moorland Manor" and Margaret Tyson, his wife, and was born March i. 1757, and married November 4> 1787, Jane Paxson, daughter of Oliver Paxson the elder, of "Maple Grove," Coryell's Ferry (now New Hope) Penn- sylvania, by whom he had issue, four children as follows: 1. Oliver, born December 20, 1794 (and noted later on) died February 20, 1874, in eightieth year. 2. Ruth, born January 4, 1797 and died October 28, 1885 in ninetieth year, un- married. 3. Jane, born August 27, 1799, and died September 28, 1879, in eighty-first year, unmarried. 4. Margaret, born December 7, 1804, and married C. B. Knowles, and had no issue. Died July 26, 1880, aged seventy- six years. Benjamin Parry is mentioned at con- siderable length in General Davis' "His- tory of Bucks County. Pennsylvania," 1876, in Hotchkin's "York Road, Old and New," Philadelphia. 1892, and in divers other published works. Under the chapter upon New Hope. General Davis in the historical pages of this work gives some account of Benjamin Parry and the old Parry Mansion, which is minecessary to repeat here. Benjamin Parrj^ was the original pro- moter of the New Hope Delaware Bridge Company and in 1810. first agitated the subject, with his friend, the Hon. Sam- uel D. Ingham of Solebury. secretary of the United States Treasury, under Pres- ident Jackson. At that early day, real- • -s • x-«^--.x->^" T 'cmt^^ Bom Marc'h I f TlLD£N -U HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 69 izing the great importance of bridging the Delaware River at New Hope, these two men never rested until it was ac- complishd, in 1813-1814. Benjamin Parry headed the subscription list and Mr. Ing- ham signed, as second subscriber. The first public meeting towards organization was held September 25, 181 1, at the Tav- ern of Garret Meldrum in New Hope at which vigorous action was taken towards securing the building of the bridge. Ben- jamin Parry and Mr. Ingham were the commissioners, to superintend its con- struction as noted in the very interesting paper of the Reverend D. K. Turner, upon "Our Bucks County Congressmen" read before the Bucks County Historical Society, January 22, 1895. It was neces- sary to obtain charters from both the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and charters were granted in both states in 1812 — about fifteen months after the first eventful meeting at "Meldrum's Tavern." The charters gave the bridge company banking privileges and acting imder the same, and the written opinion of their counsel, the Hon. George M. Dallas, once vice-president of the United States, a banking business was conducted and bank bills were issued, for many years and became largely the currency of the country,. both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The first president of the New Hope Delaware Bridge Company was the Hon. Samuel D. Ingham and Benjamin Parry was a member of the First Board of Managers in 181 1. It may perhaps be of some interest to note that in 1905, ninety-four years later, the family are still closely connected with this ancient corporation and one of its members (a grandson of Benjamin Parry) has been for a number of years president of the company. Daniel Parry, born April 21, 1774, a younger brothet of Benjamin, was its treasurer in 1814. The present treasurer is John S. Will- iams. From 1784 to about 1815 "Cory- ell's Ferry," (now New Hope) was ad- mittedly the most active and thriving town in Bucks county and the means, liand and influence of Benjamin Parry, were those which mainly guided the helm; so much so was this that in earl> times he was known and styled "the Father of Coryell's Ferry." Besides his linseed oil mills, flour and saw mills in Pennsylvania, Benjamin Parry was owner of flour mills in Amwell town- ship. New Jersey, on the opposite side of the river from New Hope and was inter- ested with his relatives, Timothy Pax- son (one of the executors of the rich. Stephen Girard) in the flour commission business in Philadelphia. A letter from the late Martin Coryell of Lambertville, New Jersey, states as follows, "Benjamin Parry had a very large and profitable trade, for the product of his flour mills ■with the West Indies and other tropical countries, having in A. D., 1810, invented a process by which malt, flour, corn meal, etc., would resist the heat and moisture of voyages through tropical climates and remain sweet and whole- some" and "that the amount of produc- tion was the only limit for the demand in foreign ports." This patent from the United States to Benjamin Parry is dated July 10, 1810; and is recorded in both Washington and Philadelphia; the rec- ord in Philadelphia being in Book 25 "L. W." of Miscellaneous Records, page 67, etc., Recorder of Deeds Office. It was long known as the "Kiln Drymg Process" and was not superceded by any different method for a period of nearly seventy-five years. Some of the business affairs of Benjamin Parry were conducted under the firm name of Ben- jamin Parry & Co., and others as Parry & Cresson. Some time between 1791 and 1794. the name of "Coryell's Ferry" was changed and it became known as New Hope and a private map of the settle- ment, made for Benjamin Parry, bears the name of New Hope and is dated, in printed letters A. D.. 1798. Mr. Parry died as before stated, November 22, 1839, in his eighty-third year at "The Old Parry INIansion,"* New Hope, and he is buried with so many others of his name and race, in the family lot at Solebury Friends' burying ground, Bucks county. OLIVER PARRY, GENTLEMAN, of Philadelphia and Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, only son of Benjamin Parry, born 1757, was born at "The Old Parry Mansion," Coryell's Ferry, now New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 20, 1794, and married May I, 1827, Rachel Randolph, daughter of Cap- tain Edward F. Randolph, a patriot of 1776, who had served in many of the principal battles of the Revolutionary war and who became an eminent citizen of Philadelphia. His portrait in oil, painted by Robert Street, hangs upon the walls of the "Historical Society of Penn- sylvania." at Philadelphia. Oliver and Rachel Randolph Parry had twelve chil- dren, four sons and eight daughters, all born between March 24, 1828, and Au- gust 17, 1848. Of the sons. Oliver Paxson Parry, born June 20, 1846, died in 1852, aged 6 years, and the others will be noted later. Oliver Parry, the elder, born 1794, was a large landholder and his name appears upon the records of Philadel- phia county oftener perhaps, than that of any other person of his day. A part of his property was a large tract of the once famous "Bush Hill Estate" long the residence of Governor Andrew Ham- ilton, in colonial days. This property Mr. Parry owned jointly with his *An account and description of "The Old Parry Mansion" follows this narrative. ■o HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. nephew Nathaniel Randoljth. In Wat- son's "Annals of l'hilaclcii)hia, " nuich mention is made of "The Bush Hill Ins- tate." Rachel Randolph Parry, the wife of Oliver Parry, died at "The Old Parry iVIansion," New Hope, September g, iS66, his own death occurring February 20, 1874, at his city residence, 1721 Arch street, Philadelphia, and both are buried in the family lot at Solcbury Friends" burying ground, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. The close of an obituary notice of Oliver Parry in a Philadelphia newspaper of the day, thus pays tribute to his high character, and standing: "Born a member of the Society of Friends, he lived and died in that faith, walking through life with a singleness and direct honesty of purpose which made the name of Oliver Parry synony- mous with truth and honor." (E.dward, Richard, George and Oliver, the four sons of Oliver, are noted below.) MAJOR EDWARD RANDOLPH PARRY, U. S. army, born July 27, 1832. eldest son of Oliver Parry (born 1794) was a brave and gallant officer, who served from the beginning to the end of the Civil war of 1861. The following no- tice of him, appeared in many of the newspapers, after his death, which event occurred at "The Old Parry Mansion" April 13, 1874: Major Edward Randolph Parry, late of the United States army, died at his residence. New Hope, in this county, on the 13th of April, 1874, and was buried on the i6th, at Friends' Solebury burying ground. He was a son of the late Oliver Parry of Philadelphia, and was born at New Hope, July 27, 1832. In May, 1861, he entered the army as first lieutenant in the nth United' States Infantry, and served throughout the war, with great credit. In 1864 he was made captain in the nth; afterwards transferred to the 20th, and on reorganization of the army was promoted to a majorality for j^allant service. He was in the terrible fighting along the line of the Weldon railroad, and before Petersburg, Virginia, com- manding his regiment in several actions. In 1865 he was assistant general of the regular brigade. Army of Potomac, and served upon the stalT of General Win- throp when he was killed. At Lee's sur- render he was attached to army head- quarters. In 1868 Major Parry com- manded Forts Philip and Jackson, at mouth of Mississippi river, and Fort Ripley in Minnesota in 1869. He re- signed on account of ill health in 1871. Major Parrj' was the grandson of Major Edward Randolph, who served from the beginning to the end of the Revolution- ary war. A portrait of Major Parry hangs upon the walls of the "Bucks Comity Histori- cal Society" at Doylestovvn, Pennsyl- vania. Major E. R. Parry married De- cember 17, 1863, at ]^>oston, Massachu- setts, Frances, daughter of General Jus- tin Dimick, U. S. A., and had three chil- dren. She, with one child, an unmarried daughter (named Katharine) survives him. The other two children, daughters, died in childhood RICHARD RANDOLPH PARRY, GENTLEMAN, of New Hope, Pennsyl- vania, second son of Oliver and Rachel (Randolph) Parry, was born in Phila- delphia, December 5, 1835, and married October 11, 1866, in Saint Luke's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Portland. Maine, Miss Ellen L. Read, of Portland, and they have issue, three children, as follows : 1. Gertrude R. Parry, unmarried. 2. Adelaide R. Parry, unmarried. 3. Oliver Randolph Parry, born March 29, 1873, married on October 15, 1898, in New York city, Miss Lida M. Kreamer and has one child, Margaret (born May 3, 1901,) at "The Old Parry Mansion." R. R. Parry was educated at private schools in Philadelphia and at Haver- ford College, Pennsylvania. From 1856 to 1862, he resided at Mankato, Minne- sota, where he was engaged in the bank- ing business. In "Neill's History of the Minnesota Valley" page 549, published in Minneapolis, 1882, and in "Mankato, iLs First 50 Years" published at Mankato 1903, Mr. Parry is described as one of the early pioneers of the valley. In 1862 he returned to Pennsylvania to live_. He is a member of the "Bucks County His- torical Society" and a life member of "The Historical Society of Pennsjdvania" since 1855. He is also a member of the "Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution;" and a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, commandery of Penn- sylvania. He is senior warden of "St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church", Lambertville, New Jersey, and for many years past has been president of "The New Hope Delaware Bridge Company." Mr. Parry is a man of literary tastes, and historical interests and has fre- quentl}^ contributed articles to the press and published works. He resides at the "Old Parry Mansion," in New Hope- borough, erected for his ancestor. Ben- jamin Parry in 1784. Two dififerent por- tions of this estate were occupied by the Continental troops, in December. 1776, just prior to the "Battle of Trenton" as more fully mentioned elsewhere in this volume. DR. GEORGE RANDOLPH PARRY, of New Hope. Pennsj'lvania ("Coryell's Ferry"), third son of Oliver and Rachel (Randolph) Parry, was born September 3. 1839 in Philadelphia, and was edu- cated in private schools of that city. He began the study of medicine in the Phil- adelphia College of Pharmacy from which .In- graduated, in the class of 1862. V (jSc^_vL.^X,r-U-^ A 'THEN 'PUBLIC *SrOH, Lr-NQx AND OLD PARRY MANSION — INTERIOR VIEW L I l»ki>.V^ > HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 71 In 1864 he entered the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated in 1867. For some years he practiced his profession in Cayuga county. New York. On return- ing to Pennsylvania in 1880 he located at the old homestead at New Hope, living at the ""Old Parry Mansion" until his death June 12, 1893. He enjoyed a large practice, and died much esteemed and lamented. Dr. Parry married March 2, 1869, Miss Elizabeth Van Etten, of Van- ettenville. New York, whom he survived twelve years. They had two children, Elizabeth R. and Jane Paxson, the latter deceased. Dr. Parry was a member of the Medical Societies of Bucks county, Pennsylvania and Hunterdon county, New Jersey; and was also a member of the "Bucks County Historical Society" and a life member of the "Historical^ So- ciety of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia." He also was much interested in Free Ma- sonry and belonged to a commandery of Knights Templar in New York state. OLIVER PAXSON PARRY, fourth son of Oliver and Rachel (Randolph) Parry was born 1846. and died December 13, 1852, in his seventh year. DANIEL PARRY, ESQ., of New Hope, Pennsylvania, son of John Parry, of "Moorland Manor" and Margaret Ty- son, his wife, was born April 21, 1774, and married Martha Dilworth of Dil- worthtown, Pennsylvania, having but one child, named for his grandfather, John. Parryville, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, an important point for shipment of coal on the Lehigh river, was named for this Daniel Parry, who was a gentleman of fortune and owned large tracts of land, in Carbon, Wayne, Luzerne and other counties of Pennsylvania; a part of which were obtained through the Marquis de Noailles of France. Daniel Parry died July 16, 1856, aged eighty-two years. Martha Dilworth Parry, his wife, died April 3, 1831, aged fifty-three years. Their son John died in childhood and all three lie buried in their family lot, at Friends burying ground in Solebury township, Bucks county. The Doylestown papers, in noticing the death of Daniel Parry, spoke of him as "a man of large benevo- lence, and a generous friend to the des- titute," and many poor persons indeed mourned the loss of a friend ever ready to help them. "THE OLD PARRY MANSION," New Hope Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania ("Coryell's Ferry," of the Revolution). The ancient colonial double stone r^an- sion still standing at the corner of the old York road and the Trenton or River road in New Hope borough, erected in 1784 for Benjamin Parry, which has bravely stood in three centuries has long been known as "The Old Parry Man- sion" and has been the home of the Parrys of New Hope (Coryell's Ferry) for five generations. Two different por- tions of this property were occupied by troops of the Continental army, in the Revolutionary war. In 1776, just prior to the Battle of Trenton, a considerable bod}' of American soldiers under General William Alexander (Lord Stirling) were quartered here and the village placed in a state of armed defence by Stirlmg, who threw up a strong redoubt on top of the hill across the pond, in a southwest- erly direction from "The Old Parry Mansion," and a part of this estate. These earth works extended from where the yellow public school house now stands, in an easterly direction, a considerable distance towards the Delaware river, at the termination of the old York road at the river's brink above and below the Ferry landing. Upon another part of the Parry property, (purchased of the Todd's) entrenchments were erected and batteries placed. Lord Stirling also had another redoubt thrown upon the old York road facing the river at the cor- ner of Ferry street, and the present Bridge street, opposite where "the old Washington Tree," cut down November 28, 1893, then stood and near the site of the present Presbyterian church. From this elevated position he Ifkewise com- manded the approach from the Delaware river. Such were the defenses of Cory- ell's Ferry at this period of the Revolu- tion, when it (then an important strategic point, and crossing of the Delaware) was saved to the American cause from British plans and designs. At page 175, Volume I of *Washington and his Generals" in speaking of General Alexander (Lord Stirling) it is stated "That in his new capacity of Major Gen- eral, he joined the army in its memorable retreat through New Jersey and took part in the operations on the Delaware river, where he again signalized himself by his successful defense of Coryell's Ferry." Lord Stirling's headquarters at New Hope, are said to have been in the old hip roof house known as "The old Fort" which then stood on the site of the pres- ent hipped roof home of Mr. P. R. Slack on the Old York road, just opposite the avenue and entrance to "Maple Grove" then and now owned and occupied by the Paxson family and where Benjamin' Parry's wife Jane Paxson was born Jan- uary 24, 1767, Looking backward through the long vista of more than a century and a quar- ter, it seems difiicult to realize that New Hope ("Coryell's Ferry") and the now ♦Published by E. Meeks, Philadelphia, 1885. 72 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. peaceful highways about it once re- sounded witli the bustle of war, and the frequent tramp of armed inen, as our patriot sires hurried forward to do battle for their country or fell back in the sad- der marches of retreat. The years have come and gone since the days of the Revolution, bringing with them many changes, but the old settlement at "Coryell's" still remains, nestling close beside the noble river, at the "Ferry" which our forefathers defended in the old heroic days. Many of the boats used by General Washington on Christmas night, 1776, to make that memorable crossing of the Delaware, now known the world over in history, as "Washington's Cross- ing" and made additionally famous by the artists' brush, were collected at New Hope ("Coryell's Ferry") and kept se- creted behind Malta Island, then densely wooded over and were floated by night, down the river to "Knowles Cove," just above Taylorsville, Pennsylvania, the point where Washington crossed to fight and win the Battle of Trenton. "Malta Island" has since filled up and become mainland, the present "Union Mills" paper manu- facturing company's plant at New Hope is just at the north end of Malta Island. Former mills here were owned many years ago by Daniel Parry Esq., (born April 21, 1774) a younger brother of Benjamin Parry. Many letters of General Washington and other of his prominent Generals, are at different times, during the Revolutionary War, dated at "Coryell's Ferry." In both Benjamin Parry's day and that of his son Oliver Parry, the "Old Parry Mansion" was the scene of much hospitality and its doors were thrown open wide upon many an occasion to bid hearty welcome to both city and coun- try guests and during the life time of the latter and his hospitable and popular wife, Rachel Randolph, this ancient homestead was often called by their friends "Hotel de Parry" and sometimes "Liberty Hall." Many distinguished per- sons have been entertained beneath its broad roof in the long period in which it has stood and had it lips, much it could speak of events in three centur- ies. Interesting mementos of bye-gone days have been sacredly treasured up and much old family furniture is yet pre- served in this home; some of it nearly (or quite) 200 years old, and brought from over the sea; the ancient high clock standing half way up the stairs, on the broad landing, has ticked in and out the lives of many generations of the family and still shows upon its familiar face the moon, in all its phases. In this connection it may be perhaps of some in- terest to note the occurrence of an event so unusual in its character as to become historic, and worthy of passing notice in the birth in this home, on May 3, 1901, of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Randolph Parry (named Margaret Kreamer Parry) in the same room in which her great-grandfather Oliver Parry was born in 1794, one hundred and eleven years ago, and in the same old mansion, in which her great-great-grand- father Benjamin Parry lived and died. Seldom do we find homes in the United States passed on beyond the second or third generations. Many sketches of "The Old Parry Mansion" have appeared from time to time, in various published works, and newspaper articles, a com- paratively recent one on July 15, 1901, issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer by its historical editor, being illustrated. In the "York Road, Old and New" by Rev. S. F. Hotchkin, published 1892 in Phil- adelphia, this old colonial home of the Parrys of "Coryell's Ferry" is thus de- scribed : "As viewed from the outside — • this ancient mansion, presents a quiet and dignified appearance, in keeping with the family for whom it was built; the quaint and handsome carved ornamen- tations, over the windows, small window panes, pointed corners, and hoods, be- token its age, and are charmingly at- tractive. Over the front door remains the ancient bonnet or hood of our fore- fathers' day, beneath which is the mas- sive old-fashioned door, with its trans- verse panels, brass knocker, cumbrous lock and huge iron hinges, which stretch across the whole width. This door opens into a wide wainscoated and paneled hall, running through the middle of the house and dividing the long parlor upon one side from the dining room and the parior or sitting room, on the other; in these rooms and in daily uso, are yet preserved the corner cupboards of a hundred 3'ears ago" now (1905) 121 years old. "The up- per floors are approached, by low broad steps and half way up the stairs on the broad landing, stands in one corner, relic of a past age — the old eight-day clock which has ticked in and out, the lives of so many of the family and still showing upon its familiar face, the moon in all its phases. Five bed chambers, most of thetn communicating upon the second floor, open out upon an upper hall, the full width of that beneath ; the inside shutters over the house — both in the main building and wing — -are secured for the most part by long wooden bars, stretching across, and fitting into the deep window frames. In most of these rooms may be seen great open mouthed chimneys and fire places, the brick floors of which are painted in bright tile col- ors; immense closets, with brass door knobs in one of these chambers fill up en- tirely one end of the room, taking sev- eral feet off its length but compensating by the additional convenience afforded the family. The rooms and halls of this old mansion contain much valued, hand- some and ancient furniture, belonging HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 73 to the family for several generations, much of it being carved in solid ma- hogany and walnut woods. In one of the rooms on the first floor is a trap door in the floor leading into a cellar, partitioned off and shelved as a wine cellar, but which may have been in- tended in earlier times, as a means of escape from sudden danger. In the great attic overhead the children, grandchil- dren and great-great-grandchildren oif the original owner, have often played and wondered at the contents of numer- ous chests, high cases of drawers and boxes, since found to have contained much linen-stuffs, and other articles of family value, and far up amid the ratters on the fourth floor, a dark secret room only reached by a long ladder (always removed after each visit) afforded a safe hiding place for papers, and such valued matter as seemed to require extra secur- ity and care in the time of the original owner, which was to his grandchildren, of course, a place of especial wonder, tinctured somewhat perhaps, with a spec- ies of fear. In the wing of the mansion, in a capacious fire place, still swings an ancient iron crane, with its outstretchea arm at rest after a long term of service, much prized by the family and shown visitors as a curious relic. A huge bake oven of an early period and no longer used in the kitchen adjoining was torn out a few years ago for the lost space which was needed. An elaborately cut stone circle in the north gable end of the house, under the roof, bears a tablet inscribed Benjamin Parry, A. D.. 1784, and to this home in 1787 he brought his wife Jane Paxson, as a bride" and here on December 20. 1794, was born their only son, the late Oliver Parry, Esq. whose son Major Edward P.andolph Parry of the United States army, died at "The old Parry Mansion" in 1874 of dis- ease brought on by hardships and ex- posure endured during the late terrible Civil war. Major Parry received a brevet from Congress "for gallant serv- ices during the war." This old mansion has never been out of the Parry family and name; it is now (1905) owned and occupied by Richard Randolph Parry. Of the male descendants of Benjamin Parry (of the name) in the next genera- tion, Oliver Randolph Parry, born March 29, 1873, son of above Richard, is the only one living, at the present time. _ HON. DAVID NEWLIN FELL, jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania, was born in Buckingham, No- vember 4^ 1840, and is a son of Joseph and Harriet (Williams) Fell. Joseph Fell, the pioneer ancestor of the family, was born at Longlands, the seat of the family for several generations in the parish of Rockdale, Cumberland, England, October 19, 1668. In 1698 he married Bridget Wilson, and two sons, Joseph and Benjamin, were born to them at Longlands. In 1704 with his wife and two sons, he emigrated to America, and located for a short time in lower Bucks county, removing to Buckingham in 1706, when he became a large landholder and a prominent man in the community. Two daughters, Tamar and Mary, were born to him in Bucks county. His wife dying when the latter was eleven days old, he married three years later Eliza- beth Doyle, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle, who had come to Bucks county from Rhode Island in 1683. Their seven children were John, Isaac, Titus, Thomas, George, Sarah, and Rachel. He died in 1748, his widow surviving him several years. Joseph Fell, eldest son of Joseph and Bridget (Wilson) Fell, was born at Longlands, Cumberland, England. June 29, 1701. He married, March 4, 1735. Mary Kinsey, daughter of Edmund and Sarah (Ogborn) Kinsey of Buckingham, the former a native of New Castle, Dela- ware, for many years a noted minister among Friends at Buckingham. Joseph Fell, Jr., settled on a farm on the Dur- ham road above Mechanicsville. con- veyed to him by his father, which re- mained the property of his descendants until 1890, a period of one hundred and seventy-five years of continuous occu- pancy. He died there February 22, 1777. His children who lived to maturity were: Joseph; Sarah, who never mar- ried; Rachel, who married William Low- nes ; David ; and Martha, who married Edward Rice, Jr. Mary (Kinsey) Fell, the mother, was born in Buckingham, April 29, 1715, and died December 29, 1769. Joseph Fell (3) son of Joseph and Mary (Kinsey) Fell, born October 31, 1738, on the Buckingham homestead, married October 21, 1767, Rachel Wil- son, who was born in Buckingham June 5, 1741. and died March 8, 1810. She was the daughter of Samuel and Re- becca (Canby) Wilson, the granddaugh- ter of Thomas Canby and Stephen Wil- son, both early pioneer Friends in Bucks county and a great-granddaughter of Henry Baker, a provincial councillor and one of the most prominent public men in the infant colony on the Dela- ware. Soon after his marriage Joseph Fell removed to Upper Makefield town- ship, Bucks county, where he purchased a farm and resided until his death, March 26. 1789. He was the father of eight children, six of whom grew to maturity: Joseph, born 1768, married Esther Bur- roughs; John, born 1770, married Edith Smith; Martha, married Benjamin Scho- field; David, married Phebe Schofield; Jonathan, born 1776, married Sarah Bal- derston and returned to the Buckingham homestead, in 1831; and Rachel, born 1783, married John Speakman. 74 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. David Fell, M. D., second son of Jo- seph and Rachel (Wilson) Fell, born in Upper Makeficld, Bucks county, July i, 1774, was the grandfather of Judge Fell. He received a liberal education, and, hav- ing" chosen the medical profession, en- tered the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1801. He began the practice of medicine in Upper Makefield, but soon after removed to Buckingham, where he built up an extensive practice and be- came one of the prominent physicians of his day. He died February 22, 1856, in his eighty-second year. He married, March 16, 1803, Phebe Schofield, who was born September 26, 1774 and died January lo, 1858. She was the daughter of Samuel and Edith (Marshall) Scho- field, of Solebury, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania. They were the parents of five children: Joseph, born March 12, 1804; Edith Newlin, died unmarried in 1857; Sarah Ann, died unmarried in 1872; Bush- rod, died in infancy; and Elizabeth, mar- ried Ezra B. Leeds, of Germantown, and later removed to Columbiana county, Ohio. Joseph Fell, son of David and Phebe (Schofield) Fell, was born at Lurgan, Upper Makefield, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, March 12, 1804, and died in Buckingham, March n, 1887. He was one of the best known and highly re- spected men of Bucks county. He began teaching at Union School, Buckingham, and was later an instructor in the school of John Gummere at Burlington, New Jersey. In 1830 he began to teach at the Friends School at Buckingham Meeting House, where he remained several years, making it one of the famous local schools. He later made a journey to Ohio and on his return purchased the Buckingham homestead, still owned by his grandchildren, and spent his remain- ing days there. During the winter for several years he continued his teaching at Tyro Hall and the Hughesian School. He was elected to the state legislature in 1837, and was prominently identified with the adoption of the common school law of Pennsylvania, and rendered effic- ient services in placing it in effect in his native county. He was a member of the first school board of Buckingham, and its secretary for many years. When the office of county superintendent was created in 1854 he was elected as the first superintendent of Bucks county, and did much to place the office on the high plane of usefulness it has since attained. After filling the position for three years he declined a reelection. In 1855 he held the first teachers' institute. Retiring to his farm in 1857 he devoted himself to the affairs of his farm and neighborhood, filling many important positions of pub- lic trust. He was for many years a trus- tee and director of the Hughesian Free School, and continued an active interest in educational matters during his whole life. He vv-a.': a lifelong member of the SocicLy of Friends, and an active, fear- less and outspoken Abolitionist, his home being one of the stations of the "Underground Railroad." He was a man of high intellectual ability, and kept in touch with the important public move- ments, and was fearless and outspoken in all his convictions on public questions. He married, March 28, 1835, Harriet Williams, born September 25, 1807, died March 28, 1890, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Watson) Williams, of Buck- ingham, and a descendant of Jeremiah Williams, who came to Tinicum town- ship, Bucks county, from Westbury, Long Island, about 1743, and they were the parents of five children: William W., born May 25, 1836, died unmarried, Jan- uary 4, 1874, was a lawyer of Philadel- phia; Emily C, born June 15, 1838, mar- ried William T. Seal; David Newlin; Ed- ward Watson, born September 27, 1843, married Elizabeth M. Kenderdine, and resided on the old homestead, died April 30, 1900; and Lucy W., who never mar- ried. Hon. David Newlin Fell, born and reared on the Buckingham farm, was ed- ucated under the direction of his father, and graduated from the First Pennsyl- vania State Normal School at Millers- ville, in the class of 1862. In August of 1862, he entered the army as lieutenant of Company E, I22d Regiment, Pennsyl- vania volunteers, the company being mainly recruited from the students of tKe school. He studied law in the office of his brother, William W. Fell, and was ad- mitted to the bar MarclT 17. 1866, and at once began the practice of his chosen profession at Philadelphia. After ■eleven years of successful practice he was ap- pointed May 3, 1877, by Governor Hart- ranft, as judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia county, and in the November following was elected to the same position for a term of ten years, and reelected in 1887, receiving on both occasions the nomination of both the Republican and Democratic parties. He has always manifested an active interest in the public aft'airs of the city of his adoption, and at the time of his appoint- ment to the bench was a member of the city council for the twentieth Ward, and was a member of the municipal commis- sion created by the act of legislature to devise a plan for the better government of the cities of the commonwealth. He i.c a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., of Philadelphia, and has served as senior vice cfunmander and judge advocate gen- eral of the Grand Army of the Republic of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the Supreme Bench in 1893. He married, September i. 1870. Martha P. Trego, born July 31. ^846, daughter of Smith and Anna (Phillips) Trego, and A'-'^r . ph/lA- )%^-^^. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 75 they are the parents of seven children: Joseph Williams, born June 24, 1871. died December 8, 1901; Anna Trego, born Februa,ry t6, 1873. married John H. Ruckman, April 26. 1900; David Newlin, born June 3, 1^75 ; Edith Newlin. born August I, 1879; Emma Trego, born De- cember 17, 18S1; Edward Watson, born August 22, 1888; and Alfred Moore, born January 30, 1891- Jvtdge Fell and his family have made Buckingham their summer residence for many years, he having erected a handsome residence on a part of the old homestead overlooking the beautiful valley of Buckingham. HON. HARMAN YERKES, of Doyles- town was born in Warminster township, Bucks county. October 8. 1843- He is ot French and Holland descent, being son ot Stephen and Amy Hart (Montayne) Yerkes, and sixth in descent from Anthony Yerkes, who emigrated from Holland about 1700 and settled in Germantown. This pioneer ancestor of the Yerkes family in America was accompanied to our shores by "is wite Margaret and two sons Herman and Adol- phus The first record we have of him is m the year 1702, when he was burgess of Germantown, a position which he filled for three years. In 1709 fie purchased the plantation in the "Manor of Moorland, now Moreland township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He married (sec- ond) Sarah (Eaton) Watts, widow of Rev. John Watts, pastor of Pennypack Baptist church. , . , j Hfrman Yerkes, son of Anthony and Margaret, born in Holland in 1689, died in Moreland in March, 1751- He was a farni- er and miller. He married February 8, 171 1, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John and Sarah (Eaton) Watts, born April 15, 1689 (Rev. John Watts was a native ot Leeds, England, and his. wife of Wales). Herman Yerkes pn^bably settled on his father's plantation in Moreland at its pur- chase in 1709. His father conveyed to him two hundred acres on Pennypack creek in 1723. In 1744, in conjunction with Walter Moore he erected a mill on Penny- pack and set apart nineteen acres of land therewith. This mill he devised to his sons, and it later became the property of Jacob and John Shelmire, and is to this dav known as "Shelmire's Mill." The chi'ldren of Herman and Elizabeth (Watts) Yerkes : 1. Anthony, born November 28. 1712, died March 9, i79i- ,. , 2. John, born February 21, 1714. died 1790; married Alice McVeagh. 3. Sarah, born July 15. I7i6, married Jacob Hufty. •. 4. Josiah, born November 28, 1718, died 1793; married Mary . 5. Herman, born January iS. 1720. died November 29. 1804; married (first) Mary Stroud, and" (second) Ivlrs. Mary Clayton, and (third) Mrs. Eliza Tompkins. 6. Silas, born February 15, 1723, died 1795; married Hannah Dungan. 7! Elizabeth, born January 29, 1725, died 1793; married John Howell. 8" Stephen, born August 3. 1727, died 1811 ; married Rebecca Whitesides. 9. Elias. born February 7, 1729, died January 17, 1799; married Rebecca Foster. 10. Titus, born 1731, died 1762; married Margaret Paul. Harman Yerkes, fourth son of Herman and Elizabeth (Watts) Yerkes, was born in Moreland. January 18, 1720, and died there November 29, 1804. Like his fatlicr V!e was a farmer and miller. He also fol- lowed the mercantile business at Plymouth Montgomery county, in the years 1752-5. where he had purchased a tract of land from his brother John in 1747. In 1762 he removed to Warminster township. Bucks county, being the first of the family to make a home in this county. He purchased i8t acres of land near Johnsville. which still remains the property of his descend- ants. He returned to Moreland in 1788 and died there November 29, 1804. He was an active supporter of the war for inde- pendence. His name appears on the list of Associators in Warminster in 1775, and he served on various committees under the committee of safety. His Warminster home witnessed some of the bloody car- nage and rout following the battle of Crooked Billet in 1778. An incident is related of an American soldier being saved from slaughter by four British soldiers who were pursuing him, by the strategy of Mrs. Mary Yerkes, the second wife of Harman, who, when the soldier had sought refuge in the house, conducted him to a rear exit and found him a place of con- cealment in a pile of buckwheat straw in a neighboring field. His pursuers entered the house and made a diligent search for the fugitive, thrusting their bayonets through" beds and up the chimney, to the terror of the women and children of the household. After locating at Plymouth, Mr. Yerkes became enamored of a Quaker lass, Mary, the daughter of Edward Stroud, of White Marsh, and uniting himself with the So- ciety, was married to her by the simple ceremony of the Society March 22, 1750-1. She died in 1771. and he married (second) Mary (Houghton) Clayton, widow of Richard Clayton. His second wife died in 1785, and he married in 1787 Elizabeth (Ball) Tompkins, widow of John Tomp- kins, of Moreland. She was the proprie- tress of an inn on the Old York road, and his remaining years were spent as "mine- host" at this old hostelry. His widow died in 1819. The children of Harman and ]Mary (Stroud) Yerkes. were: I.' William, born 1752, died in infancy. 2. Elizabeth, born September 5. I753; married 1779 John Hufty. 3. Catharine, born June 19. I755- died 1821 ; married Major Reading Powell. 76 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 4. Edward, born April 19, 1757, a Revolutionary soldier and sea captain, died at sea. 5. Sarah, born 1759, died in infancy. 6. Stephen, born October 20, 1762, died 1823 ; married Alice Watson. 7. Mary, born January 5, 1765, died un- married. 8. Harman, born July 25, 1767, died February 12, 1827; married Margaret Long. 9. William, born July 25, 1769, died 1823, married Letitia Esther Long. Harman, son of Harman and Mary (Stroud) Yerkes, was born in Warminster, July 25, 1767. He spent his whole life on the Warminster homestead, one hundred acres of which he purchased in 1793, upon which he erected the large stone mansion still standing. In 1800 he purchased the remainder of the 180 acres that had been his father's and later bought the Noble tract on the county line, making three farms which he devised to his sons. He married in 1790 Margaret, daughter of Cap- tain Andrew Long, of Warrington, born January 8, 1771, died March 4, 1849. He died February 12, 1837. The children of Harman and Margaret Long Yerkes were 10, viz : 1. Mary, born 1791, died 1816; unmar- ried. 2. William, born July 8, 1792, died 1826; married Penelope McDowell. 3. Andrew L., born August 25, 1794, -died 1862 ; married Eliza Everhart. 4. Edward, born July 11, 1797, died 1799. - 5. Elizabeth, born May 26, 1800, died 1875 ; married John C. Beans. 6. Clarissa, born October 2, 1802, died December, 1873 ; married Samuel Mon- tayne. 7. Edwin, born November 28, 1804, died 1864; married Catharine R. Williamson. 8. Harman, born March 9, 1807, died 1889; married Rebecca Valentine. 9. Stephen, born May 19, 1809, died July 25, 1865; married Amy Hart Mon- tayne. ID. Margaret, born October 8, 1815, died December 29, 1815. Stephen, son of Harman and Margaret Long Yerkes, was born on the old home- stead in Warminster, May 19, 1809, and died there July 25, 1865. He commenced life as a farmer on the west side of the Yo;-k road, but at the death of his father in 1837 he removed to the original homestead de- vised to him by his father. He later added to this two other farms now occupied by his sons. He married January 13, 1831, Amy Hart Montayne, daughter of Rev. Thomas B. Montayne, and great-grand- daughter of Jean de la Montaigne, who came to New York in 1624, and was direc- tor-general of New York under the Dutch government. Mrs. Yerkes was born Octo- ber 23, 181 1, and died March 22, 1856. The children of this marriage were : 1. Thomas, born November 14, 1831. 2. Harman, born February 8, 1833, died May 24, 1840. 3. Stephen, born April 11, 1835; mar- ried Elizabeth Jamison, and is now living on the Warminster homestead. 4. Adolphus, born January 31, and died February 31, 1837. 5. Anna Margaret, born January 17, 1841, died at Germantown, March 13, 1903; married Captain George H. Bucher. 6. Harman, the subject of this sketchy born October 8, 1843; married Emma Buckman. 7. Alfred Earle, born June 7, 1846; married Mary A. Hazlett, living in War- minster. 8. Edwin Augustus, born October 24, 1849, died May 21, 190D. Judge Yerkes' boyhood days were spent on the Warminster farm. He attended the public school of the neighborhood and la- ter the Tennent school at Hartsville, and then entered Williston College at East- hampton, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in the class of 1862. He read law with Thomas and Henry P. Ross, at Doylestown, and was admitted to the bar November 3, 1865, and at once began the active practice of his chosen profession. He was elected district attorney in 1868, and discharged the duties of the office with special ability. In 1873 he was elected to the state senate and was re-elected in 1876. He was a prominent figure in the upper house of the state, and served on many im- portant committees. He drew the laws regulating the separate orphans courts and the civil and criminal courts of' the state under the new constitution of 1874. He was a member of the state board of managers of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, and took a prominent part in the management. He introduced the bill creating the Hospital for the In- sane at Norristown and was one of the or- iginal trustees to which position he has been a second time appointed. He has been a life long Democrat and has always been prominent in the councils of the party. He was chairman of the judicial committee of conference in 1869, and was a delegate to the judicial conventions of 187 1 and 1872. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Baltimore in 1872, but was one of the twenty-one members of that memorable convention that refused to vote for the nomination of Horace Greeley, giving the vote to Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, of this state. He was a national delegate again in 1880, and delegate to the state con- ventions of 1873, 1874, 1877, 1878 and 1882. In 1883 he was elected president judge of the district and was re-elected in 1893, re- ceiving at that time the unanimous endorse- ment of the bar of the county. As a judge ■Mr. Yerkes displayed remarkable ability, his' promptness in the despatch of business, his eminent fairness of his decisions, the deep study and wide research shown by the opinions rendered and his intense earnest- ness in the prosecution of the suits brought before him, made him very popular. He^ has frequently been called upon to hold HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 77 court outside the county, and was univer- sally considered a learned and able judge. He was one of six Democratic nom- inees for the superior court at the Will- iamsport convention in 1895, and received on the first ballot 349 out of a total of 454 votes in the convention. In the election that followed, '.vhile he ran far ahead of most of the ticket, re- ceiving a handsome plurality in his home county, he was defeated by his colleague. Justice Smith, of Wilkesbarre. In 1901 he was the Democratic nominee for justice of the supreme court, and ran far ahead of his ticket. On the expiration of his sec- ond term as president judge he was unani- mously re-nominated for the position, but was defeated at the polls by Hon. Mahlon H. Stout. On retiring from office he at once 'resumed the practice of law, associating himself with the grandsons of his old pre- ceptor, Thomas and George Ross, and en- joys a large practice. Judge Yerkes and his family are members^ of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Doylestown, of which he is a member of the vestry. He is a member of Doyles- town Lodge No. 245, F. and A. M. ; of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Bucks County Historical Society; the Col- onial Society ; the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Ger- mans' Society. He was extremely active in bringing about the erection of the Bucks County Historical Society building, and was largely instrumental in securing funds for the purpose, and as chairman of the building committee had principal charge of the erection of the building. He was mar- ried June 24, 1869, to Emeline, daughter of Monroe Buckman, of Doylestown, but has no children. THE ADAMS FAMILY. Among the earliest members of the Adams family who emigrated to America were Henry Adams, of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Robert Adams, of Oxford township, Philadelphia county, and Walter Adams, his brother, all of whom it is said were descended from Lord John Ap Adams, son of Ap Adams, who "came out of the Marches" of Wales. Thomas Adams, brother of Henry Adams, of Braintree, Massachusetts, was one of the grantees named in the charter of Charles I. in 1629. He was high sheriff and lord mayor of London. Henry Adams with his eight sons set- tled at Mount Wollaston, in Braintree, and Walter and Robert Adams were his broth- ers. It is thought, however, that they came to this country at a later date. They settled in Pennsylvania and, like the ma- jority of the early colonists of that state, Walter was a Quaker. The earliest record of the English branch of the Adams family is that of John Ap Adams, of Charlton Adams, in Somerset- shire, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress to Lord Gowrney, of Bevistorj and Tidenham county, Gloucester, who was summoned to parliament as baron of the realm, 1226 to 1307. In the upper part of a Gothic window on the southeast side of Tidenham church, near Chopston, the name of John Ap Adams is still to be found, to- gether with "arms argent in a cross gules, five mullets or," of Lord Ap Adams. The design is probably executed on stained glass of great thickness and is in perfect preser- v'ation. This church originally stood with- in the boundary of Wales, but at a later period the boundary line was changed so that it is now upon English soil. The arms and crest borne by the family are described as argent in a cross gules ; five mullets or, out of a ducal coronet a demi-lion. The legend is "Loyal au mort ;" a motto com- monly used by this branch of the family is "Aspire, persevere and indulgence," all other "sub cruce Veritas." ,The following is the line of direct des- cent to the Adams family of the Lehigh Valley, (i). Ap Adams came out of the Marches of Wales. Lords of the Marches were noblemen who in the early ages se- cured and inhabited the Marches of Wales and Scotland, living there as if they were petty kings, having their own private laws. These laws, however, were subsequently abolished. (2) Sir Ap Adams, knight, lord of Ap Adams, married Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Gowrney. (3) Sir Thomas Ap Adam; (4) William Ap Adam ; (5) Sir John Ap Adam; (6) Thomas Ap Adams; (7) Sir John Ap Adam, Knight; (8) Sir John Ap Adam, who was the first to attach the letter "s" to his name; (9) Roger Adams; (10) Thomas Adams; (11) John Adams; (12) John Adams; (13) Nicholas Adams; (14) Richard Adams; (15) William Adams; and (16) Henry Adams, who is said to have emigrated about 1634. In February, 1641, he was granted forty acres of land near Boston, of which Braintree is a part. His brothers were Robert, Thomas and Walter. The last named came to America by way of the Barbadoes, West Indies, and after living there for a time took up his abode in Pennsylvania. (i) Walter Adams married Elizabeth . Their children were: Richard, Anne, William, and Robert. Walter Adams was the brother of Robert Adams, of Ox- ford township, Philadelphia, who died in 1719, leaving no children; he devised the estate of his nephews and nieces, the chil- dren of his brother Walter and Elizabeth, his wife. (2) Richard Adams, of New Provi- dence township, now Montgomery county, ^ Pennsylvania, died in 1748. His first wife^V-' Alice or Aishe Withers, and they were /^ -n^ <^^ married in 1726. His children were as fol- / lows: Abraham, married Alse ; Will- iam, of Braken township, Lancaster coun- ty ; Isaac, of Coventry township, Chester county; Susanna, married Conrad Custard, 78 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. or Kistard; Catharine, married Joiiii Mor- ris ; Mary, married Israel Morris ; Mar- garet, married Paul Casselberry ; Elizabeth, married Thomas Bull ; Ann, married Jacob Umstadt; Hannah, married Owen Evans. (3) Abraham Adams died in 1738, and letters were granted to Rachel, his daugh- ter, a spinster. There is mention of two children, Ann and Abigail. Walter Adams and his brother were brothers of Henry Adams, who came to New England and was a founder of the Adams family there, at Braintree, ]Massa- chusetts. Walter, his son Richard, and his son Abraham were Quakers. Conrad Custard, husband of Susanna Adams, (daughter of Richard), owned a large tract of land immediately adoining the tract surveyed to Ensign John Adams, of Nockamixon township, in 1763. John Adams and James Adams, possibly and probably brothers, lived in Nocka- mixon township, Bucks county. There are a few records at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, which bear James Adams's signature. He was also an ensign in the provincial ser- vice. Associated Companies of Bucks coun- ty, in 1747. (See Colonial Records, vol. v., p. 209 ; also Pennsylvania Archieves, second series, vol. ii., p. 505). This was nine years before John Adams held a like commission in the provincial service in the Associated Companies of Bucks county. There is nothmg to establish that James Adams and John Adams were related, nei- ther can be found any data of their former residence or whose children they were. The only solution is that they were both possibly sons of Abraham Adams ; the lat- ter having died intestate no list of his chil- dren is obtainable. The fact that John Adams held land adjoining that of Conrad Custer is a possible solution, he having been raised by his aunt Susanna. Richard Adams, of Providence town- ship, Philadelphia, whose will is dated February i, 1847-8, and probated March 24, 1747-48, mentions son Abraham's chil- dren, Ann and Abagail, then letters were granted to Abraham's daughter Rachel. There at once seems to be some discrep- ancy which is most ditificult to explain. James' commission in the provincial ser- vice, as above stated, was dated in 1747, which tends to show that he might have been disinherited by his grandfather. Then, again, there is a possibility that James and John Adams are one and the same man, but this is very doubtful, as their names are mentioned distinctly and separately in the old records. (i) John Adams, ensign, Provincial Service, of Nockamixon township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, died in Nockamixon township. May 22, 1807. He married Mary . He was buried in the old Nocka- mixon church graveyard. His will dated March 21, 1807, proved June 8, same year, is recorded in Will Book No. 7, p. 278, in the registrer of wills office, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Jiilm Adams, of Nockamixon, served in llu' provincial service in 1756. He held a commission as ensign in one of the com- panies of the Associated Companies of Bucks county. (See Pennsylvania Archieves, vol. iii., p. 19; also Pennsyl- vania Archives, second series, vol. ii., p. 531). Captain William Ramsey was cap- tain of the company in which John Adams served and held his commission as ensign in 1756, and was also from Nockamixon. township, Bucks county. John Johnson was the lieutenant of the company. John Adams of Nockamixon, and Mary his wife, had the following children : Mary, Eliza- beth, Margaret, George, Henry, John Jacob. George and Henry, sons of John Adams of Nockamixon, served in the Nockamixon Company of Associators in 1775. George was sergeant of the company, and the son, John was a soldier in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war. The first record that we have of John Adams of Nockami.xon owning any land is a warrant that was granted March 26, 1754, to John Adams, for land in Nocka- mixon township, Bucks county, upon which a survey was returned for fifty-four acres and 113 peiches. A patent for this same land Wis granted April 26, 1726, to Abra- ham Fryling. John Adams had some trouble with this land, for on May 19, 1763, he entered a caveat against the acceptance of a survey made for Archibald Merrin, which took in the above mentioned land and improvements. (See Pennsylvania Archieves, third series, vol. ii., p. 275). The above land was surveyed by J. Hart, for which he gave a receipt, June 26, 1763, which is recorded in Doylestown, Pennsyl- vania, in Deed Book No. 32, p. 169. This vcceipt also mentions the date of the war- rant, March 26, 1754. (H) John Adams, private in Captain Samuel Watson's company, of Durham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was a son of John Adams of Nockamixon township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, born in Nockamixon township, November 3- 1759, tlied in Durham township, Novem- ber J 2, 1826. He married Christina Klinker, December 15, 1789, at the Tohickon Ger- man Reformed church. Some time after the Revolutionary war he moved into Dur- ham township, where he lived until his death. He is buried in the old Durham church graveyard. Christina Klinker, the wife of John Adams, of Durham, was born in Nockf.mixon township August 15, 1770, died in Durham township October 2. 1847, and is buried in the old Durham church grc-.veyard. She was the daughter of John and Mary Klinker of Nockamixon town- ship, Bucks ^county, Pennsylvania. John Adams, of Durham township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the Cortinental army during the Revolution- ary war. He served as a private in Cap- tarn Samuel Watson's company of the Sec- ond Pennsylvania Battalion under Colonel HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 79 Arthur St. Clair. He enlisted February 12, 1776. (See Pennsylvania Archieves, second series, vol. x, p. 98). Several of the mem- bers of his company were from upper Bvcks county. Captain Watson died at Three Rivers and was succeeded by Thomas L. Moore, who was promoted to major of the Ninth Regiment, Mav 12, 1779, and was succeeded as captain by John Hen- derson. The company was transferred or became a part of the Third Battalion, Twelfth Regiment, July i, 1778, and thus became associated with other companies of Bucks county. For his services he re- ceived from the state of Pennsylvania two hundred acres of "donation land" in Rob- inson township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, which was returned for pat- ent October 9, 1786. (See Pennsylvania Archives, third series, vol. vrii, p. 7^3)- This land he sold to Hugh Hamill, November 4, 1786. for i37 IDS. The witnesses to this deed were Thomas Delap (Dunlap). John Donnell and Jacob Glassmyer, all residents of Nockamixon township at that date. (Re- •corder's office,' Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, deed book D-17, p. 322.) John K.. son of John Adams of Durham, was a soldier for some time during the war of 1812-1814, private in Captain John Dornblaser's com- pany (Pennsylvania Archives, second ser- ies, vol. xii, p. 105). John Adams of Durham, and Christina, his wife, had the following children : Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, John K.. Hen- ry, Jacob, Samuel, Susan, married Joseph Retfchlin, and Daniel. John Adams of Durham was quite a large land owner. In 1706 he owned one hundred acres of land and a grist and a saw mill in Nockamixon township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania. April 20, 1799, he bought of Solomon Lightcap 263 acres of land. (Bucks county deed book 30, p. 310). April II. 1808, he bought two tracts, one of 155 acres and the other of twelve acres. (Bucks county deed book 39, p. 135)- John Adams of Durham died without making a will. It is impossible to give the date when John Adams was mustered out of the service, for the muster rolls of the Twelfth Regiment have practically never been found. Tax lists of Nockamixon township show the holdings of John Adams, the father of the above John Adams, and his sons George and Henry, elder brothers of John. John Adams appears as a "single man'" first in the year of 1785, notwithstand- ing that he was of age in 1780. He there- foVe served, in all probability, up to about that date (1784-1785) in the Twelfth Penn- sylvania Regiment. Captain Samuel Wat- son's company records date to November 25. 1776. only. (Ill) Henry Adams, of Durham town- ship. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, son of John Adams, was born in Durham town- ship June 17. 1806. and died there Decem- ber 15. 1838. He married Elizabeth Bitz, August 25, 1828, at her home in Spring- field township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. He is buried in the old Durham church graveyard. Elizabeth Bitz, the wife of Henry Adams, of Durham, was born Sep- tember 18. 1811, in Springfield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died March 28, 1878, in Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania. She was the daughter of John Bitz and Susan Riegel, his wife, of Springfield, Bucks ^ county, Pennsylvania. Henry Adams's will is recorded in Doyles- town, Pennsylvania. It is dated April 28. 1838, and is proved December 22, 1838. Henry Adams of Durham and Elizabeth, his wife, had the follow- ing children: John, Hannah, Catharine and Samuel. After the death of Henry Adams in 1840, Elizabeth Bitz was married a second time to Christian Nicholas. She had no children by this union. Christian K. Nicholas was born in Nockamixon township. Bucks county, Pennsvlvania, January 23, 1817, and died in upper Saucon township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, November 3, 1893, and was buried in Fried- ensville November 7, 1893, and body re- moved to Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, December 16, 1899. (IV.) Samuel Adams of south Beth- lehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, son of Henry Adams, of Durham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Durham township July 25, 1837, and died in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Febru- ary 22. 1902. He married Susie Weaver, September 14,. 1865. at her home in Allen- town, Pennsylvania. He is buried at Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. Susie Weaver, wife of Samuel zA.dams, was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, ]\Iay 5, 1847. She was a daughter of Joseph Wea- ver and Salome, his wife, of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Samuel Adams and Susie Weaver, his wife, had the following chil- dren : John, Joseph W., Henry and Susie. Samuel Adams when quite a young man started out in farming, and then in iron ore mining. He entered the employ of the Thomas Iron Company of Catasaqua. Penn- sylvania, and was given charge of their mining interests. Mr. John Fritz induced him to come to Bethlehem and accept the position as his assistant in the Bethlehem Iron Company. Here he remained for nearly thirty years, and then had to re- sign on account of his health. He then or- ganized the Ponupo Mining and Trans- portation Company, Limited, and went to Santiago de Cuba as general manager of the company. Here he bought a railroad for the company, the Ferro-Carril de San- tiago de Cuba, and became its president, and also built an extension to the railroad to connect with the company's manganese mines. He remained in Cuba with his fam- ily for over two years, when he resigned and returned north. He was in Cuba part of the year 1892, all of 1893, and part of 1894. After returning from Cuba he a.s- sisted in forming the Sheffield Coal. Iron and Steel Company of Sheffield, Alabama. 8o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUMY. He stayed in Sheffield with liis family one year, then sold out his interest and came north. While with the Slieffield Coal, Iron and Steel Company he held the position- of general superintendent and assistant treas- urer, and also director of the company. He then retired from active business and de- voted himself to farming, having a tract of one hundred acres near Friedensville, Pennsylvania, about I3p acres above Bin- gen, Pennsylvania, and a tract of woodland along the P. & R. of forty acres, above Bingen, Pennsylvania. He was also inter- ested in and a director of the following companies at the time of his death : Pon- upo Mining and Transportation Company, Cuban Alining Company,- Jones and Bix- ler Manufacturing Company, South Beth- lehem National Bank. Henry, son of Samuel Adams, was a soldier during the Spanish-American war of 1898. He organized the first volunteer company in the state. He and his com*- pany were taken into the Ninth Pennsyl- vania Regiment to help make up the Third Battalion of that regiment. He was com- missioned as captain of Company K, Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was in the Third Brigade, Third Division, First Army Corps. (V.) Joseph W. Adams, of South Beth- lehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, son of Samuel Adams, was born in Beth- lehem, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1872. He married Reba Thomas, of Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, daughter of David J. Thomas and Susannah Edwards, of Pittsburg, June 14, 1899, at her home. Reba Thomas, the wife of Joseph W. Adams, was born in Pitts- burg, November ir, 1877. Joseph W. Adams was educated at the Moravian parochial school of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the HiH school of Potts- town, Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Univer- sity of South Pennsylvania, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He started to work in the drawing rooms of the Bethle- hem Iron Company. He went to Cuba with his father and was treasurer of the Ferro-Carril de Santiago de Cuba, 1892-93. He went to Alabama as assistant to the general superintendent of the Sheflfield Coal, Iron and Steel Company in 1895, and part of 1896. He returned home and took up his studies again at Lehigh University in metallurgy and mineralogy, and then read law for over a year. In 1899 he and his brother Henry formed the Cuban Min- ing Company, and he was elected secretary and treasurer of the company and also a director. He is connected with the follow- ing companies : Director and vice-president of the South Bethlehem National Bank ; director and president of La Paz Mining Company; director, secretary and treasurer of the Cuban Mining Company ; director and executive committee of Delaware Forge and Steel Company; director and commit- tee of Guerber Engineering Company ; director of Lehigh Valley Cold Storage Company; director, secretary and treasurer of the Roepper Mining Company; director of Valentine Fibre Ware Company; acting trustee of . the estate of Samuel Adams. He is a member of the fol- lowing clubs and societies : Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York; Empire State Society; Sons of the American Revolution ; Pennsylvania So- ciety of Sons of the Revolution ; Pennsyl- vania German Society, and the local town and country clubs ; and of Masonic bodies — Bethlehem Lodge, Zinzendorf Chapter,, Bethlehem Council, Allen Commandery, Caldwell Consistory, and Rajah Temple. He is captain of commissary, Fourth Reg- iment Infantry, N. G. P. His children were : John, born January 23, 1901 ; David Samuel, born March 15, 1903. Henry Adams, captain of Company K, Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, U. S. V. I., son of Samuel Adams, of South Bethlehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber 2, 1873. He married Annette Talbot Belcher, of New London, Connecticut, July 9, 1902. Henry Adams, mining engineer, was edu- cated at the Moravian parochial day school of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Hill school of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh University of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He started to work with Thomas Edison at Edison, N. J. He went to Cuba and was assistant superin- tendent and then superintendent of the Fer- ro-Carril de Santiago de Cuba. He went south to Alabama and was in charge of the coal and coke department of the Sheffield Coal, Iron and Steel Company at Jasper, Alabama. He went to Mexico and erected an electric light plant for the Mexican Na- tional Railroad, and then was supervisor of a division of that road. He resigned and was made constructing engineer for Tumer Nunn & Company of Mexico, Mexico, with headquarters in Pueblo. In December of 1897 and January of 1898 he was in Cuba in the city of Santiago and the surrounding, countr}', and visited the insurgents sev- eral times. When war broke out with Spain in 1898 he raised the first company of volunteers in the state, with the assistance of Colonel Wilson and Captain Juett of Bethlehem. He and his company were mustered into the United States service, and he received his commisison as captain of volunteers on July 6, 1898. His company was attached to the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, as Com- pany K, to help complete the Third Bat- talion. The regiment was in the Third Division, Third Brigade, First Army Corps. Company K, of the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment of United States Volunteer In- fantry, is thus mentioned in the "Record of Events which may be Necessary or Useful for Future Reference at the War Depart- ment." HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 8i "This company was organized in July at South Bethlehem, and mustered in at South Bethlehem, July 6, 1898, which company left by rail for Chickamauga Park, July 7, 1898, arriving in camp July 19, 1898. Re- mained in camp until August 26, 1898, when company left by rail for Camp Hamilton, Lexington, Kentucky, arriving , in camp August 28, 1898. . Left Camp Hamilton for regimental headquarters at Wilkesbarre, September 17, 1898, arriving there Septem- ber 19, 1898. Company left by rail for home station, September 20, 1898, arriving same day, when company was verbally fur- loughed for thirty days." The above is taken from the muster-out roll of the company. The company was mustered into service on the 6th day of July, 1898, and was mustered out of the service on the 29th day of October, 1898. It was the first volunteer company formed in the state of Pennsylvania, and was taken to help fill out the Third Battalion of the Ninth Pennsj-lvania Regiment. The other companies were Captain Green's, of Read- ing; Captain Mercer's, of Summit Hill, above Mauch Chunk ; and Captain Moor's, of Towanda. On Friday evening, April 22, 1898, there was a meeting held in the Fountain Hill Opera House, and a call for volunteers made. These met in Doxon's Hall after- ward and elected Henry Adams, captain ; Leighton N. D. Mixsell, first lieutenant; and Dick Enright, second lieutenant. Mr. Enright failed to pass his physical ex- amination and was re-elected. A. Alison Mitchell, of Wilkesbarre, was appointed in his place. The South Bethlehem Market Hall was used as an Armory by the com pany. Henry Adams is a member of the Penn- sylvania German Society, 1899; a member of the Society of Foreign Wars, Pennsyl- vania Commandery, 1899 ; general manager of the Cuban Mining Company at Neu- vitas, Cuba, 1899-1902, and the mines of this company were discovered by him ; a mem- ber of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was pre- sented a medal of honor by the society for service in the Spanish-American war; and of Masonic bodies — Fernwood Lodge, No. 543, Philadelphia, and Caldwell Consistory, 32d degree. He was vice president and general manager of the San Domingo Ex- ploration Company and San Domingo Southern Railway Company, San Domingo, R. D., West Indies, 1902. HON. GEORGE ROSS, an eminent jur- ist and statesman, was born in Doylestown, August 24, 1841. He came of a distinguished and honored ancestry. His earlier ancestors were of the clan Ross, of the Highlands of Scotland. His great-great-grandfather Thomas Ross was born in the year 1708, in county Tyrone, Ireland, where his parents had sought a refuge from the horrors of civil 6-3 and internecine war in their native Scotia. Emigrating to America at the age of twen- ty-one he settled in Solebury, Bucks county. He joined the Society of Frien-ds and be- came a distinguished preacher. He was a man of superior education and intellectual ability, and traveled extensively in later life both in the American colonies and in Eng- land and Ireland. He died at the home of Lindley Murray, the great grammarian, in York, England, while on one of his relig- ious visits in 1786. He married Keziah Wilkinson in 1731, and had by her three children : John, Thomas, and Mary, who married Thomas Smith. John Ross mar- ried Mary Duer in 1754, and had seven children; Sarah, who died in childhood; Thomas; Keziah, who married Benjamin Eastburn ; John ; Joseph ; Isaiah ; and Mary, who died in infancy. Thomas, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, as one of the execu- tors of his father's will, joined in the con- veyance of the Solebury homestead, pat- ented to his father in 1737, to Jacob Van Horn in 1787, and the latter conveyed it back to Thomas by deed dated two days later. In 1796 he conveyed it to his son Thomas, who by will in 1814 devised it to- his brother, Judge John Ross, of Easton, who devised it to his son Thomas, the fath- er of the subject of this sketch, who con- veyed it to Edward Vansant in 1853.. Thus the original homestead of the Ross family in Bucks county remained in the family for one hundred and sixteen years, notwithstanding the fact that for three generations the owners had been much more eminent as jurists than as farmers. John Ross, eldest son of Thomas and Ke- ziah, removed to Philadelphia. His son Joseph removed to the West. John be- came an eminent physician. Thomas mar- ried Rachel Longstrethand settled in West Chester. He was a lawyer, and had a large and lucrative practice. Thomas Ross, younger son of Thomas and Keziah. (Wilkinson) Ross, born on the old homestead in Solebury, was the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He married (first) a Miss Clark, and (sec- ond) Jane Cliapman, who was the mother of his six children : Thomas, John, Will- ia'm, Cephas, Hugh and Samuel. He lived on the Solebury plantation until 1796, when he removed with his family to Newtown, where he died about 1814. His eldest son Thomas was appointed prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Bucks county in 1801, and held those offices for eight years. He was born in 1767 and was admitted to the bar of Northampton county in 1793, but practiced but a year or two, when he re- moved to New York city. He returned to Newtown in 1800 and practiced law until appointed prothonotary and clerk. His wife was Mary Lyons, of Long Island. He died in 1815, while visiting his brother John at Easton and left no children. Hugh Ross studied law with his brother John at Easton and on being admitted to the bar returned 82 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. to Newtown, later went to Trenton, New Jersey and finally settled in Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania. Samuel, the young- est child of Thomas Ross (2) born 1779, ■married in 1815 Mary Helena Wirtz, and settled in Philadelphia. He had six chil- dren. Cephas Ross, another son of Thomas (2) remained in Bucks county, ■where he still has numerous descendants. -He died in Plumstrad in 1840. Hon. John Ross, the grandfather of the •"su"bect of this sketch, son of Thomas and Jane (Chapman) Ross, was born on the Solebury homestead. February 24, 1770. He received a liberal education, but it appears that his family were averse to his follow- ing a professional career. From a number 'of letters written by him in 1790 to his benefactor, Richard Backhouse, it would seem that by reason of the difference with his parents as to his future career he was cast upon his own resources. These let- ters are now in the possession of the Penn- sylvania Historical Society. He commenced life as a school teacher at Durham, where he attracted the attention of Richard Back- house, then proprietor of the furnace. To Mr. Backhouse the youth confided his in- tention of going South to seek his fortune. Mr. Backhouse urged him to take up the study of law, and generously offered to give him sufficient financial aid to complete his studies and start him in the practice of law. Taking up with this generous offer, the embryo judge began the study of law with his cousin. Thomas Ross, of West Chester, then in the same judicial dis- trict as Bucks county, and he was admitted to the bar of the district in 1792. He set- tled at Easton. Northampton county and began the practice of law. and at once sprang into prominence. Hon. Henry P. Ross, his grandson, once said : "No member of the family approached him in ability," and his brilliant professional ca- reer warrants the assertion, superlative though it be. A born politician, he early launched into the , arena of politics. He was elected to the state legislature in 1800. In 1804 he was a candidate for congress, but the jealousies aroused by the rival claims of the three counties of Northamp- ton, Bucks and Montgomery, then compos- ing the district, caused his defeat. He re- newed the fight in 1808 and was then elected. At the expiration of his term he was appointed prothonotary of Northamp- ton county. Was elected to congress again in 1814. and re-elected in 1816 and resigned to accept the appointment of judge of the seventh judicial district, comprising the counties of Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware. January 25. 1818. He had married November 19. 1795. Mary Jenkins, whose family resided at Jenkintown, and on taking up the duties of his office he located there. The act of March. 1821, placed Montgomery and Bucks in one ju- dicial district and Judge Ross removed to Doylestown, then the county seat of Bucks. He purchased the old tavern stand where the National Bank now stands, and con- verted it into a residence, and it remained the home of his descendants until 1896. Judge Ross was appointed justice of the supreme cgurt April 16, 1830, after which much of his time was spent in Jenkintown. He died of apoplexy in Philadelphia Jan- uary 31, 1834, in his sixty-fourth year. While in Northampton county he had pur- chased a tract of 348 acres near the Wind Gap in what is now INIonroe county, and named it Ross Common. He set apart upon this tract a family burying ground. Here his favorite brother Thomas was bur- ied, and here the famous jurist and states- man himself lies buried. The children of Judge John Ross were : George, a graduate of Princeton, who stud- ied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in i8r8; (he became involved in a quarrel which resulted in a duel on the Delaware river, and he was never after- wards heard from) Charles J.; Lord; Cam- illa, who married General Peter Thrie, of Easton ; Serena ; John, an invalid, though he lived until 1886; Thomas; Jesse Jen- kins, who was at one time consul to Sicilv ; Adelaide, who married Dr. Samuel R. Dubbs. and Mary. Of these, George, Thomas, William and Jenkins all were col- lege graduates and all lawyers, though Thomas was the only one who continued to practice. William became a teacher. ]\Iary Jenkins Ross died in December. 1845. Thomas Ross, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Easton. Decem- ber I,. 1806. He graduated at Princeton in 1825. studied law, and was admitted to the bar February 9. 1829. Inheriting the abilities of his distinguished ancestors, he was a fine pleader and a logical thinker and became one of the eminent lawyers of his day. He was elected to consress from the tenth district comprising Bucks and Lehigh in 1848. and re-elected in 1851, and the district was never more ably repre- sented. As an orator he obtained a na- ional reputation. He died July 7. 1865. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Levi Pawling of IMontgomery county, a member of the fiftieth congress, and £rrandauQ:hter of Governor Heister. The children of this marriage were Henry P., George and Mary. Henry P. Ross, born December 16. 1836, who became president judge of the seventh judicial district, graduated at Princeton in 1857. studied law with bis father and was admitted to the bar in December. 1859. He nracticed law with his father imtil the death of the latter in 1865. when he took his brother George into the firm. He w'as elected district attorney in 1862. He was a brilliant lawyer and an accomplished speaker. He was a leader of his party, and twice its candidate for congress. He was elected additional law^ judge in 1869. and succeeded Judge Chapman as president judge two years later. When the district was divided in 1874 he chose Montgomery HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 83 •county and, finishing his term there, was re-elected in 1881, but died at Norristown, April 13. 1882. George Ross, son of Thomas and Eliza- "beth (Pawling) Ross, was born August 24, 1841. He obtained his preparatory edu- cation at the Tenent school at Hartsville. -conducted by the Rev. Alahlon anfi Charles Long, and at the Lawrenceville. New Jer- sey Academy, under the tutorship of Dr. Hamill. He entered Princeton in January, 1858, and graduated in the class of 186 r. He at once began the study of law with his father and brother at Doylestown and was admitted to the bar of the county June 13, 1864. At the death of his father the fol- lowing year he formed a partnership w^ith his elder brother, Hon. Henry P. Ross, which lasted until the elevation of the lat- ter to the bench in 1869. when he became associated with Levi L. James, under the firm name of George Ross & L. L. James. At the death of Mr. James in 1889, J. Ferd: inand Long became the junior partner. Mr. Ross, like his father and grandfather, was a trained and erudite lawyer, by years of study and patient industry he had mas- tered the great principles of common and statute law, and soon earned the proud distinction of being the recognized leader of the bar in his native county. He \vas a forceful speaker, quiet and undemonstra- tive in his manner, not given to self-asser- tion in oratory. One of his contemporaries has said of him. "if the absence of art is the highest quality of oratory, he was an orator indeed. His remarkable knowledge of the law. his subtle power of logic, and his indomitable perseverance in the ad- vocacy of the cause of a client, have made his memory dear to the people he served, and made his name remembered and hon- ored in the community in which he lived." In 1872 he was a member of the constitu- tional convention that framed our present state constitution, representing the counties of Bucks and Northampton in that body. He was elected to the state senate in 1886, and succeeded himself four years later, a distinction exceedingly rare in the history of his county. He was a life-long Demo- crat, and therefore represented the minority in the law-making body of the state. Not- withstanding this fact he soon became known as the recognized leader in all that pertained to the best interests of his state. At the organization of the senate on Janu- ary 2, 1895, Senator Brewer, of Indiana county, who w-as not of his political faith, in calling the attention of the body to the death of Senator Ross, said in part : "Sel- dom has any legislative body been called upon to mourn the loss of a more disting- uished member. This is not the proper time to pay a tribute to the distinguished services he rendered his state. There is such a thing as leadership, known and rec- ognized among men, and the members of this body, irrespective of party, accorded to George Ross leadership. Although we have scarcely passed the threshold of this session, his absence is noticed and his coun- sel is missed. " Mr. Ross stood deservedly high in the counsels of his party. He was a delegate to the national conventions of 1876. 1884. and 1892. He was the Demo- cratic nominee for congress in the seventh district in 1884, but was defeated at the polls by Hon. Robert M. Yardley. He w^as also the caucus nominee of his party for the Um'ted States senate in 1893. He was deeply interested in the local institutions of his county and district was one of the original directors of the Bucks County Trust Company, and its president at the time of his death. He was also a trustee of the Norristown Insane Asylum until his death. He died at his home in Doyles- town, November 19, 1894. The disease which caused his death had given his fam- ily and friends much concern for probably a year. The state senate, of which he was a member at the time of his death, ap- pointee' a committee of five to draft resolu- tions expressive of the sense of that body upon his death, and fixed a special session on January 23, 1895, to receive and con- sider the report of such committee. At this special session the resolutions adopted and the speeches of his colleagues show the merited appreciation of his public ser- vices and private virtues. We quote from one of these speeches the following : "Our friends was not of humble origin, nor could he boast of being wholly a self-made man. He had great advantages, coming ^rom a long line of distinguished ancestors, a race of lawyers, some of whom had worn the judicial ermine; he had the benefits of a most liberal education, and claimed the famous college of Princeton for his alma mater. This scion of one of the most il- lustrious families of Pennsylvania, in whose veins flowed some of the best blood in this grand old Keystone state, worthy of his origin, was a prince among men." George Ross married, December 4, 1870, Ellen Lyman Phipps, a daughter of George W. Phipps, of Boston, Massachusetts. The children of this marriage are : Thomas, born September 16, 1873 : Elizabeth P., George ; Ellen P., I\Iary ; Gertrude. Thomas, the eldest son, was educated at Lawrenceville and Princeton, and gradu- ated at Princeton in the class of 1895. He studied law under the preceptorship of Hon. Harman Yerkes, and was admitted to the bar December, 1897. He formed a partner- ship with his father's old partner, J. Ferd- inand Long, which terminated with the death of the latter in January, 1902. George Ross was born May 28, 1879. He graduated at Lawrenceville in 1896 and at Princeton in 1900. He studied law with his brother Thomas at Doylestown and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was admitted to the bar December 22, 1902. and entered into partnership with his brother. In 1904 Hon. Harman Yerkes be- came a member of the firm. 84 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. HON. MAHLON H. STOUT, president judge of the courts of Bucks county, was born in Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March lo, 1852, being the son of Jacob and Amanda (Headman) Stout, both of German descent. Jacob Stout, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was- born in Germany in the year 1711, and came to this country at the age of twenty-six years. He arrived in Philadelphia in the ship "Sam- uel," August 30. 1737, accompanied by an elder brother John, aged thirty years. In the year 1739 Jacob Stout married Anna Leisse, widow of John Leisse, of Rockhill township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. John Leisse, LaCene, Lacey, or Licey, as the name has been variously , spelled, ar- rived in the ship "Adventurer," from Rot- terdam, with wife Anna, aged twenty- four years, a brother, Paul La Gene, with his wife Luisa and three children, and a broth- er-in-law, Michel Miller, September 23, 1732. John Leisse purchased in 1735 two hundred acres in Rockhill under the name of "John Lacey." He died in 1738, and the following year his widow married Jacob Stout. The two hundred acre farm pur- chased by Leisse. included a large part of the present borough of Perkasie. In 1759 Johannes and Hendrick Licey, the sons of John Leisse, deceased, conveyed this tract to their stepfather, Jacob Stout, and he and wife in turn conveyed to them tracts in HilUown, portions of 266 acres purchased by Jacob Stout in 1757. The first purchase of land by Jacob Stout was a tract of land adjoining the Durham tract, now in Will- iams township, Northampton .^ county, 243 acres, purchased September 9, 1750; his residence at that date was given as "Dur- ham township, Bucks county." In 1753 he purchased a mill property at Church Hill, in Rockhill township. In 1767 he purchased the Pine Run mill property and one hun- dred and nineteen acres, and in 1774 a tract of one hundred and fifty acres in New Britain township. These later pur- chases were doubtless to provide homes for his daughter, Salome, who had married Abraham Freed, a miller, and to whom he conveyed the mill and forty-one acres three years later ; and Catharine, who had mar- ried Jacob SchliefTer, who occupied and later heired the New Britain property. Jacob Stout was a potter by trade and was a successful and prominent man in the com- munity. The last twenty years of his life were doubtless spent on his Perkasie farm, • where he lies buried in a neat little burial lot close to the P. & R. R. R. station. He died April 30, 1779. aged sixty-eight and a half years. The children of Jacob and Anna (Miller-Lei.sse) Stout were: Abraham. Isaac; Salome, married (first) Abraham Freed and (second) Gabriel Swartzlander ; and Catharine, wife of Jacob Schlicfifer Abraham Stout, eldest son of Jacob and Anna Stout, was born August 17, 1740. He was probably one of the best educated Pennsylvania Germans of his time in Bucks county. Most of his education was ac- quired in the old Germantown Academy,, under the tuition of Hilarius Becker, pro- fessor of German, and David J. Dove as instructor in English. He thus acquired a. thorough knowledge of the English lan- guage, a rare accomplishment at that date or for many years later among the German colonists of upper Bucks. He was an ex- cellent accountant and penman as well as a good business man, and his services were much in demand as a surveyor, scrivener and accountant among his German neigh- bors for over a quarter of a century. From' an examination of the old papers on file in the county ofiices it would appear that he drew a great majority of the deeds, wills and other legal papers for the middle sec- tion of upper Bucks during that period. In addition to this he was constantly in de- mand by the court to serve as one of the auditors appointed to prepare and state the accounts of administrators and executors under the rule then in vogue, and many of these papers now on file in the orphans' court are models of penmanship, concise- ness and neatness. At the death of his father in 1779 his brothers and sisters con- veyed to him the homestead farm at Per- kasie, whereupon he was born, and he spent his whole life there, the Durham farm go- ing to his brother Isaac, while the sisters were provided for as before stated. He died June 8, 1812, and is buried beside his father, mother and wife in the family- burial lot at Perkasie. His life presents a fine example of German-American citizen- ship. Though he was in the height of his local usefulness during the period of the Revolutionary war, he seems to have held aloof from active participation therein. He was elected to represent Rockhill township in the committee of safety in 1775, but after several meetings had been held he asked to be relieved and another was ap- pointed in his place. It is probable that the traditions of the sufferings of his ancestors from the civil wars in the Palatinate had their effect in deterring him from taking an active part in the struggle. He was a. delegate from Bucks county to the constitu- tional convention of 1790, and took an ac- tive part in the framing of the constitution of our commonwealth. He married Octo- ber 21, 1772, Mary Magdalen Hartzell, daughter of Henry Hartzell of Rockhill. She died November 8, 181 1, in her sixty- first year. Their children were : Hannah, who married a Worman, and was left a widow young and for many 3'ears resided' with her parents; Abraham; Henry H. ; Jacob H. ; Anna, who married Jacob Hart- man; Margaretta, who married Tobias Rule; (later spelled Ruhl") and Magdalene, who married John Gearhart. Jacob Stout, second son of Abraham and Magdalen, was the grandfather of Judge Stout. He was born on the Perkasie homestead January 9. 1775. and died there .August 15. 1820. His wife was Elizabeth Barndt, born November 27, 1778, and died' J^ C^yH^<>CrV'<-^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 85 November 7, 1821. They resided on a por- tion of the old homestead and raised a family of eight children, viz : Isaac ; Abra- ham; Jacob B. ; Samuel; Sarah, who mar- ried Charles Leidy ; Anna, who married Isaac Drumbore ; Mary Magdalen, who married Jacob Groff; and Elizabeth, who married Enos Kile. Jacob B. Stout, the father of Judge Stout, was born at Perkasie, November 8, 1814, and died near there in April, 1896. He mar- ried Amanda, daughter of Michael Head- man. They resided for a time at the ola Headman Pottery in Rockhill, but returned later and purchased a farm adjoining the old Perkasie homestead, where the re- mainder of their lives were spent. The children of Jacob and Amanda Stout were : Maria, who married Tobias Weil ; Emma, who married George W. Kratz ; and Mah- lon H., the subject of this sketch. Judge Stout spent his boyhood days on the Rockhill farm and attended the -public schools of the neighborhood and the First State Normal School at Millersville, and taught school for four years. He after- wards entered Franklin and IMarshall 'College, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1878. He at once took up the study of law in the office of Adam J. Eberly, Esq., at Lancaster, and was admitted to the Lancaster county bar April 4, 1880, and to that of his native county in ]\Iay of the same year. After two years of practice at Doylestown he lo- cated in 1882 at Flulmeville, opening a law office there and having a branch office at Bristol. He was also a justice of the peace at Hulmeville. In 1886 he came to Doyles- town and formed a law partnership with cx-Judge Richard Watson, under the firm name of Watson & Stout, which continued until the death of Judge Watson in 1894. Mr. Stout was elected district attorney of Bucks county in 1888, and was unanimously nominated by his party to succeed himself three years later, but was defeated at the polls by the' late Paul H. Applebach, the ■candidate of the then dominant party. Mr. Stout was married November 13, 1894, to Miss Harriet Miller, of Downing- town, Pennsylvania. In 1898, his wife's health failing, he sacrificed his business and removed with her to Pasadena. California, with the hope of saving her life. While there he was admitted to the bar of that state and practiced law at Pasadena. His -wife died December 24, 1899, and their in- fant son Max on December 25, 1898. Mr. Stout returned to Doylestown in the spring of 1900, and again took up the prac- tice of law. In 1901 he formed a partner- ship with Harvey S. Kiser, Esq., under the firm name of Stout & Kiser, which con- tinued until the elevation of Mr. Stout to the bench. He was elected president judge in November, 1903, and entered upon the duties of his office in January, 1904. Judge Stout has always been a close student, and as a lawyer had the reputation of being one of the best counsellors at the bar, and his administration of the high office to which he has been elevated merits the trust re- posed in him by the large majority of voters who elected him. His calm and even tem- perament, his uniform courtesy, his sterling common sense, his devotion to principle and right, and his unquestioned knowledge of the law, have made his administration popular with all classes. JOHN C. SWARTLEY was born in Franconia township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1865, and is a son of Jacob S. and Elizabeth (Cassel) Swartley, both of whom are descendants of early German settlers in that locality of the Mennonite faith. John Schwardley, the pioneer ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ep- pingen, in Necker, grand duchy of Baden, Germany, in the year 1754. At the age of eighteen years, accompanied by his younger brothers, Jacob and Philip, he emigrated to Pennsylvania, arriving in Philadelphia September 30, 1772, in the ship, "Minerva," Captain James Johnston, from Rotterdam. He soon after found a home among his compatriots in Franconia township, where he married Magdalena Rosenberger, born December 18, 1759, daughter of the Rev. Henry Rosenberger, Mennonite minister at Franconia, and grand daughter of Henry Rosenberger, the pioneer ancestor of the Rosenberger family, who had taken up a large tract of land in Franconia in 1728. Rev. Henry Rosenberger was born Decem- ber 2, 1725, and died in 1809. He married in 1745 Barbara Oberholtzer, born in 1726, died February 3, 1765, daughter of Jacob and Barbara Oberholtzer, (or Overholt), who were early settlers in Bedminster township. Bucks county, where Jacob pur- chased land in 1749. Rev. Henry and Bar- bara (Oberholtzer) Rosenbergeir were the parents of eight children, five of whom sur- vived and left descendants, viz : Anna, who married (first) Michael Leatherman and (second) John Loux, both of Bedminster; Elizabeth, married Mark Fretz ; Barbara, married Daniel Rickert ; all of Bucks county ; Magdalena, above named ; and Sar- ah, who married Philip Schwardley, the youngest brother of John Schwardley, above named. John and Magdalena Schwardley lived and died on a portmn of the Rosen- berger homestead in Franconia, still in the tenure of iheir descendants, and were the parents of nine children, viz : John, Jacob, Samuel, Abraham, Joseph, Henry, Philip R., Elizabeth and Mary. Philip R. Swartley, son of John and Magdalena, was born on the old homestead in Franconia, January 2, 1795, and died there July 30, 1880. He married Annie C. Shoemaker, and their son Jacob S. Swart- ley, born in 1821, died 1867, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born and reared on the old homestead in Fran- conia, and followed farming and milling 86 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. (luring the brief period of bis nianbood. His wife, Elizabeth Cassel, was a descend- ant of early German settlers on the Skip- pack, who have left numerous descendants of the name in Bucks and Montgomery counties and elsewhere. She is still living in Lansdale. Pennsylvania. John C. Swartley, the subject of this sketch, left an orphan at the age of two years, was reared in the family of his maternal uncle, Abraham F. Delp, in the township of New Britain, Bucks county, and acquired his elementary education in the public schools of that township. He entered the First state normal school at Millersville in 1885, and graduated in 1888. For the next two years he was principal of the North Wales high schools, in Mont- gomery county. In 1890 he entered the law department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which he graduated in 1893, in the meantime reading law in the office of Henry Lear, Esq.. at Doylestown. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in June, 1893, and in August of the same year to the bar of Bucks county, and at once be- gan the practice of his profession at the county seat. Soon after admission to the bar he became active and influential in pol- itical circles, and served for three years as chairman of the Republican county com- mittee. In the fall of 1897 he was elected to the office of district attorney for the term of three years, and filled that position with ability. He has always been active in the councils of his party, and has served as delegate to state and congressional con- ventions. He was appointed January i, 1903, assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a posi- tion which he still fills. In 1903 he formed a co-partnership at law with Wesley Bunt- ing, Esq., and the firm have a good prac- tice in the several courts of Bucks county. Mr. Swartley was married on October 24, 1900, to Agnes Darlington, daughter of the late Henry T. and Susan Darlington, of Doylestown, and this union has been blessed with two children — John C. Jr., and Mar- garet Darlington. (A sketch of the career and ancestry of Mrs. Swartley's distinguished father, Henry T. Darlington, will be found in this volume.) LEE S. CLYAffiR, of Riegelsville. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, one of the prominent manufacturers and business men of uppei Bucks, was born at Mt. Laurel Furnace. Berks -county, Pennsylvania. (Temple post-- office) April 2, 1863, and is a son of Will- iam Hiester and Valeria (Smith) Clymer. His father was for many years proprietor of the Mt. Laurel furnace. Mr. Clymer comes of a distinguished ancestry both in this country and in Europe, only brief men- tion of which can be given in the scope of this brief sketch. Richard Clymer, the pa- ternal ancestor, was a native of Bristol, England, from whence he migrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1705, ac- companied by his mother, Catharine Clymer, and a brother William, who died in 1740 without issue. Richard Clymer was ' a. shipping merchant and shipbuilder; he died August 18, 1734, leaving several children, of whom only his sons, Christopher and William have left descendants. George Clymer, the signer of the Declaration of In- dependence, was a son of the former. William Clymer, son of Richard, was a captain in the English navy, commanding the frigate "Penzance" during the reign of George II, and was lost at sea, leaving a will dated October 16, 1760. He married at Christ Church, Philadelphia, January 19, 1742, Ann Judith Roberdeau, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Conyngham) Roberdeau, and sister to General Daniel Roberdeau, the friend of Franklin, and one of the most distinguished patriots in Pennsylvania dur- ing the Revolution. Ann Judith (Rober- deau) Clymer was born on the Island of St. Christopher, West Indies, in the year 1725, and died at Morgantown, Berks county, Pennsylvania, April, 1782. Isaac I Roberdeau, father of Mrs. Clymer, was a native of Rochelle, France, and fled to the , island of St. Christopher, one of the Brit- I ish West Indies, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Here he met and married Mary Conyngham, born at Cayou, on that island, April 4, 1699. daughter of Robert Conyngham, born in Scotland, March 24, 1669, and his wife Judith Eliza- beth de Bonneson, a native of Morlais, France, the former of whom traced his des- cent back through a long line of kings and princes royal to William the Conqueror, and in his own direct line to Malcolm, son of Friskine, who assisted Malcolm Can- more, afterwards King of Scotland, to es- cape from ]\IacBeth"s tyranny and treason, and was in return made Thane of Conyng- ham, from which his posterity afterwards took their surname. Robert Conyngham, of St. Christopher, left an immense estate in St. Christopher and in Scotland, a portion of which he entailed in the male line, and which was the subject of litigation a cen- tury later on the male line bearing his sur- name becoming extinct. Isaac and Mary (Conyngham) Roberdeau were the parents of three children, all born at St. Christo- pher, viz : Elizabeth, born 1724, who died unmarried ; Ann Judith, who married Will- iam Clymer; and Daniel, the eminent mer- chant, statesman and patriot before referred to. Isaac Roberdeau died at St. Christo- pher, and his widow and children removed to Philadelphia while the children were still in their minority, where the widow married a man by name of Keighly, but was again a widow many years prior to her death, which occurred March 13, 1771. Daniel Conyngham Clymer, only son of William and Ann Judith (Roberdeau) Cly- mer, was born in Philadelphia. April 6^ 1748. His father dying when he was a child, he was educated under the care of his distinguished uncle. General Daniel Rober- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 87 dcau. He graduated at Princeton in 1766, studied law and became eminent in his pro- fession. At the beginning of the Revolu- tion he at once joined the Associators of that city and was commissioned a lieutenant. April -8, 1776, he was commissioned lieu- tenant-colonel and placed in command of a rifle battalion. He was appointed in 1775 and again in 1776 by Congress as a signer of Bills of Credit, and held the offices of deputy commissary-general of prisoners and commissioner of claims of the treasury. During the closing years of the Revolution he removed to Reading, Berks county, and represented that county in the legislature in 1782 and several succeeding terms. He died at Reading, January 25, 1810. He had married in 1782 Mary Weidner, daughter of Peter and Susan Weidner, of Berks county, who died December 5, 1802, in her forty- sixth year. Their children were Ann, born 1782, who died unmarried in 1852; Will- iam, born 1788, died October 10, 1845, an eminent lawyer of Reading; and Edward Tilgham, born August 14, 1790, died March 6, 18.31. Edward Tilghman Clymer was born at Reading, Berks county, and was educated at Princeton. He married June II, 1818, Maria Catharine Hiester, daughter of William and Anna Maria (Meyer) Hiester. She was born March 4>_ 1793, and died March 24, 1845. Edward Tilghman was a man of scholarly attam- ments, and follows 1. Daniel Roberdeau. a merchant and lawyer of Reading, born March ,31. i8ig, died May 5, 1889, aged seventy years, 2. William Hiester, the father of the subject of this sketch; see forward. 3. Edward Myers, born July 16, 1822, died May 25, 188.?, in New York City, pro- jector and first president of the East Penn- sylvania railroad, later president of a coal company connected with the N. Y., L. E. & W. Railroad Companv, with offices in New York. 4. Wiedner, born May 12, 1824, died July 16, 1824. 5. Mary Hiester. born July 19, 1825, drowned in the English Channel November 26, 1878, with two of her children ; mar- ried August 10, 1852, her cousin, William Bingham Clymer, son of Henry, and grand- son of George Clymer, the Signer, who was jDorn April 18, 1801, at Morrisville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, died May 28, 1873, at Florence, Italy. 6. Hon. Hiester Clymer, born Novemlier 3, 1827, died June 12, 1884; lawyer, state senator, congressman. Democratic candidate for governor, president of Union Trust Company, etc. 7. George Edward - Clymer, born Jan- uary 8, 1830, died July 7, 1895, major of Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the civil war and prominent in the iron and steel indus- tries. William Hiester Clymer, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at the Clymer homestead in the Conestoga Valley, near Morgantown, Berks county, October 9, 1820. His father dying when he was eleven years of age, he was placed with his uncle, William Hiester, at New Holland, Lancaster county, arid was educated at Lititz, and assisted his uncle in his store. He later removed to Reading, where he and his brother, Daniel R., conducted a dry goods store until 1846, when he sold out to Daniel, and with his brother Edward M., purchased the Mt. Laurel iron furnace. They built the Temple iron furnace in 1867, and, having seven years previously pur- chased the old Oley furnace, became exten- sive manufacturers of iron, organizing the Temple Iron Company in 1870, and later the Clymer Iron Company, both of which W^illiam H. Clymer was president, until September, 1882, when he resigned and re- moved with his family to Reading, where he died July 26, 1883. He was president of the First National Bank of Reading from 1876 to his death. He married, June 12^ 1855, Valeria Smith, eldest daughter of Levi B. Smith, who was born March 14, 1828,. and died August 17, 1901. They were the parents of six children : Emily Smith ; Ed- ward Tilghman ; William Hiester ; Lee Smith ; Valeria Elizabeth ; and Frederick Hiester. The ancestors of Maria Catharine Hies- ter, the grandmother of the subject of this sketch, were of Silesian origin, her first American ancestor being Daniel Hiester, the youngest of three brothers, John, Jo- seph and Daniel, who emigrated from Wit- genstein, in Westphalia, to Pennsylvania, early in the eighteenth century, and took up their residence in Goshenhoppen, now Mont- gomery county. Daniel had several sons, of whom John, born April 9, 174S, was a mem- ber of congress from Chester county 1807-8 and was succeeded by his son Daniel ; Dan- iel, a representative in congress from Mont- gomery county, 1789-97, and from Mary- land 1801-5 ; Gabriel, for thirty year's a member of the state legislature from Berks county; and William. All four of these sons of Daniel Hiester were in the conti- nental service during the revolution, the two elder as colonels, the third as a major,. while William, the youngest, born June 10, 1757. being required to look after his aged parents, did not serve but one campaign. Joseph Hiester, governor of Pennsylvania, was the only son of John, and a cousin of the four brothers above named. Daniel Hiester. the elder, was born m the town of Elsoff, county of Witgenstein,. province of Westplialia, in Silesia, Ger- many, January r. 1713, and died in J^erii township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1795. His wife was Catharine Schuler, whom he married September 29, 1742. She was born Sepiember 10, 1717, and died August 17, 1789, aged seventy-two years, eleven months and seven days. William Hiester, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, born at Go.sh- enhoppen. Upper Salford township, Mont- gomery county, June 10, 1757, was the youngest son of Daniel and Catharine 88 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. (Schulcr) Hiester. He was seventeen years of age when his parents removed to Reading, and remained with his parents in Reading for ten years. He then removed to Bern township, where he died July 13, 1822. He was a private in Captain George Will's company, in 1777, in the battalion commanded by his brother, Major Gabriel Hiester. He married. March 18, 1784, Anna Maria Meyer, daughter of Isaac Meyer, the founder of Meyerstown, Pennsylvania. She was born December 28, 1758, and died October 4, 1822. They were the parents of eight children, the fifth of whom. Maria Catharine, born March 4, 179.3. was the wife of Edward Tilghman Clymer. Lee S. Clymer, born at the Mt. Laurel Furnace. April 2, 1863, was educated at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, taking a special course in chemistry. On leaving college he accepted a position as chemist for the Minnesota Iron Company, which he filled for one year. In 1885 he opened a general laboratory at Reading, Pennsylvania. In December, 1886. he left Reading and took a position as chemist for the Carnegie Company at the Edgar Thom- as Furnace. Braddock, Pennsylvania, where he remained for one year. In October. 1887, he came to Bucks county as chemist for the Durham Iron Company, and filled that position for two years, when he was made superintendent of the Request Iron Fur- nace, near Oxford, New Jersey, where he remained until the furnace was about to be closed in the autumn of 1890. He then accepted a position as superintendent of the Lehigh Iron Company's works near Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he re- mained for about eight months. During a part of the next two years he was superin- tendent for the Thomas Iron Company's furnaces at Hellertown, Pennsylvania. In 1895 he erected and equipped the Durham Knitting Mills, at Riegelsville, Bucks coun- ty, which he has since sucessfully operated. He also operates several fine farms in Dur- ham township, and is interested in the breeding of standard bred horses and thor- oughbred cattle. He recently became half owner of what was the Lehigh Power Company, located at Raubsville, Pennsyl- vania. It is proposed to operate this plant under the name of the Clymer Power Com- pany. He married, June 11, 1891, Clara Matilda Riegel, daughter of the late John L. and Lydia (Stover) Riegel. by whom he has two children. John Riegel, born April 14, 1892, and Valeria Smith, born January 12, 1896. JACOB F. CLYMER. The Clymer fam- ily, of which Jacob F. Clymer. a prosperous farmer of New Britain township is a worthy representative, is one of the oldest in the township, and have always been highly es- teemed for the many excellent characteris- tics displayed by them both in public and private life. Jonas Clymer, grandfather of Jacob F. Clymer. resided on the farm now owned by Jacob F. Clymer. He was a shoemaker by trade, and this occupation he followed in connection with agricultural pursuits during the early years of his life, but as he advanced in years he abandoned the former line of work entirely, devoting his entire attention to the latter. He served as supervisor of his township for seven years, his long term of office attesting to his capability. He adhered to the tenets of the Mennonite church, in which he served as trustee ; he was formerly a Whig in pol- itics, and later a Republican. He married Hannah Clymer, daughter of Henry Cly- mer, and their children were : John, Will- iam C. Henry. Levi, Elizabeth, Sarah, Amanda and Hannah. William C. Chmer, father of Jacob F. Clymer. was reared on his father's farm in New Britain township, educated in the com- mon schools of the neighborhood, and upon the death of his father succeeded to the homestead. In connection with his exten- sive farming operations he engaged in the produce commission business for thirty years, deriving a goodly income from both enterprises, and thus was enabled to pro- vide a comfortable home for his family. The esteem in which he was held by his fellow- townsmen was evidenced by the fact that he was the incumbent of the office of school director twelve j'ears and supervisor one year. He was a trustee of the Mennonite church, the doctrines of which he firmly be- lieved in, and his political views were in accord with those of the Republican party. By his marriage to Elizabeth Fretz, only child of Joseph and Mary (Markley) Fretz, four children were born: Jacob F., Charles who died at the age of twenty years ; Jonas, who is engaged in business in Philadelphia; and Harvey, also engaged in business in Philadelphia. Mary (Fretz) Clymer, moth- er of these children, died in 1884. and ]\Ir. Clymer married for his second wife Lydia A. Swartley. widow of Philip Swartley. Jacob F. Clymer was born in New Britain township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 16. 1862. He was reared on the old homestead, and his educational advantages were obtained by attendance at the com- mon schools. His whole life has been spent on the farm where he was born, his occu- pation being that of farming, for which he is eminently qualified, as is clearly shown by the appearance of his broad acres and com.modious outbuildings. Mr. Clymer has served as supervisor of the township nine 3'ears. his duties during that time being performed in a highly creditable and ef- ficient manner. In religious and political faith he follows in the footsteps of his fore- fathers, being a member and trustee of the Mennonite church and a Republican. In 1887 l\Ir. Clymer married Anna Mary Swartley, daughter of Philip and Lydia Swartley, and they are the parents of one son, Vincent, born June 30, 1892. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 89 THE FOULKE FAMILY that has been prominent in the ofificial, professional and business life of Bucks. Montgomery and Philadelphia counties for many generations as well as in that of far distant states and cities, is descended from Edward Foulke, who emigrated from Wales in 1698 and set- tled in Gwynedd, now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. An acount of his ancestry, tracing in unbroken line to "John King of England, born December 24, 1166. crowned May 27, 1216," and an account of his com- ing to America, etc., the latter written by himself under date of ii-mo. 14. 1702, con- tains among other things the following : "When arrived at mature age, I married Eleanor, the daughter of Hugh, ap (son of) Cadwallader, ap Rhys of the parish of Spytu in Denbighshire. Her mother's name was Gwen the daughter of Ellis ap William, ap Hugh, ap Thomas, ap David, ap Madoc. ap Evan, ap Cott, ap Evan, ap Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Einion, ap Meredith of Cai-Fadog: she was born in the same parish and shire with her husband. I had by my said wife nine children, whose names are as follows: Thomas, Hugh. Cadwall- ader. and Evan ; Grace. Gwen, Jane, Cath- arine, and Margaret. We lived at a place called Coedy-foel, a beautiful farm belong- ing to Roger Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, of Merionethshire, aforesaid. But in progress of time I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pennsylvania ; and in order thereto we set out on the 3d day of the 2d-month, A. D. 1698, and came in two days to Liverpool, where with divers others, who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping, the 17th of the same month, on board the "Robert and Elizabeth," and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived, and stayed until the ist of the 3d month. May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the "bloody flux broke out in the vessel, of which died five and forty persons in our passage. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast over- board every day while it lasted. But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence. I. with my wife and nine chil- dren, escaped that sore mortality and ar- rived safe at Philadelphia, the 17th day of the sth-month. July, where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintances. I soon purchased a fine tract of land of about sev- en hundred acres, sixteen miles from Phila- delphia, on a part of which I settled, and divers others of our company, who came over sea with us, settled near me at the same time. This was the beginning of November, 1698, aforesaid, and the ^own- ship was called Gwynedd or North Wales." According to his own narrative Edward Foulke was born 5th mo. 14th. 1651, and taking the age given by the Meeting Rec- ords at time of his death would place the date of his death in 17,39. All of his nine children lived to mature age, married and reared families. The only two in whom Bucks countians have any especial interest were his eldest son Thomas, and second son Hugh. Gwen, the eldest daughter, married Alexander Edwards, Jr., who was a land owner in Bucks county and has descendants here. Grace mar- ried John Griffith, of Merion, Chester county. Jane married Ellis Hugh, and set- tled at Exeter, Berks county, and left nu- merous descendants of the name of Hughes. Catharine married Theophilus Williams, of Montgomery. Margaret married Nicholas Roberts. Thomas Foulke, eldest son of Ed- ward and Eleanor, born in Merionethshire, \yales, immigrant to Gwynedd. 1698, with his parents, married at Gwynedd. 4 mo. 27, 1706. Gwen Evans, daughter of David, of Radnor, and settled at Gwynedd on part of the Edward Foulke tract. He died in 1762, and his wife in 1760. They were the par- ents of eight children, of whom the two oldest Edward (1707-1770) and William (1708-1775) had descendants in Bucks. Dr. Joseph Foulke, for many years a practicing physician of Buckingham, was a great grandson of Edward, through his son Hugh (1752-1831), a noted minister among Friends, who married Ann Roberts, their son Joseph (1786-1863). who married Eliza- beth Shoemaker, being the father of the Buckingham physician. Dr. Charles Foulke, born December 14, 1815, died December 30, 1871, for many years a practicing phy- sician at New Hope. Bucks county, and the father of Dr. Richard C. Foulke, still practicing there, was also a great-great- grandson of Thomas Foulke and Gwen Evans. His father. Edward Foulke, of Gwynedd (1784-1851). married Tacy Jones, and his grandfather, Amos Foulke, (1740- 1791) one of the firm of Caleb and Amos Foulke. merchants of Philadelphia, was the son of William, second son of Thomas and Gwen. who married Hannah Jones, of Montgomery. Hugh Foulke. second son of Edward and Eleanor, born in Merionethshire, in 1685, married, in 1713. Ann Williams, born 11 mo. 8, 1693, died gvao. 10, 1773, daughter of John Williams, of Montgomery, and settled in Richland, Bucks county, soon after his marriage, and died there 5mo. 21, 1760. He was a minister of the Society of Friends for iorty years. He is the ancestor of many present residents of Bucks county, through comparatively few of the name now reside in the county. The children of Hugh and Ann (Wil- liams) Foulke were; — Mary, born 1714, died 2mo. 29. 1756, married James Boone, of Exeter, Berks county, son of George the elder, and brother of Squire Boone, the father of Daniel, the pioneer of Kentucky. Their eldest daughter, Ann, married Abra- ham Lincoln, of the family of the martyred president. Martha, born Smo. 22. 1716, died 4mo. 17. 1781, married (first), October 4, 1738, William Edwards, of Milford, Bucks county, and (second) John Roberts. Samuel, born 1718, died 1797, married Ann 90 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Greasley. He was one of tlie most promi- nent men in upper Bucks county, serving in the Provincial Assembly 1761 to 1768. He was a surveyor and conveyancer, and transacted a large amount of public busi- ness for his neighbors. He was clerk of Richland Meeting from its organization in 1742 for thirty years, and an elder until his death, notwithstanding the fact that he and his brothers, John Thomas, and The- ophilus and nephew, Everard, were dis- owned in I 781 for having taken the oath of allegiance, the action of the Meeting not being sanctioned by the Yearly Meeting. He translated the "narrative" of his grand- father, Edward Eoulke, from Welsh into English. John Foulke, born i2mo. 21, T722, died 5mo. 25, 1787, married Mary Roberts, daughter of Edward Roberts, a noted minister amcrng Friends of Richland. John was also a member of Provincial Assembly from Bucks county from 1769 to 1775. Thomas Foulke. born in Rich- land 8mo. 14, 1724, died 3mo. 31, 1786, married Jane Roberts, another daughter of Edward Roberts, of Richland. See for- ward. Theophilus Foulke, born in Rich- land, i2mo. 21, 1726. died iimo. 4, 1785, married Margaret Thomas, daughter of Samuel and Margaret. Of their twelve children Benjamin, born iimo. ig, 1766, died 2mo. 28, 1821, was a member of as- sembly from Bucks county, 1816 to his death in 1821, at Harrisburg in attendance upon the session of the legislature. He was given an official funeral, which was attended by both houses, the governor, and heads of departments, and resolutions were adopted that crape should be worn during the remainder of the session. William Foulke, born i2mo. 10, 1728, died 4mo. II, 1796, married Priscilla Lester, daughter of John of Richland. Edward Foulke, born lomo. ig, I72g, died March i, 1747, unmarried. Ann Foulke, born imo. i, 1732, married William Thomas. Jane Foulke, born imo. 3, 1734, died 8mo., 1771, married John Greasley. Thomas Foulke, of Richland, son of Hugh and Ann (Williamsj Foulke, born imo. 14, 1724, died 3mo. 31, 1786, was a life long resident of Richland township, and a prominent man in the community. He was a member of Richland Monthly Meet- ing, and like his brothers was dealt with for taking the oath to the United Colonies in 1781. His wife, Jane Roberts, born Iimo. 3, 1732, died 7 mo. 25, 1822, was a daughter of Edward and Mary (Bolton). Roberts, of Richland, the former a native of Merionethshire, born 3mo., 1687, came to Pennsylvania in i69g, and settled in Byberry, Pliiladelphia county. He married, in 1714, Mary Bolton, born in Cheltenham, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber 4, 1687, daughter of Everard and Eliza- beth Bolton, who came from Ross, Hert- fordshire, England, in 1682, and settled in Cheltenham. F.verard Bolton was a just- ice of Philadelphia county, and a very prominent man in Colonial times. The children of Thomas and Jane (Roberts> Foulke were: — Everard, born gmo. 8, 1755, died gmo. 5, 1-827; Abigail, born lomo. 4, 1763: Susan, born iimo. 5, 1766; Samuel, born iimo. ig, 1767; Ed- ward and Samuel, died in infancy. Everard Foulke, son of Thomas and Jane, was one of the justices of the peace of Richland for many years. He was one of the assessors of the United States taxes, w'hen John Fries raised his rebellion in I7g8, in upper Bucks and Northampton counties, against the collection of the tax, and was one of the assessors attacked in Lower Milford and at Quakertown by the insurrectionists and forced to desist from performing their duty. He married, in 1778, Ann DeHaven, of Holland ancestry and they were the parents of nine children, as follows: — Abigail, born 5 mo. 18, I77g, married Abel Penrose, see Penrose family in this work; Eleanor, born 7mo. 18, 1 781, died 4 mo. 28, 1815, unmarried; Caleb, see forward; Samuel, born 3 mo. 28, 1786, married Elizabeth John- son; Thomas, born 4 mo. 13, I78g, died in Kentucky; Susanna, born g mo. 18, I7gi, died 1883, married David Johnson; Anna, born 5 mo. 3, 1794, died 9 mo. 16,' 1820; Margaret, born 12 mo. 24, 1796, married Peter Lester in 1820; Everard, born 7 mo. 21, 1800, married Frances Watson, daughter of John Watson, of Buckingham, and removed to Illinois. Caleb Foulke, son of Everard and Ann (DeHaven) Foulke, was born in Richland, 8 mo. 28, 1783, died 2 mo. 22, \ 1852, was also a lifelong resident of Richland. He married, 11 mo. 26, 1807, Jane Green, born 2 mo. 8. 1785, died 3 mo. 3, 1835, daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Roberts) Green. Benjamin Green was a son of Joseph and Cath- arine (Thomas) Green, of Springfield, Bucks county, and was born in Spring- field. 4 mo. 27, 1750. died in Quaker- town. He was a hatter in Springfield and later in Quakertown. The children of Caleb and Jane (Green) Foulke were: — Caroline, died in infancy; Caro- line, born 2 mo. 25, 1810, died 12 mo. 17. 1838; Maryetta, born 7 mo. 30, 1811, died 4 mo. 26, 185 1, married Aaron Pen- rose; Benjamin G. (see forward); and Eleanor, born 3 mo. 12. t8i6, died 8 mo. 13, 1842, married Samuel J^ Levick. Benjamin G. Foulke, son of Caleb and Jane (Green) Foulke, was born at Qua- kertown, and died there 8 mo. 14. 1888. He was clerk of the men's branch of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting from 1873 to 1886. He w^as a prominent busi- ness man of Quakertown for a half cen- iniy and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was a surveyor and conveyancer and did a large amount of public' business. He married, in 1838,, Jane Mather, born 3 mo. 24. 1817. daugh- ter of Charles and Jane Mather, of Whitpain. Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. Their children were, Caleb. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 91 born 12 mo. 3, 1839, died 10 mo. 20, 1865; Charles M.. born 7 mo. 25, 1841, educated at Foiilke's school at Gwyn- edd, and Friends' Central School, Phila- delphia; entered mercantile business in Philadelphia, 1861, retired 1872, married at Paris,. France, December 10, 1872, Sar.Th A. Cushing. of New York city; Job Roberts, born 2 mo. 23, 1843; Anna S., born 1846; and Eleanor, 1850. Job Roberts Foulke, son of Benjamin G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke, born at Quakertown, 2 mo. 23, 1843, has been trust officer of the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia for many years. He married, 5 mo. 25, 1869, Emma Bullock, daughter of Samuel and Jemima R. Bullock, of Mt. Holly, Ne\Y Jersey, and has two children; Roland Roberts, and Rebecca Mulford. Roland Roberts, a member of the Philadelphia bar, married, June 6, 1900, Ellen R. Griffith, daughter of Manuel E. and Mary E. Griffith, of Philadelphia. Eleanor Foulke, daughter of Benja- min G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke, is, the only one of the family to retain her residence in Bucks county. She resides at the old family mansion at Quaker- town, and is unmarried. WILLIAM HENRY FOULKE, one of the enterprising, practical farmers of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was there born in Richland Centre. July 4, 1841, on the farm he now occupies and cultivates, it being one of the original Foulks homesteads. William is the son of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts) Foulke, and grandson of Hugh Foulke, who was a farmer by occupation and the founder and a trustee of the subscription schools of his district. He is a descendant of Hugh Foulke, the first of the name born in America. An old Bible now in the possession of Mrs. Susan Hannah Biehn, sister of William Henry Foulke. gives the record of his birth. July, 1685. and death, May 21, 1760. He married Ann , who was born November 3, 1693, and died September 10, 1773. They were the parents of the following named children: i. Mary, born September 24, 1714; 2. Martha, June 2. 1716; 3. Sam- uel, December 4, 1718: 4- Ellen, Janu- ary 19, 1720; 5. John, December 21, 1722; 6. Thomas, January 14. 1724; 7- William, December 10, 1728; 8. Edward, October 19, 1729; 9. Ann, January I, 1732; 10. Jane, January 3, 1734. Hugh Foulke, father of William Hen- ry Foulke, was born in Richland town- ship, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. His education was obtained in the subscrip- tion schools of his district, and the fol- lowed the quiet but useful calling of a farmer. He married Miss Sarah Rob- erts, daughter of John and Sarah Rob- erts, and the following children were the issue of this union: i. Catherine, born September 6, 1835. married Isaac Tomlinson, of New Britain township; 2. Julia Ann, born December 4, 1839, married Henry Dotts of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania; 3. William Henry, mentioned at length herein after; 4. Sa- rah Martha, born August 19, 1843, mar- ried (first) David Hillegas, of Quaker- town, and (second) Henry Sonders, far- mer, of lower Richland township; 5. Charles Edward, born in 1845, married, 1870, Anna, the daughter of Warner and Alice (Singley) Haycock, farmers, Whitemarsh township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania; 6. Elizabeth, born March 6, 1847, married Charles Miller, and resides at Hockerstown, Montgomery county; 7. Hester Ellen, born November 16, 1850, married Nicho- las Martin, of Stowe. Montgomery county; 8. Susan Hannah, born Octo- ber 25, 1852, married Andrew Biehn, lives at PaletQwn, Richland township; 9. Anna, born April 15. i860, married Fran- cis Fellman. William Henry Foulke, third child and eldest son of Hugh and Sarah (Rob- erts) Foulke, obtained his educational training in the Rocky Ridge public school at Paletown, remaining there until his nineteenth year. After leaving the school William assisted with the farm work, and later he and his brother, Charles Edward, purchased the place. They were engaged in the cultivation of the farm until 1891, when the partner- ship was dissolved. William sold his interest in the property to Charles and purchased the Hugh Foulke farm, the old family homestead, comprising sev- enty-two acres of improved land and forest. Mr. Foulke is an industrious, useful member of the community, and an excellent farmer. In matters of poli- tics he affiliates with the Republican party, and, although he takes a deep and lasting interest in the welfare of that organization has never aspired to public office. He is actively interested in edu- cational affairs, and served twelve years as school director. January 25, 1883, William Henry Foulke was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Pilgrim. V. S.. of New York city, and widow of George S. Plant, Esq., of Nor- folk. England. Mrs. Foulke was born at Hudson, on the Hudson river, near Albany, New York, May 31. 1847- Dm"- ing her first husband's life she lived for a time in England, and later near Quak- ertown. Mrs. Foulke is a woman of bright and active disposition and assists in the management of the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Foulke are the parents of one child, Mary Elizabeth, born June 5, 1888; she was educated in the public schools of Paletown, and now resides at home with her parents. 92 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. CHARLES EDWARD FOULKE, an old resident and worthy representative of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was there born in Richland Center in 1845, the son of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts) Foulke. Mention of the ancestral his- tory of Mr. Foulke is made in the pre- ceding sketch of his brother, William Henry Foulke. Charles obtained his edu- cation in the Rockridge public school, continuing there until he was eighteen years of age. He then engaged in as- sisting with the home farm work, and later spent six months in Quakertown with Mr. Richard Moore. He subse- quently purchased the home farm in partnership with his brother William, and in the spring of 1891 purchased his brother's interest, and has since contin- ued alone in the conduct of the farm. Mr. Foulke is one of the progressive farmers of the county, his farm compris- ing one hundred and seven acres of mostly improved land. In politics Mr. Foulke is a strong advocate of the prin- ciples of the Republican party, has al- ways taken a lively interest in local af- fairs, and has served as committeeman of his township. He and his wife are members of the Society of Friends of Quakertown Meeting. In 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Hoycock, daughter of War- ner and Alice (Singley) Hoycock, farm- ers of White Marsh township, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania. The fol- lowing named children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Foulke: i. Linford, born December 21, 1872, married, June 6, 1900, Miss Mary C. Gerhart, daughter of Edward and Caroline (Lewis) Gerhart; Linford Foulke, lives at Quakertown, is carrier of U. S. mails, rural free deTiv- ery, and a dealer in agricultural imple- ments, wagons and farrhers' supplies; 2. Joseph, born August 27, 1874, married Miss Katharine, daughter of William and Elizabeth Neanan, of Richland; he lives in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and is a carpenter for J. W. Stoneback; 3. Herbert Theophalus, born September 17, 187s, lives at home and assists his father on the farm; unmarried; 4. Oschar Clif- ford, born January 20. 1878, married January i, 1904, Martha, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Weaver) Smith; lives at Quakertown, Pennsylvania; stove moulder for Roberts. Winner & Com- pany. 5. Chester A. Foulke, born Au- gust 25, i88r, lives at home, unmarried, and is a weaver in the Quakertown silk mill. THE VAN HORN FAMILY. The family of Van Horn has been a promi- nent one in Bucks county for two cen- turies, filling important positions in the official, professional and business life of the county in every generation and constantly sending out its representa- tives to fill like important positions in other localities and states, its represen- tatives now being found in nearly every state in the Union. The pioneer ancestor of the family was Christian Barendtse, that is Chris- tian, son of Barendt, who it is said came from Hooren, a city of the Zuyder Zee, about twenty-five miles from Amster- dam The exact date of his arrival in America is not known. He was a car- penter by trade, and the records of New Amsterdam show that he and a fellow craftsman, Auke Jansen, were appoint- ed, March 10, 1653, by the burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam to view a house, about the building of which there was some litigation. These records further show that he was fre- quently appointed a referee during the next four or five years. And he is shown to have contributed towards the strengthening of the city wall on Octo- ber IS, 1655. He is also said to have been with the force sent out from New Amsterdam, September 5, 1655, against the Swedes and Finns on the south (now Delaware) river, at Fort Chris- tina. On his return to New Amsterdam he was appointed January 18, 1656, a fire warden, in place of Johan Paul Jacquet, who had resigned and "re- moved to the South River in New Netherlands." On April 17, 1657, he was admitted a "Small Burgher" of New Amsterdam, an honor which carried with it the freedom of trade and a right to membership in the respective guilds of the town, and conferred upon na- tives of the city, residents there one year and six weeks before the date of the charter, burgher's sons-in-law, city storekeepers, salaried servants of the company and all paying the sum of twenty-five guilders. On August I, 1657, Christian Barentze, carpenter, was granted by Peter Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland, a lot in New Amsterdam, by the Land Gate, (now at Broadway and Wall streets) for a house and garden. He also owned several other properties in the neighbor- hood, some of which are said to have covered a part of the present Trinity churchyard. Probably as a result of his trip to the South river. Christian Barentse and Joost Rugger and possibly others obtained a grant of land on the south side of None Such creek, a tribu- tary of the Chrisiana. near the present site of Wilmington. Delaware, and be- gan the erection thereon of a tide water mill. According to Amos C. Brinton, who has given much attention to the an- cient mill sites of Delaware Barentse and Rugger, he began the erection of this mill in 1656. From the dates previ- ously given, however, as well as from other records, it would appear that the date of Christain Barentse. removal to the Delaware was sometime in the 5^ear HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 93 1657. Contemporary records also refer to the mill as a "horse mill," the truth of the matter being most probably that the horse mill was set up to serve until the tide water mill was completed. The low marshy nature of the land and the turning up of the mud to the sun caused an epidemic from which Barentse died July 26, 1658. A letter written by Vice- Director Jacob Alricks, from New Ani- stel, (New Castle) to Stuyvesant, under date of September 5, 1658, and published in documents relating to tTie Colonial History of New York, vol. xii, p. 224, relates entirely to the affairs of the wid- ow and children of Christian Barentse. It states that the widow had requested within three days of his burial that she desired to return to New Amsterdam, and that the property which he left be sold and that though he consents there- to he "advised and proposed to her that it woulld be for her best to remain in possession, she should be assisted in completing the mill, with income where- of, which through the grists she would be able to diminish the expenses and live decently and abundantly with her children on the surplus, besides that she had yet three or four cows with sheep and hogs, which also could help her to maintain her family, she and her children should have remained on and in her and the father's estate, which was in good condition here, wherein the widow with the children could have con- tinued reputably and in position to much advantage; but she would not listen to advice, * * * tj^at she was to be restricted in her inclinations and well being, which I shall never think of, much less do." The wife of Christian Barentse was Jannetje Jans, and it is probable that they were married before coming to America, as the baptism of their eldest child is not recorded in the New York church. On December 12, 1658, Jannetje Jans, widow and ex- ecutrix of Christian Barents, presented an inventory of his goods and chattels to the court at New Amsterdam, and requested that Vice-Director Alricks, "Director of the City's Colony on the South River, where her husband died, be written to in order that the chattels which are there may be sent from the South river to this place." The widow married on September 12, 1658, Laurens Andriessen Van Boskerk, who was born in Holstein, Denmark. He was a mem- ber of Bergen court in 1667, its presi- dent in 1682, a member of the governor's council for many years. He died in 1693 and Jannetje on July 13, 1694. They were the parents of four children, Andries, Lourens, Peter, and Thomas, the two latter, according to the Dutch custom, being known as Lourensons, appear later to have become known by the name of Lawrence. Peter joined his half-brother, Barant Christian Van Horn, in his purchase of land in Bucks county in 1703. His youngest son John married Alee Van Horn, granddaugh- ter of Christian Barents, and his daugh- ter Jannetje, married Cornelius Corson, of Staten Island, and became the ances- tress of the Bucks county Corsons. The children of Christian Barents and Jannetje Jans were as follows: Barendt Christian Van Horn, born in Holland, married Geertje Dircks; died in Bergen county. New Jersey, in 1726. 3. Cor- nelius Van Horn, baptized August 3, 1653, married Margaret Van de Berg, died in Bergen county in 1729. 4. Jan Van Horn, baptized March 18, 1657, married Lena Boone, died in Bergen county. 2.' Barent Christian Van Horn, eld- est son of Christian Barents and Jannet- je Jans, as before stated was probably born in Holland, a theory which is borne out by the early date at which he ac- quired title to land. On March 26, 1667, Governor Philip Carteret granted to Barent Christian, of Menkaque, planter, fifty acres of land at Pembrepach and eighty-five acres on the bay called Kill Van Kull, both in Bergen county. On September 29, 1697, he obtained a grant from the proprietors of East Jersey, 160 acres on "Hackingsack River," joining that of his half brother Thomas Law- renson (Van Boskerk). On May 15, 1703, Barnard Christian and his half- brother, Peter Lawrence, purchased i,- 000 acres of Robert Heaton, on Ne- shaminy creek, in Bucks county, which on September 18, 1707, they partitioned between them. Two days later, Sep- tember 20, 1707, Barnard Christian con- vej^ed his portion to his two sons, Peter and Christian Barnson, Peter receiving 257 acres and Christian 294 acres. On September 29, 1707, Barnard Christian purchased 550 acres in Bucks county, of Thomas Groom, 274 acres of which he conveyed to his son Barnard Barnson, June 17, 1714. He also acquired other land in Bucks county, and on June 2, 1722, conveyed to his son, Isaac Van Horn, 276 acres, and on May 6, 1722, 290 acres to his son, Abraham Van Horn. He thus owned in all 1381 acres of land in Bucks county, though he continued to live in Bergen county. New Jersey, and died there in 1726. He married, in 1679, at the Bergen Dutch Reformed church, Geertje Dircks. daughter of Dirck Clas- sen, who was baptized in New York, March 5, 1662. The children of Bar- ent Christian Van Horn and Geertje Dirckse were: 5. Richard Barentsen Van Horn, born at Bergen, New Jersey, died at Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1763; mar- ried, April II, 1704, Elizabeth Garretsen. 6. Christian Van Horn, born Octo- ber 24. 1681. died in Northampton township, Bucks county, November 22, 1751; see forward. 94 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 7. Nicholas Van Horn, born in Ber- gen county, New Jersey, died in Dela- ware; he was for a time a resident of Bucks county, and the baptism of two of his children Barnet on July 24, 1715, and Rachel on April 29, 1720, are re- corded at Abington Presbyterian church. 8. Peter Barentsen Van Horn, born at Bergen, 1686, died in Middletown township, Bucks county, February 20, 1750. He married (first) Tryntje (Cath- arine) Van Dyck, and (second) Eliza- beth Gabriels, on May 9, 1706. She was baptized at Albany, New York, May 12, 1689, and died November 3, 1759. She was a daughter of Gabriel Tomase Struddles. Peter settled on land con- veyed to him by his father in Northamp- ton in 1707 and 1715. and later pur- chased 425 acres in Middletown. Ac- cording to the Rev. Samuel Streng. Pe- ter Van Horn joined the Episcopal church, and was a vestryman of St. James Protestant Episcopal church at Bristol, 1734-7. His children, all with the possible exception of Barnard, his eldest son, being by the second wife Elizabeth, were as follows: Catharine, baptized June 4, 1710, died 1755, married Thomas Craven, of Warminster, Bucks county; Barnard, who "married Patience Hellings; Charity, who married, June 6, 1732, Isaiah Vansant (see Vansant family) Jane baptized October 16, 1715, married, Au.gust 10, 1732, Edmund Rob- erts; Gabriel, baptized March 3, 1716, died 1789, married Martha Brelsford; Elizabeth, who married April 21. 1737, Peter Praul ; Peter, baptized August 25, 1719. married in 1746, Margaret Marsh- all; Mary, who married William Gos- line. of Bristol, Bucks county; Benjamin, who married, June S, 1749. Hannah Da- vis; Richard, born 1726, died unmar- ried, February i, 1756; John, twice mar- ried, second wife being Mary Collett, a widow ; and Garret, who married Mary Neal. and died in 1801. 9. Barent Barentsen Van Ho'-n, born in Bergen, New Jersey, April 3, 1691. died in Bucks county, in 1776. He mar- ried (first) February 23, 1712, Jannetje Pieters. and (second) January 25. 1726. at Bergen, Elizabeth Klinkenberg. He received by Deed in 1714 276 acres in Northampton township, Bucks county, from his father. He had fourteen chil- dren, most of whom married and reared families. TO. John Van Horn, born in Bergen, New Jersey, 1692. died in Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county. 1758. and is buried in the Vandegrift burying ground. He married Rebecca Vandegrift. daughter of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Van- degrift. of Bucks county, and had one son John and six dau.ghters. II. Abraham Van Horn, born in IWr- gen. New Jersey, died in Northampton. Bucks county, in 1773. on farm of 290 acres received by deed from his father in 1722. He married first Mary Dungan, and second Mary Vansciver, and had six sons, Barnard, Isaac, Abraham, David, Jacob, and Jeremiah, and three daughters. Mary, wife of Derrick Krew- son. Charity, and Martha, who married a Van Sciver. 12. Jane Van Horn, born at Bergen, New Jersey, April 18, 1697. married Ad- rien La Rue, and resided at Six-Mile Run. New Jersey. 13. Isaac Van Horn, born at Ber- gen, New Jersey, died in Solebury town- ship. Bucks county, Pennsjdvania, • in 1760. He married Alice Sleght (or Slack) and had eight children: Bernard, who married first Sarah Van Pelt and second Jane Slack; John, who married Catharine Neafie; Catharine, who mar- ried a Van Pelt; Charity, Geertje, Elsie, Isaac, baptized 1749,* married Alice Neafies; and Jane. 14. Jacob Van Horn, born at Ber- gen, New Jersey, died there . April 14, 1775- 15. Benjamin Van Horn, born at Ber- gen. January 10, 1705. (6) Christian Van ■ Horn, second son of Barendt and Geertje (Dirckse) Van Horn, born at Bergen. New Jersey, October 24, 1681. He married William- tje Van Dyck, daughter of Hendrick Janse and Jennetje (Heermans) Van Dyck, and granddaughter of Jan Tom- asse Van Dyck, who emigrated from Amsterdam in 1652 and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island. His sixth child, Hendrick Janze, baptized July 2. 1653, married, February 7, 1680, Jannetje Hermans, daughter of Herman Janse Van Barkeloo, and settled on Staten Isl- and, where he was a constable in 1689 and assessor in 1703. In 1704 he pur- chased land in Bucks county and re- moved there. At the organization of Bensalem church, in 1710. he produced a certificate from the Staten Island church. He purchased four tracts of land in IMiddletown, two of which he retained until his death in 1721, and de- vised to his daughter Williamtje. wife of Christian Van Horn, and his g'\ind- (la ightcr. Susanna Van Vleck. who later m.'lv'-ied her cousin, Henry Van Horn. He had but two children, Williamptje, and J;innetje. who became the wite of \hz Reverend Paulus Van Vleck, the first ])asior ar Neshaminy. Christian Van Horn located in North- *Isqac Van Horn, of Solebury township. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, was commissioned January I. 177(5, ensign of Captain John Beatty's company. Bucks county's contingent of the Flying Camrv Hiffh Penn- sylvania Battalion, Colonel Robert Magaw, and was tiken prisoner at Fort Washington. November Ifi, 177f). Exchanged in 1(78, and promoted to lieutenant. Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, captain lieutenent, July 1, 177P; captain. Second Pennsylvania. June 19. 1781. Retired from service January 1. 1783. Settled in West- moreland county. Pennsylvania. 1781. Member of seventh and eighth congress. (1801-1803> from Pennsyl- vania. Receiver of public monies at /^anesville Ohio, in 1815. Died in Muskingum county, Ohio. February 2, 1834. Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 95 ampton township, Bucks county, on 294 acres conveyed to him by his fath- ■er in 1707. In 1737 two hundred acres of the land belonging to the estate of his father-in-law, Hendrick Van Dyck, in Middeltown township was conveyed to ' him by leremiali Langhorne, as "straw man" in efifecting the transfer from the devises of Van Dyck to Christian Van Horn. He represented Bucks county in the I'onnsylvania assembly for the / ye:irs 1723-1732 and I734-I737. thirteen years in all. He died November 23, 1751, . and his wife May 6, 1760. She was born on Slatcn Island, July 4, 1681. The will of Christ i?n Van Horn devised to his eldest sor Bernard the home plantation of 205 acres in Northampton, to his son Henry 200 acres on which Henry was living in Newtown, purchased of George and Joseph Randal in 1726; to his son John thirty-two acres in Northampton , to his daughter Charity Van Duren anotl'.er tract adjoining containing for- ty-ore acres, and to his son Christian 187 acres in Northampton, wdien he should come of age; the other children receiving their shares of his. estate in money. To his , son Barnard he be- queathed his large Bible. This Bible is now in the possession of Dr. Wilmer Krusen, of 127 North Twenty-ninth street, Philadelphia, having descended to him from his ancestors, the Hege- mans, John Hegeman having ' married Jane Van Horn, daughter of Christian. who inherited it from her brother, Bar- nard Van Horn, who died in 1760, with- out issue. It was printed at Dordrecht in 1690, and was purchased by Hen- drick Van Dyck in December, 1701, and presented to his daughter Williamtje, who married Christian Van Horn. On the My leaf it contains the record of the "birth of the children of Hendrick Van Dyck, those of Christian and Williamt- je Van Horn, and those of John and Jannetje (Van Horn) Hegeman. The children of Christian and Will- iamtje (Van Dyck) Van Horn were: 16. Barnard Van Horn, born February 19, 1701-2. died April 22. 1760. married December 31, 1741, Jannetje Van Bos- kerk, had no children. 17. Henry Van Horn, born Septem- ber 15, 1707. died in Newtown township, Bucks county in 1761. He married his first cousin, Susanna Van Vleck. daugh- ter of Rev. Paulus and Jannetje (Van Horn) Van Vleck. She inherited from her grandfather, Hendrick Van Dyck, one half of his real estate, and 173 acres thereof was conveyed to Henry by the same proceedings as in the case of h.is father, and the latter at his death devis- ed to Henry 200 acres, in Newtown. and it was devised by the will of Henry in T761 to his sons. Christian and Henry. Susanna, the widow of Henry, died in June. T776. They were the parents of four children, Christian, who married. June 14, 1764, Sarah Vansant, — see for- ward; Henry Van Horn, died 1777, married Elizabeth Vansant; Jane, who married John Johnson; and Susannah, who married Euclides Longshore. 18. Geertje or Charity, baptized May 21, 1710, married Godfrey Van Duren, who was the first innkeeper at Ruck- man's, in Solebury township, Bucks county. 19. Antje of Ann, baptized March 22, 1712, died in infancy. 20. John Van Horn, born December 8, 1713. married. May 30, 1739, Lena Van Pelt, (See Van Pelt Family) and died in 1760. John and Lena (Van Pelt) Van Horn were the parents of five chil- dren, all of whom were baptized at Southampton church, viz: Catharine, baptized August ir, 1741, married Jan- uary 12, 1764, John Subers, see forward; Christian, br-'.ptized October 4, 1743, died young; Willimentje, baptized May _ II, 1746, died in infancy; Willimentje, born March i. 1748; and Joseph, born May 30, 1750, married, January 7, 1773, Ann Searle. 2T. Ann Van Horn, born July 19, 1716, died 1753. married Cornelius Cor- son, and had seven children, viz: Bland- ia, baptized March 26, 1738, Willemeyn- je, baptized February 24, 1740; Maryt- je, baptized May 23, 1742; Jannetje, baptized July 19, 1744; Antje, baptized December 26, 1746; Benjamin, baptized April 13. 1749; and Cornelius, baptized November 16. 1751. 22. Catharine Van Horn, born April 13, 1719. married Hendrick Hegeman, and had four children, viz: Adrien. bap- tized March 26. 1738; Maria, baptized April 7, 1740; Jannetje, baptized June 6; 1742; Catrintje. baptized March 24, 1745- 23. Jane Van Horn, born May 20, 1721, died September 7, 1783, married, Octo- ber 20, 1741, John Hegeman, born Jan- uary 10, 1718. and had nine children; Mary, born March 8, I743; Christian, born August 8. 1745: Henry, born Jan- uary 5, 1748; John, born July 26, 1750; Henry,' born January 11, 1753; Benjamin, born Novemiser 19, 1755; Adrian, born September 16. 1758; Barnet, born Feb- ruary 23, 1761; and Jane, born May 15, 1765. 24. Christian Van Horn, born August 29. 1728, died December 17, 1753. Christian Van Horn, eldest son of Henry (17) and Susanna (Van Vlecq) . Van Horn, born in Newtown township, Bucks county, married. June 14, 1764. Sarah Vansant, daughter of Isaiah and Charitv (Van Horn) Vansant, of Lower Makefield. Her mother. Charity (Van Horn) Vansant. being a daughter of Pe- ter (8) and Elizabeth (Gabriels) Van Horn. Christian Van Horn inherited from his father 126 acres of land in Newtown township, on the Neshaminy creek, part of the land purchased by his 96 HISTORY 01' BUCKS COUNTY. grandfather, Christian Van Horn, in 1726, whereon he lived until his death m 1777, when it was divided between his sons- Henry and Isaiah. Sarah (Van- sant) Van Horn died in 1785. They were the parents of but two children, viz: Henry and Isaiah. Henry, married, April 26, 1787, Elizabeth McCorkle, and had three children; Amos, born March 4, 1792, died at Newtown, September 5, 1823, married, January 8, 1817, Mercy Starkey; Susan, born October 25, i794, died in Michigan, September 5, 1872, married Joseph Roberts; and Elrzabeth, born January 27, 1797, married Joseph Winship, and died at Newtown, May 12, 1868. Isaiah Van Horn, second son of Christian and Sarah (Vansant) Van Horn, was born in Newtown township, Bucks county, married, December 31, 1794, Catharine Suber, daughter of John and Catharine (Van Horn) Suber, and his first cousin. He was adjudged fifty acres of the homestead farm by the or- phans' court in 1787, but on March 15, 1791, sold it to his brother Henry, and on his marriage in 1794 took up his residence on a farm belonging to the estate of his father-in-law, Isaiah Van- sart, in Upper IMakefield, where he died in 1802. His widow, Catharine, married John Wynkoop, January 31, 1805. The only child of Isaiah and Catharine( Van- sant) Van Horn, was Sarah, born Feb- ruary 29, 1796; died January 27, 1838. She married (first) on January 16, 1812, Aaron Winder, and (second) Avigust 24, 1825, Abner Morris. (See Winder Family in this volume). Catharine Wynkoop, the mother, died in Decem- ber, 1820. R. Winder Johnson, of Philadelphia, to whom we are indebted for the above account of the Van Horn familj', is a grandson of Aaron and Sarah (Van Horn) Winder, ^reat-grandson of Isa- iah and Catharine (Suber) Van Horn, great-great-grandson of both Christian and Sarah (Vansant) Van Horn, and John and Catharine (Van Horn) Sub- er, and great-great-great-grandson of Henry and Susanna (Van Vlecq) Van Horn, John and Lena (Van Pelt) Van Horn, and Isaiah and Charity (Van Horn) Vansant, and great-great-great- great-grandson of Christian and Will- iamtje (Vandyck) Van Horn, and Peter and Elizabeth (Gabriells) Vanhorn, the last mentioned Christian and Peter Van Horn, being sons of Barendt Christian- zen Van Hoorn and his wife Geertje Dircks Classen, and grandsons of Chris- tian Baretzen Van Hoorn and Jannetje Jans, the pioneer ancestors of the family in America. An account of the Van Pelt, Vansant, Vandegrift, Winder and Johnson families also largely the result of investigations made by Mr. John- son, will be found elsewhere in this work. Henry Van Horn, son of Henry and Susanna (Van Vlecq) Van Horn, was reared on the old homestead purchased by his grandfather. Christian Van Horn, in 1726, and at the death of his father, in 1761, inherited a one-half interest there- in with his brother Christian. They made a division of the 252 acres, each con- veying to the other 126 acres in 1773. After the reverses on Long Island in No- vember, 1776, and at Fort Washington when the Continental forces were so badly routed and so niau}^ of the Bucks county contingent were taken prisoners, Henry Van Horn raised an independent company of militia and was commissioned their captain, December 6, 1776, (See Penna. Arch. vol. xiv p. 175) and took them into the service. He died of camp fever late in 1777. He married Elizabeth Vansant, daughter of Isaiah and Charity (Van Horn) Van Sant, and they were the par- ents of eight children : Joshua, born Feb- ruary 21, 1759; Isaiah, born October 24, 1760, was drummer in his father's com- pany, 1776-7; Mary, born May 5, 1764, married Isaac Gillam, died April 18, 1823; Christian, . born July 13, 1766 ; Susanna, born October 9, 1768, married Jesse Wil- lett, who had previously married her sis- ter Sarah ; Elizabeth, married an Ander- son, and • died January 26, 1813 ; Sarah, born February 7, 1773, married Jesse Wil- lett, died prior to 1809; Henry, born Ap- ril 5, 1777. Elizabeth the mother, died November 25, 1807, aged about eighty years. Henry Van Horn, youngest child of Captain Henry and Elizabeth (Vansant) Van Horn, born in Newtown township, April 5, 1777, learned the trade of a car- penter and cabinet maker and located at Yardley, Bucks county, where he followed the trade of a cabinet maker for several years. His sign uniquely painted is now in possession of his grandson, Richard H. Van Horn, of Lambertville, New Jersey. He also purchased a farm of 93 acres in Lower IMakefield in 1805, which, in 181 1, he conveyed to his brother-in-law, Isaac Gillam. He purchased a farm of 200 acres in Upper ]\Iakefield, near Eagle Tavern, where he resided the balance of his life. He died in Februarj', 1849. He married, in 1798, Hannah Reeder, of Canaan, Up- per Makefield, and their six children who grew to maturity were as follows : 1. Abraham, born 1802, married, in 1829, Eliza Hampton, by whom he had one child, Margery. He married (second) Chris- tiana Neald, and a son Henry K. was born in 1834. He married (third) Eliza- beth Sampsel. He sold his farm in Upper ]\Iakcfield and removed to Sandy Spring, Maryland, where he reared a family of thirteen children. 2. Elizabeth, born 1804, married William Ryan, of Upper Makefield, born 1810. They settled near Rocksville, Northampton township, Bucks county, and engaged in the milling business. Three of their children ITHE r 'Y A3TOK, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 97 survive : Edward H., born 1832 ; Mary, born 183s ; and Hannah, born 1839. 3. Eleanor H., born 1810, married Cor- nelius Slack, and settled in Lower Make- field. He was lately a merchant at Dol- ington. Their children are : Watson, born 1832; John H., born 1833; Henry V., born .1836; Jane E., born 1839; Sarah E., born 1841; William H., born 1843; Anna M., born, 1847; and Hannah, born 1850. 4. Moses H., born January 15, 1812, at Yardleyville, removed with his parents to Upper Makefield, where he spent his entire life, inheriting at his father's death, in 1849, 100 acres of the old homestead. He was a successful farmer, and a prominent man in the community, holding many posi- tions of trust and honor. He and his wife and family were lifelong members of the Society of Friends. He married, April 13, 1843, Rebecca Scattergood, born February 7, 1820, daughter of John* and Catharine (Hepburn) Scattergood, of Makefield, who died September 15, 1895. Moses died February 13, 1885. They were the parents of nine children: Richard H., born 1844; Mary Anna, ^born 1846; Samuel S., born 1848; William T., born 1851; George F., and Catharine S., twins, born 1854; Han- nah E., born 1857; Benjamin F., born i860; and Emma L., born 1863.** 5. Mary A., born 1816, married Christian Van Horn, born 1814, and settled on a farm near Dolington. Their surviving issue are : Cyrus B., Jane E., Cornelius S., Han- nah E., and Callender C. 6. John R., born 1820, married Rebecca Feaster, and settled on a portion of the old homestead in Upper Makefield. Their surviving children are : James P., David F., Emeline, Watson, Martha F., and Jo- seph F. RICHARD H. VAN HORN, eldest son of Moses and Rebecca (Scattergood) Van Horn, born at the old homestead of his grandfather, in 1844, was reared on the Upper ISIakefield farm, acquired a limited education at the public school and" later took a course at Union Business College in Philadelphia. After a few years ex- perience in the mercantile business in Philadelphia, he started into that business for himself at Lambertville, New Jersey, in 1868. By strict application to business and a close study of the wants and needs of the community, he soon built up a *John Scattergood (a descendant of Thomas Scatter- good, of Burlington county, New Jersey, a noted min- ister among Friends' was born 6 mo. 14, 1774. He married 5 mo. 4. 1794, Sarah Forman. .and second Catharine Hepburn, who was the mother of Mrs. Rebecca (Scattergood) Van Horn. John Scattergood died 1 mo. 12, 1842. **George F. and Benjamin F. Van Horn, sons of Moses H., left the Upper Makefield homestead on arriving at age. George learned the printing business, and subsequently both brothers, after a few years engagement with their brother, Richard H , learning the mercantile business at Lambertville, New Jersey, went in 1890 into business on their own account near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where by much energy and hustle they met with great success, but owing to poor health both have retired from business, 190.5. 7-3 large trade and his remodeled store in 1884 named "Grand Depot"'enjoyed much more than a locak reputation and soon out- grew its early modest quarters. In 1877 an adjoining building was added and the vol- ume of business doubled. Seven years later the entire property was remodeled and both stores thrown into one, making a large and commodious department store, and his brother, Samuel S., who had been for some years a clerk in the establishment was given an interest in the business, and the firm name became R. H. Van Horn & Brother. The partnership of the grow- ing_ establishment extended far beyond the limits of Jersev into their native county, and the country districts and towns of New Jersey. In 1S89, the brothers dis- solved partnership and Richard H. contin- ued the business alone until 1892, when his son Henry came of age and was admitted as a partner. Ten years later the younger son, Edmori E., becoming of age, also be- came a partner, and the firm of R. H. Van Horn & Sons, continue to conduct the popular and successful establishment that has grown from its modest beginning of 1868. To an additional L a new building, the floor space of which combined with the original "Grand Depot" covers now '1904) about three-quarters of an acre. Richard H. Van Horn married, in 1869, Lydiana Beatty Warner, born in 1845, daughter of Edwards Edmunds Warner, of Philadelphia, and of New England an- cestry, and they are the proud parents of two sons, both of whom, as before stated, are members of the firm. Henry E., the eldest, born April 21, 1870, married Era Runkle, of Hunterdon county, New Jer- sey ; and Edmori E., born in October, 1S79, married Jessie Hoffman of the same place. Mr. R. H. Van Horn is an active member of the Society of Friends, having many years since transferred his certificate of membership from Wrightstown Monthly Meeting to Solebury Friends' Meeting where he and his wife Lydianna were sub- sequently appointed elders. R. H. Van Horn has always shown an active spirit in his town affairs but little interest- in "Political Pulls" ; he has, however, served in the school board, acted as a member of the board of trade, and at present is next to the oldest director in the Amwell Na- tional Bank of Lambertville. ' SAMUEL SCATTERGOOD VAN HORN, second son of Moses and Rebec- ca (Scattergood) Van - Horn, whose 'an- cestry has been given in the preceding pages, was born in Makefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. October 28, 1848, and was reared on the Upper Make- field farm; acquiring his education at the public schools of that township. In 1870 he went to Lambertville, New Jersey. In 1889 Samuel S. Van Horn embarked in the general merchandise business in Lam- bertville. where he carried on a successful business for three years. He then purchased 98 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. his present location, where he has since conducted a successful business. Mr. Van Horn married, in 1888, Ella M. Dilley, daughter of Louis and Caroline (Larison) Dilley, of Kingwood, Hunter- don county, New Jersey. To this marriage has been born two sons, Lloyd and Earl. Mr. Van Horn is an extensive real estate owner in Lambertville, owning fifteen resi- dent properties. He is a member of the Society of Friends. LAWRENCE JOHNSON AND HIS DESCENDANTS. The family of John- son, from which Lawrence Johnson de- scended, belonged to the yeomanry and lived in Lincolnshire, England, having set- tled in Barrow-on-H umber in 1684, after the marriage of Robert Johnson and Mary Hall, nee Ledgard. Here five generations of the family lived and owned property. Edward Johnson removed to Hull after his marriage in 1796. Previous to 1680 the family had lived and owned property at Grasby, in Lincolnshire. Edward Johnson had a large family of children, and, believing that their prospects for advancement would be greater in America, he was induced by his sons to sell his property in Hull, and emigrate with his family to America.- On July 4, 1818, with his wife and ten children, he sailed from Grimsby on the brig Gen- eral Ripley" for New York, where the vessel arrived August 28, 1818. The people of New York looked so pale that Edward Johnson thought it could not be a health- ful place, and accordingly sailed immedi- ately vip the Hudson to Albany, where he bought a farm of one hundred and twenty- fice acres near Cato, Cayuga county, New York. Lawrence Johnson, son of Edward and Ann (Clayton) Johnson, was born in Hull, England, January 23, 1801, and was bap- tized in Holy Trinity church, March 2, 1801. Immediately after coming to Amer- ica with his parents in 1818, he found em- ployment in the office of the "Troy Budg- et," a newspaper published at Troy, New York, but the following spring went to New York city, where he was employed in several printing establishments. About 1820 he settled in Philadelphia and estab- lished a stereotype foundry, to which he later added the industry of making type, under the firm name of L. Johnson & Com- pany, and built up an immense business. He became interested in many prominent enterprises in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, the development of coal lands, building of street horse-car lines, and many other enterprises, and acquired a fortune. He was also president of the Commonwealth Bank. He died in Phila- delphia, April 26, i860. In the spring of 1851 Lawrence Johnson purchased a farm and country seat in Bristol township. Bucks county, known as "Lansdowne," where he spent much of his time, and which has ever since been occu- pied by members of his family. Mr. Johnson had married May 3, 1825, Sarah B. Murray, of Philadelphia, who died August 21, 1834, leaving one child, a daughter. He married a second time, on May 29, 1837, Mary Winder, daughter of Aaron and Sarah (Van Horn) Winder, of Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who was born June 18, 1814, and died February 16, 1877. (See Winder Family). Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson were the parents of ten children, viz: I. Edward Winder; 2. Anna Rebec- ca; 3. Mary Ella; 4. Caroline Fletcher; 5. Howard Lawrence; 6. Russel Hamp- den ; 7. Lawrence ; 8. Walter Richards ; 9. Robert Winder; 10. Alfred Clayton. I. Edward Winder John.son, eldest son of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, April 12, 1838. In the summer of 1847 he accompanied his father on a trip to Europe. He was edu- cated at Mr. Fay's boarding school at Elizabeth, New Jersey, and at Dr. Faires' and other private schools in Philadelphia. In 1856 he traveled under the care of an agent of his father to Havana, Mexico, Texas, and up the Mississippi river, and to Cincinnati, Ohieu In the latter place he remained for some months, working in a branch type foundry established there by his father. On October 23, 1857, he was commissioned. as a midshipman on the flag- ship "Powhattan," and on December 9, following that frigate left Norfolk, Vir- ginia, on a long cruise, with ex-President Franklin Pierce and wife on board. She sailed first to Maderia, St. Helena, and Cape Town, preceeding thence to Hong Kong, stopping on the way at Mauritius and Singapore, and arrived at Hong Kong in May, 1858, and proceeded to Japan in the following July. Becoming ill in Japan, Midshipman Johnson obtained a dismissal from service on the LI. S. frigate "Pow- hattan," and embarked as a passenger on board the "Minnesota," October 2, 1858, to return home, arriving in Boston, Massa- chusetts, Jvlay 29, 1859. On September 26, i860, he sailed from New York on the clip- per "Messenger" for Hong Kong, intend- ing to enter into business with A. W. Hab- ersham, in Japan. He arrived in .Yoko- hama, April 20, 1861, where he remained for some time, engaged in business. On learning of the outbreak of the civil war in America he left Japan on the steamship "Carrington," and arrived in San Fran- cisco, California, October 20, 1861, from which place he proceeded at once to New York. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company G of the Anderson Cavalry, and fought in the battles of Antietam and Mur- freesboro. Afterwards his regiment was reorganized, and he became a member of Company A of the Anderson Cavalry. He was also in the battle of Chickamauga, under General Rosencrans. On December 30, 1863, he returned home on a furlough, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 99 and did not again enter the army. He died at Lansdowne, Bristol township, Bucks county, January 12, 1874, unmarried. 2. Anna Rebecca Johnson, second child of Lawrence and Alary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, December 15, 1839. She was educated at the school of Professor Charles D. Cleveland, in Phila- delphia. In 1858 and 1859 she traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt, and Pales- tine, under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Gar- del. She was married in Philadelphia, De- •cember 3, 1863, to Theodore Hoe Mead, of New York. Theodore Hoe and Anna Re- becca (Johnson) Mead have been the par- ents of six children, three of whom survive, viz : Lawrence Johnson Mead, who mar- ried, June 29, 1901, Anna Frances Ely, of Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Samuel L. and Mary (Knight) Ely; Anna Johnson Mead, who married, October 7, 1902, Herbert Gordon Thom- son, of New York; and Gilbert Mead, who married, July 25, 1903, Mary Comly Ely, daughter of Samuel L. and Mary Comly (Knight) Ely, of Doylestown, Bucks county. (See Winder Family.) 3. Mary Ella Johnson, third child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, September 22, 1841. After spending five years in Profes- sor Cleveland's school in Philadelphia, she .traveled in Great Britain, Europe, Egypt, the Sinaitic Peninsula, Palestine and Syr- ia, as well as the rock-hewn city of Petra, to which, it is said, no ladies had previously ventured with the exception of two Eng- lish ladies, somewhat earlier in the same year. Miss Johnson married, December 4, 1862, William D. Stuart of Philadel- phia, who died April 7, 1863, leaving no children. Mrs. Stuart married a second time^ January 11, 1870, Dr. James Ches- ton Morris, of Philadelphia, by whom she has eight children, all residing in Phila- delphia. 4. Caroline Fletcher Johnson, fourth child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1843, and was educated at Dr. Cleve- land's school. She married, February 21, 1871, Anthony Taylor, son of Robert Tay- lor, and a nephew of Hon. Caleb Newbold Taylor, of Bristol, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania. Anthony Taylor enlisted in the Pennsylvania cavalry August 8, 1862, was promoted sergeant. October 30, 1862 ; first sergeant, March i, 1863; first lieutenant of 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, May 8, 1863; and captain, June i, 1865. He was awarded a medal of honor for signal acts of bravery, and was honorably mustered out June 21, 1865. He died in Philadelphia, May 21. 1894. Anthony and Caroline F. (Johnson) Taylor were the parents of two children Mary Lawrence Taylor, who married, Feb- ruary 25, 1893, Bromley Wharton, now pri- "vate secretary to Governor Samuel W. Pen- nypacker; and Elizabeth Elmslie Taylor, -who married, December 31, 1904, Houston Dunn. 5. Howard Lawrence Johnson, born Oc- tober 31, 1845, died June 25, 1891 ; mar- ried, May 7, 1876, Mary Evangeline Brad- ley. They had no children. 6. Russell Hampden Johnson, son of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, September 15, 1847, and received his preliminary edilca- tion in private schools in Philadelphia. He entered Princeton University at the age of seventeen years, and graduated in the class of 1868, after a four years' course, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then made an extensive tour of Europe, and on returning entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1871. After serving as resident physi- cian in the Episcopal Hospital of Philadel- phia, he once more visited Europe, spend- ing two years in travel, chiefly for the fur- ther prosecution of his medical studies in the University of Vienna. Returning to Philadelphia he began the practice of medi- cine there, where, excepting occasional vis- its abroad, he has since lived and practiced his profession. He married, December 13, 1877, Grace H. Price, of New York. Five children blessed this union, all, like their father, devotedly attached to the old home on the Nashaminy, in Bucks county, where the youngest daughter was born. The chil- dren are : Russel Hampden, Jr., born Sep- tember t6, 1878; Lawrence, born Septem- ber 17. 1880; Anna Price, born September 20, i88r ; Louisa, born May 20, 1883; and Paul Sears, bom October 24, 1896. 7. Lawrence Johnson, seventh child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was bom in Philadelphia. September 28, 1849. and was educated at private schools there and at Princeton University. In 1868 he began his business career* as a clerk in the shipping house of Isaac Hough & Morris, where he remained for about two years. On coming of age in 1870 he began business for himself, under the firm name of Lawrence Johnson & Company, shipping and commission merchants and foreign bankers, which business he has since fol- lowed. On November 21. 1891. he was elected a director of the Philadelphia Na- tional Bank, and he is also a director of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, the In- surance Company of North America, and the Philadelphia Warehouse Company. He married. December 6. 1877. Louisa Philler Gaw, daughter of Henry L. Gaw, of Phila- delphia. They have one child, Millicent Gaw Johnson, born November 22, 1884. 8. Walter Richards Johnson, eighth child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born at Lansdowne. Bucks county. August 24. 1851. He was educated at Dr. Faires' and other private schools of Philadelphia. He married, October 31, 1876. his cousin. Mary Rebecca Winder, daughter of Moses and Margaretta Winder. He purchased a farm on the right bank of the Neshaminy, in Bensalem township, :^71146 100 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Bucks county, between Hulmeville and Newportville, where he lived the remainder of his life, and was actively engaged in ag- ricultural pursuits. He was also actively interested in political afifairs and held sev- eral political otiices. He died March 25, 1897, leaving one child. Winder Lawrence Johnson, since deceased, who married, Oc- tober II, 1899, Susan D. Fine. 9. Robert Winder Johnson, ninth child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) John- son, was born Sunday, May 7, 1854, at No. 727 Pine street, Philadelphia. He pre- pared for college at Mr. Gregory's private school on Market street, near Eleventh, and entered the freshman class of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, September, 1870 (class of 1874,) but left the University in tlTC spring of 187 1 and accompanied his mother to Europe, where he studied and traveled until October, 1874- He agaui traveled abroad in 1875 and 1876. In Jan- uary, 1877, he entered the office of Law- rence Johnson & Company, doing a large business as importers and exporters and bankers, and in July, 1879, was admitted as a member of the firm and has since been actively associated with its busi- ness. He was elected a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1874 and a life member in 1877; was elected a member of the Rittenhouse Club in 1883; a member of the vestry of St. Peter's church in 1891 ; member of the board of managers of Christ Church Hos- pital in 1892; member of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in 1892; member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania in 1897; member of the Society of theProt- estant Episcopal Church for the Advance- ment of Christianity in Pennsylvania in 1897; member of the Board of managers of the Children's Hospital in 1897; mem- ber of the Netherlands Society of Phila- delphia in 1899; and a life member of the Bucks County Historical Society in 1903. He takes a deep interest in the local history of Bucks county, where his maternal an- cestors, the Van Horns, Van Dycks, Van Sandts, Van Pelts, Vandegrifts, Winders, and others were among the earliest and most prominent settlers, and has devoted much time and expense during the last twenty-five years in tracing out the history of these early families of Bucks. Mr. Johnson was married on November lO, 1887, to Rosalie Morris, daughter of George Calvert and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Morris, at St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine streets, Philadelphia. Their children are as fol- lows: Morris Winder, born July 5, 1889, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; Lawrence Edward, born July 9, 1892, at Lansdowne, Bucks county; Robert Winder, Jr., born August 19, 1894, at Lansdowne, Bucks county; and Rosalie Eugenia, born Octo- ber 12, 1900, at Chestnut Hill. ID. Alfred Clayton Johnson, youngest child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, Sep- tember 17, 1856. He was educated at pri- vate schools in Philadelphia and at Dres- den, Saxony. He read law under P. Pem- berton Morris, Esq., of Philadelphia, and also attended lectures on law at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar April 3, 1880. He was appointed consul to Stuttgart, Ger- many, in 1893 and vice consul general at Dresden in 1898. He married in Dresden, July 21, 1888, Countess Toni von Baudis- sin,' and they have one child, Mary Winder Johnson, born in . Bristol township, Bucks- county, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1889. THE WINDER FAMILY.* The pro- genitor of the Winders of Pennsylvania and New Jersey was Thomas Winder of England, who settled in Hunterdon county,. New Jersey, in 1705. He was in New Jer- sey in 1703, and was one of the purchasers of Maidenhead and Hopewell, and partici- pated in the agreement with Daniel Coxe,. one of the proprietors of West Jersey, in relation to that purchase. Soon after the consummation of the purchase he returned to. London, and was married at St. Mar- garet's, Westminster, June 5, 1704, to Sara Bull, and returned to West Jersey, settling in Hunterdon countly, where he became a large landowner. In 1721 he purchased six hundred acres at Newtown, Bucks county, of John Walley, and in 1727 purchased three hundred and forty-one acres in Make- field, Bucks county, which descended to his son John, and remained in the tenure of his descendants for several generations un- til it was sold in 1837. He was a prominent man in Hunterdon county, and was com- missioner of highways in Amwell town- ship in 1723. He married (second) in 1731, Rebecca Gregory, who survived him, and married Edward Collins in 1736. Thomas Winder died, and letters of administration were granted on his estate May 23, 1734. The children of Thomas and Sara (Bull) Winder were as follows : 1. John Winder, born 1707, died August 9, 1770, married Rebecca Richards. 2. Thomas, settled in Amwell, where he was living in 1736. 3. James, removed to Prince George- county, Maryland, where he died in 1789. _^'4. Jane, who married John Slack and set- tled in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, where many of her descendants still reside. 5. Elizabeth, married Peter Phillips of Amwell, where they lived and died. Elinor, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Gregory) Winder, married July 31, I751r Thomas Guinnup, of Philadelpliia. John and Rebecca (Richard.-^) Winder settled on the land purchased by his father in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, the other heirs making conveyances to him for their interest therein at various periods af- ♦Condensed from "Winders of America," by R. Winder Johnson ^Ci^e4^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. lOI ter the death of Thomas. His wife, Rebec- ca Richards, was born September 19, 1714, and died January 19, 1788. The family- were not members of the Society of Friends until 1747, when he and his wife applied for membership at Falls Meeting, and were admitted as members. John died in Make- field, August 9, 1770. The children of John and Rebecca (Richards) Winder, were as follows: 1. Thomas, married, May 11, 1758, Eliza- beth Linton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Blackshaw) Linton, of Northampton township. 2. James, married (first) December 28, 1763, Sarah Bailey, and (second) Mary Booz. 3. John, married, January 23, 1760, Mar- garet Briggs. He removed first to Dela- •ware and later to Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania, and still later to the state of Ohio. 5. Elizabeth, married (first) in April, 1759, Joseph Linton, son of Joseph and Mary, before mentioned, and on April 2, 1795, married David Feaster. 6. Sarah, married, April, 1761, Robert Whitacre, and removed to Catawissa, Penn- sylvania. 7. Hannah, married in 1770, Timothy Brooks. Moses, Aaron and Rachel died un- married. 11. Rebecca, married March 26, 1772, John Nutt, and removed to Fairfax, Vir- ginia. 12. Mercj^ died unmarried. 13. Ann married May 13, 1779, Absalom Knight. 14. Aaron Winder, born September 14, 1759, died July 2, 1824, married Janu- ary 16, 1812, Sarah Van Horn, born February 29, 1796, died Janu- ary 27, 1838, daughter of Isaiah and Cath- erine (Subers) Van Horn, of Makefield. He purchased in 1788 two hundred acres of the Makefield homestead, and built a Tiouse thereon in 1790. It is related that Catherine Subers, whose daughter he eventually married, was the first love of Aaron Winder, and on her marriage to his successful rival in her affections, Isaiah Van Horn, he abjured matrimony and lived single until the age of fifty-three years, when he married her daughter though Mrs. Van Horn, the mother, had been a widow almost from the birth of the daughter. The children of Aaron and Sarah Van Horn Winder were as follows : 1. Joel, born March 8, 1813, died in "infancy. 2. Mary, born June 18, 1814, died Feb- ruary 16. 1877, married Lawrence John- son. (See Johnson Family). 3. Rebecca, born February 22, 1817, died September 26, 1854, married General John Ely" and had four children, but two of whom lived to mature age ; Mary Winder Ely, born November 19. 1840, died July 12, i860, married October 19. 1859, Joseph Parry Brosius ; and Samuel Lawrence Ely, "born May 24, 1847, died March 19, 1886, imarried December 29, 1865, Mary Comly Knight. He was sheriff of Bucks county for the term of 1881-83. 4. Dr. Aaron Winder, born October 17, 1821, died December 28, 1883, married August 21, 1846, Mary S. Gillam, and had three children; William G. Winder, M. D., of Andalusia, Bucks county and Phila- delphia ; Mary Ely Winder, wife of Henry B. Knight of Bucks county ; and Lawrence Johnson Winder, M. D. 5. Moses Winder, born December 20, 1823, died April, 1864, married December 25, 1844, Margaretta Thornton, and had six children, five of whom grew to maturity, viz : Sarah, born 1849, married Blackstone P. Doddridge; Mary Rebecca, born 1851; died 1893, married Walter Richards John- son, of Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania; Anna Louisa, born February 4, 1854, married April 6, 1885, Isaac Holbor- row Robertson ; John Ely Winder, born 1857, died 1866 ; and Aaron Augustus Win- der, born February 8, 1859, married Octo- ber 12, 1880, Jane Phillips Slugg, died September 5, 1903. Sarah (Van Horn) Winder married (second ) August 24, 1825, Abner Morris, and had four children. JACOB M. WINDER, of Bristol, was born in that borough August 28, 1858, and is a son of Isaac and Mary Jane (Hetherington) Winder. He is of English descent, his paternal ancestors having been early English settlers in New Jersey. Samuel Winder, the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a farmer in Falls township, and died there in April, 1816, devising his small estate to his wife Sarah who sur- vived him several years. Giles Satterthwaite Winder, _ son of Samuel and Sarah, was born in Falls township about 1795, being just arrived at legal age at the death of his father, and was named as executor of the will. He received a good education and taught school in Middletown township for thirty years. He died in Bristol in 1857. He married Sarah Yonker, daughter of George Yonker, of Middle- town, and granddaughter of Daniel Yonker, of Solebury. George Yonker was the father of twelve children, one son George, and eleven daughters, all of whom lived to mature age, and all ex- cept two of whom married and reared families. The father resided on his farm in Middletown, near Langhorne, until 1859, and then sold it on account of in- ability to care for it, being very old and infirm, and lived with a married daughter in Burlington for one year, and then removed to Bristol, Bucks county, where he died in 1861 at a very advanced age. Sarah Satterthwaite was his eldest daughter. She also lived to an advanced age. dying in Bristol, June 21, 1880. The children of Giles S. and 102 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Sarah (Yonker) Winder were: George Y., Daniel Y., Samuel, Isaac, Eliza and Mary. Isaac Winder, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Middletown township, Bucks county, in 1832, and died in Bristol in i860. He married Mary Jane Hetherington and they were the parents of one child, Jacob McBrien Winder, the subject of this sketch. Jacob M. Winder was born and reared in Bristol, Bucks county, and acquired his education at public and private schools in Bristol and Philadelphia. He graduated from Bryant and Stratton's Business College in 1877. For the greater part of his business life he has been engaged in the wholesale liquor business in Bristol, where he has always resided. In politics he is a Democrat, and has always taken a prominent part in the councils of his party. He was postmaster of Bristol for the term of 1895-1899, discharging the duties of that responsible position efficiently and to the satisfaction of its patrons. Mr. Winder married in August, 1878, Mar- garet Scott Irwin, daughter of Robert and Dorothy (McCartney) Irwin, of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Winder are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Bristol. ISAAC S. JOHNSON, of Bucking- ham, was born in New Britain township, on February 20, 1850, being a son of Jacob B. and Lydia (Swartz) Johnson. Jacob B. Johnson was a son of Jacob Johnson, a native of England, and was born in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, and while still a young man re- moved to New Britain township, Bucks county, and later located in Plumstead township, where he still resides. He was a prominent farmer for many years, but is now living a retired life with his son Harry. When the turnpike was built from Doj'lestown to Dublin, Mr. Johnson was the builder under contract with the newly organized company. Jacob B. and Lydia Swartz Johnson were the parents of nine children, of whom seven survive, viz.: Henrj^ S., of Plumstead; John S., of New Britain; Isaac S. ; Abraham S., of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania; Sallie S., wife of John Funk, of Foimtainville; Mary Ann, wife of Reuben Detweiler. of Hilltown; Susan,, wife of Harry High, of Plum- stead. Isaac S. Johnson, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm and ac- quired his education at the public schools of the neighborhood. In 1873 he married Mary A. Myers, of Pipers- ville, Bedminsler township, and settled on and conducted his father's farm in Plumstead for ten years. He then rented the Lead Mine farm in New Britain, which he conducted for four years. In 1887 he purchased his present farm in Buckingham, eighty-six acres^ where he has since resided. He is a successful farmer and a man of high, standing in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of four children, viz.: Laura, for several years a school teacher in Buckingham, now the wife of Clarence Buckman; Monroe M., a graduate of the Hughesian Free School, West Chester Normal School and Pierce's Business College, now fill- ing a clerical position in Philadelphia; Franklin M., living at home; Rosa, re- siding at home and teaching school in Buckingham, who acquired her educa- tion at the Hughesian School, Doyles- town High School and at West Chester Normal School. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Mennonite meeting, as- was his father. In politics he is a Re- publican, but has never sought or held office. THE VAN PELT FAMILY. The emigrant ancestor of the Van Pelt fam- ily was Tennis jansen Lanen Van Peltt^ who emigrated in 1663 from Liege, Bel- gium, with wife, Grietje Jans, and six children and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island. He was known as "Tunis- the Fisher." The children of Teunis-^ Jansen L. Van Pelt were, John Van Pelt, died after 1720, married Maria Peters; Anthony Van Pelt, died Feb- ruary 2, 1720-1, married Magdalen Joos- ten; Hendrick Van Pelt, married An- netje Meinards; Wouter Vafi Pelt, mar- ried Maria Jansen Schaers; Jacomytje, married Jochem Gulick; and Aerte, mar- ried Nieltje Jansen Van Tuyl. Bergen in his "Early Settlers of King's County"" mentions three other children, of Teunis- Jansen L. Van Pelt, viz.: H. Teuntje, married Hermanns Gelder. Rebecca^ married Abraham De La Montaigne, and Elizabeth. Anthony Van Pelt, son of Teunis Janse, came to this country with his parents in 1663. He was a landholder in New Utrecht in 1683, ^"d ten years later was constable of New Utrecht. In 1700 he joined with his brothers and sis- ter, the six above mentioned, in a con- vej-ance of land taken up bj'^ his father in New Utrecht, on July 27, 1713; he. conveyed his land to his sons John and Tunis with a provision that he and his wife were to remain thereon during their natural lives. He died on February 2, 1720-1. His wife was Magdalena or Helena Joosten. Their children were: Joost. (Joseph) baptized at Flatbiish, September 28, 1679; Maria, baptized Oc- tober 14. i68r, married Adrien Schoute; Adriantje, baptized February 3. 1684, died young; Grietje, baptized June 3, 1685, married Barendt Bond ; Tunis, who removed to Staten Island, 1719, marriedl HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 103 Maria Degreau; Adriantje. baptized May 25, 1690, married Charles Taylor; John, of Staten Island, married Susanna La Tourette: Helena, baptized ]\lay 29, 1695, married Tennis Stoutenburgh, and Sarah, who married Cornelius Dorlandt. Of the above, at least two, Joseph Van Pelt and Adrien Schoute, (Scout) and Maria Van Pel.t his wife settled in Penn- sylvania, Joseph in Byberr3% Philadel-* phia county, and Scout in Warminster township, Bucks county. Joseph Van Pelt married Catharine , and the baptism of three of their children appears of record in Staten Island, Catharine, baptized May 4, 1714. Joost, baptized March 20, 1716, and Jo- hannes, baptized September 8, 1717. He removed to Pennsylvania prior to De- cember 6, 1719, as his daughter Sarah was baptized at Abington Presbyterian church on that date. Another son Der- rick was baptized at the same church May 7, 1721. His other children were: Joris (George), who married Catharine Sleght, June 2, 1743, and had children, Joseph John, Catharine and Sarah, bap- tized at the Dutch Reformed church of North and Southampton, (1744 to 1756); Lena, who married John Van Horn; An- thony, who died in Buckingham in 1754. and Elizabeth, who married John Ben- nett. On November 7, 1730, Joseph Van Pelt purchased 180^ acres of land in Byberry of Jacob Hibbs. He died intestate and letters of ^administration were granted to his widow Catharine March 17, 1739. His widow married John McVeagh, May 17, 1745. His son Joseph must have died j^oung as he does not appear in connection with the con- veyance of his father's real estate. John Van Pelt, the second son, married May 12, 1739, Cornelia Sleght, and settled in Northampton township, Bucks county. Their children were: Joseph, baptized December 11, 1742; Catharine, baptized April 2, 1745; John, baptized August 31, 1749; Daniel, baptized October 15, 1751; Isaac, baptized August 11, 1754. mar- ried December 30, 1788, Jane Hender- son, and removed to Wrightstown town- ship, Bucks county. Helena, baptized January 2, 1757; Jacob, baptized August 12, 1759, married Sarah Ryan. He died in New Mil ford, Ohio, August 31, 183 1. He was the father of eleven children. Sarah, baptized September 23. 1761. Catharine Van Pelt, eldest daughter of Joseph and Catharine Van Pelt, married Abraham Carroll, January 29. 1737. Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Catharine Van Pelt, married Barnard Van Horn, January 17, 1753, and their son Isaac Van Horn was baptized at Southamp- ton, March 17, 1754. Derrick Van Pelt married February 14. 1742. Mary Britton. He was an inn- keeper in Whitpain township, Philadel- phia county, at his death in 1767. His sons Joseph and John were residents of Upper Dublin township in 1770, but both removed to New Britain township, Bucks county, prior to 1776. The other children of Derrick and Mary were: Abraham, Mary, Anne, Samuel, Cath- arine, married Isaac Newhouse, and ]\Iercy, married Jacob DeHaven. Isaac Van Pelt, who married Jane Henderson in 1788, removed to Wrights- town township, Bucks county, in 1795, later removed to Buckingham where he died in 181 1. His children were: Mary, married Robert Jones ; John ; Isaac ; Thomas; Jane, married Thomas D. Wolf; and Eleanor, married William Vansant. Jane (Henderson) Van Pelt died in Buckingham in 1S35. Three of the sons of Joseph Van Pelt, viz.: John, Isaac and Daniel — were pri- vates in Captain Folwells Associated Company in Southampton in 1775, John was commissioned a lieutenant in Lower Solebury, I\Iay 10, 1779. Isaac also saw actual service in the revolution. John became a captain. Isaac, son of Isaac and Jane Hender- son Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown in 1797. He was a shoemaker by trade and lived in Wrightstown until 1836, when he purchased a farm* in Bucking- ham, where he died May 27, 1865. He was twice married. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of Peter D. and Re- becca (Lewis) Cattell, (originally De- Cattel). The children of this marriage who survived were: Seth C, born Au- gust 24, 1829: Jane Ellen, married Jo- seph S. Ely, Esq., of New-town: William, of Upper Makefield: Wilhelmina, mar- ried Charles H. Warner. Isaac Van Pelt married (second) Mary Ann Rich- ardson and had three children: Joseph, born October 8, 1844, Elizabeth, mar- ride Joseph Starkey. and Matilda Caro- line, who never married, living with her sistei Elizabeth at Forest Grove. SETH C. VAN PELT, deceased, was born near Penns Park, Wrightstown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 24. 1829. a son of Isaac and Sarah (Cattell) Van Pelt. He was reared on a farm until twenty years of age, acquir- ing a good education in the common schools adjacent to his home. He then entered the store of Jesse P. Carver, at Pineville, as clerk, where he remained until December i, 1872, when, having been elected to the office of prothonotary of Bucks county, he removed to Doyles- town and there resided until the spring of 1877, when he returned to Pineville and rented a store for two years. At the expiration of this period of time he purchased the same and continued the management of it until his death. May 31, 1889. He was a man of sterling in- tegrity, and in all his career as clerk, accountant, postmaster, merchant and 104 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. public official enjoyed the unbounded re- spect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. Mr. Van Pelt married, May 30, 1877, Carrie A. Bodine, daughter of John R. Bodine, and sister of General Robert L. Bodine, who participated in the civil war. One child was the issue "of this union, Arthur C, who now resides in Pittsburg. Mr. Van Pelt was survived by his wife, who now makes her home in Doylestown. Their son, Arthur C. Van Pelt, born in 1879, is now residing in Bellevue, a suburb of Allegheny City, Pennsjdvania. He married Claudia Geer, and has two daughters: Marian and Margaret. Hope, Bucks county; Seth, who now has charge of the home fafm; and Clara, wife of Harry S. Woolsey, of Doyles- town. WILLIAM VAN PELT, of Upper Makefield, son of Isaac and Sarah (Cat- tell) Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown township, Bucks county. May 27, 1833. He was reared on the Wrightstown farm, and acquired his education at the local schools. In 1857 he married Han- nah D. Tomlinson, daughter of Samuel Tomlinson, of Pineville, Bucks county, and took charge of the home farm, which he conducted for four j^ears, when he removed to Taylorsville, where he conducted a temperance hostelry for one year. He then removed to Searchville, and conducted a small farm for one year, and then removed to Titusville, New Jersey, and engaged in the butcher business. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, for a term of nine months, and went to the front in defense of his country. At the expira- tion of his term of enlistment he re- turned to Titusville, and was employed in a store there for a short time. His father being taken sick, he returned home and took care of him until his death, May 27, 1865. After his father's death he removed to Pineville, and worked at carpentering for a short time, and then purchased a lot of land and erected buildings and began buying and slaughtering calves and poultry for the New York market, and conducted a local butchering business. In 1878 he sold out his business to his half-brother. Joseph Van Pelt, and Hiel Quinn. and purchasing his present farm in Upper Makefield, has since devoted Tiis atten- tion to farming and stock raising. He has bred and owns a number of high bred horses. In politics Mr. Van Pelt is a Democrat. He is a member of Cap- tain Angel Post, G. A. R., of Lambert- ville, New Jersey. Mrs. Van Pelt died October 17, 1900. They have been the parents of seven children, four of whom survive: Jose- phine, wife of Augustus Poore, a con- ductor on the P. & R. R. R., residing at Doylestown; Isaac, residing in New JOSEPH VAN PELT, deceased, of Pineville, Pennsylvania, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1844, a son of Isaac and Mary Ann (Richardson) Van Pelt. He was reared on his father's farm, and obtained such education as could be acquired at the common schools in the vicinity of his home. At his father's death, in 1865, he went to live with his brother-in-law, Joseph Starkey, on the Buckingham farm. In 1869 he came to Pineville and entered the employ of his half-brother, William, in the butcher business. Ten years later he began the business of butchering in partnership with Hiel G. Quin, under the firm name of Van Pelt & Co. Mak- ing a specialty of pork butchering, they built up a large and lucrative trade, turning out a finished product of two hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds in a year. The success attained by the firm was entirely due to the en- ergy, perseverance and pluck displayed in their management of affairs, and also by honorable and straightforward busi- ness principles which characterized their career from the beginning. In politics Mr. Van Pelt was a Democrat. Mr. Van Pelt married, December 31, 1874. Rachel R. Tomlinson, daughter of William H. and Sarah (Phillips) Tom- linson. Five children were born to them, of whoin Jennie died at the age of two years and eleven months, and Harry in his sixteenth year. The sur- viving members of the family are: Eu- gene K., a bookkeeper in Philadelphia; Mary A., a graduate of Doylestown high school, resides at home; and Lewis W., who also resides at home. William H. Tomlinson, father of Mrs. Van Pelt, was a son of Samuel and Hannah (Doan) Tomlinson, and grandson of Joseph Tomlinson, whose mother was a de- scendant of William Buckman, who came from Sussex county, England, arriving here in the "Welcome," 8 mo., 1682. Joseph Van Pelt died January 5, 190S. CHARLES LANGHORNE TAYLOR, of Trevose, son of the late Charles Will- iams Taylor, and Sarah (Paxson) Taylor, his second wife, was born on the Trevose estate in Upper Bensalem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, the home of the Taylor family for several generations, and the residence in Colonial times of the Growdons, ancestors of the Taylor family. The founder of the Taylor family in America was Thomas Taylor 6f Virginia, who was a son of Thomas Taylor, of Lon- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. lO: don, England. The latter wa? a son of John, who was a son of one Nathaniel Tay- lor, who lived in Colchester, Essex, at the time of the commonwealth under Crom- well. Thomas Taylor, the American pro- genitor of the family, went to Virginia when young and became a planter. He was prosperous and became possessed of a large landed estate which he devised to his son Caleb at his death. Thomas Taylor, third son of Caleb and grandson of Thomas Tay- lor of Virginia, was born in 1753, joined the Society of Friends, and settled in York, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1S37, aged «ighty-four years. His son, Caleb, Jr., was born in 1789, and went into the wholesale drug business at 24 North Front street, Philadelphia, in 1810, at the age of twenty- one. In the space of ten years he built up a large and profitable business. In 1820 he died, leaving a widow, Lydia, and four chil- dren : Caleb, third ; George W., Charles W., father of the subject of this stetch ; and Sarah, wife of the late Thomas Paul, of Germantown, whose niece, Mary Paul, mar- ried William Waldorf Astor, of New York city. Caleb Taylor, Jr., married in 1814 Lydia Williams, a woman of superior men- tal attainments and of distinguished an- cestry. She was a lineal descendant of Thomas Langhorne and of Lawrence Grow- don, the elder, and Joseph Growdon, prom- inent men in and early settlers of the pro- vince of Pennsylvania ; also from the Eng- lish Mauleverers of Arncliffe. She was the daughter of Charles Williams and Sarah Dickinson, his wife. The original parch- ment marriage certificate reciting their mar- riage in 1788 by Frends' ceremony, is still in the possession of the family, and is an interesting document. Charles Williams was the son of Hezekiah Williams, Jr. and Grace Langhorne Biles, his wife. The lat- ter was a daughter of Charles Biles and Anne Mary, his wife. Charles Biles was the son of William Biles and Sarah Lang- horne, his wife. William Biles was one of the early set- tlers of the county. He took up nearly three hundred acres just east of the pres- ent borough of Langhorne. He was a man of eminent talents and of great influence. He was a member of the assembly, over- seer of the highways, and a constable un- d?r Governor Andros and the Duke of York. Sarah Langhorne, his wife, was the daughter of Thomas Langhorne, and sister of Jeremiah Langhorne, a noted minister of the religious Society of Friends, and later judge of the provincial courts. Hezekiah Williams, Jr., was the son of Hezekiah Williams, Sr., and Sarah Abbott, his wife. . The latter was the daughter of John Abbott, and Anne Mauleverer, his wife. Anne Mary, wife of Charles Biles, was the daughter of Thomas " Hooper and Ganfeier (Growdon) Hooper, who was the daughter of Joseph Growdon, the father of Lawrence Growdon the younger. Joseph Growdon was a son of Lawrence Growdon the elder, of Trevose, Cornwall, England. He with his son Jo- seph in i68r together obtained a grant of ten thousand acres of land from the pro- prietor of the province of Pennsylvania. At the death of Joseph his share of the estate went to his wife Anne, and at her death it went to Lawrence Growdon the younger. The Growdon tract comprised nearly the whole of what is now the present township of Bensalem. The present Trevose estate is all that is now left of it, and it is one of the historic estates of Pennsylvania. The boundaries of the tract as it then existed began on or near the farm of one Charles Vandegrift, on the Poquessing creek, and extended in an irregular line to the Nesh- aminy creek, a short distance above the present village of Newportville ; thence fol- lowing the Neshaminy until it reached the range of the Southampton township line; thence along this line to the Poquessing, and down that stream until it reached the farm of Charles Vandegrift, at the place of beginning. The Growdons also took up under their patent from Penn three hun- dred acres of land in the southern point of Bensalem, between the Poquessing creek and the Delaware river. After a short residence in Philadelphia, after he came over from England, Lawrence Growdon erected a mansion house at Tre- vose, set up a manorial establishment, and maintained much pomp and. circumstance. The mansion house was at that time a large stone building with pointed finish, two stor- ies high, with open stairway and hall. When it was completed in 1687 it was one of the finest residences in the province. Two wings, one adjoining the east end of the house, and the other adjoining the west end, with an open court-yard between them, were used for kitchen, scullery, store house and slave quarters respectively. At the east end of the dwelling house Growdon erected a small stone fireproof building, with brick arched roof, and an iron door. Here the county records were stored while the county seat was at Bristol and while Growdon was prothonotary, and here at a later date were kept many of the valuable papers of Benjamin Franklin, who was an intimate friend of Joseph Galloway, son-in- law of Lawrence Growdon. In the iron door at present on this building there still may be seen bullet holes from shots fired by soldiers in the Continental army during the Revolu- tionary war. In front of the mansion house the main door opened into the spacious hall, and from this door a splendid view could be had of distant Jersey and the Delaware river, as well as the lower lands of Ben- salem, Byberry and Bristol. A fine lawn of original forest trees surrounded the house, while back were stables and garden. Back of the house and towards the "Neshaminy river" was Growdon's famous orchard of one thousand apple trees of English im- portation. This was the home, or Manor farm. The farms retained and rented were South Trevose, East Belmont, West Bel- mont, South Richlieu, West Richlieu, and io6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Richlieu Forest. Part of the soiitlicrn lands were subsequently sold to the Rod- mans. Gabriel Thomas, in his book en- titled "An Historical Description of the Province of Pennsylvania," published in London in 1698, describes the Growdon mansion as situated on the "Neshaminy river" and further says that "Judge Grow- don hath a very noble and fine house, very pleasantly situated ; and likewise a famous orchard adjoining to it, wherein are con- tained above a thousand apple trees of various sorts." Growdon's mansion house, which this quaint historian refers to, is still standing, and is as solid as it was when built over two hundred years ago. There have been but slight changes to alter its appearance with the exception of a half story which was added in 1847. The old house- in its day had seen many a dis- tinguished guest. Here Penn held council, and here laws were formulated for the bet- ter government of the province. Here, in the next generation, Benjamin Franklin re- hearsed his theories regarding the then un- discovered science of electricity with his friend the eminent and erratic Galloway. Lawrence Growdon, the younger, was a member of the general assembly from Phila- delphia in 1685. In 1693 he was elected to represent Bucks county in the same body, and served as speaker of the house for a number of consecutive terms. He was ap- pointed a provincial judge in 1706, and was one of the judges of the supreme court in 1715. Proud speaks of him as being at- torney general in 1725. For further in- formation on this subject the reader is re- ferred to an interesting paper entitled "The Growdon Mansion," read before the Bucks County Historical Society, January 19, 1897, by Henry W. Watson, Esq., of Langhorne. Lawrence Growdon died in 1769, and left surviving him two daughters, Elizabeth and Grace. The latter married Joseph Gal- loway, one of the eminent men of his day. He was an able lawyer, and at the begin- ning of the Revolution had built up a large practice in the courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. He was a man of great activity and indefatigable industry. He was a member of the provincial assem- bly eighteen years, and speaker of the house twelve years. He was sent by the assembly as a delegate to the Continental congress. After the death of Lawrence Growdon, his father-in-law, Joseph Galloway, resided at Trevose. He believed that the difficulties between Great Britain and the Colonies which eventually led to the Revolution could be settled amicably and without bloodshed. These views he boldly upheld in the Continental congress. His influence was so great that his opponents saw that he must be silenced. In the autumn of 1776, while Galloway was supposed to be living at Trevose, a squad of soldiers ap- peared there in search of him. They did not find him, however, as he had been warned and had left. They sacked the man- sion, and plundered the wine cellar. As they left they fired a parting shot at the iron door of the old record office. The bul- let holes may be seen to this day. After hostilities commenced Galloway upheld the British cause. His wife and daughter went to Philadelphia, where he rejoined them shortly after, entering the city with the British army under Sir William Howe. Joseph Galloway had one daughter, known to history as "Betty." In her day she was a great belle. Among her admirers was a British army officer, William Roberts, whom she afterwards married. Galloway took a determined stand against the young man and forbade his daughter to have any as- sociation with him, and threatened to shoot him if he ever came on his property. The colored servants sympathized with the young lovers and carried letters between them. An elopement from Trevose and a marriage followed. When Galloway dis- covered this he was enraged. He imme- diately resolved to sell all his slaves, and ac- cordingly advertised and sold them in the open court yard at the rear of the mansion house and between its wings. This oc- curred about ten years before the Revolu- tionary war. Some time after this, Galloway turned his mind to religion and wrote and pub- lished a work entitled "Galloway's Com- ments on Divine Revelation," an old work yet in many libraries. Meeting the far- famed Christian philanthropist, Anthony Benezet, one of the best men of any age or country, Galloway asked him very pom- pously if he had read his great work on "Divine Revelation." "No," replied Ben- ezet, "neither shall I, for I think that a man who sells his fellow beings at public sale had better leave Divine Revelation alone, and everything else that is Divine." To prevent her property from being con- fiscated, Galloway's wife Grace, by her will dated December 30, 1781, and recorded at Doylestown, devised all her real estate, in- cluding Trevose, to nine persons therein named, their heirs and assigns, without any restrictions or limitations whatever. The devisees took possession and held her estate until in iSoi, when the survivors of them recorded in Doylestown "A Declaration of Trust," in which they declared that they held the estate in trust for Elizabeth Gallo- way, her heirs and assigns, covenanting to convey at her request. The tracts Trevose, South Trevose, East Belmont, West Bel- mont, Richlieu, and Richlieu Forest were so conveyed to Elizabeth Galloway Roberts, and were sold by her grandchildren to George Williams, great-uncle of the subject of this sketch. The Galloways lived at Trevose in ac- cordance with their social position and wealth and were looked up to as great folk, by the people of the community. On every fair day "Betty" Galloway could be seen cantering on horseback over the roads of the ncighhorhnod, followed by a colored groom. Her riding habit has been min- utely described by a local historian : HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 107 "The habit consisted of a black hat and phinie, with coat and bodice and flowing skirt of green velvet, faced with gold." Her father wore the short trous- ers of the day with silk stockings and a powdered wig on all important occasions. An interesting discovery was made at Trevose in 1888. It was part of the neigh- borhood tradition that before Mrs. Grace (Growdon) Galloway was forced to leave her home at the time of the Revolution, she buried a good deal of her treasure, which was too bulky to take with her. In August, 1888, this tradition was confirmed. A la- borer while working on the farm unearthed the remains of what had been a box of rare and costly eggshell or India china. It was unfortunately nearly all broken when found, but enough remained to show that it had been hand-painted with pictures of Chinese life, with the funny and impossible perspec- tive so much in use by the artists of the Flowery Kingdom for the last thousand years. Just enough remained to show what once had been. They had evidently been carefully packed. Saucers and tea plates were found standing on their edges in rows, and there was a strong partition in the box separating them from the larger and heavier pieces of china. There were also a number of pieces found belonging to a children's toy -tea set of common blue ware. There was but one other article de- serving of mention, and this was a bowl of the commonest ware ornamented with a likeness of King George III., taken when he was a young man, with the words "George III., King," on a scroll at the base of the portrait. There seems to have been no reason why so worthless an article should have been hidden away, excepting that, as it indicated the loyalty of the family, it was dangerous to allow it to be exposed to view. A similar box of china was dug up in 1847 by the late William Ridge, who was then lessee of the property. In 1847 the Burtons, grandchildren of Betty Galloway, sold Trevose to their sec- ond cousin, George Williams, a lineal des- cendant of the Growdons. At his death he devised it to his niece Lydia (Williams) Taylor, wife of Caleb Taylor ; Lydia at her death devised it to her son, the late Charles W. Taylor, father of the subject of this sketch. It is somewhat singular that, from the time of the Growdons down to the time of the Burtons, there is no mention in any deed or will conveying the prope'rty to any male heir being born to the estate. There has always been a female heir in each gen- eration for whom the property has been held in trust. From 1681 to the present time the property has been sold but twice. Through the Williams family the present owner is a lineal descendant from the Growdons, the first purchaser from William Penn, and while the property has not al- ways descended in a direct line, yet it is interesting to note that it has never passed out of the hands of the descendants of Law- rence Growdon the elder, since the time he received it by grant from Penn, the pro- prietor of the province of Pennsylvania. Lydia (Williams) Taylor, wife of Caleb Taylor, was also a lineal descendant of Thomas Langhorne, father of Jeremiah Langhorne, of Langhorne Park. The lat- ter was an interesting contemporary of Lawrence Growdon. He was a branch of the Langhorne family of Wales, "a family of much wealth, and great note." They were the owners of all the country from St. Davids' to Carmarthan, over sixty miles. St.' Brides' was the family seat of the Langhornes, settled by one Thomas Langhorne during the reign of Richard II. Langhorne Castle was dismantled by Crom- well. Thomas Langhorne, of Kendall meet- ing, Westmoreland, England, came to Bucks county in 1684. He took up some eight hundred acres of land covering the ground between the present borough of Langhorne and Glen Lake, and was one of the first set- tlers. His mansion house was situated about one half-mile south of the present borough of Langhorne ]\Ianor, and on the property now owned by J. Hibbs Buckman, Esq. He had four children: Jeremiah; Elizabeth, who married Lawrence Grow- don; Sarah, who married William Biles; and Grace, who died at the age of thirty- four, unmarried. Jeremiah Langhorne was farfamed as one of the ablest ministers of the religious So- ciety of Friends. He was chief justice of the province, and held court in many places in it. He lived a single life with his sister Grace until her death, and after that alone with his servants. Besides Langhorne Park, his residence, he owned several thousand acres in Lehigh county. As to the date of his death there is no known record. His remains are said to lie in the Middletown meeting graveyard in the borough of Lang- horne. His will was proved in 1774. By- marriages and deaths without issue Jere- miah Langhorne's estates went largely to the Growdons and the Galloways of Tre- vose. For an interesting essay on "Jeremiah Langhorne and his Times" the reader is referred to a paper read before the Bucks County Historical Society on August 9, 1898, by Samuel C. Eastb'urn. Esq., of Langhorne, from which much of the infor- mation herein contained is taken. The Williams family are also descended from the Mauleverer? of Arncliffe, Eng- land. Hezekiah Williams, Jr. (ante) great- grandfather of the late Charles W. Taylor, was the son of Hezekiah Williams, Sr., and Sarah Abbott, his wife. The latter was a daughter of Anne ISIauleverer and John Abbott, of Burlington county, New Jersey, who were married April 16, 1696. John Abbott was born in Nottinghamshire in 1663, and arrived in Philadelphia in 1684. Anne Mauleverer was the daughter of Ed- mund Mauleverer, of West Auyton, York- shire, and Anne Pearson, his wife. He died 27 November, 1679. Edmund's father was James, who married Beatrice, daughter of Sir Timothv Hutton, Bart. Records in St. io8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Mary's church, York, show that he was buried there 25 April, 1664. James's father was William, who married Eleanor, daugh- ter of Richard Aldborough. William Mauleverer was buried at x\rncliffe, the familj' seat of the JNIauleverers, 11 April, 1618. William's father was Sir Edmund, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Chris- topher Danby, Bart. He was buried at Arncliffe, 27 April 1571. Sir Edmund's father was Robert, who married Alice, daughter of Sir Nimian de Markenfield. Robert's father was Sir William ]\Iaule- verer (knighted at Flodden in 1513 )who married Anne, daughter of William, first Lord Conyers, and Anne de Neville his wife. The latter was a daughter of Ralph de Neville, third earl of Westmoreland. Lord Conyers was the son of Sir John Conyers, Bart, and Alice de Neville, his wife. Through the Nevilles, and John of Gaunt, the line may be readily traced to Edward IIL, and so on back, by any one familiar with English history. For further research on this matter the reader is re- ferred to "Descent of Anne Mauleverer Abbott," by Charles Marshall and John B. Clement, 1903. Times Printing House, Philadelphia. See also "Inglesby Arncliffe, and its Owners," by William Brown, F. S. A., 1901, John Whitehead & Son, Alfred street. Boar Lane, Leeds. The descent in all its details is beautifully traced in the Marshall-Clement chart, to which the reader is referred. Sarah (Paxson) Taylor, second wife of the late Charles W. Taylor, and mother of the subject of this sketch, was born April 13, 1841, at "Brushy Park," near Edding- ton, Pennsylvania, and died at Trevose, February 22, 1889. She was the daughter of Joseph Paxson and Elizabeth (Gallaher) Paxson, his wife, and a member of the Rod- man family. Joseph Paxson was born Feb- ruary 12, 1803, and died September 24, 1867. He was the eldest son of John Paxson, of Brookfield, and Sarah (Pickering) Paxson, his wife. John Paxson's father was Joseph, who married Sarah Rodman. He was born 25 December, 1744, and resided at Brook- field until his death in 1795. Sarah Rod- man's father was John Rodman (fourth) of Brookfield, who married (second) Mary Harrison Rodman. Pie was born in 1714 at Flushing, Long Island. He removed to Burlington, New Jersey, with his father, in 1726; thence September i, 1748, to Bensa- lem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, residing until his death in 1795 on the farm called Brookfield, which he purchased from the Growdons. His father was John Rod- man (third) who married Margaret Grosse. John Rodman (third) was born in the Is- land of Barhadoes, May 14, 1679, and ac- companied his father to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1682. He resided at Newport after he became of age. and was admitted as a freeman of that city May i, 1706. He removed to Flushing, Long Island, in 1712, where he continued to reside until 1726. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and a practicing physician. He was a mem- ber of the ninth assembly of the province . of New Jersey in 1727, from the city of Burlington. From 1738 until his death, a period of eighteen years, he acted as King's Councillor for New Jersey. King George II. appointed him 8 January, 1741, a member of a commission to settle the con- troversy between the Mohegan Indians and the colony of Connecticut. He was the son of John Rodman (second) and Mary (Scammon) Rodman, his wife. John Rod- man (second) was born in 1653. His name appears among the inhabitants of Christ church parish, Barbadoes, December 22, 1679, as the owner of forty-seven acres of land and thirteen negroes. He was a mem- ber of the Religious Society of Friends, and while he lived in Barbadoes was fined 1)350 pounds of sugar "for default of ap- pearing in the troop." He purchased land in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1682, and in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1686. He died July 10, 1731, at the age of seventy-eight. He was the son of John Rodman (first) of the Island of Barbadoes, the progenitor of the Rodman family in America, and Eliza- beth Rodman, his wife. Of John Rodman little is known. He died in the Island of Barbadoes some time between the i6th Sep- tember and 4th December, 1686. His will bears the former date, and it was proved on the latter date. From whence he came is not now known. No memorials now exist in the family showing this fact, and the re- searches necessary to discover it from other sources have not been made. The only fact which tends to throw any light at all upon the subect is found on page 2^ of Rutty's "History of the Quakers in Ireland," pub- lished in 1751 : "In the year 1655 ^oi" wear- ing his hat on in the Assizes in New Ross, was John Rodman committed to goal by Judge Louder, kept a prisoner three months and then banished the country." The infer- ence from this passage is that John Rod- man originally came from Ireland, and upon his banishment went to the Island of Barbadoes. See "A Genealogy of the Rod- man Family from 1620 to 1886," by Charles Henry Jones, Philadelphia, 1886, Allen Lane & Scott, publishers. The Brookfield Farm above mentioned as the home of the Rodmans for so many generations is still owned by their descend- ants, and the subject of this sketch inher- ited an interest in it throiigh his mother. It is worthy of remark that from the early part of the seventeenth century until the present time, a period of two hundred years, this property has never been out of their hands, but has been owned and occupied by seven or eight successive generations of the family. Charles W. Taylor, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia in t5i7. He was educated at the Westtown Friends' School, and at the Friends' Acad- emy, then on Fourth street, below Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Soon after coming of age he became associated with his great ^,^^^.^^e^^^?^ // o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 109 uncle, George Williams, in the China and East India trade. In 1847 he gave up active business owing to ill health, and took up his residence at Trevose, where he resided until his death, May 30, 1893. He was a man of great force o'f character, of earnest piety, and much respected by those among whom ■he lived. In early life he was a member of the Society of Friends, as were all his fam- ily before him. In later years he became an Episcopalian. He was an attendant at Christ church, Eddington, and Grace Prot- estant Episcopal church, Hulmeville. For a number of years he was vestryman and rector's warden of the latter church, and represented it at the Episcopal convocation of Germantown. While he was possessed of more than ordinary ability and took a great interest in the public affairs of his time, yet he was of a retiring disposition, and, although he was often strongly urged, he never held public office. While living a retired life at Trevose he was active in every work for the advancement of the community. He was a fluent and graceful writer, and a frequent contributor to cur- rent newspapers and magazines on flori- cultural and historical subjects. He was especially interested in the latter subject, and was one of the charter members of the Bucks County Historical Society. Charles Langhorne Taylor, the subject of this sketch, was prepared for college by a private tutor, and at the Abington Friends' School, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1893 and was graduated B. S. in 1897 ; attended Harvard College, but did not graduate; was graduated LL. B. from Har- vard Law School, 1900; also graduated LL. B. from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1901 ; was admitted to practice law at the Philadelphia bar on mo- tion of George Wharton Pepper, Esq., in 1901 ; was admitted to the bar of the su- preme court of Pennsylvania in 1904, and has practiced his profession in Philadelphia since 1901. In the latter year he was one of the organizers of the Bucks County Coun- try Club at Langhorne, near Trevose ; later became one of its charter members, and a member of the board of governors; was elected secretary of the club in 1904. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of several clubs and societies, among which may be mentioned the Harvard Club of Philadelphia, the Bucks County Historical Society, and Historical Society of Penn- sylvania. BENJAMIN J. TAYLOR, of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, president of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county and prominently associated with the business interests of lower Bucks, was born in Burlington county. New Jersey, and is a representative of a distinguished family that has been prominently identified with the business, official and social life of • Bucks and Philadelphia counties, and of the neighboring state of New Jersey for over two centuries. Samuel Taylor, the emigrant ancestor of the family, was a native of the parish of Dore, Derbyshire, England, and sailed from Bristol, England, in the fly-boat, "Martha," in the year 1677, and landed at the point where Burlington, New Jersey, now stands. He was one of the proprietors of West Jersey, owning one thirty-second share in the lands of West Jersey, the papers for which were executed by his brother, William Taylor, of Dore, county of Derby, England, who had purchased the land of George Hutchinson, when in Eng- land and sold it to Samuel, but being lost before reaching America, the land was conveyed to Samuel by Hutchinson in 1681. He located in Chesterfield township, Bur- lington county, owning large tracts of land there and elsewhere. He died in December, 1723, leaving a family of eight children, four sons, John, George, William and Rob- ert, and four daughters who married into prominent families of New Jersey. Robert Taylor, youngest son of Samuel, was the executor of his father's will and inherited a large portion of the homestead tract, which descended to his son Anthony, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and remained in the tenure of his descendants until quite recently. The five hundred acre tract known as Brookdale farm was Robert's portion. His son, An- thony, who inherited Brookdale and lived thereon until his death in 1785, was an ar- dent patriot during the revolution and ren- dered material service to the cause of na- tional liberty. Anthony Taylor, Jr., third son of An- thony, and great-grandson of Samuel, the founder, was born at Brookdale farm in 1772, and when quite young was placed with John Thompson, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, to be trained for a mercan- tile and business career. On attaining his majority he formed a partnership with Thomas Newbold. whose sister Mary He later married, and engaged extensively in the East India trade, the firm name being Taylor & Newbold. In 1810 Mr. Taylor retired from active business pursuits and settled at Sunbury," his fine country seat in Bristol township, Bucks county, which had been his summer home for some years previously.. He later purchased several other large tracts of land in lower Bucks county, and at his death in 1837 was the largest landowner in the county. Anthony Taylor married, in 1802, Mary Newbold, tenth child of Caleb Newbold, of Spring- field township. Burlington county. New Jersey, and a descendant of Michael New- bold, of Sheffield Park, Yorkshire, Eng- land, who in 1678 purchased one eighth of three nintieth parts of the province of West Jersey, and settled in Springfield townshif), Burlington county, where he died in 1693, leaving a large number of children and grandchildren, some of whom were still Jn IIO HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. England. Many of his descendants even- tually became residents of Bucks county. Anthony and Mary (Newbold) Taylor were the parents of eleven children, Robert, Anthony, Sarah, William, Edward, Law- rence, Michael, Caleb Newbold, Mary Aim, Thomas, Emma L. and Franklin. The seventh of these children, Hon. Caleb Newbold Taylor, born at "Sunbury," July 27," 1814, was for over fifty years one of the most prominent men in Bucks county, being an acknowledged leader tirst of the Whig and later of the Republican party in Bucks county, representing his county in state and national conventions almost con- tinuously after attaining his majority, and four times was the candidate of his district for congress, being twice elected, in 1866 and 1868, respectively. He was also one of the most prominent business men in the ■county and amassed a large estate, owning at one time about 3,000 acres of land in Bucks county. He was president of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county, of which his father, Anthony Taylor, had been president for many years at his death in 1837. He died unmarried. Dr. Robert Taylor, eldest son of An- thony and Mary (Newbold) Taylor, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Philadelphia in 1803, and was reared in Bucks county. On attaining manhood settled in Philadelphia, removing later to Burlington county. New Jersey, and late in life to Bristol, Bucks county, resid- ing at Sunbury Farm, where he died in August, 1872, at the age of sixty-nine years and was buried in the graveyard of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. James, the less, at the Falls of Schuylkill. Pie mar- ried Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Benjamin Jones, of Philadelphia, and a great-grand- daughter of John Jones, a large landowner in Bucks and Philadelphia counties in colonial times. Dr. Robert and Eliza- beth Ash (Jones) Taylor were the pa- rents of five children: Benjamin J., Cap^- tain Anthony, Robert, Fr&nces, and Alice J. Elizabeth Taylor, the mother of these children, died at Bristol, January 29. 1893, aged eighty years. Captain Anthony Taylor, the second son of Dr. Robert Taylor, born in Bur- lington county, New Jersey, October 11, 1837, rendered distinguished services to his countrj' during the civil war. He ■enlisted August 8, 1862, in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry as a private, was made sergeant, October 30, 1862; first sergeant, March i. 1863; first lieutenant of Company A, May 8, 1863: and Cap- tain. June I, 1865; having had command of the company as lieutenant, command- ing almost from the date of his commis- sion as first lieutenant. Prior to 1865 he was under Brigadier General Rosen- crans, in the Army of the Cuml)erland, and participated in the battles of An- tietam, Stone River, Chickamauga and many other engagements. From June I, 1865 until tlie close of the war he served on the stafif of General William J. Palmer, as aide-de-camp, and was honorably mustered out June 21, 1865. In 1893 he was awarded a medal of honor by the United States congress for signal acts of bravery and meritorious service. He married, February 21, 1871. Caroline Fletcher Johnson, daughter of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson, and died in Philadelphia, May 21, 1894, leaving two daughters, Mary Lawrence, now wife of Bromley Wharton, private secretary to Governor Pennypacker; and Elizabeth Elmslie, wife of Hcruston- Dunn. Benjamin J. Taylor was born in Bur- lington county,. New Jersey, and re- ceived his education at the Friends' Select School and at the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia. He received a thorough business training, and followed mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia for eight years. In 1863 he served for three months in the Grey Re- serves, and was at the shelling of Car- lisle by General Fitz Hugh Lee. He also saw military service in Tennessee and Mississippi as volunteer aide on the staff of dififerent commanders. After retiring from active mercantile pursuits he made his residence at the old fam- ily homestead at Sunbury Farm, in Bristol township, and devoted much of his time to the transaction of business, acting as agent for others and assisting in the care and management of the large estate belonging to the family. He has been a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Bristol for many years, and on the death of Pierson Mitchell, in 1894, was elected its president, representing the third generation of his family in suc- cession to serve in that capacity. Mr. Taylor has inherited many of the ster- ling business qualities of his ancestors, and is interested in niost of the local business enterprises. He and his sisfer Alice are the owners of Sunbury Farmj comprising 400 acres, which has been the home of his ancestors and their fam- ilies for four generations, covering a period of over a century. He is a mem- ber of H. Clay Beatty Post, G. A. R., and other social, fraternal, and patriotic associations. THE HICKS FAMILY of Bucks county descend from Pilgrim stock, their first American progenitor being Robert Hicks, who landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, November 11, 1621, hav- ing sailed from London in the ship "Fortune," which followed the "May- riower," and brought over those left be- hind the previous year by that famous t'essel. The family of Robert Hicks were natives of Gloucestershire, Eng- land, and traced their ancestry in an unbroken line back to Sir Ellis Hicks, who was knighted by Edward, the Black HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Ill Prince, on the battle field of Poitiers, September 9, 1356, for conspicuous brav- ery in capturing a stand of colors from the French. Robert Hicks settled at Duxbury, Massachusetts, and died there at an ad- vanced age. His sons John and Stephen in 1642 joined an English company which acquired by patent an extensive tract of land about Hempstead and Flushing. Long Island. Stephen Hicks purchased several thousand acres at Little Neck, Long Island, and erected a large mansion where he lived to an ad- vanced age and died without leaving male descendants. John Hicks settled at Hempstead, and from him are descended the extensive family of the name on Long Island, in New York, Philadelphia and Bucks county, as well as in many other parts of the Union. He was educated at Ox- ford, and was a man of intelligence and natural force of character, and there- fore soon became a leader in the youth- ful colony, and took an active part in public affairs, his name appearmg in nearly all the iinportant transactions of the time. Thomas Hicks, only son of John, in- herited his father's intellectual ability and force of character, and occupied a prominent position in public and social life, filling many positions of trust and honor. He was the first judge of Queens county, New York, and filled that office for many years. In 1666 he obtained from Governor Nicolls a pat- ent for four thousand acres of land in- cluding Great Neck, Long Island, and lands adjacent, and lived there in Eng- lish manorial style. He was a remark- able man in many respects, and retained his mental and physical powers unim- paired to an extreme old age. He was twice married, his first wife being Mary Washburne, by whom he had two sons. Thomas and Jacob, the latter being the father of the famous Quaker preacher, Elias Hicks, the founder of that branch of the Society of Friends known to this day as Hicksites. Judge Hicks married (second) Mary Dought3^ by whom he had ten children — six sons; Isaac. Will- iam, Stephen, John, Charles, Benjamin; anl four daughters; Phebe. Charity, ]\Iary and Elizabeth. A paragraph in the "New York Post Boy" of January 26, 1749, in referring to the death of Judare Hicks., says: "he left behind him of his own offspring above three hun- dred children. grandchildren. great- grandchildren and great-great-grand- children." He died in his one hundredth year. Isaac Hicks, eldest son of the Judge by his second marriage with Mary Dought3\ was, like his father, a prom- inent man in public affairs. He was judge of Queens county. Long Island-, for the years 1730-1738, and a member of the colonial assembly of New York from that county, 1716 to 1739. He mar- ried Elizabeth Moore, and they were the parents of evelen children — nine sons: Charles, Benjamin, Isaac, Gdbert, James, Thomas. Henry, John, Edward; and two daughters, Margaret and Mary. Gilbert Hicks, fourth son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Moore) Hicks, was born in Queens county. New York, Sep- tember 19, 1720, and married April 24, 1746, Mary Rodman, born February 17, 1717, a daughter of Joseph Rodman. They were the ancestors of all the Hickses of Bucks county. Both were born at Flushing. Long Island. As a wedding present to the youthful couple, Joseph Rodman conveyed to them six hundred acres of land in Bensalem township, on the Neshaminy creek, twenty miles northeast of Philadel- phia, which he had recently purchased. Hither they came in 1747 and made their home in a comfortable log house untfl they erected a more commodious dwell- ing, to defray the expense of which he sold off two hundred acres of the land to Lawrence Growdon. They subse- quently sold the remaining four hun- dred acres and purchased one hundred acres, coming to a point at Four-Lanes- End, (now Langhorne) on which he erected in 1763 a commodious brick house which is still standing. On June 9, 1752, Gilbert Hicks was commissioned by the governor and council one of the justices of the peace for Bucks county, and on May li, 1761, he was commissioned chief justice of the court of common pleas. On March 29. he and Hugh Hartshorne were com- missioned by John Penn, then gover- nor, to hold court for the trial of ne- groes, whether slave or free. Gilbert Hicks was a man of superior mental abilities, and stood very high in the com- munity, commanding the respect of all. On July 9, 1774, he was chairman of a public meeting held at Newtown, then the county seat of Bucks, in pursuance of previous notice, and in a short ad- dress explained the objects of the meet- ing as being to consider the injury and distress occasioned by the numerous acts of oppression inflicted on the col- onies by the English parliament, in which the colonies were not represented, and entirely concurred in the resolu- tions then adopted, looking toward a congress composed of delegates from the different colonies, "to use every lawful endeavor to obtain relief and to form and promote a plan of union be- tween the parent country and colonies." See Penna. Archives, Second Series, Vol. XV, page 343. When, however. General Howe issued his proclamation calling on the loyal subjects of George III to lay down their arms and seek peaceful means of re- dress. Judge Hicks, being greatly im- 112 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. pressed with, the power of Enghind and the futility of armed resistance, while he condemned the injustices ijf the mother country toward the colonics, and being conscientious in regard to the oath he had taken as a justice, read the proclamation from the court house steps at Newtown, and counselled his friends and neighbors to pause before it was too late, and to postpone any over action or resistance until the colonies grew stronger. Excitement ran high at the time, and he was branded as a traitor and forced to flee the country and spend the remainder of his days in Nova Scotia, where he was supported by a pension from the British government, and where he 'was waylaid and mur- dered by highwaymen on March 8, 1786, for the quarterly pension he had just drawn. From the nature of the advice he gave to his eldest son Isaac, who visited him while in New York imme- diately after his flight, there is every reason to believe that if reasoned with calmly he would have realized that mat- ters had progressed too far for peaceful measures to prevail, and would have lived to render to the patriot cause the same eminent service that he gave to his county under royal authority. His extensive property was confiscated, and his family reduced to almost penury. His son Isaac, wdio at the time was clerk of the several courts of Bucks county, was cast under suspicion and removed from office. Mary Rodman Hicks, the wife of Gilbert, died August 17, 1769, years before his flight and disgrace. They were the parents of five children: i. Isaac, born April 21, 1748, married his first cousin. Catharine Hicks, daughter of Colonel Edward Hicks and Violetta Ricketts, of New Jersey. 2. Sarah, born November 3, 1749, died unmarried. 3. Elizabeth, born April 7, 1751, married June 4, 1768, General Augustine Willet, of Bensalem township. 4. Mary, born January 15, 1753. married May 8, 1772, Samuel Kirkbride. 5. Joseph Rodman, born November 12, 1756, married July 29, 1777, his cousin, Margaret Thomas'. Joseph Rodman Hicks purchased in 1780 a farm of one hundred acres near Dolington, in Upper Makefield town- ship, and spent the remainder of his life there. He died May 28, 1816. His wife was an approved minister among Friends at Makefield Meeting, adjoin- ing the farm, the land upon which the meeting house was built being orig- inally part of the farm. She continued , in the ministry from 1790 to the date of her death. May 2, 1842. In 1822 Mrs. Hicks and her children sold the farm, and she took up her residence with her son Charles in Philadelphia. ■ Joseph Rodman and Margaret (Thomas) Hicks *were the parents of eight children, viz: Charles, married Elizabeth Cooper; Joseph, married Jane Bond; Elizabeth, married Jacob Woll- ery; Margaret, married Amos Carlile; Gilbert, married Phoebe Mathews; Mary, married Elias Slack; William, died unmarried; and Isaiah married Mary P'lannagan. Joseph Hicks, second son of Joseph Rodman and Margaret (Thomas) Hicks, born June 12, 1780, died October 4, 1827, married January 2, 1804, Jane Bond, of New^town, Bucks county, and had nine children, the seventh of whom was Tliornas Hicks, the eminent artist. Cha-rles Hicks, eldest son of Joseph RodmarT and Margaret (Thomas) Hicks, w-as born June 12, 1778. At the age of sixteen years he removed to Philadel- phia, and learned the carpenter trade, which he followed in that city during the ative years of his life. He died April 20, 1855. He was married August 10, 1804, to Elizabeth Cooper, born June 19, 1780, died April 17, 1858, and they were the parents of nine children, viz,: William C, Isaac, Ann C, Joseph, Wil- let, Charles C, Cooper, Rodman, and Elizabeth. Willet Hicks, fifth son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cooper) Hicks, born Feb- ruary 21, 1814, died December 12, 1853, married April 16, 1836, Margaret Mint- zer, born June 26, 1816, died January 5, 1899, and had six children, viz.: George A.; Edwin M.; S. Pllizabeth; Albert M.; William U.; and Harry H. George A. Hicks, to whom we are in- debted for a history of the earlier gener- ations of the Hicks family, is the eld- est son of Willet and Margaret Mintzer Hicks, and was born in Philadelphia. Earlj' in life he learned the trade of a plumber, and has followed that business to the present time in his native city. He takes deep interest in Bucks county, the home of his ancestors. He is one of the active members of the Bucks County Historical Society, and is a regular at- tendant at its meetings, and contribut- ing largely to its success. Previous to manhood he imited himself with the United .States Hose Company, No. 14, (late Volunteer Fire Department of Philadelphia) and served as its secre- tary for many years. He is a member of the Veteran Firemen's Association, the Firemen's Association, State of Penn- sylvania, and a life member of the As- sociation for. the Relief of Disabled Fire- men. He is an honorary life member of Columbia Lodge No. 91, F. and A. M., and an honorary life member of Harmony Chapter. No. 52, R. A. M.; a member of the Master Plumbers' As- sociation, and a stockholder in the Mer- cantile Library, all of Philadelphia. Mr. Hicks was never married. EDWARD P. HICKS. Isaac Hicks, the eldest son of Gilbert and Mary (Rodman) Hicks, an account of whose HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 113 ancestry from the Pilgrim ancestor Robert Hicks down to his father Gilbert Hicks, is given in the preceding sketch, was born in Bensalem township, April 21, 1748, and died in Newtown, Bucks county, October 5, 1836. He received a good education, and was a man of fine intellectual ability and excellent busi- ness capacity. On June 6, 1772, he was commissioned prothonotary and clerk of the several courts of Bucks county, and filled those positions with eminent abil- ity until 1777, when he was directed to turn in all papers and books relating to these offices to be deposited in the fire- proof at Newtown, the political views of his father (Gilbert Hicks) having cast a suspicion upon him. He was also commissioned a justice of the peace an April 9, 1774, and held that office for three years. , The continued good and loyal deportment of the son had its proper effect to convince the public that the suspicion was groundless. After the close of the Revolution he was again commissioned a justice of the peace, and held the office many years while re- siding at Newtown. His office for many years was in the western end of what is now the White Hall Hotel. Here by close attention to his duties and an hon- orable course of life he built up a large business. It is said that in dress he ad- hered to the old style of breeches and knee-buckles. He was married at Newtown, on No- vember 17, 1771, to his cousin, Catharine Hicks, daughter of Col. Edward and Violetta (Ricketts) Hicks, who was born in New York, November 4, 1745, and died at Burlington, New Jersey, Oc- tober ig. 1781. Her brother William was prothonotary of Bucks county, 1770- 1772. The children of Isaac and Cath- arine Hicks, were : 1. Gilbert Edward, born March li, J773, who became a prominent physician at Catawissa, Pennsylvania, where hd- married Catharine Hibbs, daughter of James Hibbs. His grandchildren now living are: Dr. J. J. John, historian and prominent business man of Shamokin, who spent some little time in Bucks county in early life ; Emma Walters, of Catawissa; and Anna M. Ormsby, widow of Henry George Ormsby, of Philadel- phia. 2. William Richard, born November 17, 1774, died February 5, 1777- 3. Edward Henry, born June 29, 1776, died August 20, 1776. 4. Eliza Violetta, born March 17, 1778. married October 4, 1807, Thomas G. Kennedy, sheriff of Bucks county for the term 1815-1817. She was drowned in Newtown creek, near her home in Newtown, July 28, 1817, in an effort, to save her child, who had fallen in the creek. . 5. Edward, born April 2, 1780, died August 23, 1849. 8-3 Isaac Hicks married (second) October 20, 1792, Mary (Gilbert) Young, widow of Edward Young, of Philadelphia, who was born August 3, 1757, and died at Newtown February 22, 1812. Edward Hicks, youngest son of Isaac and Catharine, was born at Attleboro (now Langhorne, then known as Four- Lanes-End) April 2, 1780. His mother dying when he was but eighteen months old, he was left to the care of her faith- ful servant Jane, a colored woman. His father's home was entirely broken up by the confiscation of all the property belonging to his father, Gilbert Hicks, and this, with sickness and deaths in his family, reduced him for a season to a great strait. He later secured a home for his infant son in the family of David Twining, where he remained until thir- teen years of age. Edward Hicks in his "Memoirs" gives abundant testimony of his appreciation of the kindness received at the hands of his adopted mother, Elizabeth Twining. In April, 1793, he was apprenticed to the coach-making trade with William and Henry Tomlin- son, at Four-Lanes-End, where he re- mained until 1800, when he set up bus- iness for himself. In the autumn of 1801 he entered the employ of Joshua C. Canby, then a coach-maker at Mil- ford (now Hulmeville) and remained a resident of that village untilApril, 1811, when he removed to Newtown, Penn- sylvania. He became a member of Mid- » dletown Monthly Meeting of Friends in the spring of 1803, and later became a prominent minister in the Society, trav- eling extensively in the ministry. Like his distinguished cousin, Thomas Hicks, he possessed considerable artistic talent, and a number of his paintings of high merit are still preserved. He was an ardent temperance advocate, and claimed to have built the first house in Bucks county erected without the use of intox- icating liquors, in 1804. He married II mo. 17, 1803, Sarah Worstall, daugh- ter of Joseph and Susanna (Hibbs) Worstall. He died in Newtown 8 mo. 23, 1849, and his widow died 12 mo. 30, 1855. Their children were: Mary, born 10 mo. 12, 1804, died 2 mo. 7, 1880, un- married; Susan, born 11 mo. 9, 1806, married 5 mo. 17, 1832, John Carle, Jr., of New York, and died in New York, I mo. 24, 1872; Elizabeth T.. born 8 rno. 24, 1811, married Richard Plummer. of Baltimore, Maryland, 11 mo. 11, 1852, and died in Newtown, 3 mo. 22, 1892; Sarah B., born 12 mo. 24, 1816, married Isaac C. Parry, of Warminister, 5 mo. 23, 1844, and died in Warminister 2 mo. 23, 1895; Isaac W., born i mo. 20, 1809, and died 3 mo. 28,. 1898. Isaac W. Hicks, only son of Edward and Sarah (Worstall) Hicks, was born at Hulmeville, and reared in Newtown, Bucks county, where he lived from ,t)ie age of two years until his death. He 114 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. assisted his father in the coach painting business and farming, but after his fath- I ers (leatli he devoted himself mostly to farming. He was greatly interested in the incorporation of Newtown as a bor- ough in 1S38, and the laying of the brick walk on Penn street which led from a ladies seminary at the corner of Penn and Congress street to the heart of the town, and was the first improved walk in the new borough. Throughout his life he was interested in everything that would add to the best good of the town. His entire life after he was twelve years of age was spent in the house on Penn , street, Newtown borough, built by his father about 1821 and remodeled by him- self in 1870, and still occupied by his daughter Sarah. He married 6 mo. 4, 1857, Hannah L. Penrose, daughter of William and Hannah (Jarrett) Pen- rose, of Horsham. She was born at the historic Graeme Park, the former resi- dence of Sir William Keith, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, 2 mo. 20, 1820, and died at Newtown 9 mo. 23, 1894. The children of Isaac W. and Hannah Penrose Hicks are: Sarah W.. born 4 mo. 9, 1858, still re- siding at the old homestead in New- town. Edward P., born 8 mo. 27. 1859. mar- ried 2 mo. 24, 1903, Lydia Harper Barnesley, daughter of William and Mary Ellen (Paff) Barnesley, of Newtown, and resides in Newtown borough, in the house on Penn street, opposite the old homestead built by his father about 1833. and re- modeled by himself in 1904. Their daugh- ter, Mary Barnesley Hicks, was born 7 mo. 24, 1904. Mr. Hicks took a prominent part in 1898 in establishing the standard telephone system at Newtown which was a matter of much importance to Newtown. He was for seven years a member of the Newtown town council and during this time many very im- portant improvements were inaugurated which have proved beneficial to the town. He is somewhat retiring in dis- position but one of the useful and highly respected citizens of the town and county. William Penrose Hicks, born 9 mo. 6, 1864, married 5 mo. 23, 1890, Nellie Brown, daughter of William B. and Hannah (Hough) Brown, of Browns- burg, and resides on "Fountain Farm," adjoining Newtown borough. Their children are: Hannah Brown Hicks, born 12 mo. i, 1891 ; and Cornelia Carle Hick?, born 3 mo. i, 1898. annals of the Society of Friends. Will- iam Hicks was a native of Bucks county, and was the father of five sons and two daughters. One of the sons, George, was a farmer and married Ann, daughter of John and Ann Penrose. To Mr. and Mrs. Hicks were born eleven chil- dren, of whom one was Penrose, men- tioned at length hereinafter. In re- ligious belief all the family were Friends. Penrose Hicks, son of George and Ann (Penrose) Hicks, was born May 9, 1802, in Milford township. In his youth he learned the trade of a wheelwright and ploughmaker, but at the age of twenty-one became a farmer, devoting himself to agricultural pursuits until he was forty-two years of age. Some years later he retired from active labor. He was one of the directors of the Turn- pike Company. He was chosen by his neighbors a member of the council, in which he served with honor to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He was a Republican in politics, and always took an active interest in the affairs of the organization. He was a birthright member of Richland Monthly Meeting. Mr. Hicks married Mary, daughter of W^illiam and Martha (Cadwallader) Ball, and they were the parents of a number of children. After the death of his wife Mr. Hicks married, November 13, 1862, Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh and Eliza- beth (Roberts) Foulke. The death of Mr. Hicks occurred July II, 1886, when he had reached the ad- vanced age of eighty-four. He left be- hind him the memory of a good husband and father, a kind neighbor, and a use- ful, public-spirited citizen. PENROSE HICKS. Bucks county is rich in memories of her honored citizens of the past, among whom must be num- bered Penrose Hicks, for many years a respected resident of Richland town- ship. Mr. Hicks belonged to a family whose name is a memorable one in the J. WILMER LUNDY, of Newtown, Bucks county, was born at Rancocas, Burlington county, New Jersey, May 3, 1869, and is a son of Joseph and I\lary (Evans) Lundy. Though a native of New Jersey, as have been his ancestors for four generations, his paternal an- cestors were among the earliest settlers of the county in which he now resides. Richard Lundy, the first American an- cestor of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Sylvester Lundy, of Axminster, in the county of Devon, England; and came to Boston. Massachusetts in 6 mo.. 1676. "and from thence came to the Delaware River the 19th of the 3d mo.. 1682." So says the ancient record in the quaint little tattered "Book of Arrivals" in the handwriting of Phine- as Pemberton (the first clerk of the Bucks county courts), now in posses- sion of the Bucks County Historical So- ciety. The same volume records the ar- rival in the Delaware river in "8th mo. 1683, in the ship Concord of London, the Master William Jeffry, of Elizabeth Bennett, daughter of William Bennett of Hammondsworth, in the county of HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. IT Ivliddlesex (now deceased) and now the wife of the aforesaid Richard Lundy." William Bennett was accompanied to America by his wife Rebecca and daughters Elizabeth, before mentioned, Ann and Sarah. This book also gives the record of the marriage of Richard Lundy and Elizabeth Bennett, 6 'mo. 24, 1684. Elizabeth survived her marriage "but three years, and was buried 6 mo. 14, 1687. Still another entry in the old "Book of Arrivals" is interesting to the descendants of Richard Lundy, that which records the arrival of James Harrison and the Pembertons in the ship "Submis- sion," on 5 mo. 7, T682, at Choptank, Maryland, and their subsequent trip overland to Bucks county, detailed in this volume in a brief sketch of "The Pemerton Family," in which is given a list of the passengers on the ship "Sub- mission." With the family of James Harrison came. Jane Lyon, who was to serve in his family for four years to 9 mo. 2, 1686, and was then to receive fifty acres of land. On 4 mo. 24, 1691. this Jane Lyon became the second wife of Richard Lundy, at Middletown Meet- ing of Friends. Jane was born in the year 1666, and was therefore sixteen years of age when she arrived in Penn- sylvania, and twenty-five years old when she became the wife of Richard Lundy. On 10 mo. 6th, 1682-3 there was laid out to Richard Lundy two hundred acres in what is now Bristol township, just west of the Manor of Pennsbury, which' was patented to him 5 mo. 6th, 1684. 8 mo. 7th, 1685, he exchanged this tract with Jacob Telner for 1000 acres in what is now Buckingham, "back in the woods", as it is described in the deed recorded at Doylestown under date of 2 mo. I2th, 1688. It comprised all the land below the York road, eastward from the west line of Judge Paxson's "Nonesuch" farm to the village of Holi- cong, and extending to the top of Buck- ingham mountain. Richard Lundy did not at once take up his residence "back in the woods" of Buckingham, but purchased of Samuel Burgess a tract of 103 acres on the up- per side of Pennsbury Manor, part of the same tract on which Falls Meeting House was erected, and probably re- sided there until close to 1700. He finally conveyed this land to Thomas Duer, and took up his residence on his Buckingham purchase, either • where Charles J. Smith now resides, or across the creek at the old Ely homestead now owned by the estate of Anna J. Will- iams. On 7 mo. 12. 1692, he conveyed to Francis Rossel. 500 acres off the west- ern end of his tract, lying in about equal quantities on both sides of the present Durham Road. Rossel dying in 1695, devised it to William Smith, Ralph Boon and the "sons of Samuel Burgess." By various conveyances prior to 1705 that west of the Durham road came to Mathew Hughes, whose family owned and occupied it for over a century, or until the death of Amos Austin Plughes in 181 1. The east side of the road was first occupied by Lawrence and Enoch Pearson in 1702-3, and came to be the home of Thomas Canby in 1729. On 4 mo_. 7, 1709, Richard Lundy, then rcj- residing in Buckingham, conveyed 100 acres to Joseph Large (now the Broad- hurst farm) and some time prior to 1719 sold to his son Richard Lundy, Jr., 300 acres of the remaining 400 acres of his tract "back in the woods." The date was probably that of the marriag,e of Richard, Jr., in 1714. He, however, failed to convey the land to his son, and he having agreed to sell it to Isaac Norris. Richard Lundy, Sr., and Jane his wife and Richard. Jr., and Elizabeth his wife in 1710 conveyed it to Norris, and a year later it became the property of Hugh Ely, and remained in the fam- ily several generations. In 1724 "Rich- ard Lundy, Sr., conveyed the remaining 100 acres to Hugh Ely. This was prob- ably the approximate date of the death of his wife Jane, and he took up his residence with his son Richard, Jr., who at this date had removed to Plumstead township and located on land belonging to his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Large, which he subsequently purchased. Richard Lundy was a prominent mem- ber of Falls Meeting, and is frequently mentioned on their records. On his removal to Buckingham he became affil- iated with the ^Meeting there, then a branch of Falls Meeting, and on it be- coming a separate monthly meeting with Wrightstown in 1720, became one of the overseers and elders. On 8 mo. 5. '^7i7' he requested a certificate to re- move himself to Maiden Creek. Berks county, where his son and family had re- moved two years previously. and though the Friends remonstrated against his removing himself so far back on the frontiers at his advanced age, he persisted, and was granted a certificate to Exeter Meeting, which he deposited there the month following. He prob- ably died at Maiden Creek soon after his removal there, as we find no further record of him, and at the marriage of his grandson there in 1789 his name does not appear among the witnesses. Richard Lundy (2), son of Richard and Jane (Lyon) Lundy, was born 3 mo. (May) 20. 1692, in Bucks county, probably in Falls township, and died 2 mo. (February) 28, 1772. at Alla- muchy, Warren county. New Jersey. At least part of his boyhood days were probably spent on the Buckingham plan- tation. 300 acres of which was conveved to him on his marriage in 1714. H-is wife was Elizabeth Large, daughter of Joseph Large, then deceased, and they were married at Buckingham under the ii6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. auspices of Falls Meeting, 4 mo. 3, 1714. He was for ten years caretaker of Buckingham Meeting House and "grave digger." The records of the Meeting on 10 mo. 2, 1724, recites the fact that he had "moved too for off" to further officiate in this capacity, and fixes the date of his removal to Plum- stead, where he was later made one of the trustees of the land on which Plum- stead Meeting House was erected though the deed for the land (200 acres) on which he lived was not made to him until November 2, 1734, less than six months before the date on- which he conveyed it preparatory to his removal to Berks county, viz.: 3 mo. 24, 1735. On 3 mo. 5, 1735, he was granted a cer- tificate by Buckingham Meeting to re- move with his family to Maiden Creek, Berks county, the certificate being di- rected to Gwynedd Meeting, from which Exeter was organized two years later,' and of which latter meeting he was ap- pointed an elder in 1737. Richard Lundy and his family remained in Berks county twelve years, removing in 5th mo., 1747 to the valley of Pequest river, in what is now Allmuchy township, Warren county, he and his family bringing cer- tificates to Bethlehem (later Kingwood, and now Quakertown Meeting) in Hunt- erdon county. New Jersey., but becom- ing later attendants at Hardwick Meet- ing, a branch of Kingwood. Several of his children had married prior to the removal to New Jersey, but all removed there with their families, though a few years later several of his children and grandchildren removed elsewhere. On March 28, 1749, Richard Lundy was commissioned a justice of the peace for the county of Morris, in which his res- idence was then included. In the same year he was made an elder of the Friends Meeting at Great Meadows, and frequent mention is made of meetings being held at his house. He died in Allemuchy, 2 mo. 28, 1772, and was bur- ied at Hardwick Friends' burying ground. On the records of Kingwood Monthly meeting is recorded a testi- mony of his worth, which says among other things, "he was a man much es- teemed among Friends and others, being of a meek and quiet spirit, exemplary in life and conversation, and a pattern of plainness and simplicity * * * jjg was an affectionate husband, a tender father, a kind friend, punctual and just in his dealings among men, evidencing to the world that he was concerned to do to others as he would have them do to him." His eighty years of life had not been lived in vain. The children of Richard and Eliza- beth (Large) Lundy were nine in num- ber, all of whom were born in BuckiiTg- ham and Plumstead townships, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and all of whom removed with their parents to Berks county, and all of whom either pre- ceded or accompanied them back to New Jersey; they were as follows: 1. Richard, born 4 mo. 23, 1715, in Buckingham, died at Allemuchy, New Jersey, 11 mo. 7, 1757; married at Maiden Creek, Berks county, in 1739^ Ann Wilson, and removed to the Pe- quest Valley, New Jersey, in 1746. He had eleven children, ten of whom grew to maturity: Samuel, William, Amos, Sarah, Richard, Ann, Ebenezer, John Eleazer and Azariah. Samuel and Will- iam removed to Canada, Samuel to New- market, and William to Lundy's Lane, it being upon his property that the famous battle of Lundy's Lane was fought in 1814. Ebenezer and Azariah returned to Bucks county. Amos, Sarah (Kes- ter) Richard, John, and the family of Azariah removed to Virginia. 2. Mary Lundy, born in Buckingham, Bucks county, 11 mo. 6, 1716, married in Plumstead in 1734, Robert Wilson, re- moved with him to Berks county, Penn- sylvania in 1735, and to Sussex county. New Jersey, in 1748, where she died 3 mo. 4, 1807, at the age of ninety years. She left numerous descendants., some of whom still retain the Sussex homestead. 3. Joseph Lundy, born in Buckingham 4 mo. 24, 1719, removed with the family to Berks county in 1735, married there in 1743 Susanna Hutton, and removed to Warren county. New Jersey, in 1745; died- there about 1759; left children: Sarah, who married Joseph Carpenter, and returned to Berks county, as did his son Enos, who in 1805 removed to York county, Ontario. His daughter Hannah married Samuel Shotwell, and settled in Sussex countj% New Jersey. 4. Jacob Lundy, born in Buckingham 6 mo. 15, 1721, married at Maiden Creek, 1748, Mary Wilson, removed to New Jersey same year, and died there in 1800, leaving children, Jacob, Mary (Schmuck), Jonathan, and Deborah (Dennis). 5. Martha Lundy, born in Bucking- ham, 6 mo. I, 1723, married in New Jer- sey in 1755, Benjamin Schooley; died there 9 mo. 11, 1803; left four children. 6. Thomas Lundy, born in Plumstead, Bucks county, and died in Warren countj^' New Jersey, about 1775; he mar- ried there in 1750, Joanna Doan, and had si.x children. See forward. 7. Samuel Lundj', born in Plumstead, Bucks county, 12 mo. 13, 1727, died in Sussex count}'. New Jersey, 2 mo. 14, 1801. He was a judge of Sussex county court, and was twice married, first in 1731 to Ann Schooley, and second in 1765 to Sarah Willets, and had twelve children. His son Levi removed to Ohio, Samuel to Seneca county. New York, and Jesse to Ontario. Canada. ' The others of his children remained in New Jersey. 8. Elizabeth Lundy, bom at Plum- rtead, Bucks county, marr.cd at Hard- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 117 wick, New Jersey, in 1748, Gabriel Wil- son, and settled at Great Meadows, in Warren county, New Jersey, where she attend 6/i ^^x^fc^«-^ ITHE NEW YORK' PUBLIC LICRARY ■ ^STOX, LENOX A.ND TILC£N F0UMDATICN3. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 119 the provincial conference in May, 1775, and was again a delegate to the confer- ence that drafted the first constitution in 1776. He was the leading member of the committee of safety in Bucks, and the county's first representative in the congress of the United States, which assembled in New York on March 4. 1789. He died in 1816. after a long car- eer of unexampled usefulness in public life.. Gerrit Wynkoop, second son of Ger- rit and Lilletje (Folkert) Wynkoop, was born in New York, about 1700, and came to Bucks county with his father in 1717, and died in Northampton town- ship, May 12, 1769, on the 260-acre farm conveyed to him by his father in 1738. He and his wife, Susanna Vliet, were members of -the Dutch Reformed church of Northampton and Southampton. They were the parents of several chil- dren, only two of whom survived him, Geri-rdus and Adrian. The latter was baptized at Southampton, October 4, 1/43- Gerardus, eldest son of Gerrit and Su- sannah, M^as born in Northampton, and was joint heir with his brother Adrian of the paternal homestead, which he pur- chased entire in 1770, and spent his en- tire life thereon. He was first lieuten- ant of the Northampton County Asso- ciators in 1775. He was elected a mem- ber of assembly in 1774, and served con- tinuously in that body until 1794, and was for several years speaker. He died in June, 1812. His wife, whom he mar- ried December 7, 1758, was Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac- Bennett. They were the parents of eight children — six sons: Isaac, John, Garret, Mathew, David, and William; and twc^ daughters, Susannah, wife of David Wylie, and Elizabeth, wife of Stephen Rose. William, youngest son of Gerardus and Elizabeth, inherited one hundred and twenty-eight acres of the old home- stead in Northampton, and spent his life thereon. He married April 13, 1801, Mary Longstreth. and died in 1833. His widow iMary survived him several years. Their children were: Thomas L., Ger- ardus, Christopher: Elizabeth, wife of Charles McNair; Catharine, wife of Dr. James McNair; Susannah, Margaret. Anna Maria, Susan, Mary Frances and Caroline. Thomas L. Wynkoop married Eliza- beth Torbert, daughter of James and Margaret (McNair) Torbert, of Scotch- Irish ancestry, a descendant of Samuel Torbert, who came to Newtown. Bucks countv. from Carrickfergus, Ireland, in 1726. 'Thomas and Elizabeth (Torbert) Wynkoop were the parents of five chil- dren, viz. : James. Catharine. William, Samuel, and Thomas Henry. The lat- ter was a member of General W. W. H. Davis' 104th Pennsylvania Regi- ment, and was killed in action in June, 1862. Thomas L. Wynkoop, the father of the above named children, died in. 1879, and devised the old homestead where he had lived all his life to his son William, the subject of this sketch, who still owns it. The subject of this sketch has lived an eventful life. He served three years during the war of the rebellion in the First New Jersey Cavalry, enlisting as a private and was promoted successively - to sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieu- tenant and captain, rie served on the staff of Brigadier General Davis, in Gregg's, Cavalry Division, as provost- marshal, ordnance office and assistant adjutant general; was three times wound and received an honorable testi- monial for meritorious services. Soon after the war Captain Wynkoop removed to Newtown, where he has since resided. He was engaged in the real estate business for nearly twenty years, and transacted a large amount of public business as assignee, executor, administrator, and agent. He served in the office of justice of the peace for fif- teen years; was three years chief .bur- gess of Newtown borough, and borough treasurer for several years. He has been president of the school board for the past ten years, and is an active member of the school directors' association of Bucks county, which he has served as president. He was one of the assign- ees of the Newtown Banking Company on its failure in May, 1878, and was an important factor in winding up its com- plicated affairs. Captain Wynkoop' comes of good old Presbyterian stock, his ancestors for eight generations having been officers of the Presbyterian or Reformed churches in the localities where they re- sided. He has served as ruling elder of the Newtown Presbyterian church since 1872. during which period he has acted as clerk of. the session. In the same year he was chosen superintendent of the Sabbath school connected with the church, and was re-elected to that posi- tion for twenty-eight consecutive years, then declining a re-election. In 1879 he was elected president of the Bucks Coun- ty Sabbath School Association and served in that position for eight years. He has been identified with the Bucks County Historical Society for many years, and has prepared a number of valuable his- torical papers for its sessions. , He is now one of the board of trustees of the Society. He is an nctive member of the G. A. R., and commander of T. H. Wyn- koop Post. No. .427. at Newtown. This Post was named in honor of his brother, who died in the service of his country, having enlisted in Colonel Davis' 104th Regiment, when twenty years of age. and was killed in action nine months later. Captain Wynkoop served as aide- de-camp, to Ge'neral John L. Black, I20 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY commander-in-chief of tlic G. A. R. of the United States in 1904. He married Rachel Ann Blaker, who died in January, 1895, leaving four chil- dren, their eldest child having died in her eighteenth year; those who survive are: Elizabeth, wife of George R. Luff, who resides with her father at New- town, with her five children, William, Ruth, Mabel, Katharine and Rachel. Katharine, who married (first) Henry C. Wylie, who died six years later, leav- ing a daughter, Margaret; she after- wards married G. F. Reynolds of Scran- ton, Pennsylvania, and has two sons, William and Arthur. Evelyn, married H. L. Harding, of Scranton. The only son, James .Wynkoop, entered Prince- ton University in 1900, intending on his graduation to study for the ministry but failing health compelled him to re- linquish his studies during his first year at college; he is at present employ- ed in a bank at Scranton, Pennsylvania, with greatly improved health. He is the. only male descendant of the Wynkoops in Bucks county, of the younger genera- tion, that bears their name. He was married in 1904 to Cora B. Gernon, of Scranton. Captain Wynkoop is still in active life and health. He is president of the Ex- celsior Bobbin and Spool Company of Newtown, president of the Mutual Beneficial Insurance Association of Bucks county, and a director in six other Bucks county corporations, and has served as secretary of the Newtown Cemetery Company for the last thirty years. He is widely and favorably known in business and social circles, and has traveled extensively both in this country and Europe. HON. OLIVER HENRY FRETZ, A. M., M. D., of Quakertown, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, one of the leading phy- sicians of upper Bucks, was born on his father's farm in Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1858, and is descended from the earliest German settlers in upper Bucks county, whose descendants have been identified with the affairs of that section since it was inhabited by the aborigines, a per- iod of nearly two, centuries. John Fretz, the paternal ancestor of Dr. Fretz, came to Pennsylvania about the end of the first quarter of the eighteenth century, accompanied by two brothers Christian and Mark, the latter of whom is said to have died at sea. John Fretz located for a time in what is now Montgomery county, where he married Barbara Mey- er, daughter of Hans Meyer, an early German emigrant, who had settled in Salford township, now Montgomery county. About 1737 John Fretz pur- chased a tract of 230 acres in Bedniin- ster township, Bucks •county,, and set- tled thereon. His wife Barbara died about 1740, and he married a second time. He reared a family of eight chil- dren, five of whom were by his first wife, all except one of which were born in Salford. John Fretz died early in the year 1772. According to the historian of the family. Rev. A. J. Fretz, of Milton, New Jersey, he has to-day 5,000 living descendants. Jacob Fretz, second son of John and Barbara (Meyer) Fretz, was born in Montgomery county, in 1732, came with his parents to Bucks county when a child and was reared in Bedminster township. About 1755 he married Mag- dalena Nash, daughter of William Nash, of Bedminster, and settled in Tinicum township, near Erwinna, but later re- turned to Bedminster township, where he purchased a farm and lived and died there. He and his wife as well as all the earlier generations of the family were Mennonites and worshiped at the his- toric old Deep Run Meeting House erected about 1746, and where many of the family are buried. Jacob and Mag- dalena (Nash) Fretz were the parents of six sons and three daughters, only the eldest of the latter having married, viz : Elizabeth, who became the wife of the Rev. John Kephardt, for many years pastor of the Doylestown Mennonite congregation. Abraham the eldest son, located in Hilltown; he was a teamster in the Revolutionary army and endured many hardships. He married and has numerous descendants in Bucks. John, Jacob, William and Joseph Fretz were farmers in Bedminster, where they rear- ed families. Isaac Fretz, youngest son of Jacob and Magdalena (Nash) Fretz, was the grandfather of Dr. O. H. Fretz. He was born on the homestead in Bedminster township. June 11, 1781, and on arriving at manhood married Mary Moyer, and followed farming in Bedminster until 1822. when they removed to Richland township, where he also followed agri- cultural pursuits until his death on De- cember 27, 1855. His wife, Mary Moyer. was born August 24, 1786, and died March 27, 1855. They were the parents of two children, William and Magdalena, the latter of whom died July i, 1854, unmarried. William Fretz. only son of Isaac and Mary (Moyer) Fretz, was born in Bed- minster township, April 9, 1811, and re- moved with his parents to Richland at the age of eleven years. Early in life he learned the trade of a carpenter, which he followed until the death of his parents in 1855, when he returned to the homestead and resided thereon until 1866, when he removed to Quakertown, where he lived retired until his death on December 22, 1869. He took an ac- tive interest in local aflfairs and served as supervisor of Richland township for HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 121 several years. He was a member of the German Reformed church. He mar- ried, in 1854, Catharine Hofiford, daugh- ter of Daniel and Snsanna (MaugleX Hofford, and they were the parents of two children, Edwin Penrose, and the subject of this sketch. Edwin Penrose Fretz, born March 3, 1856, on the home- stead in Richland township, attended the public schools there until his fif- teenth year, when he learned the shoe- maker trade with A. B. Walp & Co. Later he entered Washington Hall Col- legiate Institute at Trappe, Montgom- ery county, Pennsylvania, and later Al- lentown Business College, from which he graduated in 1878. He was employed for some time in the shoe factory of A. B. Walp & Co. He is now proprietor of a shoe store at Lansdale, Pennsyl- vania. Hon. Oliver Henry Fretz, A. M.. M. D., second and youngest son of William and Catharine (Hofford) Fretz, was born in Richland township, Bucks county, April 9, 1858. There he lived till he was ten years old, when he removed with his parents to Quakertown, Pennsylvan- ia, where he received the best school advantages the borough afiforded. He later attended Oak Grove Academy, a school conducted under the auspices of the Society of Friends. During 1878 and 1879, he was a student of Muhlen- berg College, at Allentown, Pennsyl- vania. He began the study of medicine in 1879, first under that able practitioner, and scientist. Dr. I. S. Moyer, and after- ward in the same year he entered the Jefferson Medical College,. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, after pursuing a three years' graded course of study, gradu- ated March 30, 1S82, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began the practice of medicine at Salfordville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, but, owing to ill health, at the end of three years he sold his practice and removed to Quakertown, where he is now suc- <;essfully engaged in the drug business, combined with a large and lucrative ofifice and consulting practice. In 1886- 87 he took a post-graduate course of instruction at the Philadelphia Poly- clinic and College for Graduates in Medicine. He also pursued a course of instruction at the eye, ear, nose and throat department of the Philadelphia Dispensary, fitting himself as a specialist in diseases of the eye. ear, nose and throat. In 1889 he completed a course in pharmacy at the National Institute of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois. Since 1886, when he was elected a school di- rector of Quakertown borough, he has been closely identified with the edu- cational interests of his town and the county. He was re-elected school di- rector in 1889, and served three years as president and one year as treasurer of the board. In 1890 Dr. Fretz was nominated on the first ballot for assembly by the Bucks county Democratic convention, and was elected by nearly three hun- dred majority. He represented his coun- ty in the legislature of 1891 with marked ability, and to the utmost satisfaction of his constituents. In the fall of 1892 he was renominated by acclamation and re- elected by a largely increased majority.' In the session of 1893 he served on the following important committees: educa- tional, municipal corporations, public health and sanitation, and congressional apportionment. He introduced a num- ber of bills in the legislature, the most important of which was, an act to auth- orize the state superintendent of public instruction to grant permanent state teachers' certificates to graduate of rec- ognized literary and scientific colleges. He was also elected by the house of Rep- resentatives a member of the Pennsyl- vania election commission for 1893-94, whose duty it was to open, compute and publish the vote for state treasurer. On June 21, 1893, Ursinus College recog- nized his ability by conferring the hon- orary degree of Master of Arts (A. M.) upon him. In January, 1894, Dr. Fretz was appointed a clinical assistant in the eye department of the Jefferson Medi- cal College Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. He received the appointment of borough physician of Quakertown in 1888, and has since been reappointed annually. In July 1893, he was appointed by the borough council; a member of the borough board of health, a position he still holds, he being president of the board. November 2, 1898, he was elected president of the Bucks county Medical Society. He is also a member of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Valley Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania For- estry Association and the Bucks County School Directors' Association, of which he served as vice president. He is also surgeon for the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley Traction Co.. and medical ex- aminer for numerous life insurance com- panies. On November 21, 1898, Dr. Fretz was elected by the board of trus- tees a censor of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. He pursued a course of study at the Chicago School of Psychology, graduating therefrom March 15, 1900, receiving the degree of Doctor of Psychology (Psy. D.). On March 7, 1905, he completed a course of study at the South Bend College of Optics, South Bend, Indiana, graduating therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Optics, (Opt. D.). He is a member of the following organizations: Quaker- town Lodge, No. 512, F. and A. M. ; Zin- zendorf Chapter. No. 216. Royal Arch Masons, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; 122 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. Pennsylvania Comniandcry, No. 70, Knights Templar of Philadelphia; Qua- kertown Lodge, No. 714, 1. O. O. F.; Secona Tribe, No. 263, 1. O. of R. M., and Marion Circle, No. 16, B. U. (H. F.) of Pennsylvania. On October 26, 1882, Dr. Fretz mar- ried Elniira A. Roedcr, daughter of Na- than C. and Lucinda (Antrim) Roeder, of Spinnerstown, Pennsylvania. Both are members of the Reformed church. Their union was blessed with two children: Roberts Bartholow, born January 19, 1884, and died October i, 1884, and Ray- mond Lamar, born April 24, 1885. The latter received his primary education in the public schools of Quakertown, Pennsylvania; later he attended Perkio- men Seminary for two years, and the Bethlehem Preparatory School, an ad- junct to Lehigh University for one year. He then entered his father's drug store as a student of medicine and pharmacy, and in May, 1905, he graduated in the Era Course of Pharmacy of New York. He is also a member of Marion Circle, No. 16, B. U. (H. F.) of Pennsylvania, also of the Quakertown Mandolin Club. YARDLEY FAMILY. John Yardley, treasurer of the Doylestown Trust Com- pany, is a son of Mahlon and Elizabeth (Brock) Yardley, and was born in Doy- lestown, 6 mo. IS, 1852, and belongs to the fourteenth generation of the descen- dants of John Yardley, of county Staf- ford, England, who married a daughter of Marbury of Dadesbury, in 1402. The family of Yardley (formerly spelled Yeardley) is an ancient one with resi- dence in Staffordshire, where the heads of the familj-^ were known as the "Lords of Yeardley." Their coat-of-arms is: "Argent on a chevron azure, three garbs or, on a canton gules, a fret or;" Crest: "A buck courant, gu. attired or." The pioneer emigrant of the family was William Yeardley, who with wife Jane and three sons, Enoch, William and Thomas and a servant Andrew Heath, emigrated from Ransclough, near Leake, in the county of Stafford, and arrived in the river Delaware in the good ship "Friends' Adventure," 7 mo. 29, 1682. They located on five hun- dred acres of land purchased of William Penn 3 mo. 30, i68r, (just sixteen days after Penn received the grant of Penn- sylvania from Charles II). This tract was located on the Delaware river, near the present site of the borough of Yard- ley, and was called "Prospect Farm." William Yardley was fifty years of age on his arrival in Bucks county. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been called to the ministry among them in his twenty-third year. He had traveled through dififerent parts of iMig- land preaching the Gospel, and had suf- fered imprisonment and fines for his- faith. He became at once and contin- ud to his death one of the most promi- ennt men of the province. He was a member of the first Colonial Assembly in 1682, and again in 1683; member of Provincial Council in 1688-9; justice of the peace and of the courts of Bucks county, April 6, 1685, to January 2, 1689; sheriff, February 11, 1690, to April 29, 1693. He died 5 mo. 6, 1693, aged sixty- one years. Enoch Yardley, eldest son of William and Jane, was a member of Colonial Assembly in 1699. He married 10 mo. 1697, Mary, daughter of Robert Pletch- er, of Abington, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and had by her three daughters, Jane, Mary and Sarah, all of whom died in infancy. He died li mo. 23, 1702-3. His brother William died' unmarried 12 mo. 12, 1792-3. Thomas, the other brother, married 9 mo. 6, 1700, Hester Blaker, and had two children, William and Hester, both of whom died" in infancy. He died on the same day as his brother, 11 mo. 23, 1702-3. Mary, the widow of Enoch Yardley, married (second) Joseph Kirkbridge, one of the most prominent men of the Province, who had emigrated from the parish of Kirkbride, in Cumberland, England. She was his third wife, and bore him seven children — John, Robert, Mary, Sarah (married Israel Pemberton), Thomas, and Jane, who married Samuel Smith, the historian of New Jersey. Hester, the widow of Thomas Yardley, married 8 mo. 1704, William Browne, of Chiches- ter, Chester county, Pennsylvania. William Yardley, his wife, children and grandchildren all being dead, his real estate in Bucks county descended to his brother Thomas, of "The Beech- es," in the parish of Rushton, Stafford- shire. In the year 1704 Thomas^ Yard- ley, Jr.. son of Thomas of Rushton, came to Bucks county with a power of attorney from his father and his brother Samuel to claim the real estate. "Pros- pect Farm" was sold under this power, of attorney, 5 mo. 25, 1710, to Joseph Janney, who as "straw man" conveyed it back to Thomas Yeardley, Jr., 6 mo. 14, 1710. This Thomas Yeardley (as he always wrote his name) was the ances- tor of all the Yardleyi of Bucks county. He married 12 mo., 1706-7, Ann, the youngest daughter of William and Joan- na Biles, who had emigrated from Dor- chester, in the county of Dorset. Eng- land, and arrived in the river Delaware 4 mo. 4. 1679. The children of Thomas and Ann (Biles) Yardley were ten in number: 1. Mary, born 8 mo. 4. 1707, married. 12 mo. 30, T72S-9. Amos Janney of Lou- doun county. Virginia. 2. Jane, born 11 mo. 20, 1708-9. married Francis Hague, of Loudoun county, Vir- ginia. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 123: 3. Rebecca, born 7 mo. 27, 1710, never married. 4. Sarah, bom 7 mo. 30, 1712, married (first) Benjamin Canby, (second) David Kinsey. 5. Joyce, born 10 mo. 3, 1714, never married. 6. William, born 3 mo. 25, 1716, died 8 mo. 3, 1774. 7. Hannali, born 11 mo. 13, 1718-19, never married. 8. Thomas, born 11 mo. i, 1720-1, died 3 mo. 12, 1803, married Mary Field. Entered military service of the Province and was disowned by Friends therefore in 1756. 9. Samuel, born 4 mo. 16, 1723, died 8 mo. 12, 1726. 10. Samuel, born 7 mo. 13, 1729, died 1759. married Jane. Thomas Yeardley was returned as a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1715 and again in 1722. He was commis- sioned a justice of the several courts of Bucks county, May 12, 1725, and contin- ued to serve as such until 1741. He was one of the most prominent and active of the judges, being present at nearly every sitting of the court. He became a very large land holder, acquiring in 1726 five hundre(| acres adjoining Pros- pect Farm, and in T733 a tract of six- hundred acres in Newtown township. He also acquired title to the Solebury Mills, erected by Robert Heath in 1707. He died in 1756. He devised his Make- field lands to his sons William an'd Thomas, and his Solebury property to his son Samuel. William Yardley, born 3 mo. 25, 1716, married 4 mo. 20, 1748, Ann Budd, of New Jersey, and had: Ann, born 4 mo. 10, 1749, married Abraham Warner. Sarah, born 2 mo. 17, 1751, married Timothy Taylor. Margaretta, born 12 mo. 6, 1752, married Stacy Potts, of Trenton, New Jersey. Anna (Budd) Yardley died 1753, and William married, 3 mo. 31, 1756. Sarah, daughter of Mah- lon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride. Mah- lon Kirkbride was the son of Joseph, before mentioned, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who were married at Cinder Hill, near Mansfield. Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1668, and emigrated to Nevv Jersey in 1676. Mahlon Stacy was the first settler at the present site of Tren- ton, New Jersey, where he built a mill which was the sole resources for the farmers on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware for many years. Mahlon Stacy was a prominent official of the Prov- ince of West Jersey, while Joseph Kirk- bride, his son Mahlon, John Sotcher, father of Mary Kirkbride, and Penn's steward at Pennsbury, and William Biles, all ancestors of the subject of this sketch, were all members of Colonial Assembly and justices of the court at different times. The children of Will- iam Yardley and his second wife Sarah Kirkbride were: Mary, born i mo. 27, 1757, married Jonathan Woolston. Hannham, born 3 mo. 19, 1758, mar-- ried 1779- John Stapler. Achsah, born 2 mo. 17, 1760, married 1794, Thomas Stapler. Letitia. born 7 mo. 12, 1762, married 1782. Jonathan Willis, of Philadelphia. Thomas, born 10 mo. 2, 1763, married 1785, Susanna Brown. Mahlon, born 7 mo. 17, 1765, married 1787, Elizabeth Brown. Samuel, born 2 mo. 28, 1767, died in infancy. William, born 6 mo. 8, 1769, married 1793, Elizabeth Field. Joseph, born 3 mo. 19, 1771, married 1798, Sarah Field. Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, died i mo. 21, 1783. William Yardley, served as sheriff of Bucks county from October 4. 1752, to October 4, 1755; and as justice of the- courts of Bucks county December 7, 1764, to 1770. He died 8 mo. 3, 1774. Mahlon, son of William and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, born 7 mo. 17, 1765, married 4 mo. 26, 1787, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Ann (Field) Brown, of Falls township. (Benjamin Field, father of Ann Brown, was a mem- ber of Provincial Assembly 1738-45.) The children of Mahlon and Elizabeth (Brown) Yardley, were: Sarah, born 4 mo. 16, 1788, married 1813, Joseph Paul. Ann. born 2 mo. 6, 1790, married 1812, Jesse Lloyd. Achsah, born 9 mo. i, 1792, married 1834, Richard Janney. John, born 12 mo. i, 1794, married' 1823, Frances Hapenny, 1841, Anna Van Horn. Hannah, born 4 mo. 25, 1797, married 1819, Samuel Buckman. Robert, born i mo. 18, 1799, married 1829, Ellen Field. Charles, born 8 mo. 4, 1802, married Anna Warner. Elizabeth, born 7 mo. 21, 1807, married 1831. Mahlon B. Linton. Elizabeth (Brown) Yardley, died i mo. 22. 1824. Mahlon Yardley died in Makefield, II mo. 17, 1829. John, son of Mahlon and Sarah (Kirk- bride) Yardley, born 12 mo. i, 1794. married, i mo. 23, 1823, Frances Hap- penny. Their children were: Mahlon, born 2 mo. 4, 1824, married 12 mo. 11, 1850, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Brock. Strickland, born 10 mo. t8, 1826. married Martha Johnson. Franklin, born 6 mo. 26. 1830, died in infancy, John Yardley, married (second) Anna" Van Horn, 6 mo. 16, 1841; their children were: Fannie, born 12 mo. 10. 1S44. Hon. Robert M., born 10 mo. 9, 1850, member of congress, Seventh District. Mary 124 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Eliza, born i mo. 14, 1854. John Yardley during the later years of life was a mem- ber of the firm of Yardley & Justice, coal and lumber merchants, at Yardley, .Pennsjdvania. He died at Yardley, 5 mo. 24, 1874. Mahlon Yardley was born in Make- field township, 2 mo. 24, 1824, where his early boyhood was spent. He graduated at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsyl- vania, in the class of 1843, and at once began the study of law at Easton. He was admitted to the Bucks County bar February 2, 1846, and began the practice of law at Doylestown. At the organiza- tion of the Republican party he became an ardent advocate of its principles. In the fall of 1851 he was its nominee for state senator from the Sixth district, and, although the district was then over- whelmingly Democratic, was elected, de- feating the late General Paul ApplebacH, of Haycock. The term at that period was three years, and he was therefore in the state senate at the breaking out of the war. When in April, 1861, the Doylestown Guards were on their way to the front, they were met at the station at Harris- burg by Senator Yardley and two col- leagues and a bountiful supper served to them. When General W. H. H. Da- vis recruited and organized the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment at Doylestown, September, 1861. Mr. Yardley enlisted and was commissioned^rst lieutenant of Company K. He was with the regiment at the siege of Yorktown, and in the be- ginning of the hostilities along the Chickahominy. In the skirmishes at Sav- age's Station and Seven Pines, prelimin- ary to the battle of Fair Oaks on May 24, 1862, he narrowly escaped being killed. General Davis, in his "History of the 104th Regiment," says, in speaking of this engagement: ''There were many narrow escapes. Lieutenant Yardley moved his head to one side just in time to prevent a shell that passed along, from taking it off. A soldier named Brown, immediately back of him. was struck in the head and instantly killed. After the battle the regiment M^as encamped on the edge of a dense swamp, and many of the men were taken sick with fevers. Among these was Lieutenant Yardley. In the latter part of the month he was carried home by some friends who were on a visit to the regiment, and never rejoined the command. When sufficient- ly recovered he was placed in the re- cruiting service and was subsequently appointed provost marshal for the Fifth District, with headquarters at Frank- ford." Mr. Yardley never fully recovered from the severe attack of typhoid con- tracted in the Chickahominy swamps, and was ever thereafter afflicted with a severe cough, which no doubt hastened his death. After being in bed for about four months, he opened a recruiting of- fice at Doylestown. On April 10, 1863, he was appointed provost marshal for this district, then comprising three wards of the city of Philadelphia, and promoted to the rank of captain. At the close of the war he was appointed in- ternal revenue collector for the same dis- trict, a position he filled until his death. He died June 23, 1873. His wife, whom he married 12 mo. 11, 1850, was Eliza- beth, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Jones) Brock. The Brocks are one of the oldest families in Bucks county. The emigrant ancestor of the family was sheriff of the county in 1685, and his son, Thomas Brock, held the same office for the term 1693-5. Stephen Brock, father of Mrs. Yardley, was twice elected sheriff of Bucks county, in 1821 and again in 1827. John Yardley, the only child of Mah- lon and Elizabeth, was born in Doyles- town, June 15, 1852. He was educated at private schools in Doylestown, and en- tered Lehigh University in 1868, remain- ing two years, after which he entered the silk house of Watson & Jan- ney, of Philadelphia, as clerk. He re- turned to Doylestown in the autumn of 1872 to assist his father in the revenue office. On February i, 1873, he was appointed a clerk in the Doylestown Na- tional Bank, and remained in the em- ploy of the bank until 1896, when he resigned to accept the position of treas- urer of the Doylestown Trust Company, which position he still fills. Mr. Yard- Ity has always been active in everything that pertains to the best interests of the t»iv,n he lives in. He was for many years a member of the S'chool board and has h^ld other borough offices. He was one of the organizers of the Doyles- town Electric Company and of the Doylestown Gas Company, and has been a director of both companies from their organization. He has also been inter- ested in several other local enterprises. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 245; Aquetong Lodge, No. 193. I. O. O. F.; Doylestown En- campment, No. 25, I. O. O. F.; and Len- ape Council, No. 11 17, Royal Arcanum. He married. October 19, 1876, Emma, daughter of David and Lucy "(Lear) Krewson. Their only child is Mahlon, born May 19, 1878, who resides with his parents. SAMUEL YARDLEY. of Edgewood, Lower Makefield township, was born in Upper Makefield township. Bucks coun- ty, October 19. 1834, and is a son of Joseph H. and Esther B. (Knowles) Yardley. and is without doul:)t of the same lineage as Tliomas Yardley, son of Thomas Yardley. of Rushton Spencer. Staff'ordshire, England, the former of whom came to Bucks county in 1704, as TH t TILC HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 125 the heir of his uncle, William Yardley, of Ransclough, near Leake, county Staf- ford, who had come to Bucks county in 1682, an account of whom is given in this work. Richard Yardley appears in Bucks county soon after the arrival of Thomas, with whom he was closely associated. He was probably a grandson of John Yardley, of Rushton Spencer, uncle of William and Thomas, above mentioned, who married Alice, daughter of Richard Sutton, of Rushton Spencer, and had sons, Edward, William, Ralph, John, Richard, and Thomas. As before stated Richard Yardley appears in Bucks coun- ty soon after the emigration of Thomas Yardley to this county, and the latter sold him in 1753 six hundred acres of land near Newtown, purchased in 1742. Richard never lived on this land, and at his death in 1761 was operating the mill belonging to Thomas Yardlej^ in Solebury township. His will, dated Jan- uary 5, 1761, and proved March 4, 1761, mentions wife Mary, daughter Mary, wife of Joseph Harvey; and sons, Thom- as, Samuel, Richard, Enoch, William, and Benjamin. Richard Yardley, son of the above Richard, married November i, 1759, Lu- cilla Stackhouse. He purchased in 1773 of Thomas and Mary (Field) Yardley 107 acres of land in Lower Makefield, on which he lived and died. He was a wheelwright by trade and followed that vocation in connection with farming. He died in 1786 leaving two sons, Sam- uel and William; and three daughters: Anna, wife of John Leedom; Hannah, wife of James White; and Mary, wife of John Hough. William, the j^oungest of the children, was born in 1777. Lu- cilla Stackhouse, wife of Richard Yard- ley, was born 4 mo. 9, 1738, and was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Jan- ney) Stackhouse, her maternal grand- father being Abel Janney, whose daugh- ter Elizabeth, John Stackhouse married at IMiddletown 10 mo. 22. 1737, their only other child being Abel Stackhouse, born 4 mo. 4, 1740. John Stackhouse was born 3 mo. II, 1708, and died 7 mo. 23, 1743, and was a son of John and Elizabeth Stackhouse, of ]\iiddletown, the former of whom came to Middletown from England with his uncle, Thomas Stack- house, in 1682. Samuel Yardley, eldest son of Richard and Lucilla (Stackhouse) Yardley, was a man of considerable prominence in the community, and at one time a consider- able landholder in the Makefields. He married Ann Vansant, daughter of Cor- nelius and Ann (Larzelere) Vansant, and had two sons, Richard and Joseph Har- vey Yardley. Joseph H. Yardley was born near Yardley in the year 1797. He was a nat- ural mechanic, and in ,early life followed the trade of a carpenter, in connection with the conduct of a farm near Taylors- ville. In April, 1841, he purchased at sheriff's sale the Jacob Janney farm of 115 acres, which included the farm now owned and occupied by his son, the sub- ject of this sketch, and spent the remain- der of his life thereon, dying in 1880 at the age of eighty-three years. In politics he was a staunch Republican, and was an active and prominent man in the com- munity, holding the office of justice of the peace for many years. He was also one of the directors of the Yardley Del- aware Bridge Company, and held several other positions of trust. His wife was Esther B. Knowles, of an old and promi- nent family in Upper Makefield, and they were the parents of six children: Elizabeth; Julia, widow of Charles Jan- ney, of Solebury ; Anna, first wife of the above named Charles Janney; Rebecca, who died young; Samuel, the subject oi this sketch; and Gulielma, wife of Rob- ert Yardley Linton, of Makefield. Samuel Yardley was born near Tay- lorsville, -Upper Makefield township, Oc- tober 19, 1834, but from the age of seven years was reared on the farm upon which he still resides. He was educated at the local schools and at the Norris- town Academy. He was jeared to the life of a farmer, and has always given his attention to the tilling of the soil. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or held other than local office. He is one of the highly respected citizens of Lower Makefield, where he has always resided. Mr. Yardley has been twice married, his first wife being Sa- rah Swartzlander, who died December 21, 1865; and his second wife was Jane P. Swartzlander, who died November 28, 1902, both being daughters of Abraham and Rebecca Swartzlander. William R., only son of Samuel and Sarah (Swartzlander) Yardley, married j\Iary Vanhorn, and they are the parents of eleven children, as follows: Florence K., born February 6, 1884; Joseph H., born July 21. 1885; Bernard V., born October 4, 1887; Mary S., born Novem- ber 16. 1889: Sarah S., born Januarj' 22, 1892; Oscar v., deceased; Jane P., born ^larch 12, 1'897; Maud L., born August i, T898; Samuel Y., born February 5, 1900; Virginia, born May 30, 1901; Esther K., born January 8, 1903. HON. ROBERT M. YARDLEY, de- ceased. On the ninth day of December, 1902, passed away in Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, one of the most popular and distinguished citizens of the county, one who by reason of eminent ability and distinguished services had achieved a fame far beyond the borders of his native county, and who by his gen- erous, kindly and affable traits had in- trenched himself in the hearts of the people. 126 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Robert M. Yardley was born in Yard- ley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Octo- ber 9, 1850, a son of John and Ann (Van Horn) Yardley. Of a distinguished an- cestry who had rendered to tiieir county, state and nation distinguished and emi- nent services in nearly every generation, he rendered fully his meed of service. He w^as reared in the village, (now bor- ough) of Yardley, and received a good academic education. As a young man he was engaged for a few years in assisting his father in the conduct of a large lum- ber and coal business at Yardley. At the age of eighteen he began the study of law in the office of his half-brother, Mahlon Yardley, Esq., and was admitted to the bar of Bucks county in 1872. He located in Doylestown, and immediately began the practice of his chosen profes- sion. He was a careful and conscien- tious student, a logical and forceful reas- oner and an eloquent speaker, and soon proved himself an able and strong law- yer, and merited and held the confidence of a large clientage. In 1879 he was elected district attor- ney of the county against an adverse majority, and filled the office for three years with eminent ability. In politics he was an ardent Republican, and repre- sented his party and county in the na- tional convention of 1884. He was elected to the Fiftieth Congress in 1886, from the Seventh District, over Hon. George Ross, and made an enviable record. Re- turning to Doylestown and declining a ♦re-election, he resumed the practice of his profession and soon reached the first rank as a lawyer. His reputation as an orator placed him upon the platform at many political and other assemblies, and his eloquent addresses, touched with a vein of humor, were always incisive, in- structive and to the point. He was ap- pointed receiver of the Keystone Nation- al Bank, Philadelphia, in 1891, and his excellent administration of its a'rfairs led to his appointment as receiver of the Spring Garden Bank, in 1894. He was interested in all that pertained to the best interests of his town and county, and generously contributed to every good cause, public or private. He was a director of the Bucks County Trust Company of the Doylestown Elec- trical Company, the Doylestown Gas Company, and an officer in several other local institutions. He was president of the Doylestown school board for several years prior to his death, and an active member of the local board of health. He was a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F. Mr. Yardley was twice married, first in 1874. to Clara Bell, who died in 1883, and second, on April 21, 1892, to Re- becca P., widow of Levi. L. James. Esq., and daughter of John M. and Sarah (Roberts) Purdy, who survives him. An account of the ancestry of Mrs. Yardley, is given on another page of this work. The news of the death of Mr. Yardley on December 9, 1902, was heard with profound regret and sorrow in ail parts of Bucks county. The end came without warning; he had gone to his office as usual in the morning, and a few minutes after entering his private office died in his chair from heart fail- ure. HENRY W. COMFORT. It is def- initely known that it was at a very early- epoch in the settlement of the new world when the Comfort family was estab- lished in America, for John Comfort came from Flushing, Long Island, to the Friends Monthly Meeting held in Falls township. Bucks county, December 3, 1719, bringing with him a certificate from the former place. He settled in Amwell, Hunterdon county. New Jer- sey, and his life was devoted to reclaim- ing the wild land for purposes of civili- zation and to more advanced agricul- tural interests. He married Miss Mary Wilson, August 6, 1720, and they had three children: Stephen, Sarah and Rob- ert. (II) Stephen Comfort, of the second generation, was married to Mercy Croasdale August 25, 1744. They had nine children; John; Ezra; Jeremiah; Stephen; Grace, the wife of Jonathan Stackhouse; Mercy, the wife of Aaron Phillipps: Moses; Robert; and Hannah. (III) Ezra Comfort, son of Stephen Comfort, was born August 11, 1747, arid married Alice Fell, January 9, 1772. He was a recorded minister of the Society of Friends and exerted strong influence in behalf of the moral as well as mafer- ial development of his community. In his family were six children: Elizabeth, who became the wife of Peter Roberts, and after his death married Benjamin White; Mercy, wife of Joshua Paxton; Grace, twin sister of Mercy, and the wife of Benjamin Gillingham; John; Ezra; and Alice. (IV) Ezra Comfort, who was born April 18. 1777, was also a recorded minis- ter of the Society of Friends. He mar- ried Margaret Shoemaker, October 16, 1800, and they had nine children ; Sarah, wife of Hughes Bell; Grace, wife of Charles Williams; Jane, who became the wife of Jones Yerkes, and after his death married Charles Lippencott; Ann, who married Isaac Jones; John S.; Alice, the wMfe of George M. Haverstick; Jere- miah; David; and Margaret, wife of Henry Warrington. (V) John S. Comfort, son of Ezra Comfort, was born May 25, 1810, in Plymouth. Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. In early life he engaged in a lime business, building and owning kilns about ten miles from Easton on the Delaware division of the canal. He HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 127 shipped the first boatload of lime that was ever sent over the canal, and for a number of years supplied most of the farmers in the lower part of Bucks county. Later he turned his attention to the lumber business, which he con- ducted quite extensively in the Lehigh valley. About 1835 he purchased the farm where his son, George AL Comfort, now resides, situated in Falls township, about a mile and a half from the village of Fallsington, whereon he spent his re- maining days, passing away in 1891. He married Jane C. Comfort, a daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Cooper) Comfort. Their only chil,d was (VI) George M., who was born April 10, 1837, in the house which is yet his home. He early engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he was much inter- ested, finding it both congenial to his tast«s and satisfactorily remunerative. He was a member of the first board of directors of The Peoples' National Bank of Langhorne, and is yet a member of the board of directors of the First Na- tional Bank of Trenton, New Jersey, and is president of the Bucks County Contributionship for Fire Insurance. Like his ancestors for several genera- tions, he is a member of the religious Society of Friends, and from early life has been actively engaged in its work. He married Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Moses and Mercy Comfort, of Penns Manor, on October 14, 1858. Their chil- dren are : Edward .C, who died in child- hood; Henry W., born February 27, 1863; and William S., who died in child- hood. (VII) Henry W. Comfort, the only surviving son of George M. and Ann Elizabeth Comfort, resides on and is operating the farm in Falls township which has been the family home for three generations. It includes ah area of 225 acres, on which he keeps a large herd of high grade dairy cows, the milk from which is delivered daily to cus- tomers in the city of Trenton, New Jer- sey. This business was started by his grandfather in 1847. and the milk route has been constantly served from this farm ever since. Mr. Comfort is presi- dent of the John L. Murphy Publishing Company, president and treasurer of the International Pottery Company, of Treii- ton; a director of the Yardley National Bank, and is interested in. and vice- president of The William H. Moon Nur- sery Company. He has been actively associated with affairs touching the gen- eral interests of the neighborhood, is a director of the Morrisville Building and Loan Association, and of the Falls- ington Library Companv, and is one of the managers of The Friends' Asylum for the Insane at Frankford. Philadel- phia. Mr. Comfort has been twice married.. His first wife was Edith, daughter of Samuel Ellis and Sarah B. DeCou, and his present wife was Lydia P., daughter of Ellwood and Mercy A. Parsons. THE ELY FAMILY. The earliest men- tion of Ely as a family surname in Eng- land occurred during the reign of the Plantaganets after the Norman Con- quest. The English "Book of Digni- ties" records William De Ely as lord treasurer for King John and Richard I ; Richard De Ely, lord treasurer for Rich- ard I and Henry II; Ralph De Ely, ba- ron of the exchequer for Henry III, (1240); Philip De Ely lord treasurer for Henry III (1271); Nicholas De Ely, lord chancellor, in 1260, Lord treasurer in 1263, and Bishop of Worcester 1266 to 1289. One bra:nch of the family is known to have lived at Utterby, Lin- colnshire, from this early period down to the present day, L. C. R. Norris- Elye being the present Lord of the Man- or of Utterby and patron of the old thirteenth century church of * St. An- drew a.t that place. Wharton Dickinson, the New York genealogist, traces this line back to a connection with Ralph De Ely, Baron of the Exchequer. The Man- or House has the Ely arms, (a fesse engrailed between six fleurs-de-lis) cut in stone over the entrance, dated 1639. The same arms are also found in the church. Another branch is said to have settled in Yorkshire, and Burke gives the arms the same as above, but red instead of black. Papworth's "British Armorials" states that these arms were borne also by Nicholas De Ely and Sir Richard De Illey. In Bailey's "History of Nottinghamshire," John De Ely is stated to have been appointed the first vicar of St. Mary's Collegiate church at Nottingham in 1290, and its author adds that the name has "Come down to the present day." Another John De Ely was Lord of the Manor of Thornhaugh and Wiggesley in Nottinghamshire in 1316 (within a mile of Dunhan, where Joshua Ely resided before embarking for Am- erica in 1683.) The ancestors of the Elys of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, came from that part of Old England known as the Peak District, famous both for its natural beauty and historic interest. It com- prises Upper Derbyshire, Southwestern Yorkshire, and Western Nottingham- shire. The family were related to the Revells of Derbyshire, an ancient and powerful family, descendants of the JM^or- man nobility. Hugh De Revell was grandm.aster of the Knight Hospitalers, and this family in England throughout the Crusades were trustees of the Knight Templar property in England. The Sta- cyes of Yorkshire, who held the estate known as Ballifield from the time of the Norman Conquest, were also closely connected with the Elys. The Stacye 128 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and Ely families were among the earliest of the English churchmen to follow the teachings of George Eox, the fonncicr of the Society of Friends. Great relig- ious meetings were held at Balhuci.l Hall, the home of the Stacyes, by Fox in his journeys to Yorkshire, and there is still to be found at Ballifield Hall, an antique black oak table inlaid with a silver plate inscribed as follows: "This called by Fox the Quaker's Table, made before 1593, was for many years at Syn- der Hill and afterwards for sixty years in the Tool House there, then restored and placed in Ballifield Hall by Thomas Watson Cadman, Esq., in December, 1868." The connection between this branch of the Elj^ family and those of the same name mentioned in the earlier history of this section of England is not known. In the Feudal history of Derbyshire by Yeatman in the days of Henry VH and Henry VHI, Hugh*, Thomas*, Roland*, and John Ely are memtioned and still earlier, Nicholas le Hele, Sir William "Delly," Knt. and John "Eallee" are also mentioned, but no positive lineage is known back of the grandparents of those who came to America. Joshua Ely and Rebecca Ely Stacye, who land- ed in West Jersey in 1683 and 1678 re- spectively, were the children of George Ely, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Other children were: Hugh of Mans- field, w'ho married Marie Roos; Ruth, who married Lionell Revell; and Eliza- beth, whose tomb is in a good state of preservation in the private cemetery of the Stacyes at Ballifield Hall. Another Hugh Ely is known to have married Rosamond Bullock at Chesterfield, Der- byshire, between 1600 and 1640, and Alicia, a daughter of Hugh Ely, was bap- tized at Chesterfield in 1614. A history of the Ely, Stacye and Rev- ell families is in preparation under the supervision of Warren S. Ely of Doyles- town, Pennsylvania, Dr. William S. Long, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and Daniel B. Ely of Montclair, New Jer- sey. The wife of George Ely, of Mansfield, was doubtless Sarah Heath, as at the time Joshua Ely, their son, proposed intentions of marriage at Mansfield Quarterly Meeting, England, 7th month, 1673, with Mary Seniar, the following entry was made on the minutes of that' meeting: "Joshua Ely and Mary Senierd, both of Mansfield, declare intentions of mar- riage with each other. Present, his grandmother, Elizabeth Heath, his re- lations and guardians Mahlon and Re- becca Stacy, his brother-in-law, Lion- el Revel who married his sister Ruth . — _» *These Christian names are also common in the Revell pedigree. It is also known that the Elys of Utterby Manor are descended from the Elys of Derbyshire. Ely, and Alse Senierd, mother of said Mary Senierd." Mahlon Stacy had married Rebecca Ely in 1668, at Cinder Hill, a part oj the Ballifield estate. From another source we have the following records: "Joshua Ely of Mansfield and Mary Seniar of same place, daughter of Alice Seniar married 8th month, 29, 1673, at G. Cock- erman's House at Skegby in Notting- hamshire." "John Ely, son of Joshua and Mar}^, buried 9th month, 25, 1676. George Ely, son of Joshua and Mary, died 3rd month, 3, 1676." Mahlon Stacy, of the ancient family of Ballifield, with his wife Rebecca Ely, their children and servants, in the year 1678 embarked in the "Shield," and on November 10, 1678, landed on the east bank of the Delaware, in New Jersey, where they and their descendants were destined to take an important part in the founding and preservation of an Eng- lish colony and nation in America. In the same ship came their cousin, Thomas Revell, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who, unlike them, was not a convert to the gentle teachings of George Fox, but rep- resented the High Church Tory party, and later took an active part in the af- fairs of the West Jersey colony, filling the positions of surveyor general, re- corder, surrogate, member and almost a dictator in the governor's council, an3 finally a justice on the supreme bench. He was, however, an aristocrat of the aristocrats and was unpopular with the colonists, and after the downfall of Lord Cornbury was finally removed from of- fice at the instigation of the colonists and on the advice of William Penn. Mahlon Stacy became a very promi- nent man, filling many important gov- ernment positions. His daughters inter- married with the Kirkbrides, Pownalls and Janneys of Bucks county, who were prominent in the affairs of Bucks county and the province of Pennsylvania. He took up a tract of land on the site of the present city of Trenton and eretted a mill there, the first to furnish meal to the early colonists of Bucks county. It was through him that his brother-in- law, Joshua Ely, who, after his marriage, had settled at Dunham, Nottingham»- shire, came to America in 1684 with his wife and children, and located on 400 acres, conveyed to Joshua by Mahlon Stacy, on both sides of the Assinnipink, by deed dated April 20, 1685. This tract fronted on the river, about five eighths of a mile from a point thirty-two and one-half chains north of the mouth of the creek upward, and extended inland one mile. • Joshua Ely became a prominent man in the colon}', and was commissioned a justice in 1700 and recommissioned the following year. He became a large landholder, owning at different periods two other tracts of 400 acres each, be- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 129 sides his original purchase on the site of Trenton, of which he died seized. His wife Mary died in 1698, and he married (second) November 9, 1699, Rachel Lee, who bore him two children, Benjamin and Ruth, twins. He died 4th month, 1702, at Trenton. The children of Josh- ua and Mary (Seniar) Ely were John and George, before mentioned, who died in infancy in England ; Joshua, born in Eng- land 1680; George, born 1682 in England; John, said to have been born on the voy- age to America; Hugh, born at Tren- ton about 1686; Elizabeth, and Sarah, the latter born -in the same year that her mother died. Of Rachel, the widow and her two children, nothing is known. Joshua Ely, the eldest son, bought a portion of the homestead in 1705. Let- ters of administration were granted on his estate to George Ely in 1760, but whether his son or not wc are unable to determine; nothing is known of his descendants. George Ely, the second son, it would seem, was about to marry Christian, the daughter of Nathaniel Pettit, who lived on an adjoining tract, at the death of his father, and the latter, in his will, expresses decided objections to the mar- riage and practically disinherits George in case of its consummation. What be- came of Christian Pettit remains a mys- tery, but in 1703 George Ely married Jane Pettit, daughter of Nathaniel, but whether the same person or another daughter is a matter of conjecture. George Ely purchased 100 acres of the old homestead of his father's executors at Trent Town (as it came to be known after the purchase by William Trent of the Stacy mill and lands) and lived thereon until his death in 1750. He was active in the affairs of the embryo city, and a member of its first town coun- cil, at the incorporation in 1746. The children of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely were: Joshua, born March 16, 1704; George, born 1706; Rebecca, who mar- ried Eliakim Anderson, and has descend- ants in Bucks county; Joseph; Mary, who married Richard Green, and is the ancestress of Mrs. Ethan Allen Weaver of Philadelphia; Sarah, who married John Dagworthy:* and Elizabeth, who married James Price of Hopewell. John Ely, the tjhird son of Joshua and Mary (Seniar) Ely, married Frances Venables, daughter of William and Eli- zabeth Venables, of Bucks county. Penn- sylvania, in 1706, and died at Trenton. in 1732. Their four children, John, who married Phebe Allison; William; Mary, wife of William Hill; and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Higbee, have left num- erous descendants in New Jersey. The *John Dagworthv's sons. John and Ely. were officers in the French and Indian war. John became a brigardier general, and was granted 20,000 acres of land in Maryland for his services. U-3 descendants of John and Phebe are es- pecially numerous in southern New Jer- sey. Hugh Ely, the youngest son of Josh- ua and JNIary (Seniar) Ely, born at Trenton about 1686, married December 12, 1712, Mary Hewson, and in 1720 settled in Buckingham township on 400 acres of land purchased in the "Lundy Tract," extending from Broadhurst's lane to Holicong and from the York road to Buckingham Mountain, and lived there the remander of his life, dy- ing in 1771. He became a member of Buckingham Friends' Meeting, and, his wife Mary having died, he married May 16, 1753, Phoebe Smith, widow of Robert Smith, of Buckingham, and daughter of Thomas Canby, an eminent minister among Friends. Phoebe was also an accepted minister. The children of Hugh Ely, all by his first wife, were : 1. Thomas, who married January 22, 1734, Sarah Lowther, daughter of William and Ruth Lowther, of Buckingham and about 1775, removed with most of his grown up children to Maryland. Gen. Hugh Ely of Baltimore county, veteran of the sec- ond war with Great Britain, congress- man. United States senator, etc., was a son of Mahlon and grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Lowther) Ely. Many of the male descendants of Thomas migrated to Ohio, where the family is now quite numerous. 2. Hugh Ely, Jr., married Elizabeth Blackfan, and remained on the home- stead in Buckingham, part of which is still owned and occupied by his de- scendants. He reared a family and has very numerous descendants in Bucks county and elsewhere. 3. Ann Ely married Peter Matson. 4. Anna Ely, married John Wilkinson. Of Elizabeth and Sarah Lly, daugh- ters of Joshua and Mary, little is known. The descendants of the three sons, George, John and Hugh, are now widely scattered over the United States, and many of them have filled honored po- sitions in the official, professional and business life of the sections in which their lot was cast. George Ely, second son of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely, married Mary Prout,, and settled in Amwell township, near Lambertville, New Jersey, in 1748- 1750. He was proprietor of Wells Ferry, now New Hope, and resided there, and also was the owner of considerable land in the Ferry Tract, Solebury. He had sons Joseph, John and George, the last named of whom was colonel of a New Jersey regiment during the revolutionary war, and at its close removed to Shamokin, Pa., where he died in 1820, He married Susanna Farley, of Amwell and had nine children, many of whose descendants now reside in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. 130 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Joshua Ely, eldest son of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely, born at Trenton, New Jersey March 16, 1704, married in 1729, Elizabeth Bell, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Bell, of Burlington county, New Jersey. He removed to Pennsyl- vania permanently in 1737, but .it would appear that he had established a resi- dence there some years earlier, as he was admitted a member of Buckingham Meeting in 1734- Though the minutes of that meeting fail to show any record of his removal, he and his wife Eliza- beth received a certificate of removal from Chesterfield Meeting to Bucking- ham in 1738. In 1737 he leased of Will- iam Blakey 400 acres in Solebury town- ship. Bucks county, the greater part of which is still owned and occupied by his descendants of the name. The lease was for ten years, and under its provis- I'ons, he was to clear sixty acres of up- land and ten acres of meadow, and build an addition to the house, Blakey to fur- nish "nails and shingles," and to build a frame barn. The lease was renewed in 1747, but in 1749 he contracted for its purchase, which failed of consummation until two years later by reason of the death of Blakey before the deed was de- livered. Here Joshua Ely lived until his death in 1783, building a stone house soon after his purchase, which is still occupied by his great-great-grandson, William L. Ely. He became a prominent man in Solebury but, being a consistent member of the Society of Friends, took no part in the revolutionary struggle, his name and those of his sons appear- ing on the list of "non-associators" in 1775. He was made an elder of Bucking- ham Meeting in 1752 and was recom- mended as a minister in 1758. He was a successful farmer, and in addition to the 400 acres acquired another large tract of land, part of the Pike tract adjoining. The children of Joshua and Elizabeth (Bell) Ely were as follows: 1. Joshua, born at Trenton in 1730, died on a part of the Solebury home- stead in 1804. He married Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of IMathew and Eliza- beth (Stevenson) Hughes, of Plumstead, and has left numerous descendants. The farm of 150 acres received by him of his father was occupied successively by his son and grandson, both named Jonathan, the latter dying in 1867, when the farm went to another branch of the family, and is now conducted by a great-great- grandson of his brother George, George H. Ely. 2. George Ely. born at Trenton, New Jersey. November 9. 1733- died in New- town township in 1815. He married Sep- tember 24, 1760, Sarah Magill; see for- ward. 3. John, born May 28, 1738. married SaVah Sinicock. and inherited the home- stead tract of his father. For his de- scendants see sketch of William L. Ely, who still resides there. 4. Sarah Ely, born June 14; 1736, mar- ried William Kitchin, to whom her fath- er conveyed a portion of the homestead lying next to the Delaware river, upon which he erected a mill for his half- brother Aaron Phillips, whose descend- ants of the name operated it until about 1890. 5. Hugh Ely, born August 8, 1741, mar- ried Elizabeth Wilson. He inherited from his father a farm in the "Pike Tract," but sold it and resided in New Hope, where he was a noted clock mak- er a century ago. 6 Hannah, married James Dubree, and left two children Absalom and Han- nah. 7. Jane, married Jonathan Balderston, and lived and died in Solebury. George Ely, second son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Bell) Ely, born at Trenton, November 8, 1733, married November 24, 1760, Sarah Magill, Jr., daughter of William and Sarah (Simcock) Magill, of Solebury, the former a native of Ulster, Ireland, located in Solebury about 1730. Sarah Simcock was a daughter of Jacob Simcock, Jr., and Sarah Wain, of Rid- ley, Chester county; Sarah Wain being a daughter of Nicholas -Wain, for many years a member of colonial assembly, at whose house in Middletown, Bucks county, the early Friends Meetings were held. John Simcock, of Ridley, the grandfather of Jacob, Jr., born in Chesh- ire, England, in 1630, came to Chester county with his wife Elizabeth about 1682; he was one of Penn's five commis- sioners, and a member of provincial council, 1683-1700; judge of Chester county, 1683-86; puisine judge of prov- ince, 1686-90; provincial judge. 1690-93; and speaker of assembly, 1696; died 1703. His son Jacob, who was coroner of Chester county in 1691, married Alice Maris, daughter of George Maris and Alice his wife, who came from Wor- cestershire, England, to Chester county in 1682, a member of the governor's council. 1684 to 1695. member of assem- bly, justice, etc., died 1705. In 1760 George Ely received from his father 112 acres of the homestead, on which he erected a house still standing, aijd which is still owned by his descendants, being the home of his great-grand- daughter Laura Ely Walton. He later purchased considerable other land in Solebury and elsewhere, much of which is also occupied by his descendants. He was a prominent man in the community, and a member of colonial assembly in 1760. He was a resident on the old homestead until 1802, when he trans- ferred it to his son George Ely, Jr., and removed to Newtown township to a farm purchased of Hampton Wilson, where he died in 1814. The children of HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 13^ , R- A. M. He is also a member of the Penn Club, and of the Schoolmen's Club. Professor Morrison was married at Feasterv>ille, Bucks county, March 9, 1865, to Julia H. Jones, daughter of Asa Knight Jones, and they are the parents of five children, viz.: Anna Jones Mor- rison, born January 18, 1866, graduate of the Girls' Normal School; Jennie Singer Morrison, born December 5, 1867. now the wife of Rev. H. W. Har- ing, D. D.. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Egbert Heisler Morrison, born March T4, 1870, a graduate of the Central High School, now agent for the Gar- lock Packing Company; Clara Maria Morrison, born October 16, 1877, a grad- uate of the Girls' Normal School, re- siding at home: and Horace Stanton Morrison, born March 20, 1879, a grad- uate of the Northeast Manual Training School and of the University of Penn- sylvania, now associate editor of the Publications of Commercial Museums of Philadelphia. H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS. Esq., of Philadelphia, was born in Columbia,. Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, No- vember 2. 1858. and is a son of Dr. Jo- seph D. and Emilj' (Darrah) Nichols. His grandfather was also a phj^sician and a native of New Hampshire. Dr. Joseph D. Nichols, was the proprietor of an academy at Columbia, Lancaster county, and died in T874. His wife Emily Darrah was a daughter of Robert Darrah, of Warminster Bucks county. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 139- and a great-granddaughter of Captain Henry Darrah of the Revolution. The pioneer ancestor of the Darrah family was Thomas Darroch, native of Londonderry, Ireland, who with his wife Mary, emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1730, with the colony of Scotch Irish who settled on the banks of the Neshaminy, about the famous "Log Col- lege." He settled for ,a time in Hor- sham township, but in 1740, purchased of Mathew Hughes, a tract of land in Bedminster, Bucks county, on the Swamp Road, below the present village of Dublin, purporting to be 500 acres of land, but really containing nearly 800 acres. He died there in March, 1750. The children of Thomas and Mary Darroch were Robert, Thomas, Agnes, wife of John Davis, Esther, wife of George Scott, William, Henry, James, and Susanna. Robert died in Bedmin- ster in 1793. leaving a son Robert and several daughters. He represented his township in the Bucks County Commit- tee of Safety in 1776, and was active in the struggle. Thomas also died in Bed- minster leaving two sons Thomas and Mark and several daughters. William was lieutenant of Captain, later Col. Robinson's company of Bucks county militia in 1775. and is also said to have served in the Colonial war of 1756-7. He left two sons Archibald and W^illiani and several daughters, one of whom Hannah, married David Kelly of Buckingham and became the mother of Hon. William D. Kelly, for many years a member of Con- gress from Philadelphia and known as the "Father of the House." Another daughter Susannah, married John Shaw and was the mother of Commodore Thompson Darrah Shaw. Still another Agnes married James Smith of Buck- ingham, son of Hugh, and was the mother of Gen. Samuel A. Smith of Doj'lestown. Henry Darroch, fourth son of Thomas and Mary, was a miner at the death of his father in 1750. B}^ the will of the latter about 190 acres of the homestead was devised to each of the elder sons, Robert and Thomas and the residue to the three younger sons Will- iam, Henry and James, subject to a life interest of their mother. On part of this residue, containing 185 acres Henry probably took up his residence on his marriage in 1760 though it was not con- veyed to him by his brothers until 1763, when he was about to convey it to Henry Rickert. In 1767, he purchased a farm of 207 acres on the west bank of the Neshaminy, on the Bristol Road, between Tradeville and New Britain vil- lages, now in Doylestown township, at Sheriff's sale as the property of his brother-in-law John Davis. Here he lived until 1773, when he purchased 237 acres further west in New Britain town- ship, on the line of Warrington town- ship, and now included in the latter township, later purchasing about 50- acres adjoining. This remained his home until his death in 1782. Henry Darroch was one of the most illustrious of our Bucks county patriots in the trying days of the war for independence. He was a member of the New Britain company of Associators in 1775, and was commis- sioned in ]\Iay, 1776, first lieutenant of Captain William Roberts Company of the Flying Camp, under Col. Joseph Hart, and served with distinction in the Jersey campaign of 1776. Returning to Bucks county in December, 1776, his company was one of the few that re- sponded to the second call in the winter of 1776-7. On the reorganization of the Militia in the Spring of I777, his old captain and lifelong friend William Roberts was made a Lieut. Colonel and Lieut. Darroch was commissioned Cap- tain May 6. 1777, and his company was soon after in active service under Col- onel, later Gen. John Lacey. In 1778, it was again incorporated in Col. Rob- erts' Battalion, which in 1781, came under the command of Col. Robinson. Captain Darroch's company of< Militia was one that was almost constantly in service and he died in the Spring of 1782 from a cold contracted in the serv- ice of his country. His will is dated INIarch 17. 1782, and his friends. Col. William Roberts. Col. William Dean and his brother-in-law W^illiam Scott are named as executors. It is related' that George Washington was a great ad- mirer of Captain Darroch and visited him at his house. Captain Henry Darroch married Au- gust 13, 1760, Ann Jamison, daughter of Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison of Warwick township. Bucks county. Tra- dition relates that Henry Jamison did not approve of the attentions of young Darroch to his daughter, because he was too much of a dashing young man and too fond of fast horses to settle down to the life of a farmer; and that the young people settled the matter for themselves by his taking her up behind him on one of his fast horses and outdistancing the irate father in a race to the parson's. Henry Jamison was a native of the north of Ireland. . and came to Bucks county with his father, Henry Jamison and brothers Robert and Alexander about 1720. Henry the elder is said to have been born in Midlothian, Scotland, and removed to the Province of Ulster, Ireland in 1685. with his parents, from whence he migrated to Pennsylvania. He purchased in 1724. i.ooo acres partly in Northampton township and partly in Warwick, and was one of the founders of Neshaminy Church in 1727. In 1734 he conveyed the greater part of his real estate to his sons and returned to Ire- land, where he died. His son Henr3^ Jr., the father of Ann Darroch. was one of I40 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. the original trustees of the "new lights" of the Neshaminy Church in 1743, a large landowner and prominent man in the Scotch-Irish settlement on the Neshaminy. He sailed for Florida in 1765, and was never heard of after- wards. His wife Mary Stewart was one of a large and influential family of the names that were early settlers in War- wick, New Britain, Warrington. Plum- stead and Tinicum. The children of Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison were, Isabel, who married Tristram Davis, brother of John who married Agnes Darroch; Jean, wife of Captain Thomas Craig; Ann, wife of Captain Darroch; Alexander; William. Robert and John. In the possession of the descendants is a beautifully written letter yellow with age written by Ann Darroch to her husband while he was in the army. The children of Captain Henry and Ann (Jamison) Darroch, were, James, see forward Ann, who married Hugh Shaw; Margaret who married William Hewitt; William, born 1767, died July 11, 1838; John and George, the last two of whom died young. James Darrah. eldest son of Captain Henry and Ann (Jamison) Darroch, was born in 1764, and reared in New Britain township. In 1789, the executors of his father's will conveyed to him 170 acres of the homestead tract in New Britain and the balance 114 acres to his brother William. James married Rachel Hen- derson, born in Warminster July 27, 1762, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Archibald) Henderson, of Warminster. In 1794, James Darrah purchased of h'is w^ife's sisters and their husbands the 250 acres farm in Warminster belong- ing to the estate of Robert Henderson, formerly the property of Rev. Charles Beatty, pastor of Neshaminy Church, and they sold the New Britain farm and made their home on the Warminster farm, all of which is still owned by their grandsons, John M. and R. Henderson Darrah. Rachel (Henderson) Darrah died November 18, 1802, and James mar- ried second Rebecca McCrea. James Darrah died February 17, 1842, aged 78 years. His children, both by the first wife, were Robert Henderson and Henry. The latter married his cousin Martha Stinson, daughter of Elijah and Mary (Henderson) Stinson and lived for a time in Warminster, but removed later to Richboro, Northampton township where he died August 10, 1849, aged 58 years. Robert Darrah, eldest son of James and Rachel ("Henderson) Darrah, was born on his grandfather's homestead in New Britain, February 8, 1789, and re- moved with his parents to the War- minster homestead at the age of nine years, and spent the remainder of his •days there. He was an ensign in the war of 1812. Among the cherished me- mentoes now owned by the family are three swords, that of Captain Henry Darroch, of the Revolution; the sword of Ensign Robert Darrah of the war of 1812 and that of Lieutenant Robert Hen- derson Darrah of the Civil war. Rob- ert Darrah was an industrious and enter- prising farmer and accumulated a con- siderable estate. He had a sawrnill on the farm which he operated in connec- tion with his farming. He also had a lime kiln and burned the lime used "on his plantation. He early realized the value of a dairy and gave much atten- tion to this branch of husbandry, mar- keting the product in Philadelphia. He married September 4, 1819, Catharine Gait of Lancaster county, born January 26, 1799, a woman of fine intellectual ability and both she and her husband took a deep interest in and devoted their energies and means to the cause of morality, temperance, education and re- ligion. In 1835, at the urgent request' of his wife, he erected a school house on his farm which was afterwards en- larged and in connection with Josepii Hart and others secured college gradu- ates as teachers for their own and theii^ neighbors children for many years, in 1849, he built a fine stone mansion house on the Bristol Road and retired from active farming, introducing water, bath," any many modern improvements, and this was the happy home of his family for forty years. His wife entered into all his plans and was his wise and pru- dent adviser. She lived to the good old age of ninety-one years, surviving her husband thirty years, he having died August 5, i860. The Darrahs were of strong Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock. For more than a century the family have occupied the same pew in the historic Neshaminy Church, and the first two generations were intimately associated with the equally historic church at Deep Run, near their first Bucks county home, then presided over by Rev. Francis McHenry. Robert Darrah left a fam- ily of three sons and six daughters. His eldest son. Rev. James A. Darrah, born in 1821, was one of the pioneer home missionaries and teachers in the West. He graduated at Princeton in 1840 and studied law under Judge John Fox at Doylestown and was admitted to the bar in 1843. But feeling called to the min- istry he took a three years' course in the Theological Seminary of Yale College and was licensed to preach by the Pres- bytery of Philadelphia September 23, 1846. For some months he labored as a missionary at Winchester, Va., and tlien removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he was pastor of a church and principal of the preparatory department of Webster college for nine years and tlien was called to the pastorate of a church at West Ely, Mo. He died at Zanesville, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 141 Ohio, Feb. 24, 1882. The other chil- dren of Robert and Catharine (Gait) Darrah were, Rachel H., first wife of Rev. D. K. Turner, the eminent Presby- terian divine of Hartsville, lately de- ceased; Eliza M., who married Dr. Free- land of Chester county; Emily, the mother of the subject of this sketch; Rebecca, the second wife of Rev. D. K. Turner; Mary A., who died unmarried; John M., of Hartsville; Kate, who mar- ried Theodore R. Graham of Philadel- phia; and R. Henderson, still residing on the homestead. Prior to the death of her husband Dr. Joseph D. Nichols, Mrs. Nichols re- turned to Bucks county and resided with her mother at the old stone mansion, on the Bristol road now owned by the sub- ject of this sketch, her son M. S. Pren- tiss Nichols, where she died in 1898. H. S. Prentiss Nichols came to Phil- adelphia in 1872, and since that time has had a home in the old homestead on the Bristol Road at Hartsville, Bucks county, though most of his time has been spent in Philadelphia. He gradu- ated from the college department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879; studied law and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia county, where he has since practiced with success, and has since been admitted to practice at the Bucks county bar. He is a member of the Bucks county Historical Society and takes a lively interest in Bucks county, the home of his distinguished maternal ancestors. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He married, June 4, 1895, Isabel Mcllhenny, of Germantown, daughter of John and Berenice (Bell) Mcllhenny, both natives of the north of Ireland, now. living in Germantown, but formerly of North Carolina, where Mrs. Nichols was born. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols reside at 346 Pelham Road, Germantown, but the summer months are generally spent at their country home at Hartsville, Bucks county. HENRY SYLVESTER JACOBY, Professor of Bridge Engineermg, m Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, was born April 8, 1857, in Springfield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, between Bursonville and Springtown, and is a son of Peter L. and Barbara (Shelly) Jacoby, both of German de- scent. The paternal ancestor of Professor Ja- coby came to Pennsylvania, as is sup- posed, prior to 1750, but little is known of him. His widow Elizabeth survived him many years, dying at an advanced age at the home of her son-in-law, An- dreas Schneider, in Richland, about 1790, letters of administration being granted on her estate January 9, 1790. Her children as shown by the distribu- tion account filed were: Conrad, "eld- est son," Henry, who settled in. Lower Mount Bethel township, Northampton county; George, who settled in Lehigh county; John, who settled in York coun- ty; and Margaret, who married An- dreas Schneider, of Richland, a native of Zweibrucken, who came to this coun- try in 1759. Margaret, probably the youngest of the Jacoby family, was born January 6, 1749, and died March 22, 1828. Conrad Jacoby was born June 7, 1730, and was certainly in Bucks county May 18, 1751, when a warrant of survey for a tract of land in Bedminster township, Bucks county, was issued to him. His later Bucks county residence was in Mil- ford township, the threshold of German immigration into the county of Bucks. On April i, 1768, he purchased of Ja- cob Geil 220 1-2 acres of land in Spring- field township, on the line of Durham township. In this deed he is styled "Con- rad Jacobi, of Lower Milford township. Blacksmith." This farm is on the road from Bursonville to Durham, and ad- joins the farm still owned by Professor Henry S. Jacoby, on the northeast. On March 6, 1787, he purchased a farm of 152 acres in Bedminster township, the present residence of Gideon S. Rosen- berger, and lived thereon until his death ]March 26, 1795. On April 11, 1791, he purchased 259 acres in Durham town- ship, being Nos. 5 and 6 of the Durham tract, and adjoining his Springfield pur- chase. This tract he conveyed to his sons, Peter and John and John Reigle, respectively, in 1792 and 1793. His wife Hannah died November 27, 1828, at the age of ninety-nine years six months, and is buried at St. Peter's German Re- formed church, in Leidytown, her later days having been spent with her young- est son, Leonard, in Hilltown township. Conrad Jacoby is buried in the grave- yard of the old Tohickon church at Church Hill. He and his wife Hannah were the parents of nine children: John, Philip, Peter, Benjamin, Margaret, Cath- arine, Elizabeth, Henry and Leonard. John lived on the Durham land conveyed to him by his father in I793> until his death as did his brother Peter. Philip lived for a time in Nockamixon, and from 1783 to 1787 he lived on a farm of 196- 1/2 acres at Stony Point, in Springfield township. He then removed to Hill- town township, where he died in 1827. Benjamin settled in Haycock township on a tract of 165 acres, patented to him as No. 15 of the Lottery Lands in 1789, near Haycock Run postoftice, where he lived until his death. One of the daugh- ters, either Margaret or Catharine, mar- ried a Woolsleyer. Elizabeth married (first) John Fluck, and after his death married Robert Darroch, Jr., and they resided in Bensalem township, Bucks ■142 HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY. •county, during the latter part of their lives. Henry lived for a time in Bed- minster, removed thence to Gwynedd, and a year later to Andalusia, Bensaleni township, Bucks county. Leonard lived for lifty years near the Mennonite meet- ing house in Hilltown, and then re- moved to Allentown. Peter Jacoby, third son of Conrad and Hannah, was born in Bucks county on New Years day, 1759. He learned the trade of a blacksmith with his fath- er, and probably followed it for a num- ber of years. On June 9, 1792, he pur- chased of his father seventy-one acres of the Durham tract No. -6. He built in 1801 the stone house and later the barn, both of which are still standipg, and later, purchasing other land ad- joining, lived there all his life. While attending the February term of court, 1815, as a juror, he was taken ill and died' March 11, 1815. He was a member of Durham Reformed church, a trustee of the church from its organization and was later an elder. He married Cathar- ine Trauger, born September 29, 1763, died September 4, 1844; daughter of Christian and Ann Drager (Trauger) of Nockamixon. The former, born March 30, 1726, in Bechenbach, grand duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, came to Pennsylvania in the ship "Restora- tion," arriving in Philadelphia, October 9, 1747, and died in Nockamixon, Janu- ary 8, 181 1. His wife, Anna Barbara, was born March 5, 1729, and died No- vember 5, 1821. The children of Peter and Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby were: John, who settled in Doylestown town- ship; Elizabeth, who married George Hartman, of Rockhill, who after living for twenty-seven years in that town- ship, removed to near Bloomsburg,. Pennsylvania; Mary, who married Jacob Hartman, of Rockhill; Benjamin, who finally settled in Springfield township; Barbara, who died in youth; Catharine, who married Frederick Laubach, of Lower Saucon, later of Durham town- ship; Hannah, who married George Overpeck, of Springfield, and later re- moved to near Milton, Pennsylvania; Sarah, who died in youth; Peter, who lived and died on the old homestead in Durham; Samuel, who finally settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvan- ia; and Susannah, who married Jacob Schliefifer; of Springfield township. Benjamin Jacoby, son of Peter and Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby, was born September 9, 1786. He was a mason by trade. In the fall of 1809 he married Margaret Landes, daughter of Samuel and Susannah Landes, and on Septem- ber 10, 1810, purchased a small farm in Nockamixon, where he lived for six years, following his trade in summer and teaching school during the winter months. He then bought a farm of nine- ty acres two miles from Frenchtown, New Jersey, where he lived until 1826, when he purchased the farm in Sprmg- ficld, adjoining the farm purchased by his grandfather in 1768, and removed thereon. This farm has remained in the family ever since, and is now the prop- erty of the subject of this sketch. Here Benjamin Jacoby lived until the sprmg of 1839, when he rented the farm to his son, Peter L. Jacoby, and removed to the village of Springtown, where he lived until his death, October 29, 1850. He served for three months in the army during the war of 1812-14, his company being stationed at Marcus Hook, to guard the approach to Philadelphia af- ter the burning of Washington in 1814. His wife Margaret died in 1827, and he married in 1829 Margaret, daughter of Peter Werst, who died September 26, 1844, without issue. The children of Benjamin and Margaret (Landes) Ja- coby were: Samuel, who finally settled at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Peter L., who lived nearly all his life on the Springfield homestead; Catharine, who married Aaron Heckman and settled near Milton, Pennsylvania; Caroline, who married John Schlieffer, of Spring- field; Susannah, who married Samuel Fulmer, of Springtown; Anna, who died in infancy; Benjamin L., who during his later years resided in Philadelphia; John L., who lived for some years in Springfield and later removed to Allen- town, Pennsylvania; and Levi L., who was a minister of the German Evan- gelical association and stationed at various points in New York state, be- ing located at Newark, New York, at the time of his death. Peter L. Jacoby, second son of Ben- jamin and Margaret (Landes) Jacoby, was born in Nockamixon township, Bucks county, February 9, 1813, and, aside from teaching school for a brief period was a farmer all his life. He mar- ried, August 20, 1837, Barbara Shelly, daughter of John and Mary Shelly, of Milford township, Bucks county, and lived in Milford township until the spring of 1839, when he took charge of his father's farm in Springfield, rent- ing it until his father's death, when he purchased it, later purchasing other land adjoining, and lived on the homestead until his death, July 3, 1876. With the exception of ten years residence in New Jersey and one year at a select private school, his whole life was spent in Bucks county. He was better educated than most men of his day in that vicin- ity, and appreciated the advantage of a higher education. He was a prosperous farmer, and actively interested in the im- portant public interests of his neighbor- hood. His wife died at Bethlehem, June 12, 1904. Their eldest child, Mary Ann, died at the age of twenty-two years. Those who survive are: Titus S., now residing in Bethlehem; Amanda, who HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 143 married Henry Unangst, of Williams township, Northampton county, Penn- sylvania, and later settled near Pleasant Valley, Bucks count)-; Lewis Shelly, and John S., both now residing in Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Henry Sylvester, who now resides in Ithaca, New York. Henry Sylvester Jacoby, born on the old homestead near Bursonville, April 8, 1857, was reared on the farm and attended the public school during the winter sessions, and during the summer months attended the private school of David W. Hess for eight years. He attended the Excelsior Normal In- stitute at Carversville, Bucks county, during the terms of 1870-72, and the preparatory department of Lehigh Uni- versity, 1872-3. He then took the regu- lar four-years course at Lehigh Univer- sity, receiving the degree of Civil En- gineer in 1877. During the season of 1878 he was stadia rodman on the Le- liigh Topographical Corps, of the Sec- ond Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. From November, 1878, to November, 1879, he was engaged on surveys of the Red River, Louisiana, with the U. S. A. Corps of Engineers, under Major W. H. H. Benyaurd. From November, 1879. to March, 1885, he served as chief draughtsman in the United States En- gineer's Office at Memphis, Tennessee. From May, 1885, to August, 1886, he was bookkeeper and cashier for G. W. Jones & Co., wholesale druggists in Memphis. From September, 1886, to June. 1890, he was instructor in civil engineering at his alma mater, Lehigh University. In Sep.- tember, 1890, he was elected assistant professor of Bridge Engineering and Graphics at Cornell University, was pro- moted to an associate professorship in the same department in 1894. ^'if^ in 1900 was made full professor of Bridge Engineering in the University, and has since filled that position. In August, 1887, he was admitted a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; was made a fellow of the Association in 1894; secretary of "Section D" in 1895, and vice president and chairman of Sec- tion D. (Mechanical science and Engi- neering) in 1901. On November 5, 1890, he became an associate of the American Society of Civil Engineers; in August. 1894, a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, of which he was secretary 1900-1902. On February 22, 1888, he became a member of the Honorary Scientific Society of Tau Beta Pi, and of the Honorary Sci- entific Society of Sigma Xi on May i. Professor Jacoby. in addition to con- tributing numerous articles on Engineer- ing and kindred subjects, for periodicals devoted to that science, is the author -of the following publications: "Notes and Problems in Descriptive Geom- erty," (1892); "Outlines of Descriptive Geometry" Part I, 1895, Part II, i8q6. Part III, 1897; "A Text Book on Plain Lettering," (1897). He is joint author with Professor Mansfield Merriman of a "Text Book on Roofs and Bridges," in four volumes (1890-1898) embracing the following branches: Part I, "Stresses in Simple Trusses," 1888, entirely re- written in 1904; Part II, "Graphic Sta- tics," 1890, enlarged in 1897; Part III, "Bridge Design," 1894. re-written 1902; Part IV, "Higher Structures," 1898. Professor Jacoby served as editor of the Journal of the Engineering Society of Lehigh University for the years 1887- 1890. Professor Henry S. Jacoby married May 18. 1880, Laura Louise Saylor, daughter of Thomas S. and Emma A. Saylor, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of three chil- dren, John Vincent, Hurlbut Smith, and Freeman Steel, all of whom reside with their parents at Ithaca, New York. Professor Jacoby retains a lively in- terest in the affairs of his native county, and makes many extended visits to the old homestead in Springfield (the own- ership of which he still retains), as well as to other points of Bucks county, tak- ing a proper and commendable pride in his Bucks county ancestry. PHILIP H. FRETZ. Among the rep- resentatives of the old and honored fam- ilies of Bucks county who. with their respective ancestors, have witnessed the settlement and development of our be- loved county from a primitive wilderness, inhabited by a primitive race, to a thick- ly settled, prosperous, wealthy and en- lightened community, is Philip H. Fretz, of Doylestown township. He w-as born in the township in which he still resides, November 22, 1846. and is a son of Phil- ip K. and Anna (Stover) Fretz. the an- cestors of both of whom had been prom- inent factors in the development of the natural resources of Bucks county, those of the latter being the pioneer millers of Tinicum and Bedminster and her emi- grant ancestor being Henry Stauflfer, who emigrated from Alsace in 1749 and settled in Bedminster soon after that date. His son Jacob, born May 13. 1757. was the grandfather of Mrs. Fretz, and Henry, son of the last named, born Oc- tober 17. 1786, was her father. Her moth- . er w-as Barbara Stout, daughter of Is- aac Stout, of Williams township. North-i ampton county, and a granddaughter of Jacob Stout, the emigrant ancestor of the Stout family of Bucks, an account of w-hom is given in this work. Bar- bara was educated at the Moravian school at Bethlehem, and her husband, Henry S. Stover, at the Doylestown Academv. under the Rev. Uriah Dubois, .144 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. both receiving unusual advantages in this respect for their day and genera- tion. The paternal ancestor of Mr. Frclz was John Frets, who with a brother, Christian emigrated from Manhenii, m Baden, Rhenish Prussia, about 1720, and settled for a time in Upper Salford, now Montgomery county, where he married Barbara Meyer, daughter of Hans Mey- er, who bore him five children — John, Jacob, Christian, Abraham and Eliza- beth. In 1737 John Fretz settled in Bed- minster township, Bucks county, where he purchased 300 acres of land and lived until his death in February, 1772. Christian Fretz, son of John and Bar- bara, born in Upper Salford, May, 1734, was reared in Bedminster township, Bucks county, and married in 1757 Bar- bara Oberhotzer, born November 10, 1737, died May 8, 1823, daughter of Mar- tin Oberholtzer, who was born near Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1709, and set- tled in Bedminster soon after attaining manhood. Christian Fretz, on attaining manhood, settled in Tinicum township, where he lived until his father's death, when, having inherited the old home- stead, he returned to Bedminster, where he died May i, 1803. During the boy- hood and early manhood of Christian Fretz the Indians were still quite num- erous in that vicinity, and tradition re- lates many incidents of the association of the family with the "noble red man." At the time of the death of Barbara Fretz, widow of Christian, in 1823, she was the mother of twelve children, one hundred and nine grandchildren, and one hundred and three great-grandchil- dren. The children were: John; Agnes, wife of Abraham Bebighouse; Joseph; Henry; Martin; Jacob; Abraham; Is- aac; Barbara, wife of Henry Fretz; Christian; Mary, wife of Henry Tyson; and Elizabeth, wife of Abraham INleyer. , John Fretz, eldest son of Christian and Barbara, was born in Bedminster, May 24, 1758, aiid was reared in the Men- nonite faith, his .parents being members of the old Deep Run Meeting, the oldest Mennonite congregation in Bucks coun- ty. He purchased land adjoining the homestead in Bedminster, and lived there until 1792, when he purchased 300 acres of the Rodman tract in Warwick, now Doylestown township, and settled thereon, building in 1795 the stone house which was standing until about 1898. He later purchased considerable adjoining land, owning at one time 800 acre§ along both sides of the Neshaminy, marked on the old maps of the region as "Fretz Valley." He died December 20, 1804. His wife was Anna Kratz, born in Pluin- s.tead township, November 4, 1764. She died August 4, 1813. John and Anna Kratz Fretz were the parents of nine children, viz: Christian; Susan, wife of William Garges; Elizabeth, wife af Thomas Z. Smith; Mary, wife of Henry' Gill; John; Rachel, wife of Abraham F. Stover; Barbara, wife of John Smith; Anna, wife of Samuel Dungan, and Phil- ip, died young. Christian, eldest son of John and An- na (Kratz) Fretz, was born in Bedmin- ster township, November 17, 1782, and was reared from the age of ten on the Fretz Valley farm in Doylestown town- ship, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a successful 'business man and acquired considerable real es- tate. He was a farmer and hotelkeepr- er, establishing the "Fretz Valley Inn," near the homestead on the Easton road, opposite the almshouse, which he con- ducted for a number of years. He died January 28, 1840. -He married April 14, 1808, Mary Stover, daughter of Ralph and Catharine (Funk) Stover, and granddaughter of Henry Stauffer above referred to, and a great-grand- daughter on the maternal side of the pioneer. Bishop Henry Funck. Ralph Stover, father of Mary (Stover) Fretz, was born in Bedminster, Bucks county, January 10, 1760, and died there November 7, 181 1. He was one of the prominent business and public men of his time. For many years a justice of the peace, he did a large amount of le- gal business pertaining to the transfer of real estate and the settlement of es- tates. He was a member of state assem- bly from 1783 to 1799, and was one of the first board of directors of the goor, created under act of assembly of April 10, 1807, ^nd superintended the erection of the almshouse opposite the Fretz homestead. His daughter Mary was born December 15, 1787, and died in New York, where she had gone to un- dergo a surgical operation, November I7i 1855. The children of Christian and Mary (Stover) Fretz were six in num- ber, as follows: I. Ralph Stover Fretz, born in War- wick, November 13, 1809, died in Cali- fornia, June 6, 1867. He had an event- ful career. Early in life he engaged in business in Philadelphia and later in New York city. At the latter place he met Commodore Garrison and be- came interested with hiin in several im- portant enterprises. For some years he ran a line of steamboats on the Missis- sippi river, and later engaged in a trad- ing and shipping enterprise with Com- modore Garrison at the Isthmus of Pan- ama, in which he was later joined by his brothers John and Christian Augustus. In 1849 he sailed from the Isthmus to San Francisco, where in connection witli the commodore he established a bank and amassed a fortune of a half million of dollars. The eighth clause of his will reads as follows: "Eighth: Considering that I have been greatly blessed and that I have an un- dying attachment to the Government of HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 145 the United States, the country of my birth, and remembering that by reason of my age and infirmities during the re- cent unnatural rebellion to destroy it, I was unable to render service in the field to put down and punish that great crime, and being not unmindful that a huge public burden of indebtedness has been necessarily incurred in accomplish- ing that object, I desire not only to leave behind me when I am gone an humble testimonial of the gratitude I feel towards those whose virtues, val- or and sacrifice and services preserved what I regard as the best government man was ever permitted to have, but beyond that and in addition to paying the ordinary taxes on my estate, 1 think it my duty out of the means Providence in His bounty has enabled me to ac- quire, and the Laws of the Country has aided me to preserve, to do some- thing towards extinguishing the Nation- al Debt; Therefore moved thereto by the foregoing causes only, I hereby give and bequeath unto the Secretary of thd; Treasury of the United States of Ameri- ca, in trust and to be applied only to- wards cancelling the National Debt, the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars." Dated at San Francisco, May i, 1867. 2. John Fretz. born October 2, 1811, in Warwick, died at White Sulphur Springs, California, where he was op- erating a gold quartz mill, June 26. 1863. He had also been associated with his brothers in enterprises at Panama. Neither of the above were married. 3. Philip Kratz Fretz, see forward. 4. Elizabeth Fretz, born February 23, 1818, in Doylestown township, died there February 9, 1897, married John Farren, of Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, January i, 1844. He was born March i, 1809, and died in Doylestown township December 16, 1878. He was a contractor, and was associated with his brother-in-law, Philip K. Fretz, in rail- road building, etc. He and his family were members of the Roman Catholic church. l'h died 12 . mo. 12, 1858, daughter of Ed- ward Warner and Mary (Griffith) Hes- ton, of Blockley, before mentioned. Ed- ward Warner Heston was born in Bucks county, and was a son of Jacob and Mary (Warner) IJeston, of Makefield, and a grandson of Zebulon and Doro- thy Heston, early settlers in Wrights- town, Bucks county. He inherited frona his father the lands at what was named Hestonville, in Blockley township, and was the founder of the village. He was an officer of the Seventh Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, during the revolu-, tion and saw active service and was- subsequently one of the judges of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia county. His second wife was a sister of Mahlon Hall, who married his daugh- ter. On his marriage Mahlon HallS erected a house on what is now Elm avenue, West Philadelphia, close to Fair- mount Park, where he died 4 mo. 7, 1805. He was an active business man of Philadelphia. His widow married Will- iam Sanders, and had one son, Jacob Sanders, born 5 mo. 22. 1810. Mahlon and Mary (Heston) Hall were the par- ents of nine children: i. Edward H.,. born at Hestonville, 4 mo. 30, 1792, died in Columbiana county, Ohio, 4 mo. 10,- 1831, married at West Chester, Pennsyl- vania, 2 mo. 5, 1816, Jane Paxson, daugh- ter of Benjamin and Jane (Ely) Paxson,. of Solebury, and removed to Ohio irt 1820. 2. Mahlon, born 3 mo. 11, I793, died in Doylestown township, Bucks county, II mo. 3, 1872; see forward. 3. Thomas W., born 3 mo. 4, 1795, died in- Cain township, Chester county, 4 mo. 7, 1896, aged over one hundred and one years; he married Mary Heston, daugh- ter of Abr^jim HesUyi, and had nine children."^. Isaac, born 4 mo. 29, 1796, died 4 mo. 21, 1810. 5. John, born 8 mo. 17, 1797, died 2 mo. 3, 1897, at West Chester. He married, 10 mo. 23, 1862, Sarah (Thatcher) Yarnall, a widow, who survives him. He was a farmer at Hestonville for many years and removed to West Chester in 1872. 6. Jane, born II mo. 24, 1798, died at West Chester, 10 mo. 4, 1876, unmarried. 7. William H., born i mo. 21, 1801, died in West Chester, 5 mo. 20, 1886, married Ann- Paxson, but had no children. 8. Sarah, born 12 mo. 28, 1802, died at West Ches- ter, 2 mo. 3, 1900, married Edward Dick- inson, leaving no issue. 9. Ann, born 3"mo. 29, 1804, died 12 mo. 23, 1813. This family was very remarkable for longev- ity, one of them having exceeded the century mark, another came short of it but six months, wdiile four others passed four score years. Mahlon Hall, second son of Mahlon and Mary (Heston) Hall, born at Hes- tonville. Philadelphia, March 11, I793r was the father of Mathias H. Hall and the grandfather of William W. Hall,, sketches of whom follow. He was a blacksmith by trade, and came to Buck- ingham, near Pineville, Bucks county,, when a young man and followed his trade there for some years, returning later to Philadelphia where he was a partner with his brother John in the milk business. Subsequently he removed' again to Bucks county, and in 1836 pur- chased a farm of fifty acres in Dovles-, town township, where his son, Isaac H. Hall, still lives, and thereon died No-, vember 3, 1872. He married (first) Han- nah P. Hampton, of Buckingham, by HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 149 whom he had five children: Thomas, a prominent business man of Philadel- phia ; John ; William ; Moses P., for many years a merchant in Buckingham; and Benjamin, the father of Squire Hall. Mr. Hall married (second) Isabella Robin- son, daughter of John Robinson, who was a soldier in the war of 1812 and stationed at Marcus Hook, by whom he had twelve children, of whom eleven survived him: Mary, who never married; Hannah, who married her cousin, Al- bert P. Hall, son of Edward H. and Jane •(Paxson) Hall, who is a dry goods mer- chant at West Chester, Pennsylvania; Jane H., v/ho married William Seal; Martha R., who married George Geil; Edward D.; Isaac H., who lives on the homestead in Doylestown township; Sa- rah D., who married J. Gilpin Seal; Matthias H., a prominent farmer of Up- per Makefield township; Charles Henry; George W., and Emma P. Hall. Isabella (Robinson) Hall, widow of Mahlon Hall, •died in Doylestown township, June 29, 1879. Benjamin Hall, third son of Mahlon and Hannah P. (Hampton) Hall, was born in Bnuckingham, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, September 30, 1823, and resides with his son, William W. Hall, at I.innboro. He went to Philadelphia wlitn a boy, and for some time drove a milk wagon for his uncle. Returning to B;'cks county he clerked in the store of "his brother Thomas at Mechanics Val- ley until 1850, when in partnership with his brother, Moses P. Hall, he purchased the store at Buckingham, which they conducted for four years. On April i, 1854, he purchased and removed to the present homestead farm " at Danboro, where he resided for the following thirteen years. In April. 1867, "he purchased a property at Smith's Cor- ner in Plumstead township and opened a store, which he conducted for two years. He then removed to Mechanics "Valley, where he conducted the store ■for six years, and in 1875 returned to the old homestead, where he has since re- sided. Mr. Hall was the pioneer milk shipper to Philadelphia market from Doylestown. He married Sarah Carlile, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Carlile, of Plumstead, who was born on the present Hall homestead, wliere her father died January 9, 1833. Benjamin and Sarah (Carlile) Hall were the par- •ents of two sons and a daughter, of whom William W., mentioned herein- after, alone survives. MATTHIAS H. HALL, third son of Mahlon and Isabella (Robinson) Hall, was born in Doylestown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1844. He was reared to the life of a farmer and acquired his education at the public schools of that vicinity. His whole life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits in the county of his birth. The following spring after his marriage he began farming for himself in Wrights- town township, and after five years' resi- dence there he removed to Upper Make- field, and in 1883 purchased his present farm in that township, on the Ime of Wrightstown, near the site of the his- toric Indian village of Playwicky, where he has since resided. While conforming to the tenets of the Society of Friends, in which faith his paternal ancestors were reared, he is not a member of the society. Though deeply interested in the afifairs of his coi^mty, state and nation, he has taken little part in partisan poli- tics. He is an active member of the Bucks County Historical Society, and a regular attendant of its meetings. He recently contributed a valuable paper to its archives on the local history and folk-lore of his locality, so rich in his- toric interest as the border line between the original settlement of the pioneers of Penn's colony in America and the land taken up by. their descendants and the later arrivals. He married, Novem- ber 18, 1874, Sarah Wiggins, daughter of Jesse and Margaret (Hampton) Wig- gins, of "Wrightstown. She is a de- scendant of Benjamin Wiggins, one of the earliest settlers in the locality in which she lives, and who is said to have, come thence from New England. He married in 1708, Susan Jenks, widow of Thomas Jenks, of Shropshire, England, on the borders of Wales, who came into Bucks county with her infant son Thomas, about 1700, and is the ances- tress of the prominent family of that name in Bucks county. By her second marriage with Benjamin Wiggins she had one son, Benzaleel Wiggins, born in 1709, from whom the prominent family of that name as well as numerous oth- ers of Wrightstown, Buckingham, Sole- bury and Makefield are descended. The pioneer maternal ancestor of Mrs. Hall was John Hampton, of Ephingstoun, East Lothian, Scotland, who purchased land at Amboy Point, East Jersey. No- vember 23, 1682, and later settled at Freehold, New Jersey, where he died in February, 1702-3, leaving sons: John, Joseph, Andrew, David, Jonathan and Noah. Joseph Hampton, his son by a second marriage with Jane Ogburn, widow of John Ogburn, and mother of Sarah Ogburn, wife of Edmund Kinsey, was one of the first ministers among Friends of Buckingham. Jane was four times married and came to Buckingham about 1720, then the widow Sharp, and died there in 1731. Joseph Hampton either accompanied or preceded hiS mother to Bucks county and located in Wrightstown. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Thomas Canby and has left numerous descendants. He died in I767> leaving two sons, John and Benjamin, and three daughters. The children of Matthias H. and Sarah (Wiggins) Hall 150 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. are : Frances, Margaret, Hanna, Jesse, and l-lmma, all of whom reside with their parents. WILLIAM W. HALL, only surviving son of Benjamin and Sarah (Carlile) Hall, was born in the village of Buck- ingham where his father and uncle Moses were at the time engaged in mer- cantile business, November 2, 1851. His parents removing to the present home- stead in T'Dr. John Rodman, the second son of John and Elizabeth, born in 1653, be- came a freeman of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1684, and was prominent in the affairs of that colony for five or six years. He later removed to Block Island, having purchased a three-six- teenth share of the Island. In 1691 he removed to Flushing, Long Island, but returned to Block Island later. He died September, 1731, at the age of seventy- eight years. He was a prominent physi- cian, and a minister among Friends for forty years. In 1686 he purchased one thousand acres of land in Burlington county. New Jersey, where some of his descendants later lived. He married Mary Scar^^jjiion and had twelve children, as follows :\rohn, born in Barbadoes May 14. 1679, see forward; Mary, died at New- port in 1683; Samuel, died in New York city in 1720; Joseph, born August II, 1685, died September, 1759, married (first) Sarah Lawrence, (second) Helena Willett; William, born May 20, 1687, died jNIay 23, 1704; Anne, born August II, 1689. died 1715, married Walter New- berry; Thoma?, born 1692, died October, 1693 ; Mary, born December 20, 1693. married John Willett; Elizabeth, died young; Thomas, born January 9, 1698, married Elizabeth Scott; Hannah, born August 6, 1700. married (first) Jonathan Dickinson, and (second) Samuel Holmes; and Elizabeth, born at Flushing in 1702, married Thomas INIasters, of Philadelphia. 'b Dr. John Rodman, eldest son of Dr. John and Mary (Scammon) Rodman, born in Barbadoes. ]\Iay 14, 1679. was reared at Newport, Rhode Island, where he became a freeman in 1706. removed to Block Island, and from there to Flush- ing. Long Island, in 1712. In 1726 he purchased land in Burlington county, New Jersey, and settled there. He was, like his father, a prominent physician and a member of the Society of Friends. He was a member of provincial assembly 1727-9, member of governor's council 1738. and commissioner to treat with the Indians in 1741. He owned 1300 acres of land in' Burlington county, and in 1703 purchased 3000 acres in Warwick town- ship, Bucks county, comprising nearly the whole eastern side of the township, which at his death in Burlington county, July^,T3. 1756. was devised to four of his sons," John. William, Scammon, and Sam- uel. Dr. Rodman married (first) Mar- garet Grosse. daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Grosse. of Boston, who died at Flushing. I-ond Island, June 2, 1718. He married (second) July 7, 1719, Marj^ Willett, daughter of William Willett, of Westchester county, New York, grand- daughter of Thomas Willett, a native of Bristol, England, who married in 1643 Sarah Cornell, daughter of Thomas Cor- nell, of Cornell's Neck, Westchester county. New York. The children ot Dr. Kjohn 2.n(l Margaret (Grosse) Rodman were :n John, born at Flushing, Long Island, 1714, died 179S; Thomas, born 1716, died in Burlington, New Jersey, 1796, married Elizabeth Pearson; Mary, married John Johnson, of Bucks county. The children of Dr. John and Mary (W^illett) Rodman were: William, born May 5, 1720, see forward; Anna, born 1722, died 1763, married October 20, 1759, William Lister, of Essex county, New Jersey; Scammon, born March 8, 1723, died January 4, 1762, unmarried; Han- nah, born July 4, 1726, died October 7, 175s; Samuel, born May 30, 1729, died July 4, 1761; and Margaret, born Aiigust 6, 1731, died October 18, 1752, married October 10, 1751, Charles Norris. William Rodman, eldest son of' D.r. John by his second marriage with Mary Willett, came to Burlington county. New Jersey, from Flushing at the age of six years. In 1744 his father sent him to Bucks county to take charge of six hun- dred acres of land in Bensalem township, called Rodmanda, later named by him after his birthplace. Flushing, where he lived until his death, January 30, 1794. He was one of the most prominent men of his day in Bucks count}'. He was a jus- tice 1752-57, and a member of provincial assembl}', 1763-76. He married Mary Reeve, of New Jersey, September 6, 1744, and they were the parents of eight c-bil- dren; Sarah, did at the age of four years; Mary, born July 23, 1747. died Decem- ber I, 1765. married, June 27, 1765, Phineas Buckley; Gilbert, born July 21, 1748. died August 21, 1830. married Sarah Gibbs. daughter of Richard and Mar- gery Gibbs ; Hannah, born 1751, died 1775. married John Howard; Margaret, born September 20. 1752. died February 22, T7S1. married Dr. William Mcllvaine; Elizabeth, died unmarried; William, born October 7. 1757, died July 27, 1824. mar- ried Esther W^est; and Rachel, born De- cember I, 1759. died September I. 1783, married September 20, 1782. Samuel Gibbs. Gilbert Rodman, born at Flushing, Bucks — cmwity; July 21. 1748. died in Bucks county, August 21. 1830. He was a major in the continental forces during the Amboy campaign of 1776. and was disowned from the society of Friends for his military services. He inherited from his father. William Rodman, the farm on which the Bucks county alms house is now located in Doylestown township, it being part of the tract purchased by his grandfather of John Gray, alias Tatham. in 1703. He lived on this plantation until HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 163 i8o8, when he sold it to the county and removed to Bensalem, where he died. He married, June 3, 1784, Sarah Gibbs, and they were the parents of eleven children: Mary, married Anthony McCoy, and was the mother of Dr. Gilbert Rodman McCoy, who succeeded to the practice^ of Dr. Charles Mathews at Doylestown, and was one of the most prominent phy- sicians of the count}'; Margery, married Judge John Fox, president judge of the •courts of Bucks county, 1830-40, and a leader of a powerful faction of the Dem- ocratic party in Bucks county for many years; Gibbs Rodman, born January 8, 1782, died December 18, 1812, unmarried; Sarah, married John S. Benezet; Eliza- beth, married William Drinker of Phila- delphia; Margaret, wife of Dr. Charles H. Mathews; Hannah, died unmarried; Gilbert, born August 25, 1800, died Jan- uary 15, 1862, unmarried, studied law with Judge Fox, later with Judge Da'P las at Philadelphia, located at Lancaster, was a clerk in the United States Treas- ury department under Samuel D. Ing- ham in 1829, later becoming chief clerk and filling that position until his death; Euphemia, born 1802, died 1807 ; Mary Ann, born 1804, died in 1827, unmarried ; and Lewis, who graduated from the med- ical department of the Universitj' of Pennsylvania in the same class with Dr. Charles H. Mathews, located in Phila- delphia, where he became a prominent l)hysician, was censor of the College of Physicians, consulting physician tor Preston's Retreat, etc. CHARLES HENRY MATHEWS, only son of Dr. Charles H. and Margaret (Rodman) Mathews, was born at Dojdes- town, April 21. 1844. He was educated at the Doylestown English and Classi- cal Seminar3\ the high school at Law- renceville. New Jersey, and at the Col- lege of New Jersey, (now Princeton Uni- versity) graduating in 1864. He studied law in the office of his cousin, Gilbert Rodman Fox. at Norristown, and was ad- mitted to the bar of the Seventh Judicial District, comprising Bucks and Mont- •gomery counties, in June, 1867 and to the Philadelphia bar in November of the same year. He located in Philadelphia, where he has since practiced his chosen profession, holding a high position in the legal fraternity; his present office being at 717 Walnut street. He married, March I. i88t. Hannah Selena Black, daughter of William and Delia (Dimon) Black, of New York, and they have been the pa- rents of three children: Charles Henry", Jr., born May 31. 1882. a graduate of Princeton University, class of 1905 ; Lewis Rodman died in infancy; and William Black, born Aoril 12. 1887. Mr. Mathews is a member of the Bucks County Histor- ical Society, and- takes a lively interest in the affairs of his native county. ATKINSON FAMILY. The family of Atkinson is an ancient and honorable one, whose representatives were found in different parts of Great Britain several centuries ago. Two distinct families of the name settled in Bucks county, Penn- sjdvania, in the latter part of the seven- teenth century. Thomas Atkinson, of Sandwick, Yorkshire, was married to Jane Bond, at Knaresborough meeting of Friends in 1678, and four years later emigrated to America with his wife and three sons, Isaac, William and Samuel, settling first in Burlington county. New Jersey, but removing soon after to Bucks county. Both Thomas and Jane were ministers among Friends. The former died in 1687, and his widow married Will- iam Biles two 3'ears later. She travelled extensively in the ministry after her second marriage, both in the colonies and in England and Ireland. Thomas Atkinson was a son of John Atkinson of Newby, Yorkshire, and in his will in 1687 devises land in Bucks county to his brother John Atkinson, "should he come to Pensilvania." It is not known that the brother John ever emigrated to Amer- ica. Isaac Atkinson, the eldest son of Thomas and Jane, died in Bucks county in 1721, leaving three children, John, Jane and Thomas. Most of the descendants of Thomas and Jane Atkinson eventu- ally settled in New Jersey. The present familj' of Atkinsons in Bucks county are descendants of John Atkinson, of Scotforth, near the city of Lancaster, England, who with his brother Christopher and their respective fami- lies embarked in the ship "Brittanica," in April, 1690, for Pennsylvania, where they had purchased of William Penn ■ 1500 acres of land, to be laid out, etc., in March. 1690. Christopher Atkinson, the elder of the two brothers, was married at Lancaster Meeting, England, on 6 mb. 8, 1679, to Margaret Fell, daughter of Christopher Fell, of Newtown, Lanca- shire, and the records of that meeting show the birth of seven of their children, of whom at least four, William, Hannah, Margaret and Isabel, sailed with their parents, though only the two latter ap- pear to have survived the voyage, the father. Christopher Atkinson, also dying on the way to America. John Atkinson, the other brother, had married at the same meeting, on 2 mo. 8. 1686. Susanna Hynde. daughter of Richard Hynde, of Scotforth, and the following chHdren were born to them in Lancashire, viz.: William, i mo. 31. 1687; Mary, 7 mo. 25, 1689; John. 8 mo. 25, 1692, died 9 mo. 5. 1694; John, born 9 mo. 25, 1695. The three surviving children above named accompanied their parents on board the "Brittanica." and. both their parents dy- ing on the voyage, were received by the Friends of Middletown Meeting. Bucks county, where the certificate from Lan- 164 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. caster Meeting, dated 2 mo. 30, 1690, was deposited. The 1500 acres of land purchased by Christopher and John Atkinson was laid out in 1700 in Buckingliam township, Bucks count}-; 1,000 acres in a parallelo- gram was surveyed in right of Chris- topher, lying between the present Me- chanicsvilie road and the line of the land of T. Howard Atkinson, a lineal de- scendant of John, and extending from the Street road at Sands' Corner to the Greenville road at Beans' Corner. It was in two equal tracts of 500 acres each, and was patented to Margaret Atkinson, widow of Christopher, the upper half in her own right, under the will of her husband, proved on her arrival in Phila- delphia, and the lower tract for the use of her children. The latter was con- veyed by the widow and heirs to Jo- seph Gilbert, and the upper tract by Margaret Atkinson to William Cooper. The remaining 500 acres was surveyed for the use of the heirs of John Atkinson, and was laid out on the opposite side of the Street road, touching the upper tract of the i.ooo acres at Sands' Corner, and extending northwesterly from that point. It was resurveyed by Cutler in 1703 in the name of Alice and Mary Hynde, sisters of Susanna, wife of John Atkinson, who had taken out letters on the estates of John and Susanna, in Phil- adelphia, September 6, 1699. No convey- ance appears of record by the Atkinson heirs or their representatives, the first actual settlers thereon being William George, and Alice his wife. Certain it is that none of the heirs of either Chris- topher or John Atkinson found homes on the land originally purchased by their respective patents. John Atkinson, the youngest child of John and Sunsanna (Hynde) Atkinson, born in Lancashire, 9 mo. 25, 1695, is supposed to have spent his bojdiood days among Friends in the neighborhood of Newtown, Bucks county. On 8 mo. 13, 1717, he was married at the house of Stephen Twining, Newtown, to Mary Smith, daughter of William and Mary (Croasdale) Smith, of Makefield. He immediately purchased 200 acres in the Manor of Highlands, now Upper IMake- field, adjoining his father-in-law, and set- tled thereon and lived there until his death in January, 1752. The children of John and Mary (Smith) Atkinson were: John, born 1718; William, born 1721, married Mary Tomlinson, and re- mained on a portion of the homestead; Thomas, born 1722, see forward; Chris- topher, born 1725, married Lydia Canby; Mary, born 1725, married John Stock- dale; Exekiel, born 1728, died on the homestead. 1768. married Rachel Gilbert; Cephas, born 1730. married Hannah Naylor; and Elizabeth, born 1732. Thomas Atkinson, third son of John and jNIary, was born and reared on the Makefield homestead, but on his mar- riage in 1744 to Mary Wildman, located on 200 acres in Wrightstown township, near Penn's Park, the greater part of which is still owned and occupied by his descendants, part of it by his great- grandson, George G. Atkinson, and part by another great-grandson, Wilmer At- kinson Twining, Esq. Two children, Thomas and Mary, were born to him, but the latter died in infancy. He died in August, 1760. Thomas Atkinson, only surviving child of Thomas and Mary (Wildman) Atkinson, was born on the Wrights- town horncsfead, 8 mo. 19, 1751. He in- herited from his father the two hundred fcre farm, and spent his whole life there, dying 8 mo 19, 181 5. He was a promi- nent man in the community, and an ac- tive meinljcr of Wrightstown Friends' Meeting. He married, 5 mo. i, 1779, Sarah Smith, daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Kjnsey) Smith, who bore him seven children, viz. : Mary, died young; Jonathan, brrn 5 mo. 9, 1782, married Esther Smith, and lived and died on the ho.niestcad: Timothy, see forward; I'hoinas, born 10 mo. 8, 1786, married Jane Smith, see forward; Mahlon, born 4 mo. II, 1790, a physician, settled in Ohio, married Rebecca Babb; Sarah, boni 2 mo. 25, 1793, iTjarried Jacob Ples- tcn; au'l Joseph, born 8 mo. 22, 1795, died 1815. Sarah, the mother of the above children, died 10 mo. 19, 1830. Timothy Atkinson, second son of Thomas and Sarah, was born in Wrights- town townsliip and spent his whole life there. He was a farmer and at his fath- er's death purchased a considerable por- tion of il;e old homestead and lived thereon during his life. He married in 1807 Deborah, daughter of Edmund Smith, who bore him four children: Ed- mund S., born in 1808; Sarah, born 1815, died 1840; Elizabeth, born 18^1, died 1836; and Timothj^, Jr., born 1829, married Letitia Smith, daughter of Dan- iel and Hannah (Betts) Smith, died 1868. Timothy, the father, died in March, 1867. Edmund S. Atkinson, born on the old homestead in 1808, lived his whole life thereon. He was twice married, first in 1831, to Ruth Simpson, who bore him three sons, — Robert, Thomas Ogborn and J. Simpson, the latter being now a resident of Springfield, Missouri. Ed^ mund married (second) Ann L. Gilling- ham. and had children, Ann: Deborah, deceased; George G., now living on the old homestead in Wrightstown: Sarah E., single, residing in Wrightstown; and Lewis, deceased. Edmund S. Atkinson, the father, died February 16. 1895. THOMAS OGBORN ATKINSON, son of Edmund S. and Ruth (Simpson) Atkinson, was horn in Wrightstown township. Bucks county, October 12, T-T. I '..- v-'->v YORK J.Pwc ^TluZLAd ^CA/WJJTH Oc ^^^^^i'^i^zf^?'-^^ TH L ■ K ASTOri, LCrjOX AMD TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. lb- 1834, on the homestead farm, and was reared thereon to manhood. He received an ordinary education in the public schools, and the school of Rev. Samuel Aaron, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, known as Tremont Seminary. In early manhood he taught school for several years, working on the homestead farm during vacation season. In August, 1858, he removed to Mound City, Linn county, Kansas, and engaged in the mer- cantile business in company with his brother, J. Simpson Atkinson, remaining until December, 1859, when he returned to Wrightstown and engaged in the same business at Penn's Park, where he did a large business until 1871, at which time he sold out and removed to Doylestown, his present residence, and engaged in the real estate business. He first formed a partnership with Andrew J. LaRue. un- der the firm name of A. J. LaRue & Co. After the death of Mr. LaRue in 1873 be formed a partnership with Samuel A. Firman, under the firm name of T. O. Atkinson & Co. The latter firm did a very extensive business in their line in Bucks and adjoining counties. In 1886 he quit the real estate business, and with the late Judge Richard Watson and others assisted in organizing the Bucks County Trust Company, and became its first treasurer and secretary, and has held that position until the piesent time. Mr. Atkinson is one of the best known busi- ness men in Bucks county, and has al- ways stood deservedly high in the esti- mation of the people. He has held many positions of trust. Like all of his an- cestors he is a member of the Society of Friends. In politics he is a Republican, but has never held other than local of- fices. He is now serving his third term as president of the town council of the borough of Doylestown. He married in March, 1861, Mary B. Heston, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Iay 8, 1818, and Blackfan married her sister, ^ffMlftjk. born August 14, 1796, died December 6, 1858. Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson died May 31, 1810, aged thirty-six years, and Colonel Elisha married (second) Maria Whiteman, by whom he had six children: I. Sarah Ann, who died at Trenton. New Jersey, in 1880, unmar- ried; 2. Ross Wilkinson, who was edu- ■cated at West Point, and served as a ma- jor during the civil war, and after its close purchased a plantation in Louisi- ana, where he died in 1880. He was Uni- ted States .marshal of the district at the time of his death. He married Hannah Ann Folwell, of Philadelphia, and had two children; his son, Henry Clay Wilk- inson, was also educated at West Point, and was adjutant of Coloney Woodman's Forty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers during the civil war. 3. Samuel Smith Wilkinson left Bucks countj' and settled in Dallas, Texas, where he died, February 26, 1879. 4. Edward Blackfan Wilkinson, was a dent- ist, and located at Huntsville, Alabama. He died of cholera, while on a visit to Paris, France, June 20, 1854., at the age of twenty-five years, and is buried at Mount Parnasse, Paris. 5. Elisha, died in infancy. 6. Algernon Logan Wilkin- son, born October 22, 1821, settled in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1844, where he practiced medicine, married, and reared a family of children. Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson belonged to one of the oldest families in Pennsyl- vania'. Her father, Elias Dungan, was a soldier during the Revolution, and a prominent member and deacon of South- ampton. Baptist church. He was a son of Clement and Eleanor Dungan. and a grandson of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Drake) Dungan, and a great-grand»on of Rev. Thomas and Elizabeth (Weav- er) Dungan, who came from Rhode Isl- and in 1684, and established th^ first Baptist church in Bucks county. (See Dungan Family). Ogden Dungan Wilkinson, second son of Colonel Elisha and Anna (Dungan) AVilkinson, was born in Bucks county, 1807; married, March 6, 1834, Sarah Snowhill Dill, born August 16, 1801, daughter of George Dill and Ann Red- inger, who were married at Germantown, February 6, 1797, she being the daughter of John Redinger and Elizabeth Beker, who were married February 14, 1758. George Dill was the son of John and Elizabeth Dill; his father, John Dill, was an officer during the Revolutionary war. George Dill was born February 7, 1772, settled in Trenton, New Jersey, and April 2, 1798, purchased his home- stead property. He was one of the larg- est real estate holders in Trenton, and did much to build up and improve the city. He was interested in numerous business enterprises, was one of the founders of the Mechanics' Bank and for some years its president. Ogden Dun- gan Wilkinson moved to Trenton, New Jersey, in 1832. He and his brother- in-law, Crispin Blackfan, builf the Dela- ware and Raritan Canal, from Trenton to New Brunswick. They were many years in business together and opened up and built up much of the cit^^ Ogden Wilkinson (or Colonel Wilkin- son, as he was known, he having been colonel of militia), was one of Trenton's most influential citizens. He was inter- ested in many of the business enterprises and acted as director of several of the banks and filled other local as well as municipal positions of trust. He died August 24, 1866. His wife died Febru- ary 16. 1891. They were the parents of several children, only one of whom, Frederick Redinger, survived infancy. Frederick Redinger Wilkinson, Only surviving child of Ogden D. and Sarah Snowhill (Dill) Wilkinson, was born in Trenton June 9, 1837; and graduated from Princeton, in the class of 1857. He married, January 24, i860. Harriet Sarah HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. / D Folwell, born December 13, 1839, daugh- ter of Robert Folwell and Harriet Gra- ham. Robert Folwell, born April 5, 1800, died July 10, 1875, was son of Nathan and Rebecca (Iredell) Folwell; Harriet Gra- ham, born April 24, 181 5, died January 18, 1S42, was daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Lasher) Graham. Thomas Gra- ham was a son of Michael Graham, and Margaret Kittera, daughter of Thomas Kittera. Frederick R. Wilkinson was a lawyer and resided in Trenton, New Jersey, but owing to his large real estate interests did not practice. He was actively inter- ested in a number of financial enterpris- es, was for many 3-ears director of the Mechanics' Bank and the People's and Standard Fire Insurance companies, and held a number of important positions both in private and municipal affairs. He was one of the influential men of the city. He died December 30, 1883. They were the parents of three children, two ■of whom are now living. Ogden Dungan, the subject of the sketch; and Eliza- beth Dill, wife of Louis Gompertz, now living in Paris, France; they are the parents of four children: Harriet, Helen, Ogden and Francisque. Ogden D. Wilkinson, son of Frederick Redinger and Harriet (Folwell) Wilk- inson, was born in Trenton, New Jer- sey, May 2, 1863, and now resides at 2031 Walnut street, Philadelphia. His early education was acquired at Chel- tenhan Academy, and at Tivoli Military Academy. He later spent some tinie abroad, and attended Mr. Edward Foazy's school at Geneva, Switzerland. On his return to America he attended Phillips- Andover Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. At the conclusion of his University course, he read law, but the care of the large family interests, most of which consisted of valuable real estate in the citj^ of Trenton, have al- most entirely engrossed his attention, and he has of late years devoted his entire attention to the improvement o^ the propert}- there. He has built and owns some of the most valuable and important buildings m the business cen- tre of Trenton, among them bemg the new State Street Theatre, said to be one of the most complete and attractive play houses in the State. The large department store opposite the postoffice; the Wilkinson building; the Hotel Ster- ling; and many others. Among the most extensive and attractive of Mr. Wilkin- sont's building operations, is Wilkinson Place, a very attractive residence portion of the thriving city of Trenton, consist- ing of two large apartment houses and forty-five very attractive and stylish dwellings. While not a resident of Trenton, having large "interests there, he is deeply interested in the aflfairs of the citv. and in its improvement and devel- opment and spends much of his time there. In Philadelphia he has been for many years quite actively interested in the patriotic societies of that city, and has from time to time acted as a member of the councils of most of them. He. is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution; the Founders and Patriots' Society; Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, of which he is a mem- ber of the council; Society of the War of 1812; member and secretary of Pennsyl- vania Commandery, Military Order of Foreign Wars; member of the Order of Albion; the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; Historical Society o^ Pennsylvania; Bucks County Historicaf Society; Society of Descendants of Co- lonial Governors; Union League Club of Philadelphia; New York Yacht Club; and of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia, of which he was a found- er and its first vice-commodore, and for several years commodore. He owned the schooners "Lydia" and "Speranza," and the steam yacht "Speranza." During the Spanish-American war Mr. Wilkinson, after offering his services to the volunteer navy, assisted in organiz- mg the Wetmore Regiment, which was tendered to the United States, but, not bemg accepted, was finally distributed among the several National Guard regi- nients, and was a great factor in bring- ing the old regiments up to the new standard of efficiency. Mr. Wilkinson was later first lieutenant and commis- sary of the 'Nineteenth Regiment, Na- tional Guard of Pennsylvania, which was formed as a provisional regiment for the Spanish American war. Colonel O. C. Bosbyshell, commanding, and was later commissioned captain and quarter- master of the same regiment, and was mustered out with the regiment after the close of the war. Mr. Wilkinson is a director of the Broad Street National Bank of Trenton, and of the Standard Fire Insurance Company of the same city. He was married, April 4. 1883 to Sara Jane Taylor, daughter of Robert and Sarali Taylor, of Philadelphia, and they are the parents of two children: Sarah Dill, born December 30, 1883, and Eliza- beth, born January 3, 1888. SCARBOROUGH FAMILY. The family of Scarborough is an old one. and doubtless derived its name from the lo- cality where its early progenitors resided ■"^•hen surnames first came to be used. Scarborough Castle, an old Norman fortress in Yorkshire, England, is built on a high, narrow, rocky promontory, extending seaward about a half-mile, at the foot o vhich the ancient seaport of the same name is nestled in a sheltered nook along South Bay. The modern town of Scarborough is now a noted watering place of about 40.000 inhabi- 1/6 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. tants, and a few families of the name of Scarborough still reside there. The name is derived from its location, tlie word Scear, or Scaur, meaning a i,harp rock or crag, and "burg,' or borough, meaning a town or fortress, the combi- nation indicating and literally meaning a town or fort on or near the crags or rocks. Xhe arms of the family consist of a castle by the sea, a beacon tlaming on its turrets, the sun rising in the east, and a manned ship at anchor. Several representatives of the family, at that time scattered over different parts of England, emigrated to America dur- ing the period of the early settlement of the colonies, one settling in Boston, Massachusetts, another in Connecticut, and still another on the eastern shore of Virginia. Edward Scarborough was the first surveyor general of Virginia. Charles Scarborough was the physician to King Charles I. The earliest known progenitor of the Bucks county family of Scarborough was John Scarbrough, of the parish of St. Sepulchre's, London. He was known there as a blacksmith and coachmaker. He was a member of Peel Monthly Meeting of Friends, whose place of wor- ship was in Peel Court, near 65 St. John street. He is referred to in the minutes of this meeting under date of 10 mo. 26, 1677. He signed his name "Scar- brough," as did his descendants until about 1800, although in the body of the papers executed by them the lawyers and conveyancers frequently wrote the name "Scarborough." The Scarborough, Scarboro, Scarbrough, Scardeburg and Scarburg families are probably of one descent. On 7 mo. 4, 1682, he purchased of William Penn 250 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and embarked for the Deleware to locate his purchase and prepare a home for his family in the new province. He left his wife in England, but took with him his only married Martha K. Past; Asa, born 9 mo. 12, 1800, died 11 mo. 24. 1800; Cynthia, born 11 mo. 17, 1801, married Joseph Large; Isaac, born 7 mo. I, 1804, married Mercy Pearson; Charles, born 10 mo. 6, 1806, died 11 mo. 26, 1839. He served under General Sam. Houston in the war between Texas and Mexico, was captured, and with eleven others drew black beans which meant that he. was to be shot. They escaped at night and after being twelve days without food reached friends. His daughter, Mrs Dorothea Ann Burks, and her children reside at Kerrville, Kerr county, Tex- as. Amy, born 10 mo. 16, 1806, married Watson' Smith; Pearson, born 4 mo. 7, 1813, married Hannah Worstall, died 2 mo. 7, 1874; and Elijah Wilson, born 10 mo. 7, 1817, married Sarah Adams. Crispin, the eldest son, married Mary Shaw, and they were the parents of Mrs. Isaiah Quinby, of Lumberville, Penn- sylvania. John, married Hannah Reed- er, and their children were: Reeder, of Wrightstown; Kirk, of Falls; Elizabeth, wife of Dr. George W. Adams; Cynthia, wife of Oliver H. Holcombe; Amy Ann, wife of William Buckman; Alfred, and Dr. John W. Scarborough, late of New Hope. William Scarborough settled in Buckingham adjoining the meeting house where he died in 1875; one of his daughters, Maria, married J. Watson Case, and is still living with her son, Edward G. Case, in Doylestown. Isaac Scarborough, fourth son o£ Isaac and Amy (Pearson) Scar- borough, born 7 mo. T, 1804, married Mercy Wilkinson, daughter of Crispin and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Pearson, of Solebury, who was born 7 mo. 3, 1810, and died 10 mo. 16, 1884. In 1853 he purchased the homestead farm and lived thereon during the active years of his life, retiring late in life to a lot adjoin- ing the farm, at Canada Hill, where he died 3 mo. 22, 1883. In politics he was a Wiiig, and later a Republican, and boasted 'that he never missed a presi- dential election. Though neither he nor his wife were members of Friends Meet- ing, they always affiliated with the Friends, and used the plain language. The children of Isaac and Mercy (Pearson) Scarborough were: Amy El- len, who died young; Watson, born 4 mo. 24, 1839, fl'cd TO mo. 6, 1903; Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 11, iSio, married Richard C. Betts: Mercy Ellen, born 7 mo. 5, 1843, married Isaac C. Thomas, died 8 mo. 27, 1886; Isaac Pearson, born 7 mo. 24, 1846, married Emma Hampton, still living on the old homestead in Solebury; and Margaret, who died in in- fancy. Watson Scarborough, eldest son of Isaac and Mercy (Pearson) Scar- borough, married, i mo. i, 1868, Anna M., daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wismer) Stover, of Carversville, Penn- sylvania, and took up his residence on one of his father's farms near Lumber- ville, known as "The Whittier Farm" « from the fact that the poet, John Green- leaf Whittier, once spent a summer there. In the fall of 1890 he retired to Carversville, where he died 10 mo. 6, 1903. In politics he was a Republican. His wife was a member of the Chris- tian church at Carversville. Watson and Anna (Stover) Scarborough were the parents of one child, Henry Wismer Scarborough. Henry W. Scarborough was born in Solebury, 7 mo. 24, 1870. He received his preliminary education at the Green Hill school at Lumberville, entered the West Chester Normal School, from which he graduated in 1890. In 1894 he received the degree of B. S. from Haver- ford College, and in 1895 the degree of M. A. In 1896 he graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bars of Bucks and Philadelphia counties. He at once began the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, with offices at 522 Walnut street, and has met with marked success, being one of the rising young attorneys of the Philadelphia bar. He also practices at the bar of his native county. He is a professor of com- mercial law and the law of real property and conveyancing at the Temple Col- lege. He married 7 mo. 20, 1904, Clara Hagerty, daughter of ex-County Treas- urer Jacob Hagerty, of Plumsteadville, Bucks county, by his wife Mary (Lan- dis) Hagerty. A son, Jacob Watson Scarborough, was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, 4 mo. 30, 1905. SCARBOROUGH FAMILY. William Scarborough, eldest son of John and * Mary Scarborough, and grandson of John Scarborough, of St. Sepulchre par- ish, London, England, was born in Mid- dletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1691, and removed with his parents to Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, when a lad of ten years. He was a "turner" bj- trade, which probably implied a cabinet maker and all grades of local wood working, as well as that of a wheelwright, which latter trade he is known to have lol- lowed. On arriving at manhood he mar-, ried and settled on a tract of sixty acres conveyed to him by his father in 1724, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 179 part of a tract of 520 acres taken up by the latter in 1701. He died a few months after his father, sometime between the date of his will, April 27, 1727, and the date of its proof, September 24 of the same year. His wife's name is un- ^ known, and as she is not mentioned in 'his will, and a minor son is directed to reside with his uncle John during mi- nority, it is presumed that she died short- ly before her husband. His children were: William, who died without issue in 1783; Euclides, Lydia, Martha, and Sarah. The latter married a Stradling, and another daughter married a Smith. Euclides Scarborough, second son of William, was born in Solebury, and was a minor at the death of his father. By the will of the latter he was directed to "be apprenticed to John Heed "to learn the art of making German Wheels." Whether the parental direction was fol- lowed does not appear. He did learn the trade of a blacksmith, and followed it for many years in Solebury in con- nection with farming. He inherited from h\s father the homestead of sixty acres of land, but in 1746 sold it and purchased two tracts of over one hundred acres of his brother William. In 1762 he re- purchased the sixty acre homestead, and probably resided thereon until 1770, although he later purchased one hundred and sixty acres in the present limits of New Hope borough of John Coryell, which he sold at different periods in tracts of forty-nine to seventy acres. In 1770 he closed out all his real estate and removed with his wife Mary and all of his children, except Isaac, the eldest, to Maryland, where he died in 1808. The children of Euclides and Mary Scarborough, were as follows, all of whom were born in Solebury: Isaac, born in 1745; Euclides, died unmarried; James, who was twice married, and re- moved with his family to Ohio; Will- iam, Samuel, John, Joseph, Thomas, all of whom married and lived and died in Maryland; Mary, who married Reuben Jones; Sarah, who married Joseph Rog- ers; and Hannah, who married John Richards, all of Maryland. Isaac Scarborough, eldest son of . Euclides and IMary Scarborough, was born on the old homestead where his grandfather, William Scarborough, had lived and died, in the year 1745. Like his father he was a blacksmith, and fol- lowed that occupation through life in Solebury and Upper Makefield town- ships, dying in Solebury in 1825. He married Susan Dean, and' they were the parents of five children, viz: Enos Dean; Joseph; Elizabeth, mar- ried Joseoh Hartley; Sarah, married Thomas Sands; Mary, married Abra- ham Gray. Susan, the mother, dying, Isaac married (second) Rachel Lewis and had three children, — Thomas. Isaac, and Rachel. Joseph, the second son, ^vas twice marned, first to a Sutton and second to Sarah Dudbridge; he had three chidren,— Sutton, who removed to Maryland; Mary, who married Samuel Rose; and Evelme, who married Dr George Twining. Enos D. Scarborough, eldest son of Isaac and Susan (Dean) Scarborough, was born in Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1771. Like his father, grandfather, and great- great-grandfather he was a blacksmith, and a very expert mechanic. He received a good common school education and was a proficient penman. He lived most of his life in New Hope, where he fol- lowed his trade. He was at one time deputy sheriff of the county, and dur- mg that period resided in Doylestown. He married in 1798, Meribah Jackson, of Buckingham, whose ancestors were among the earliest English settlers in Bucks county. Enos D. and Meribah (Jackson) Scarborough, were the par- ents of nine children, as follows: i. Is- aac, born 1799, died in Hunterdon coun- ty. New Jersey, 1849; married Eliza Howell. 2. Joseph, born 1801, died at Milford, New Jersey, in 1877, married (first) Sarah Shamp, and (second) Ann -^- 3- William, born 1804, married (first) Elizabeth Shamp, and (second) Elrania Potts; died in Lambertville, New Jersey, in December, 1884. 4- Hi- ram, born January 19, 1806; see forward. 5. Hannah, born 1S08, died 1864, married Jacob Donaldson of Philadelphia. 6. John, born 1810, died in infancy. 7. Susan, born July, 1812, died unmarried at Centre Bridge. Bucks county, Septem- ber 5. 1875. 8. Mary W., born Decem- ber 12. 1815, married Samuel Hall, of Doylestown, and died in Doylestown, February 18, 1879- 9- John, born 1818, removed to Indiana; was twice married and had a family. Meribah (Jackson) Scarborough died in 1821 at the age of forty-three years, and Enos D. married (second) Logan, by whom he had three sons; George W., and Andrew J. of Lambertville, New Jersey; and Enos D. Jr., who removed to Indiana. Hiram Scarborough, fourth son of Enos D. and Meribah (Jackson) Scar- borough, was born in New Hope, Janu- ary 19. 1806, and resided there most of his life. He learned the blacksmith trade with his father and followed that occupation until 1851, when he lost his right arm by the accidental discharge of a gun. He then became collector of tolls at the Delaware Bridge, and filled that position for thirty-five years. He was the confidential agent of the own- ers and had charge of the repairs and en- tire control of the bridge. He was also the proprietor of the shad fisheries at New Hope. In politics he was a Demo- crat, and took an active part in the coun- cils of his party. He served in the state i8o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. legislature for tlie term of 1876-8. He was a man of good business ability and kindly disposition, and was widely and favorably known. He was a member of Lenni Lenape Lodge of Masons of Lam- bertville, New Jersey, and had taken most of the official degrees, and one of the oldest Odd P'ellows in' the state at his death. He was rectors warden in St. Andrews Episcopal church of Lam- bertville. New Jersey. He died in New Hope. March 12, 1888. His wife was Ann Jones, daughter of Joab and Eliza- beth (Fisher) Jones, the former a coop- er in Solebury township, and descend- ant of an old Bucks county family, and the latter a native of New Jersey. Ann Scarborough died in New Hope, April 5, 1904. at the age of eighty years. The children of Hiram and Ann (Jones) Scarborough are: Rutledge T., residing in Lambcrtville, New Jersey; Isaac; Catharine, wife of Robert J. Morris, of New York; Fletcher D., of Trenton, New Jersey. Isaac Scarborough, of New Hope, is the second son of Hiram and Ann (Jones) Scarborough, and was born in New Hope. May 19, 1848, and acquired his education at the common schools there and at Trenton Business College. Almost from boyhood he has had charge of one of the fisheries formerly owned and operated by his father, and is still engaged in the fishery business. In politics he is a Democrat, and has al- ways taken an active part in local and countj' politics, filling many local offices and serving as delegate to district, county and state conventions. He is now serving his second term of five V years as justice of the peace. He is a member of Castle No. 136. Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Scarborough married in 1871. Mary O'Brien of Lam- bertville, and they have been the parents of seven children, five of whom survive; Frank, of Lambertville, New Jersey; Hiram, of Philadelphia; Anna, at home; Andrew, telegraph operator for the P. & R. R. R. at New Hope; and Albert, a farmer in Solebury. Mrs. Robert James Morris, of New Hope, Bucks county, formerly Miss Catharine Scarborough, is the only daughter, of Hon. Hiram and Ann (Jones) Scarborough, an account of whose ancestry and life is briefl}^ sketch- ed in the preceding pages. She was born and reared in New Hope. In 1875 she married Albert Wills Taylor, an eminent journalist, who for several years prior to his death, held a respon- sible position on the staff of the Phila- delphia Times. He died March 4. 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were the parents of two children; H. Ross Taylor, re- siding \\\i\\ his mother in New Hoi)e: and Albert Wills Taylor. Jr., who was a member of Battery O. First I'. S. Artillery, in the Spanish-AmericJ\n war. Mrs. Taylor married (second) Novem- ber 17, 1898, Robert James Morris, also a journalist by profession, who is em- ployed in Philadelphia. THE LARUE FAMILY. The LaRue family is of French origin, the name being originally Le Roy, and the imme- diate ancestors of the members of the family who came to New York province about 1680 were probably among the millions of French Huguenots who fled from their mother country about 1666- and took refuge in Switzerland and the Palatinate, many also migrating direct to America and England. About 1680 Franz, Jacques, and Abraham Le Roy, probably all, and at least the last two brothers came from Manheim "In the Palz" an.d located in the Province of New York; Franz at or near the present site of Albany, New York, where there was a considerable colony of Huguenots under the leadership of Lois Du Bois, otherwise "Louis the Walloon." who had himself fled from France to Manheim in 1658 and from there to America in 1660; Jacques, on the Hackensack, in Bergen, later Essex county, New Jersey; and Abraham, on Staten Island. Franz Le Roy married Celia Janse Damen, and his sons, Jonas and George went with the Ferrees to the Conestoga valley, and later located in York and Lebanon counties. He was also prob- ably the father of Abraham LaRue, who settled near Mififlinburg, in 1754. though tradition makes him a brother of Jean Jacques Le Roy, who was killed by the Indians in 1755, and his daughter Bar- bara carried into captivity as related by her and made part of the state archives. This Jean Jacques Le Roy came direct from Switzerland to America in 1750. Some of the descendants of Franz Le Roy Germanized the name into "Koe- nig" and later Anglicized it to "King." Bergen in his "Early Settlers of Kings County" makes the curious mistake of supposing that Franz Le Roy's wife Celia Janse Damen was twice married, first to Franz Koenig and later to Franz Le Roy. because his name is given in the two forms on the Dutch records of baptisms of his children. The marriage of Jacques Le Ro3\ at Bergen Dutch Reformed church, Janu- ary 2. t68i. to Wybregh Hendricks, states that he was "of Manheim in the Palz," as does also that of his sister Susanna to Thones Hendricks, May 20, 1683, at the same church. This might niean that he was born at Manheim, or that he had recently arrived from there; the common practice with the Dutch being to give the place of birth, .\bout the time of his marriage, with other Huguenots, he helped to organize a "French Church" at Bergen, but later affiliated with the Dutch church where HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. i8i \ V ■y. his six children were baptised. He died in 1730, leaving ten children, all of whom seem to have remained in Bergen and Essex counties, New Jersey, and in New York. Abraham La Roe, as both he and his brother Jacques came later to spell their name, located on Staten Island where he was still residing when he made his will in 1702, though prior to 1712, when it is first offered for probate, he had re- moved to the neighborhood of Hopewell, then Burlington county, later Hunter- don, and now Mercer county, New Jer- sey. His will mentions his children, but not by name. From contemporary rec- ords we learn that his sons were: Peter, Abraham, Daniel, David and Isaac. The witnesses to the will, William Tillyer, Francis L'Roe, Louis DuBois, and Will- iam Grassett, being all either deceased or removed to such distance that their testimony could not be obtained, his will failed of probate and letters of ad- ministration were granted on June 14, 1712, to his widow Olshe (Alice) who had been named as executrix and al- most sole legatee in the will. Olshe, Alshe, or Aiken, the wife of Abraham La Roe, was prior to her marriage to him the widow of Joshua Cresson, youngest son of Pierre Cresson, a na- tive of France, who had come to Amer- ica from Holland, where he had mar- ried a Dutch Woman, and located on Long Island. Joshua Cresson was bap- tised in 1658, and died prior to 1690, which later date is approximately that of the marriage of his widow to Abraham La Roe. The names of Peter, Abraham, Isaac and David La Rue appear on the tax lists of Hopewell township, in 1722, and the first and last were contributors to a fund to purchase a plantation as a home for the pastor of Hopewell Presbyterian church in I7,3i- Abraham died in Hopewell "in the cor- poration of Trenton" leaving a will dat- ed February 26, 1747, and proved Feb- ruary 15, 1749. It mentions his wife Harmekie, and children; Abraham. Is- aac, Susannah, wife of Cornelius Slack; Altie, Catren (Catharine); another daughter, without giving her name, and Jacob. It devises his plantation in Hope- well to his sons. Abraham and Isaac, jointly at the death or marriage of his wife. Isaac was yet a minor. These sons. Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, are doubtless the three brothers referred to by Stapleton in his "Memorial of Huguenots," page 136, as the ancestors of the southern family of the name of La Rue; the first and last of whom he states were "pioneers in Kentucky, where LaRue county commemorates their name." If this be true, however, the date of their removal was consider- ably later than there given, as Isaac was still a minor and all were residents of Hunterdon county at the death of their father in 1747. "Isaac," he states, "born in Hunterdon county, New Jer- sey, in 1712, removed in 1743 to the Shenandoah valley and established the Virginia family of the name." David La- Rue died intestate in Hopewell town- ship, and letters of administration were granted on his estate to Abraham La- Rue, February 18, 1732; nothing is known of his descendants. The remain- ing three brothers; Peter, Daniel, and Isaac LaRue, all settled, at least for a time, in Bucks county. "Peter La Row," of Hopewell in the western division of New Jersey Yeoman, on December 11, 1738, purchased of Abel Janney 288 acres in Makefield, and settled thereon, later purchasing 216 acres adjoining. On May 16, 1749, he conveyed 258 acres, part of both tracts, to Nicholas Larzelere. the ancestor of the Bucks county family of that name, who at that date removed from Staten Island to Bucks county. No further record appears in Bucks county of Peter LaRue. Isaac LaRue evidently located in Bucks county at about the same date as his brother Peter. On October 6, 1743, he married, at Ab- ington Presbyterian church, Rebeckah Vansant. daughter of Jacobus Vansant, of Middletown. (See Vansant Family). He purchased land in Bensalem in 174S, and died there about 1760, leaving chil- dren: Rebecca, who married James Van Arsdalen; Abraham, Isaac and David, all of whom left descendants. Daniel LaRue, with whose descend- ants this narrative is chiefly interested, was without doubt a son of Abraham and Alshe (Alice) Cresson LaRoe, or Le Roy. of Staten Island, later of Hope- well, New Jersey. He was born on Staten Island in the year 1697, and was reared at Hopewell, where, as before stated he contributed to the support of Hopewell Presbyterian church in 1722. On June 15, 1751, the executors of Mark Watson, convey to "Daniel La Roe. of Hunterdon county. Province of West Jersey." 300 acres in Fall.s township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, and on January 26, 1763. John Plumley conveys to "Daniel La Roc. of Falls township, Bucks county" 200 acres in Middletown township. He died in Middletown town- ship. February i. I79S. at the age of ninety-eight years, and is buried in the old Presbyterian burying ground in Bensalem. ' His wife was Ann Praul. who died October 23, 1776, at the age of sixty-two years, and is buried in the same cemetery. The will of "Daniel Larrew, the elder, of IMiddletown town- ship, dated March 19, 1786, and proven February 16. 1795. devised to son Abra- ham, five pds. "he already having had his share" Son Daniel the plantation where the testator then lived. 200 acres "bought of John Plumlev;" Son Moses the north- easterly part of the plantation in Falls. 212 acres; Son Peter and Daughter Mary 1 82 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Stillwcll the l);ilance of the Falls plan- tation; Daiighter-in-law Apama. widow of son David. 200 pounds if she have, issue. The children of Daniel and Ann (Praul) LaRue were: I. Peter LaRue, eldest son of Daniel and Ann, was born in 1732, and died August 3, 1797, is bur- ied at the Larzelere burying ground near Hulmeville, now Beechwood ceme- tery. He lived and died on the home- stead in Falls township, was probably never married, at least had no children. II. Abraham, born 1734, died March 26, 1790. married Alice, daughter of Folek- ert Vandegrift, born April, 1731, died died September 24, 1801. They had chil- dren: Abraham; Anna, baptized at Southampton church in 1757, married John Larzelere; Elizabeth, married Gar- ret Vansant; and Eleanor, married Jo- seph Sackett. III. Mary LaRue, mar- ried, April 25. 1769, Captain Richard Stillwell, Qf the revolution, and had son Daniel. IV. Daniel LaRue, born 1737, died February 27, 1819, married. May 21, 1763, Elizabeth Sutton, daughter of Daniel Sutton, of Burlington county. New Jersey, no issue. V. Moses La Rue, born 1744. died February 28, 179S, less than a month after the death of his father. He lived on a part of his father's plantation in Falls long before the de- cease of his father; probably from the date of his marriage, October 19, 1769, to Catharine Larzelere, daughter of Nicholas, before referred to as coming from Staten Island to Makefield. They were the parents of six sons : Jesse. Dan- iel, John, Moses. Nicholas and Aaron. See forward. VI. David LaRue. died late in 1785 or early in 1786 as his un- born child is referred to in the will of his father, March 19, 1786. He was a private in the company of his brother-in-law, Captain Richard Stillwell, Bucks county militia, in 1781. His widow Apama, married a Parsons. He had one child, Rebecca, born after his death. Of the children of Moses and Cath- arine (Larzelere) LaRue. Elizabeth, the only daughter, married a Mr. Carlile. Jesse, the eldest son, lived on the home- stead in Falls, where he died in 1814, leaving a widow Barbara, and eight chil- dren: Catharine, wife of John W. Van- degrift; Elizabeth, wife of Jonas Cox; Samuel; Marv Ann, wife of William Do- ble; Sarah Vandegrift; Julianna; Jesse and Martha. Daniel, the second son, was born September 9, 1774, and died April 29, 1853. He was a carpenter, and a considerable land owner in Falls town- ship. He married, February 8. 1798, Elizabeth Vandegrift, born October 16, 1777, died June 30, 1871, in her ninety- fourth year. Thev were the parents of eleven children. William, who married Sarah Palmer and is still livin.g; John, who married Rebecca Burton and died at the age of ninetv years; Sarah, who marrfe-d William Biles; .A^nn Eliza, died December 9, 1867, at the age of sixty- four years; Mary, who married Jonathan Burton and died at the age of eighty- eight years; Moses, wdio married Eliza- beth Russell and is living in Philadel- phia at the age of ninety-seven years; Harriet, died at the age of nineteen years; Caroline, who married Abraham English, of Trenton, New Jersey; Eliza- beth, who married Jesse Hellings and is living at the age of eighty-eight years. Susan, wlio married Tuni':; Hellings, brother of Jesse, and is liv- ing a-t the age of eighty-six years; and Catharine, who married Abraham Howell and is living at the age of eighty-five years. John, third son of Moses and Catharine LaRue, was a stone mason and lived in Byberry. He had children: Daniel, Marmaduke, Mary, wife of Joseph Knight, Ezra, Carey, Moses and Ann. Moses, the fourth son, mentioned hereinafter; Aaron, the fifth son, resided at Yardleville; he was county treasurer of Bucks county in 1827. Nicholas, the yongest son, mar- ried Elizabeth Kinsey, and also resided' at Yardley; they had children: John Kinsey, and Mary. Moses La Rue, fourth son and fifth child of Moses and Catharine (Larzel- ere) LaRue, was born in Falls town- ship, Bucks county, November it, 1779, and -died at Newportville, Bristol town- ship, August 7, i860. He learned the trade of a coach maker early in life, and carried on an extensive business in carriage building at Newportville for many years. He was a prominent man in the community, serving for many years as a justice of the peace and filling the office of county treasurer in 1838.. He married Rachel Johnson, born June 6, 1785, died July 19, 1852. and they were the parents of ten children as fol- lows: I. Mary, born August 28, 1803, married Lewis Reeder and removed to- Muncy, Pennsylvania. She died at Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1879. Children: Kate, Annie and Sarah. 2. Catharine, born August ^. 1805, married' 1864, John Wright, of Tullytown, died August 31, 1883. No children. 3. Nicho- las, born October 14. 1807, died Philadel- phia, August 9, 1849, married Catharine M. Bunting, see forward. 4. Daniel, born August 25, 1809. 5. Peter Johnson,, born- January, 1812. died young. 6. George» born September 15. 1813. died March 8, 1890, succeeded his father as carriage maker at Newportville, but later re- moved to Bristol where he died. He married first Christianna Headly, ont child. John H., of Bristol township. Married second, Sarah A. White, one child, Mnr}' Elizabeth, who marrie*d Dr. James Osman. 7. Sarah, born Febru- ary 14. i8t6. died February to. 1896,. married J. Hibbs Goforth, of Hulme- ville. One child, Catharine, single. 8. Rachel Ann. born April 22, 1S19, died HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 183 May 30, 1865. married Kinsey Krewson. Children, Rachel Florence, William Em- ley, single, and Kate L., wife of James V. Randall, of Newtown. 9. Edward W. born May 30. 1822, died Virginia City, Nevada, married Mary Lemon, no sur- viving issue. 10. Aaron, born March 30, 1827, died March 5, 1879, was a mer- chant in New York. Nicholas La Rue, third child and eld- est son of Moses and Rachel (John- son) LaRue, was a tailor by trade and followed that vocation at Newportville and later in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Catharine Moon Bunting, were the parents of six children, as follows: i. Albert G., born July 18, 1836, married, December 3, 1857. Annie H. Jackson and resided in Philadelphia. 2. Eugene, born September 17, 1838, died unmarried at Jefferson City, Missouri. 3. Moses, born May 26, 1841, died young. 4. Ruth A., born June 4, 1843, wife of John M. Hartman, of Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. 5. Rachel, born January 13, 1846, of Phila- delphia, is unmarried. 6. George S.. born February i, 1848, married in 1868, Emeline Getz. and died in Philadelphia. The paternal ancestry of Catharine (Bunting) LaRue will be found in the sketch of the Bunting family in this vol- ume. WILLIAM H. LA RUE. deceased, who throughout his entire life followed farming, was born in New Jersey, Feb- ruary 19. 1823, his parents being Uriah and Elizabeth (Rockafellow) LaRue, in whose family were six children, name- ly: Asa, whose wife's name was Rachel; Hackett; William H.; Jonathan, who married Miss Kiphart; Calvin, who mar- ried Miss Ruth Tice; and Rebecca, who married Charles Kiphart. William H. LaRue was reared in Huntington county, N.ew Jersey, pur- suing his education in its public schools. A portion of his boyhood was spent in the home of his uncle. William Heis. At an early age he engaged in farming and followed that vocation throughout his entire life. Mr. LaRue was married twice, his first union being with Jane Parks, by whom he had three children: George H.. who married Mary Moore; Susanna; and Elizabeth, who became the wife of Nathaniel Briton. For his second wife Mr. LaRue chose Margaret Thompson. Her ancestry can be traced back to Mrs. Mary Thompson, who came to this coimtry with her four sons: John, Hugh, William and Robert. Of this family John settled in Wrisrhtp- town. making his home near Chain Bridge, in Northampton township. His house, an old hiproofed one. is still standing, but some of it was torn down and rebuilt in later years. He was treas- urer of the colonies at that time, and while holding the office was robbed, the bullet holes being seen in the house until repaired. He married and had seven children: Hugh, born in 1764; William, who was a doctor, married and settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania; Thomas, who married Elizabeth Wilson; James; Elizabeth, who became Mrs. McClellen, and had a son, Charles, who died in the south; Robert, who married Jane Wil- son, and settled near Chain Bridge. Bucks county; and John, who wedded Mary Wilson. Hugh Thompson, son of John Thomp- son, was born in 1764, and died in Au- gust, 1847. He wedded Mary Houston and they had five children: Elizabeth, born December 2, 1791, died April 25, 1843, was the wife of James Gaine; John, born January 17, 1795; Charles. born August 11. 1797. married Ann Johnson; Samuel, a physician, born February 15, 1800, died February 21, 1863, was married twice; his first wife was Martha Burson, and his second wife was Hannah Thomas; and Maria, born September 26, 1803, died August 11, 1865, was the wife of William Poole. John Thompson, son of Hugh and Mary Thompson, was born January 17, 1795, and married Ann Lefiferts, a daughter of Abraham and Margaret Lef- ferts. Her father was born February 17, 1754, and died March 18, 1863. while Mrs. Margaret Lefferts was born Feb- ruary 9, 1761. and died August 4. 1831. Abraham LefTerts was married twice. By the first marriage there were two chil- dren, John and Alice. The former, born March 14, 1784, married and had children: Susan, who married Isaiah Delaney and had two children: Marj:. Helen, who married Lambert Cornell, and Annie, wife of Peter Dyer; 2. Simon, married Susanna States and had a son, John, who married Helen Rich and had two children: Walter and Helen; 3. Mary Ann. became the wife of Harry Search and had two children; Susannah and Theodore; 4. Jonathan, married a ]\Iiss Cornell and had three children, one of whom was Heleiti. wife of Jacob Cornell; 5. Charles, married a Miss Cornell, and had two children; John and Julia; 6. Mary Catharine, became the wife of John C. Fetter and had one child, Emma, wife of Joseph M. Cornell. Alice Lef¥erts, daughter of Abraham Lefiferts. was born October 28. 1790. and married Samuel Winner. Abraham and Margar- et Lefferts had the following children: Simon, born April 14. 1793- died August ii. 1805; Abraham, born July 17, 1794. died August 24, 1862; James, born Sep- tember 26, 1797; and Ann, born October 7, 1800, became the wife of John Thomp- son. John and Ann (Lefferts) Thompson had nine children, i. Albert, born No- vember 21, 1822. married Susan W. Car- ey and their children were Warner C. and Amos, the latter now deceased. 2. 1 84 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Abraham L.. l)orn ]\Iarch 28, 1824, died February 17, 1902. He married Letitia Collins and their children were: Edward, who married- Klla Ingall; Clara, John, who married Miss Worthington; Emma, who became the wife of Charles Cope; and Hugh, who is living in Doylestown. 3. Mary Ann, born February 26, 1826. died September 12, 1903. 4. Benjamin Franklin, born October 3, 1827, married Emeline Johnson, and had two children, Harry and J. Wesley. 5. Charles, born July 18, 1829. married Emily Van Horn and they have two children: George H. and Anna Mary. 6. John Praul, born January 15, 1831, died in the winter of 1882. His wife was Lydia Knipe and they had the following children: Albert, de- ceased, and who married Sarah Holland, now deceased, and their children were: Albertta and Lydia; Kate, deceased, who was the wife of James McGrath: Charles, who married Henrietta Russel, and three children were born to them: Charles R., Warner C, deceased; and Norman, deceased; Annie, who married Herbert Alrich. 7. Henry, born May 2, 1833, married Mary Elizabeth Mathews and their children were: Alice, who mar- ried William Sacket; Bertha, unmarried and Harry, who married Marietta Car- ter and their children are: Elizabeth, John and Alice. Henry Thompson died April IS, 1901. 8. Margaret, born May 6, 1837, is the wife of William H. La- Rue and they have a daughter, Jennie. 9. Elizabeth, born August 16, 1840, is the wife of Charles Bemis. John Thomp- son and his cousin, Hugh Thompson, son of Robert Thompson, were each captains of the militia and went to escort General Lafayette from Briston to Philadelphia when he visited this coun- try in 1824. John was captain of the Wrightstown militia and Hugh of the Northampton; each rode a white horse, and the blue plume tipped with red worn by John Thompson is still in the posses- sion of his descendants. BUNTING FAMILY. The pioneer ancestors of the Bunting family of America were three sons and a grandson of Anthony and Ellen Bunting, of Mat- lock, Derbyshire, England, the former of whom was born in Derbj'shire, A. D. 1600, and died at Matlock, January 4, 1700, at the age of one hundred years, his wife following him to the grave on September i, 1700. They were the par- ents of six children, four sons and two daughters. The daughters married and settled in Nottinghamshire. The sons were: John, born 1655, came to New Jersey in 1678, and married there in 1679, Sarah Foulke, and reared a large family of children, some of whom later settled in Delaware; William, married May 6, 1683, Mary Stevenson, and had five children, the youngest of whom, Samuel, born November 9, 1692, came to Pennsylvania in 1722, married Sarah Fearne, and is the ancestor of the Darby Buntings; Samuel, came to New Jersey and married, November 18, 1684, Mary Foulke, and is the ancestor of the New Jersey family of the name. Job Bunting, see forward, youngest son of Anthony and Ellen, born in Mat- lock, Derbyshire, also came to Cross- wicks, New Jersey, and married there Sarah Perkins, in 1685. She and her in- fant daughter died in 1687, and Job married at Falls Meeting, Bucks county, June 27, 1689, Rachel Baker, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Ba- ker, who was born in Hindley, West Darbye, Lancashire, April 23, 1669, and came to Bucks county with her parents in 1684. Her father, Henry Baker, was a prominent Friend in Lancashire, and suffered persecution there for his princi- ples. After coming to Bucks county he became one of the most prominent men in the colony, and served as provincial councillor and member of assembly for several years, as well as filling many other high official positions in the county and province. He married a second time, in 1692, Mary Radcliffe, widow of James, and had ten children, nine by the first marriage and one by the second. His son Samuel, also a prominent man in Bucks county, was the ancestor of Johns Hopkins, founder of the Univer- sity that bears his name. Job Bunting on his second marriage, located in Bucks county, on land conveyed to him by his father-in-law, and later purchased con- siderable other land in Bucks and Ches- ter counties. He died in 1703, when com- paratively a young man, and his widow married John Cowgill. The children of Job and Rachel (Baker) Bimting were: Rebecca, born March i, 1691, inarried December 16, 1709, Joseph Wildman, born March 23, 1683, son of Martin and Ann Wildman, who came from England and settled in Middeltown in 1682. Of the four daughters of Joseph and Re- becca only Rebecca, born January 9, 1715, survived infancy. 2. Samuel, born October 4, 1692, see forward. 3. Sarah, born 1694, died 1699; 4. Job, born March 26. 1696. 5. Rachel, born March 4, 1698. Samuel Bunting, eldest son of Job and Rachel, settled in Falls township, and was a member of Falls Meeting. He died December, 1759. He married Pri- cilla Burgess, and they were the par- ents of thirteen children, viz: Rachel, born August 25, 1717; Samuel, born August 3, 1718, married Hannah Stock- dale; John, born September 26, 1720; Priscilla, born July 22, 1722. married, 1747, Thomas Buckman: Sarah , born May II, 1724; Phebe, born March 2, 1726; Joseph, born May 4, 1728. married 1753, Sarah Bidgood; Rebecca, born April 2, 1730, married. 1754. David Head- ley; Daniel, born February i, 1733-4. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 185 married, 1754. Marry Bartliolomew; David, born February 15, 1735-6, mar- ried, 1757, Martha Hough; Timothy, born July 4, 1736, married Elizabeth Headley; Isaac, born January 28, 1738; Benjamin, born September 7, 1740. John Bunting, second son of Samuel and Priscilla, born September 28, 1720, married, January 16, 1745, Christiana Headley, born May 3, 1723, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Palmer) Headley, of Middletown, and granddaughter of John and Christiana Palmer, the pioneer ancestors of that family in Bucks coun- ty. The children of John and Christiana (Headley) Bunting were: Joshua, born March 16, 1746. married Mary Brown; Samuel, born September 18, 1748, mar- ried, May II, 1775, Ann Moon; Hannah; Joseph, see forward; John, born 1755; Sarah; Lydia, and Asa. Joseph Bunting, son of John and Christiana, married November 27, 1783, Phebe Moon, daughter of William and Elizabeth Moon, of Falls, and a descend- ant of one of the oldest families in Bucks county, and later located in Low- er Dublin township. Philadelphia coun- ty, where they resided until 1808, when he purchased a farm in Bristol town- ship, between Nawportville and Bris- tol, where he resided until his death in April, 1830. He joined the Associated Company of Falls township in 1775, un- der Captain Thomas Harvey, of which his uncle, Daniel Bunting, was ensign, and was disowned by Falls Meeting the same year. The children of Joseph and Phoebe (Moon) Bunting were: William, born June 17, 1784; Ann, born August 6, 1785, died February 27, 1786; Solomon, born August 9, 1786, see forward; James, born January 11, 1788: Joshua, born December 17, 1788, married Eliza- beth Wright; Christiana, born Decem- ber 2, 1789, married Walter W. Bald- win; John, born May 12, 1792, never married; Timothy, born June 9, 1793. died young; Samuel, born July 4, i795- died young; Charles, born October i, 1796, married Isabella Hood; Phoebe, born December 23, 1797, died young; Lydia, born January 20, 1799. married Joshua Wright; David, born January 20, 1802, died August 11, 1802. Joshua, the fourth son. married Elizabeth Wright, daughter of James and Rebecca (Pat- terson) Wright. January 13, 1820. and they were the parents of the following children: James W. 2^, born October 30, 1831, married Sarah Swart; Joseph, born October 26. 1823, married Beersheba Rue; Joshua E.. born October 16, 1825, married Lucy Smith; John, born March 3. 1827, married Matilda Boate; Lydia, who married Joshua Wright, son of James and Rebecca, and has Phoebe .A.nn, James H. and Elizabeth; residence, Bristol. Pennsylvania. Solomon, second son of Joseph and Phoebe (Moon) Bunting, born August 9, 1786, lived for several years on the old homestead in Bristol township, was later a farmer at Andalusia, and finally removed to Philadelphia, where he died. He married, January 17, 181 1, Ruth Mathias. Solomon and Ruth (Math- ias) Bunting were the parents of eight children: Eliza, born 1812, married Aaron MacDonald, a car builder, of Philadelphia, and died at St. Joseph, Missouri; Lydia. born 1814, married (first) Samuel Osier, a merchant of Phil- adelphia, and (second) Jacob Rambo, a cooper of the same city; Catharine Moon, born in 1816, married Nicholas La Rue, see LaRue family in this vol- ume; Mary, born 1818, married Thomas I. Meyers, a saddler of Philadelphia, and died in that city; Spencer, born 1820, married Susan Noble, and was a car- penter in Philadelphia; Joseph, born in 1S22, married Malvina Kessler; John, born 1824, died young; Solomon, born 1829, married Annie Steele, and was a saddler in Philadelphia for some years, removing later to the south, where he died. Solomon, the father is buried at the Hanover street cemetery, Phila- delphia. Joseph Bunting, second son of Solo- mon and Ruth (Mathias) Bunting, born on the old homestead in Bristol town- ship, was a farmer and lived for a time on the old homestead, and later farmed near Bridgewater, Bensalem township, where he died in November, 1891. He married Malvina Kessler, and they were the parents of seveii children: Edwin M., see forward; Elwood, a farmer in Bensalem township; Anna, wife of Jo- seph Preston, who died in Philadelphia twenty years ago; Ruthanna. wife of Ed- ward T. Jenks, a prominent resident of Bensalem; Eliza, wife of Johnson Min- ster, of Bensalem; Catharine, wife of Theodore Lippincott, of Bensalem; and John S., a farmer in Bristol township, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. The Buntings have been members of the Society of Friends, almost since George Fox began his ministry, but some of the family early drifted out of membership through marriage to non- members, though retaining their asso- ciations with the Society, whose meet- ing they attended. The branch of the family above noted lost their member- ship in the Society, through the patriot- ism of their ancestor, Joseph Bunting, Jr., son of John and Christiana, who vio- lated the rules and principles of the sect by joining the Associated Company of Falls township, in 1775. "nder Captam Thomas Harvey, for the defense of tlie rights of his country. His uncle, Daniel Bunting, was ensign of the company. Edwin M. Bunting, eldest son of Jo- seph and Malvina (Kessler) Bunting, born August 25, 1847, was reared in Ben- salem township and educated in the pub- lic schools of that township. He fol- 1 86 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. lowed farming and trncking in Bensalem until the spring of 1804. when he was appointed steward -of the Bucks County Home, a position he has since filled to the satisfaction of the people of Bucks county, being several times successively reappointed • by the different boards of directors of the poor. He has always affiliated with the Republican party po- litically, and had for many years been active in local politics prior to his ap- pointment as steward, representing his district on the county committee. He served as supervisor of Bensalem town- ship for three years, being elected by a handsome majority in a Democratic dis- trict. He married, March 16, 1872, Ellen Powell, daughter of David and Mary Ann (Moore) Powell, of Bensalem, and a representative of one of the oldest families in that locality, and they are the parents of two children: Wesley, born November 8. 1875, ^"d Bertha, born No- vember 10, 1879. Wesley, the son, was educated at the public schools of Ben- salem and the Doylestown high school, of which he is a member of the alumni. He studied law in the office of the Hon. Robert M. Yardley, and was admitted to the Bucks county bar, April 23, 1902. On January i, 1903, he formed a partner- ship with John C. Swartley, Esq., as- sistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, under the firm name of Swartley & Bunting, and the firm are enjoying a good prac- tice in the several courts of Bucks county. Bertha, the daughter, resides with her parents. John S. Bunting, youngest child of Joseph and Melvina (Kessler) Bunting, was born in Hulmeville, Middletown township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. November 5, i860. When five years of age he removed with his parents to By- berry, Pennsylvania; in 1874 removed to Penn's Manor; and in 1876 to Croy- don, Bensalem township, where he pur- chased a farm in 1880, which by intelli- gent labor has been brought to a high state of cultivation. Mr. Bunting has served as supervisor two years, and is now a member of the school board. He is a Republican in politics, and is re- garded as a citizen of influence and \vorth in the community in which he resides. March 2q, 1888, Mr. Bunting married Emeline Virginia Otto, of Bristol, Penn- sylvania, daughter of Lewis and Ann (Hain Otto, and a descendant of a German ancestry. She was educated in the public schools of Byberry and Bris- tol. Their children are: Marion Louisa, born March 15. 1889; .Mbert John, born July 12. t8oo; Frederick, born .'Xpril 27, 1892: and Katharine F., born Sentembcr 24, 1896, who died in infancy. The chil- dren were educated in the public schools of Bristol township, and reside with their parents on the home farm. JOHN A. FELL, M. D., of Doyles- town, was born in Buckingham town- ship, Bucks county, October 21, 1850, a son of Jesse and Priscilla Sands Fell, and is a descendant in the sixth genera- tion from Joseph Fell, of Louglands, Cumberland, England, and Bridget Wil- son, his wife, who came to Bucks county in 1705 and settled in Buckingham two- years later. Benjamin Fell, born in Cumberland, England, 9 mo. i, 1703, married 6 mo. 27, 1728, Hannah Scarborough, daughter of John Scarborough, of Solebury, and- had by her six children, four of whom grew to maturity: John, born 4 mo. i, 1730; Asa, born 1732, married Elizabeth Mitchell; Phebe, who married Stephen Kirk; and Benjamin, who married Re- becca Casner. Benjamin settled on land in Buckingham conveyed to him by his father in 1726, where Charles Carwitben now lives, and later purchased consid- erable land adjoining. He was married three times, and has left a large number of descendants. His wife Hannah was born 8 mo. 31, 1704, and died 2 mo. 21. 1743. He died 9 mo. 12, 1758. John Fell, eldest son of Benjamin and Hannah, born 4 mo. i, 1730, was also a farmer. He purchased of his cousin, Isaac Fell, the farm upon which his great-grandson, Preston J. Fell still lives, soon after his marriage, and spent his whole life thereon. He married, to mo. 30. I7.=;3. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Paxson) Hartley, of Sole- bury, and had thirteen children, eleven of whom lived to maturity, viz: Mahlon; William; Nathan; Seneca; Miriam, who married David Carr; Jonathan; Hannah; George; Rachel, who married John Pax- son; John and Jonas. Jonas Fell, youngest son of John and Elizabeth, was born on the old home- stead 8 mo. 17, 1777, and died there i mo. 8, 1854. He married 3 mo. 28, 1802, Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Comfort) Church, and great-grand- daughter of Joseph Fell. Sr.. and his second wife. Elizabeth Doyle, through the marriage of their daughter Sarah to Richard Church, the father of Joseph. Sarah Church Fell was born 8 mo. 20. i8_, and died 5 mo- 25, i857- They had five children, viz.: Hannah, born 1803, married Charles Kirk; Jesse, bom 3 mo. t8o6; Lvdia. born iSii. married Jesse Dean; Jonas, born 1813. married Mary Louderborough; Sarah, born 1816, mar- ried Isaac Mathews. Jesse Fell, born 3 mo. 8. t8o6, was the father of the subiect of this sketch. He married 2 mo.. 1828, Priscilla Sands, daughter of William and Jane Sands, of Buckingham, born in 1808. and died 12 mo. 7. i88j. Jesse Fell died in t8?8. The children of Jesse and Priscilla Fell were ten in number, viz.: Lvdia Ann. born T829. married Samuel Frankenfield. and is still living in Buckingham; Sarah HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1S7 Jane, born 9 mo. 27, 1830, married Jo- seph Mathias Flack, died 1902; Preston J., born 2 mo. i, 1836, a sketch of whom will be found in this work; Rachel S., born 10 mo. 31. 1837, married John M. Gray, a sketch of whom will ;ilso be found in this work; Isabella, born 1840, married John R. Rapp, died 1903; Henry C, born 1842. a soldier in the One Hun- dred and Ninety-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, died 5 mo. 31, 1862, from typhoid fever contracted in the army; Louisa, born 1846. married Amos Ran- dall, died 1S90: Adaline. born 1848. died 1903; and John A., the subject of this sketch. Dr. John A. Fell, the youngest of the ten children of Jesse and Priscilla Fell, received a rudimental education at Church's public school, after which he attended the Doylestown English and Classical Seminary. He spent two years teaching school in Buckingham, one and a half years of which he was principal of Hughesian Free School. The next two years were spent at Lafayette Col- lege. He then entered the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in the class of 1874. In the same year he accepted a position as resident physician at the Bedford Street ^Mission Hospital, where he remained until Jaifuary i, 1875, when he began the practice of his profession at Centreville. Buckingham. He practiced at Buckingham initil April i. 1888, when he removed to Doylestown and forming a partnership with John B. Livezey. opened a drug store. At the end of one year the partnership w^as dissolved, and Dr. Fell went to attend lectures at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Medical Graduates, during the next four- teen months attending the whole thirty- four courses; he passed a successful ex- amination in all of them, and was elected on June 23, 1890, the first Fellow of the College. Li the same year he opened an office on Oakland avenue, Doyles- town. where he now resides, and re- sumed the practice of medicine. Dr. Fell is considered one of the leading physicians of Bucks county, and has a large practice. He has devoted especial care to study of the defects and diseases of the eye, and has considerable local fame as an oculist. He is a member of the County. State and American Medical Associations. He has been a member of the board of health from its organi- zation; was assistant surgeon of the Sixth Regiment National Guard, from 1884 to 1895, has been a member of the Doylestown school board since 1891. now^ serving his fifth term. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge. No. 245. F. and A. M.; of Aquetong Lodge. No. 193. T. O. O. F. ; Doylestown Encamp- ment. No. 35: and Sciota Tribe. No. 214, I. O. R. M. He was married. May 18, 1887. to Clara, daughter of Henry D. and Anna (Wambold) Livezey. and is the father of two daughters. — Anna born^ February 17. 1888; and Dorothea,' born- January 4, 1896. PRESTON J. FELL, eldest son of Jesse and Priscilla Sands Fell, was born February i, 1836. on the farm owned and occupied by his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, and still owns and occupies a part of it. The farm, as owned by his grandfather, Jonas Fell, included the farm of Mrs. Joseph Ellis, on the opposite side of the Buckingham and Doylestown turnpike, and he lived and died there. Jesse Fell, the father of the subject of this sketch, took up his residence on the farm now occupied by- the subject of this sketch upon his mar- riage, and his children were all born there, and Preston J. has resided there all his life. He was educated at Church's Public school and at the Hughesian Free School of Buckingham. As the eldest son, the respon?ible care of the farm devolved upon him at an early age, his father having died when he was but twelve years of age. He conducted the farm until the young- est child was of age, and then pur- chased it, and has conducted it to- gether with the nursery business ever since. He married, November 3, 1870,^ Cassie H., daughter of Joseph and Eliza- beth Stover. The Stovers came to Bucks county from Switzerland about 1727. They were residents of Bedminster for several generations. Joseph Stover lived for a time on the old homestead of his father. Henry Stover, but later removed to Buckingham and purchased the farm and mill property still known as the Stover Mill. Preston J. Fell is a Republican in pol- itics, and has always taken an active part in the afifairs of his township and county. He was director of the poor for three years; has been a member of the township school board for many years, serving as secretary of the board for five years; and he is also a trustee of the Hughesian Free School, and pres- ident of both the Buckingham and ■ Doylestown Turnnike Company and the Centreville and Pineville Turnpike Com- pany, and is supervisor and director of the former company. He is a prominent, man in the community, and has held many positions of trust. DR. FRANK SWARTZLANDER, physician and surgeon, of Doylestown, was born in Southampton township, Bucks county. February 9. 1842, being a .son of Joseph and Abigail (Rankin) Swartzlander. the former of German and the latter of English descent, though both were descended throngh several generations of American birth. On the 1 88 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. paternal side the Swartzlanders are de- scended from Philip Schwartzlander, who came from Steinhardt, in Schwarz- wald, arriving in Philadelphia on No- vember 8, 1752, in the ship "Snow Lonisa," Captain John Pitcairn, from Rotterdam. The voyage had been a long and perilous one, and many of the pas- sengers had died on the way. Among these was the wife of Philip Schwartz- lander, leaving on his hands two chil- dren, Gabriel, aged seven 3^ears, and Bar- bara, aged five. Soon after his arrival in Pennsylvania, Philip Schwartzlander found a home in New Britain township, Bucks county, where he married Mar- garet Angel, by whom he had two chil- dren, Conrad and Philip, descendants of whom still reside in that locality. Philip Schwartzlander, Sr., died in 1784, and is buried in the New Britain church- yard. Gabriel Schwartzlander, born in Stein- hardt, March 31. 1747. spent his boy- hood days in New Britain township, where he learned the trade' of a miller. At the age of twenty-seven years he married Salome, the widow of Abraham Freed, and daughter of Jacob and Anna (Leisse-Miller) Stout, an account of whose ancestr^^ is given on another page X oi this volume. Abraham Freed, the first husband of Salome Stout, had pur- <:hased of his father-in-law the Pine Run mill property, one mile north of Doyles- town, and also owned about two hun- dred acres of land adjoining the mill and extending over into Plumstead township. He died in 1773. leaving three infant daughters, and a j-ear later the widow married Gabriel Schwartzlander. By proceedings in the orphans' court the mill and about fift}^ acres of land were sold for the pajmient of debts, and were purchased by Gabriel Schwartzlander. The remaining 150 acres of Freed de- scended to his two surviving daughters, one of whom married John Kratz, whose descendants still own and reside on a portion of the land on the Plumstead side of the line. John Kratz later found a second wife in a daughter of Gabriel and Salome Schwartzlander. and half- sister to his first wnfe. Jacob Stout owned considerable other land adjoining the mill on the west, which on his death in 1779 descended to his daughter Sa- lome, and was latej transferred to her husband. Gabriel Schwartzlander. He operated the mill until his death July 17. 1814. The children of Gabriel and Salome Swartzlander were: John, Mag- dalen, Jacob, Margaret, Catharine, Abra- ham, Joseph, Philip, and David. Of these. Abraham and Philip died j^oimg. A number of the descendants of Joseph and the daughters still reside in the neighborhood of Pine Run. At the death of Gabriel Swartzlander in 1814, liis extensive real estate holdings were partitioned among his children by pro- ceedings in the orphans' court, the mill property falling to Joseph, who owned and operated it until his death, the title remaining in the famil}^ for nearly a centurj-. Jacob* Swartzlander, the grandfather^ of Dr. Swartzlander, was 'the second son -^ of Gabriel and Salome, and was born at the old Swartzlander mill property in New Britain, now Doylestown township. He learned the trade and assisted in operating the mill until 1808, when he removed to Southampton township, where he purchased a mill property which he operated until his death in 1845. He was twice married; by his first wife, Elizabeth Cope, of Hilltown. he had four children: Abraham. Gabriel, Joseph and Salome. He married (sec- ■ ond) Elizabeth Moode, of Southampton, by whom he had four daughters: Emily, Clara, Wilhelmina and Harriet. His widow survived him man}^ years. Abra- ham, the eldest son, was also a miller and operated and owned a mill in Middle- town. He was killed in May, 1839, by the falling of a wall of a barn which work- men, under his direction, were tearing down. He left a widow Rebecca, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Jane and Sarah. ^ Joseph Swartzlander, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Southampton township, Bucks county, January T. 1812, and ended an eventful and useful career at Yardley. Bucks county, in May, 1903. He obtained the rudiments of an education at the public schools of his native township, and later attended the academy of Rev. Samuel Aaron, at Burlington, New Jersey. He learned the milling trade with his father at the Rocksville mill. In 1834 'he started on a memorable trip through what was then our western states. Traveling by stage coach, canal boat and on foot, he reached Zanesville, Ohio, \vhere he was stricken with smallpox. A stranger in a strange land, and having a contagious disease, he was fortunate in securing the services of an aged negress who had known the family in Bucks county. She nursed him back to health in her hut in the woods, and received for compensa- tion his gold watch, which w^as returned to him several years later. On his re- covery he continued his journey, taking passage on a flatboat down the Ohio- and ^Mississippi to New Orleans. After a brief stay in this cosmopolitan south- ern city he returned by steamer to St. Louis, from which point he and a corn- panion tramped overland to Detroit, Michigan, a distance of five hundred and sixty-four miles. Crossing the swamps and lagoons where Chicago now stands, they stopped at Fort Dearborn, the nu- cleus of the now famous "Windy City," and proceeded on their way to Detroit. From Detroit the travellers went to Buffalo, thence down the F.ric canal to HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 189 Rochester, New York, from there to Al- ban3', and thence overland to Boston, Massachusetts, from which point Mr. Swartzlander returned to his home in Southampton, where he resumed the occupation of a miller. Prior to his father's death in 1S45 he removed to Yardley, where he operated a grist and saw mill. At the time of the Irish famine he was one of the largest grain dealers and millers in Bucks county, operating at one and the same time the Rocksville, Bridgetown, and Yardley mills, handling, grinding and kiln-dry- ing immense quantities of corn and cornmeal which he shipped to New York and Philadelphia for exportation to Ire- land. Through the dishonesty or de- fault of a firm of commission merchants to whom he shipped his product he lost over $12,000, an immense simi in those days, and was ruined financially, but by industry and a close application to busi- ness succeeded in paying off his indebt- edness and acquiring a competence. In i860 he practically abandoned the grain business and devoted himself almost ex- clusively to. the lumber business, buying native timber in the woods and sawing it into ship timber which he shipped to the shipyards at Williamsburg, New York, and Philadelphia. He was a very active business man. and continued to personally conduct his business in con- nection with his son Harry until within a few months of his death at the age of ninetyj;One years. Joseph Swartzlander married, in i8.s7, Abigail Rankin, a daughter of William Rankin, a well known merchant at Huntingdon Valley, ]\Iontgomery county. Their children M^ere: Mary, wife of Daniel Beans, of Newtown: Dr. Frank, the subject of this^ sketch: Albert, a lawyer at Omaha, Nebraska: Laura. Harry and Ella, re- siding at Yardley; and Fred, a physi-' cian at Omaha. Nebraska. Dr. Frank Swartzlander. the eldest son, was born in Northampton, February 9, 1842. and was therefore a mere cTiild when the family removed to Yardley. where he attended the public schools and was later a student in Philadelphia. He began the study of medicine in i860 with Dr. Joseph Smith, of Yardley. and was later under the preceptnrship of Dr. Rufus Tryon, nf Philadelphia, late sur- geon-general of the United States Navy. Dr. Swartzlander entered the medical department of. the University of Penn- sylvania in 1861. Showing a remarkable aptitude for surgery, he was appointed in 1862, while still a student, anatomist at the Military Hospital, located at Twenty-fourth and South streets, Phil- adelphia, where he made all_ the post mortem examinations until his gradua- tion at the University in 1863. In March. i86,-^. he was appointed assistant sura:eon of the Seventy-fourth Regiment Penn- sylvania Volunteers, and went with his regiment to the front, passing through many trying scenes during the civil war. He was at the battles of Chancel- lorsville, Gettysburg, John's Island, S. C, and many other sanguinary engage- ments. At Gettysburg he was surgeon of the operating stafif of the field hos- pital of the Third Division of the Elev- enth Army Corps. When the Seventy- fourth Regiment was mustered out he accepted a commission as assistant sur- geon of Volunteers and was sent south to meet Sherman's army on its march from "Atlanta to the Sea." General Sherman had just arrived at Savannah when Dr. Swartzlander reached the army, and he was assigned the charge of the Military Hospital at the Marshall House, and later had charge successively of the hospitals at the Scriven House and Pavilion House, and remained in the hospital service until the close of the war. After attending special lectures at the_ University he located at Doyles- town in 1866, and began the practice of his profession. He soon built up a large practice, and enjoys an enviable reputation as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Swartzlander was married in Oc- tober, 1872, to Susan, daughter of John S. Bryan. She died February 4. 1884. Their children are: Dr. Frank B. Swartz- lander, a practicing physician at Doyles.- town; Dr. Joseph Swartzlander, a prac- ticing physician of Forest Grove, Buck- ingham township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania: and Susan, who resides with her father. Dr. Swartzlander was for twenty consecutive years physician of the Bucks County Almshouse, and later filled the same position for three years. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, and of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Loyal Legion of the United States. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. DR. FRANK B. SWARTZLANDER, Doylestown (son of the preceding) was born December 19, 1873. He was edu- cated at public and private schools in Dojdestown, and spent three years in the Germantown Academy. He entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsjdvania, and graduated in the class of 1894. In the same j^ear he ac- cepted the position of resident physician at the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, which he filled until January. 1895. filled the same position in the Pottstown Hos- pital from January to August, 1895. and was then appointed a resident physician in the Episcopal Hospital at Philadel- phia, which position he filled until .\u- gust. 1807. He then came to Doyles- town and began the practice of his pro- fession. Dr. Swartzlander was married May 4. 1899, to Florence R. Evans, of Potts- 190 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. town, and has two daughters: Mary, and Ellen Bryan Swartzlander. DR. JOSEPH RANKIN SWARTZ- LANDER, Eorest Grove, Buckingham township, Bucks county, son of Dr. Frank and Susan (Bryan) Swartzlander, was born in Doylestown, August 23, 1875. He acquired his education at the public and private schools of Doyles- town, studied medicine under his father, and in 1893 entered Jefferson Medical College, graduating in class of 1897. He served as resident physician in the Jer- sey City Hospital for eighteen months, and in the . summer of 1899 located at Forest Grove and began the practice of medicine. With inherited ability and careful training and experience, he started well equipped in his chosen pro- fession and has met with merited suc- cess. He is still single. GEORGE C. WORSTALL, one of the most prominent business men of Newtown, is one of the representatives of a family that have been prominent in the business affairs of Newtown for four generations, and extending over a period of one hundred and thirty years. He was born in Upper Makefield. October 25, 1839. and is a son of Edward H. and Maria E. (Smith) Worstall. The family is said to have been of Welsh origin, but nothing definite is known of the ancestry of John Worstall or of his whereabouts until his proposal of marriage at Middletown Friends Meeting in 7 mo., 1720. to Elizabeth Wildman, daughter of Martin and Ann Wildman, who was born in Settle. York- shire, England, 9 mo. 19. 1689, and came with her parents to Bucks county, and they settled in Middletown township. John and Elizabeth Worstall were the parents of three sons: John, born 7 mo. 4, 1722; Edward, born 5 mo. 21. 1724; and James, born 12 mo. 26, 1726-7. The mother died when James was But two weeks old, and the children were reared by their maternal relatives in Middle-' town. Nothing is known of the descen- dants of Edward Worstall. James mar- ried Esther Satterthwaite and removed to Makefield in 1759, and has left nu- merous descendants in Bucks county. John Worstall. eldest son of John and Elizabeth (Wildman) Worstall. born in Middletown, 7 mo. 4. 1722. married 8 mo. 2. 1746, Mary Higgs, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Andrews) Higgs. of Bris- tol, who were married in 1719. James Higgs died in 1736, leaving a son James and four daughters: Mary: Elizabeth, who married Thomas Hutchinson: Jane, who married Mahlon Hall: and Ann. Mary Higgs Worstall was born in 1720. and died at the residence of her son Joseph, in Newtown, 8 mo., 1808, at the age of eighty-eight years. Joseph Worstall, son of John and Mary (Higgs) Worstall, was born in Middletown, i mo. 13, 1750, and married, m 1778, Susanna Hibbs, daughter of William and Anna (Carter) Hibbs of Middletown. In 1774 he purchased of General Francis Murray a tract of land on Penn street, in Newtown, part of the old court house grounds, and erected thereon a tannery which he operated for fifty-five years. He subsequently purchased considerable other land ad- joining, and erected houses and other buildings and carried on an extensive business. In addition to the tanning business he carried on the manufacture of shoes on a large scale, and employed a number of workmen. He also ground and shipped an immense amount of bark. The bark after being cured and ground was packed in hogsheads and hauled to the Delaware, where it was loaded on the Durham boats then plying on the Delaware, and carried to Phila- delphia, where it was shipped to France and other parts of the old world. It is related that George Washington, while he had his headquarters at Newtown, had a pair of boots made at the shops of Mr. Worstall, from leather tanned on the premises, which he wore during the revolutionary war. Mr. Worstall also owned about fifty acres of land adjoin- ing his business place on the south, and carried on farming in connection with his other business enterprises, in which he was assisted by his sons Joseph and James. The successful business career of the family was suddenly wrecked in February. 1829. when his large curry- ing shops, bark mill house, wagon hou?e, barns and an immense amount of bark, implements and farm produce were consumed by fire. There was no insurance on the property, and Mr. Wor- stall was financially ruined, and in his old age saw the savings of a life-time of industry and business activity swept away in a single night. He sacrificed the greater part of his real estate for the payment of his debts, retaining the tannery and his residence and some of his other houses. Being unable to carry on the tannery, however, with his lim- ited means, he sold that also in 1831. and it remained out of the family until 1842, when it was purchased and remodeled by his grandson Edward H. Worstall. Jo- seph Worstall. Sr.. died i mo. 13. 1841, at the age of ninety-one years, having lived a long life of extraordinary busi- ness activity. His children were: 1. Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 3. 1779, mar- ried in 1807. James Sleeper. 2. Sarah, born 6 mo. i. 1781, married in 1803 Edward Hicks, the eminent min- ister among Friends. 3. Joseph, born 2 mo. 8, 1783. see for- ward. /^iv^;^7^-^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 191 4. James, born 2 mo. 20, 1786, married (tirstj Jane Eastburn .and (.secondj Sarah Smith; died 10 mo. 7, 1839, with- out issue. 5. John, born 2 mo. 10, 1790, died un- married. 6. i\iary, born 6 mo. 19, 1791, died un- married late in life. 7. Amos T., born 4 mo. 25, 1793, mar- ried Ann Chambers. 8. Susanna, born 11 mo. 25, 1797, mar- ried Amos Phipps, of Plymouth, Mont- gomery county. Joseph Worstall, eldest son of Joseph and Susanna (Hibbs) Worstall, was born and reared in Newtown, and was actively associated with his father in the business enterprises established by the latter. He was one of the proprietors of the tannery at the time it was burned in 1828, and suffered heavily in the finan- -cial wreck. His remaining days were spent in Newtown township on a farm he purchased, and where he died April i, 1856. He married in 1808 Jane Heston, daughter of Colonel Edward Heston, the founder of Hestonville, Philadelphia, who was a native of Makefield township, Bucks county, being a son of Jacob and Mary (Warner) Heston, and a grandson of Zebulon Heston, an early settler in Wrightstown. He was captain of the Sixth Company, Seventh Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia, in 1777, and later was commissioned lieutenant- ■colonel. The children of Joseph and Jane (Hes- ton) Worstall were as follows: Sarah Ann, who married Jacob Hibbs; Edward H., see forward; Hannah C, who mar- ried (first) Pearson Scarborough, of Solebury, and (second) Henry Magill; Joseph, who married Mary Ann Van Buskirk, and lived and died in Warring- ton; and Isaac H., of Solebury. who mar- ried (first) Sarah Jane Ely and (sec- ond) Amy Ely. Edward H. Worstall, eldest son of Joseph and Jane (Heston) Worstall, was born at the old homestead on Penn street, Newtown, October 19, 181 1, and was reared and educated in Newtown. He married November i, 1838. Maria E. Smith, daughter of Joseph and Mary 4,^jL.j^jr PUBLIC library! ASTON, LrNOX AND J^I^D^N FOUNDATIONS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 211 :good academic education. His father dying when he was fourteen years of age, he was cast upon his own resources, and learned the trade of a stove moulder, which he followed for some years. An accident, by which his foot was badly burned in the discharge of his duties, decided him to prepare himself for the medical profession. He resumed his studies at Washington Hall, where he also taught for a short time, and began his preparation for his chosen profes- sion under the preceptorship of Dr. Gross, of Harleysville. He later entered Jefiferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1859. He located in Nockamixon township, Bucks county, and soon built up a large practice, be- coming one of the leading physicians of upper Bucks, and was engaged in profes- sional work there for thirty-three years, dying March 6, 1892. Dr. Grim was a man of good business qualifications and strict integrity, and always held the es- teem and confidence of his community. He was the owner of a fine farm near Revere, the work'of which he superin- tended in connection with his profes- sional duties. In politics he was a Dem- ocrat, and he and his family were mem- Tsers of the Reformed church. Dr. Grim married in 1857 Elizabeth P. Koons, who survives him, and the}' were the parents of nine children, as follows: F. Harvey, who succeeded his father as a practicing physician at Revere; George W., a physician at Ottsville, Bucks county; A. Florence, wife of Os- car H. Bigley, of Doylestown, tran- scribing clerk in the recorder of deeds oflice; Webster, the subject of this sketch: Frank S., a physician at Baptist- town, New Jersey; Harry E., law part- ner with his brother Webster, under the firm name of Grim & Grim, with offices at Perkasie, Pennsylvania; Cora B., wife of W^illiam H. Rufe. a merchant at Riegelsville; Nora E., wife of Asher K. Anders, Esq., a successful attorney of Doylestown; and James S., professor of natural science at Keystone Normal School, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Hon. Webster Grim, the third son, was reared in Nockamixon and attended the public schools of that township and the Riegelsville high school, and later entered "the Keystone normal school at Kutztown, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1887. Prior to his gradu- ation he taught school in Bucks county for five years. Immediately after his graduation he began the study of law in the office of Nathan C. James. Esq., and was admitted to the bar of Bucks county in September. 1889. Locating in Doyles- town. he at once began the practice of his chosen profession and Jiuilt up a lu- crative practice. He was the Democratic nominee for district attorney in 1894. but was defeated by a small majority, re- ceiving a much larger vote than the other nominees on the ticket. He has been active and prominent in the coun- cils of his party for many years, and has served as delegate to several 'state conventions, and was permanent chair- man of the state convention of 1903. He filled the office of justice of the peace for Doylestown borough from 1890 to 1900, and did a large amount of official busi- ness. He was elected a member of the school board in 1900 and re-elected in 1903 and is at present the treasurer of the board. In the fall of 1902 he was elected to the state senate, and in the sessions of 1903 and 1905 took an active part in the proceedings of the upper house, introducing a number of merit- orious bills and serving on important committees. In the latter session he was chairman of both Democratic cau- cuses, and was the recognized leader of the minority party in the legislature. He was at all times the uncompromising foe of vicious legislation and extravagant appropriations, and his course met with the approbation of his constituents without reference to party. Among the important bills introduced by him was one for the regulation of the speed of and registration of automobiles, which was passed at the session of 1903. and amended upon his motion at the session of T905: a bill for freeing the toll bridges over the Delaware river between tlie states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and New York; and a bill for more ade- quate punishment of the crime of crim- inal assault. He was also instrumental in securing liberal appropriations for Bucks county educational institutions. He was one of the prominent candi- dates before the Democratic state con- vention of 1905 for the nomination for judge of the superior court, and only the decision to nominate but one candidate defeated his nomination. Being possessed of a natural musical talent he has given much time to the organization and perpetuation of mus- ical organizations. He was for five years musical director of the choir of the Doylestown Presbyterian church, and has since filled the position of choir master and organist at the Salem Re- formed church, of which he is a mem- ber. He also had charge of the musical part of the program at the Bucks County Teachers' Institute for many vears. and has been the director of the Arion Glee Club for many years, furnish- ing vocal music for entertainments in all parts of Bucks county. He was su- perintendent of the Sabbath school of the Salem Reformed church for twelve years, and introduced a uniform and graded course of studv that has since been adopted bv a number of other Sab- bath schools in the county and else- where. He has been one of the most active mei-nbers of St. Tammany Castle, No. 173, Knights of the Golden Eagle, 212 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY served as its clerk of the exchequer for several years, and has been a member of the grand caStle of Pennsylvania for twelve years and in May, 1905, was installed as grand chief of the • order in the state. He arranged, codified and published a digest ftf the laws of the order which has been in use for several years. He is a past grand of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., of Doylestown, and has tilled the position of musical director and de- gree master of that lodge for several years. As such he organized and in- structed a degree stafif that has the rep- utation of being one of the best in the state, taking second prize in a com- petition this year before a Committee of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, in which were entries in all parts of the United States. He has been the collector of Lenape Council, No. 1117, Royal Ar- canum, since 1890, and is treasurer of the fraternal accident order, known as the "True Blue." He has served as a director of Eastern Union Building and Loan Society of Philadelphia since 1890, and is connected with a number of other business enterprises. He has prepared . and published two directories of Bucks ' county, and is at work upon a third edition. In August, 1904, he purchased a controlling interest in the Doylestown Publishing Company, the proprietors of the "Doylestown Democrat," daily and weekly, which he has since personally conducted as president of the company, and has greatly improved the standard of the paper. Senator Grim was married August 9, 1890, to M. Alice Sassaman, daughter of Jacob and Emeline (Wildonger) Sas- saman of Bucksville, Bucks county, and they are the parents of two children, Ruth S. and George W. MOON FAMILY. James Moon and Joan Burges were married near Bristol, England, and with a family of children were among the early emigrants to settle in Pennsylvania. By deed dated 10 mo. 13, 1688, he purchased of James Hill 125 acres of land in Falls township, one and a half miles west from Morrisville, and largely covered in 1905 by the classification yard of the Trenton branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On 12 mo. 11, 1706, he conveyed the same by deed in fee to his son Roger. James Moon's will mentions six children : Sarah, James, Jonas, Jasper, Mary and Roger. James married Mary Wilsford, i mo., 1696, and afterward Agnes Priestly, in 1714; he deceased 4th mo. 6. 1755. Jonas, born 10 mo., 24, 1671, married Alice Chissum, about 1707, and deceased 10 mo. 4, 1732; Mary married a Curtis. Tradition says that Ja.sper went to Virginia and was the progenitor of the Moon family of that state. He marrried Su- sanna . Among the earmarks of cattle recorded at the clerk's office in a book preserved in the Library of the Bucks County Historical So- ciety are those of James Moon. He was a^ member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends, and was buried in the old grave- yard at Fallsington. His wife Joan's Eng- lish relatives sent her money with which she purchased a farm near the river Dela- ware, two miles north of Yardleyville, since owned by Zachariah Betts. She resided with her son Roger at the homestead un- til her death, at nearly ninety, having sur- vived her husband twenty-six years. She was an active member of Falls Monthly Meeting, and frequently preferred to walk to meeting when in advanced years. Roger Moon, son of James and Joan Moon, born about 1680, married Ann Nutt, of England, at Palls Meeting of Friends, 8 mo. 23, 1708; they had seven children: James, born i mo., 1713, died 5 mo. 9, 1796; John, born 5 mo. 27, 1717, died 9 mo. 24, 1732; Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 16, 1719, died aged eighty-five and one-half years, 1805; Roger, born i mo. 20, 1722, died 12 mo. 4, 1759; Isaac, born 11 mo. 6, 1724, died 6 mo. 23, 1748; William, born 3 mo. 6, 1727, died 10 mo. 4, 1795; Ann, born 4 mo. 7, 1730, died 3 mo. 28, 1764. Roger Moon's second marriage was to Elizabeth Price (daughter of Reese and Mary Price), i mo., 1734. Their children were : John, born 12 mo. 28, 1734, died I mo. 6, 1788; Mary, born 3 mo. 8, 1736, died 11 mo. 20, 1815; Sarah, born ID mo. 29, 1737; Timothy, born 10 mo. 15, 1739, died 7 mo. 5, 1813; Samuel, born 7 mo. I, 1744; Jasper, born i mo. 12, 1748; Hannah, born 8 mo. 29, 1749. Roger Moon said he had lived seventy years in the same place, and had never dis- charged a gun or quarrelled with any man. lie deceased 2 mo. 16, 1759, on the ancestral acres, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine years ; eleven of his children surviving him. James Moon, eldest child of Roger and Ann Nutt Moon, married three times, and one child of each marriage lived to grow up; first to Hannah Price, 11 mo. 18, 1737; their son James married Sarah Dowdney, and had two children, James and Mary. James married and had several children, lived and died on the same farm his father did near the river two miles above Morris- ville. Mary married John Thornton, had a large family of children. James, son of Roger and Ann Nutt Moon's second mar- riage was to Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Bridget Luca.s, 3 mo. 18, 1742; she de- ceased 6 mo. 14, 1748. One daughter sur- vived her mother, who married Yeomans Gillingham, at Falls Meeting, i mo. 13, 1708, and had nine children. James Moon's (son of Roger and Ann Nutt Moon) third marriage was to Ann Watson, widow of Mark Watson, and daughter of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, at Falls Meeting, 3 mo. 28, 1753. One child, Moses Moon, survived this marriage. On i mo. 29, 1749, James Moon purchased of Robert Lucas, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 213 for £480, two hundred and eighteen and one- quarter acres of land in Middletown town- ship, now known as "Woodbourne," where he resided the remainder of his life, and in 1905 it is owned and occupied by his descendants. Beside ordinary farming he was a nurseryman, as entries in his cash- book testify, one reading thus: "nth mo. 22nd 1775. Joseph Lovett bought six New- town pippins and two grafted pear trees for eight shillings.'' He thus started a business which his descendants have followed to a greater or less extent for over one hundred and thirty years. Moses Moon was born 10 mo. 9, 1754. Beside following the occupations of his fa- ther as farmer and nurseryman, he also was a noted surveyor. He married Rachel Burges, at Falls Meeting of Friends, and deceased 4 mo. 19, 1822, having resided his entire life at Woodbourne, which he in- herited from his father and bequeathed to his only son James, who adhered more closely to farming than did his predecessors. James Moon married Jane Haines, at Eve- sham Meeting, N. J., 5 mo. 13, 1813, and continued to reside at the homestead until his death in 1855. He left six children : Mahlon, Eliza, Charles Rachel, James n. and Jane C. Mahlon, the oldest son of James and Jane (Haines) Moon, followed the nursery busi- ness for quite a period of time, alter which liis brother James H. Moon purchased the greater part of the land. Charles Henry Moon, son of Charles Moon, is a prom- inent surveyor and engineer, and lives on the western portion of the place, he being the fifth generation of the family to occupy these ancestral acres. James H. Moon, the third son of James and Jane (Flaines) Moon, married Eliza- beth Balderston, in 1853, and settled two miles west of Fallsington, where they still reside with their son, Alfred H. Moon. Of their nine children five are still living: Everett, LL. D., Alfred H.. Willett B., M. D., Elizabeth Laetitia, Ph. D., and Rachel, M. D. Of James and Jane Haines Moon's daugh- ters, Eliza married Morton A. Walmsley, of Byberry, Pa. ; Rachel married William Tatnall, of Wilmington, Delaware, and Jane C. married Hon. Jonathan Chace, of Rhode Island. Of the eleven children which survived Koger Moon, we have partially traced but one line, that of his eldest son James. The descendants of the five sons who survived him are scattered in all directions, although there is proof that many remained near home, the name occurring frequently in this vicinity and in New Jersey. His son William married Elizabeth Nutt; and settled on Moon's Island in the Delaware River. An account of his descendants is given later. Ann married Jonathan Pursell ; Elizabeth married William Janney, 7 mo., 1739. at Falls Meeting and they moved near Water- ford, Loudoun county. Va. ; John. Roger and Isaac died without issue. Of the sec- ond wife's children; John married and left descendants; Mary married John Linton; Sarah married Daniel Burges; Timothy married Martha Richie; Hannah married ISlahlon Hartley, and removed to Ohio; Jasper, unknown. PRICE FAMILY. Elizabeth Price, sec- ond wife of Roger Moon, was of Welsh origin and a daughter of Reese and Marv Price (or Preese), who settled in Bucks county about the year 1700. The ancestors of Mrs. Samuel C. Moon, of Morrisville, were Nathaniel and Sarah (Bnggs-Shaw) Price, who emigrated from Rhode Island and settled in Middletown township, Bucks county, near the present site of Langhorne about the middle of the eighteenth century. They were the par- ents of three children ; Nathaniel, of whom a more particular account follows: Eliza- beth, married Edward Worstall; and Su- sanna, married Thomas Jones. Sarah (Briggs-Shaw) Price died 10 mo. 22, 1808, in her eighty-seventh year. Nathaniel Price, son of Nathaniel and Sarah, born February 8, 1759, was received into membership with Friends and married October 18, 1786, Ann Bailey, daughter of Edward and Ann (Satterthwaite) 'Bailey, of Bucks county, and had three children: (i) William, born September 14, 1787, died June 4, 1852, married April 18, 1808, Mary jNIahan, and had nine children : Cornelius, Mary, John. Deborah, Ann, Amos, Susan, Catharine and William. (2) John, born November 23, 1788, died April 5, 1867, mar- ried Rachel Burgess, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Matson) Burgess, and had chil- dren : Daniel B., of whom an account fol- lows; Lydia B., Sarah Ann, and Phebe B., none of whom married, living and dying near Fallsington, Bucks county. (3) Edith, born 1790, died 1792. Ann (Bailey) Price died January 8, 1791, and Nathaniel mar- ried (second) December 13, 1792, Mary Spicer, daughter of James and Rachel Spicer, and they were, the parents of four children: (4) Joseph, born March 10, 1793, married October 14, 1821, Eliza Wildman, and had children, Mary and Elizabeth. (5) Ann, born February 23, 1795, married, 1819, Israel Burgess, and had two children, Will- iam and Mary, both of whom married into the Longshore family. (6) Isaiah, Dorn December 20, 1798, married May 20, 1824, Margaret Burges, daughter of William and Rachel Burges, and had four children : Ra- chel, married Benjamin Woolston ; Ann, married a Hance; Jane, married a Cro- shaw ; Martha, married Dr. William E. Case, and has two sons, William and Philip of Morrisville. (7) Rachel, born December 4, 1800, lived to an advanced age at Lang- horne, but never married. Mary (Spicer) Price, the mother of the above named four children, died December 8, 1829. Daniel B. Price, only son of John and Rachel (Burges) Price, was born December 214 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 3, 1823. He was a successful farmer and died at his residence, Brookdale farm, two miles from Fallsington, Bucks county, March 26, 1891, at the age of sixty-seven years. He married, first. May 18, 1848, Hannah B. Childs, of Le Raysville, New York, and they were the parents of four children : Rachel Anna, married Samuel C. Moon; Clinton, died young; Elizabeth, married John W. Tatum, of Wilmington, Delaware, and has three children — Anna P., Lucy R. and John W. Tatum, Jr.; Mary C, remained single. The Burges Family, with whom the Moon and Price families are much inter- married, are descended from Samuel and Eleanor Burges, who came from England in 1685 and settled in Falls township, on 200 acres of land purchased of William Penn, for one silver shilling per acre, the original deed for which is still in possession of their descendants. This land joined that on which James and Joan (Burges) Moon settled, and Samuel was probably a brother of Joan Moon. On this tract lymg oh both sides of the road now leading through the village of Fallsington, all the Friends' meet- ing houses of Falls Meeting have been built. In 1689, when the Friends decided to build a meetmg house, Samuel Burges gave them six acres on which the first meeting house and graveyard were located. The first building was of logs and the second of brick. In the ' latter a school was kept for many years in which the great-grandchil- dren of Samuel Burges, living in 1855, re- member attending, being used as a school after the erection of the third meeting house, a little distant from the first site and now (1905) used as a dwelling house. The fourth meeting house was erected in 1789 on the first location, north of the graveyard and Newportville -road, and is still used by one branch of the society. The fifth meet- ing house was built in 1840, when a stone school house erected in 1799 was removed to make room for it, the present school house being erected in 1817. The will of Samuel Burges, made in 1713, mentions wife Eleanor, sons Joseph, Samuel, John and Daniel, and daughters Priscilla and Sarah. Priscilla became the wife of Sam- uel Bunting, and an ajccount of her de- scendants is given in this volume. Sarah married John Hutchinson and an account of her descendants is also given in the Rickey family. Samuel, thf jon, a member of assembly in 1712, married Ann Snowdcn, and had three children— Margaret, married Joseph Jackson ; Rebecca, married Joseph Church ; Ann, died single. Joseph Burgess married Flannah Wilson, and had five children : Daniel, of whom a more particular account follows; Joseph, married Deborah Fisher and removed to Buckingham, later to Baltimore, Maryland, and subsequently to Virginia; had children; Thomas, Sarah, John, Tacy, .Martha and Daniel, of whom Thomas married Eliza- beth Hendricks, and removed to Highland county, Ohio, about 1813; John, Sarah, and Hannah. John, son of Samuel and Eleanor, married Mary Duer, and had six children, Samuel Ellen, Jonathan, Mary, Susanna, and Martha. Daniel Burges, son of Samuel and Eleanor, was twice married, but left no issue, devising his farm, part of 600 acres purchased by Samuel, the pioneer in 1695, to his brother Joseph's son Daniel. Daniel Burges, son of Joseph and Hannah (Wilson) Burges, married 6 mo. 17, 1750, Lydia Sisom, and had eight children : Jo- seph, born 3 mo. 31, 1752, married, 11 mo. 8, 1780, Sarah Matson ; Rachel, born 11 mo, 14, 1753) married Moses Moon; Hannah, born 12 mo. 23, 1755, married Joseph Child; Sarah, born 9 mo. 17, 1758, died at the age of ninety-six years; Rebecca, born 10 mo. 26^ 1763, married John Burton; Edith, born 3 mo. 15, 1766, married Joseph Headley; Phebe, born 6 mo. 20, 1769, died single lu 1839; Amos, born 10 mo. 11, 1772, married Sarah Boulton. Daniel Burges married (sec- ond), Sarah Moon and had two children; Daniel, born 10 mo. 15, 1780, married De- borah Wood, and lived on the homestead for some years and then removed to New York state; and Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 28, 1784, died at the age of eighteen years. Joseph Burges, eldest son of Daniel and Lydia, married Sarah ISIatson, and had eight children: Moses, born 8 mo. 17, 1781, mar- ried Ann Hancock ; Lydia, born 8 mo. 28, 1783, and Amy, born 11 mo. 28, 1785, both died single; Daniel, born 4 mo. 30, 1787, also died single ; Rachel, born 7 mo. 26, 1789, married John Price; John, Joseph and Aaron, died young. Joseph Burges mar- ried, second, Deborah Bailey and hkd one child, Mary born 12 mo. 24, 1803, died }'Oung. Moses and Ann (Hancock) Burge-s had eight children, Joseph, Sarah, Phebe, Moses, Rebecca, Robert, Ann, and George, of whom Robert and Phebe still reside on the ancestral homestead, and are nearing the sunset of life. Anna Price Moon, Eliza- beth Price Tatum, and Mary C. Price, daughters of Daniel B. and Sarah (Burges) Price, with their children are the only liv- ing descendants of Joseph and Sarah (Mat- son) Burges. OWEN MOON, Jr., of the Trenton (New Jersey) Times," is a descendant of James and Joan (Burges) Moon, the pio- neer ancestors of the family, as shown by the preceding narrative, throughout the fol- lowing line: William iNIoon, fifth .son and sixth child of Roger and Ann (Nutt) Moon, was born March 6, 1727, and died October 4. I795- He married his cousin Elizabeth Nutt, and was treated with therefor by the Friends' Meeting at Falls, the marriage of first cous- ins being "against the good order maintained among Friends." Among the children of William and Elizabeth (Nutt) Moon were Ann, married. May 17, 1775, Samuel Bunt- ing; and William Moon, born February 5, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 21 1765, died May 30, 1827, at the age of sev- enty-two years. He was .twice married ; first to Sarah , who died about 1749, and (second) to Phoebe Mott, born May 26, 1754, died July 23, 1847, aged ninety- three years. The children of the first mar- riage were as follows: i. Daniel, see forward; 2. Phoebe, married Benjamin Kelly, son of Joseph and Phoebe (Buck- . man) Kelly, and had three children: Ben- jamin; Elizabeth, married Thomas Miller; and Sarah, married John Miller. 3. Eliza- beth, never married. 4. Mary, born March 19, 1794, died January 22, 1866, married John Stackhouse, and had two children, one of whom, Phoebe, married 1847, Joseph Brown, of Fallsington, and has two chil- dren : Charles and Edward. f Daniel Moon, eldest child of William and Sarah, born July 5, 1789, died August 21, 1869, aged eighty years. He married Mercy Lovett, born July 17, 17S9, died December 23, 1840, daughter of Evan Lovett and Sarah Neeld (nee Stackhouse) and they were the parents of eleven children: i. William L., born August 25, 1810, died 1900; married in 1839, Elizabeth Y. Williamson, born July i, 1819, died July 26, 1891, daugh- ter of Mahlon and Charity (Vansant) Will- iamson, and had eleven children, five of whom survive: Daniel H., born October 15, 1843 ; Mary Jane, widow of Andrew Crozer Reeves, whose only child Andrew C. Reeves, is prominent in the business interests of Trenton, New Jersey; Mercy Ann, wife of Frank W. JNIuschert, senior member of the wholesale grocery firm of ISIuschert, Reeves & Company, Trenton, New Jersey, and has one child, William M. Muschert; Georgiana Watson, of Langhorne, Pennsyl- vania, who has three children, Elizabeth W., Thompson, Elwood Watson, and Margaret Watson; and Anna Elizabeth, wife of Will- iam B. Parry, of Langhorne, who have two children. 2. Evan L. Moon, born August 8, 1812, died April 19, 1898; married (first) Ann Palmer, ]\Iarch 12, 1835, and had one child, Owen, a more particular account of whom is given below. Evan L. Moon mar- ried (second) Mary Atchley, and had two children, Jesse and Daniel, the latter of whom married Mary Fell, daughter of Henry R. and Rachel W. Fell, of Trenton. New Jersey, and has four children ; Arthur E., Elizabeth F., Rachel W., and Ridgway. 3. Sarah, born July 9, 1814, died Septem- ber 7, 1883, married George Thompson, who died in 1864, and had four children, three boys and one daughter. ^lercy Ann, who married B. Woolston Watson, in 1862, and has three children. 4. John Moon, died in infancy. 5. Owen, born 1817, died at the age of thirteen. 6. Daniel, died ui infancy in 1819. 7. John Hutchinson Moon, born October 5, 1820, married in 1848, Sarah Ann Crozer, daughter of Robert and Grace (Wright) Crozer, and had six chil- dren. 8. Andrew Moon, born October 16, 1823, died January 2, 1897 ; married, Feb- ruary 20, 1845, Anna Mary Watson, daugh- ter o'f Miles and Ann (Kelly) Watson, and had three children; M. Watson Moon, of Fallsington, who married Charlotte Green ^lull, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Green) Mull, and has three daughters, Emma, wife of Willets B. Farley; Jennie and Annie, unmarried. 9. Phoebe: Ann :\Ioon, born October 5, 1825, married (first) January 20, 1848, William Kelly, who died in 1862, leaving one child, Daniel Edward, who married Mary F. Gilkyson, and had six chil- dren; she married (second) in 1865, John Hellings, and had no children. 10. Benjamin, born September i, 1827, died 1S64; married Rebecca B. Miller, and had one child Ella. 11. Anna Mary, born July II, 1829, married, October 24, 1861, William Penn Crozer, son of Robert and Grace (Wright) Crozer, and has one child, Mercy. Owen Moon, only child of Evan L. and Ann (Palmer) Moon, born January i, 1836; married December 14, 1859, Elizabeth Buck- man, daughter of Spencer W. and Sarah (Williamson) Buckman, and their only sur- viving child is Owen Moon, Jr., of the "Trenton (New Jersey) Times." The ma- ternal ancestry of Mr. Moon is given under the heading of the Williamson Family. Owen Moon, Jr., son of Owen and Eliza- beth (Buckman) Moon, was born at Penn Valley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 6, 1873. He received his primary education at local schools and graduated at Swarthmore College in June, 1894, with the degree of B. Sc, and is a member of the national college fraternity of Delta Upsilon. In the fall of 1894 he removed to Trenton, New Jersey, and in conjunction with a course at Trenton Business College, took up the study of law, but relinquished it a year and a half later to devote himself to a number of business interests. From 1896 to 1901 he was interested in the construc- tion of a number of electric railways in Philadelphia, Trenton, Bucks county and elsewhere, as director and ofiicial of the various organizations having them in charge. He was perhaps more largely interested in trolley development in and about Tren- ton than any other individual. He was president of the Trenton, Morrisville and Yardley Street Railway Company, who con- structed a line of six miles connecting those towns ; was a director and financial agent of the Trenton, Lawrenceville and Prince- ton Railroad Company, which constructed a trolley line of ten miles connecting those towns ; a director and treasurer of the Tren- ton City Bridge Company, the owners of the only Delaware river bridge at this point not controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and which bridge was purchased from the former (Bucks county) owners, on account of it being the key to any trolley connection between Pennsylvajiia and Tren- ton. These two trolley lines, upon their completion, together with the bridge, were sold to the Lehigh Valley Traction Company interests, represented by Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, and are now successfully operated by that company. Mr. 2l6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Moon is also a director and an official in the syndicate which owned the old turnpike ex- tending across lower Bucks county, con- necting Trenton with Bristol and Phila- delphia, as well as of a half dozen or more railroad corporations, whose object was the completion of a trolley line from Philadel- phia to Trenton, which was initiated by General Morrcll in i8gi. The history of the construction of this line represents one of the most stubborn fights between the trolley interests and the railroads ever be- fore the courts of Pennsylvania or any other state, a right-of-way fight of ten years duration, on the line between Bristol and Bridgwater, being ultimately won by the syndicate securing an elevated trolley char- ter, at Harrisburg, which permitted track connections across the disputed right of way and assured the completion of the Phila- delphia and Trenton line. This road was later sold to a Baltimore syndicate which now operates its cars direct from Phila- delphia, over the tracks of the Trenton, Morrisville and Yardley street railway and the Trenton city bridge into Trenton. Ivlr. Moon became a director of the Yardley (Penna.) National Bank in 1895, at the age of twenty-two years. He is a director and secretary of the Philadelphia firm of the Scott Paper Company ; a director of the Reeves Engine Company of Trenton, and also a director in a number of other cor- porations and industrial and business organ- izations. In 1901 lie became one of the pro- prietors and treasurer of the "Trenton (New Jersey) Times," and in 1902 became the active business manager of the establish- ment. Under his capable management the circulation of "The Times" has nearlj^ doubled, and it is becoming one of the popular and strong newspapers of the state. Mr. Moon is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Bucks County Historical Society. He is also a member of the Young IMen's Christian Asso- ciation of Trenton, the Republican Club of Trenton, and the Trenton Country Club. He married, November 8, 1899, at Swarth- more, Pennsylvania, Margaret Scott, bom October 20, 1876, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Scott, of that place. THE WILLIAMSON FAMILY. The history of this family takes us back to the period prior to the grant of Pennsylvania to William Pcnn and possibly to two or three decades prior to that date when the repre- sentatives of three Eureopean nations were battling for supremacy on the shores of our middle states. The Swedes made the first organized settlement on Pennsylvania soil in 163S under Peter Minuit. The Dutch be- gan almost immediately to contest their supremacy there, and from the time of the conquest of the Swedes by the Hollanders, two decades later, until the subsequent con- quest of the latter by the English, repre- sentatives of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races began to make their appearance on the Delaware. The earliest records of the court at Upland (now Chester) under English jurisdiction in 1676, show a number of names of undoubted English origin, though the first justices v/ere all. Swedes. Dunck Williames, as his name is usually spelled in the earlier records, though it appears in vari- ous forms both as to first and surname, during his whole life was the founder of the family of Williamson in Pennsylvania. He is claimed by his descendants to have been of Swedish or Holland origin, but many circumstances in connection with his first appearance on Pennsylvania soil strong- ly indicate to the writer of these lines that he was of English or Scotch origin. The most significant of these is the fact that he was associated in his first purchase of land with Francis Walker, whose name clearly indicates that he was of neither Dutch or Swedish origin. Again, hereditary surnames were unknown in eithec, Sweden or Holland until late in the sixteenth cen- tury and their representatives in America were known by their father's given name, with the addition of "es" or "se" and "sen." Had he therefore been of Dutch origin his name would have been more probably Gul- liamse, if his father was named William, and the name William was practically un- known among the Swedes. The name Dunck or Dunk was doubtless a contraction of Duncan, and in neither form has ever been found among the Swedes or Dutch. Just when Dunk Williamson arrived on the Delaware is a matter of some conjecture. As early as 1667 Dunk Willims and eight others secured from Governor Richard Nic- olls a patent for a tract of land of one thou- sand acres, known as Passaxunk^ indicating that he was one of the first settlers to se- cure title to land in what is now Philadel- phia, from the English rulers who con- quered the territory in 1664. His grant of land, in connection with Francis Walker, under patent from Sir Edmund Andross un- der date of July 18, 1676, comprehended 450 acres on the Neshaminy in the present limits of Bensalem township, comprising the present site of Dunks Ferry, named for him. "Franck Walker," first appears of rec- ord at Upland as the custodian of goods be- longing to Captain Edward Cant well, who- administered the oaths to the first justices at Upland in 1676. On a "List of Tydable persons under the jurisdiction of ye Court," made November 13, 1677, the names of "Dunk Williames" and "Franck Walker" appear in the district of Taokanink (Ta- cony), and on November 12, 1678, Dunk Williams petitioned to take up one hundred acres of land "on the lower syde of Nie- shambenies (Neshaminy) creek, 50 acres thereof att ye river syde & ye other 50 acres up in the woods ;" this was therefore at the mouth of Neshaminy in Bensalem. He also served on a jury at the same date. On March 12, 1678-79. he petitioned to take up four acres of marsh back of liis "plan- taceion." On the latter date Ednnuid l")rauf- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 217 ton brought suit against him for the tuition of his children, showing that at that early date the Pennsylvania colonists were inter- ested in the education of their youth. The title of Williamson and Walker to the tract of land in Bucks county was conhrmed by Penn, and the former became a large land- owner. The will of Dunck Williamson, dated February 12, 1697-8, and probated March i, 1699-1700, mentions his wife, Wallery, sons William and John William- son, and daughters, Hanna, wife of John Gound, and Margred, wife of John John- son. To John he devises 500 acres of land in the bounds of Cohanset. (Cohansey, Salem county. New Jersey), to Hanna •Gound, one hundred acres in the county of Kent; to Margred Johnson, five pounds or its equivalent ; and to William, all his es- tate in Pennsylvania.* William Williamson, born 1676, died 1721, married Elizabeth Claessen, of Dutch or Swedish origin,? and had five sons : Jacob, who is said to have died without issue; Abraham, who married Rachel , and had two sons and two daughters ; John who married Elizabeth , and had eight sons and two daughters, who resided in Philadelphia county, see forward; William, married and had a son John and a daugh- ter; Peter, married Leah , and had seven children: Jacob, Isaac; Peter; Eliza- beth, who married a Moore of Burlington, New Jersey, and after his death removed to Virginia; Sarah; Rebecca; and Jane, who married Abraham Heed. Peter Williamson, third son of Peter and Leah Williamson, born in Bucks county, January 17, 1735, settled in Falls township, Bucks county, and died there June li, 1823, at the age of eighty-nine years. He was twice married ; first to Sarah Sotcher, daughter of Robert and IMercy (Browne) Sotcher of Falls, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, the last named being William Penn's steward and steward- ess at Pennysbury for many years. They were married at Pennysbury in the presence ■of William Penn, October 16, 1701, Falls Meeting having held a special session in order that they might be married before *In the Williamson (sometimes called the Johnson graveyard situated in Bensalem lownsliip, near Bridge- water, a tablet has been erected with this statement : "In memory of Duncan Williamson, one of the orig- inal settlers of this township, who died about the year 1700." 5^Members of the Claassen family, children of Jan Claassen, who was of Dutch or Swedish orisjin and a grantee in 16615, are as follows: Henricka, eldest daughter of Jan Claassen, married Matthias Kyn (Keen) born 1667, died 17H, eldest son of Hans and Willemka Kyn, and grandson of Joran Kyn, an original Swedish settler near Chester about 1644. Gertrude, second child of Jan Claassen, married Hans L'iican, eldest son of Peter Nilsson Laykan, a native of Sweden. Of the Kyn family, one Jonas Keen (the third son of Hans and Willemka Kyn and grandson of the origijial Swed- ish settler, Joran Kyn) married in 1697 to Frances Walker, only daughter of Francis Walker (Walcker). a grantee in Bucks county on the Neshaminy Creek with Dunck Williams and others in 1676. C Uherine, third child of Jan Claassen, married Erie Kyn (Keen second son of Hans and Willemka Kyn, and grandson of the original Swedish settler Joran Kvn. F.lizabeth. another daughterof Jan Claassen, married William Williams, 3l son of Dunck Williams. Penn left for England at the conclusion of his last visit to his province in America. John Lofty became a prominent man in the colony and served many years in colonial assembly, 1712 to 1722. He died November 19, 1729. John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher were the parents of four children : Hannah, born January 25, 1702, married October 26, 1720, Joseph Kirkbride; Mary, born Sep- tember 15, 1704, married November 12, 1724, Mahlon Kirkbride; Ann, born March 2y, 1710, married April 23, 1729, Mark Wat- son; Robert, born November 3, 1706, mar- ried in 1731, Mercy Browne, youngest daughter of George and Mercy Browne, who came from England in 1678 and set- tled in Falls township, Bucks county. George Browne was the first Englishman to serve as justice of the court at Upland, being re- turned as a justice at the June sessions, 1680, but not being present was sworn and took his seat as a justice, in accordance with his commission, October 13, 1680, and served until the establishment of the courts by Penn after his arrival. George and Mercy Brown reared a large family who have left numerous descendants. General Jacob Brown, commander-in-chief of the United States Army, was a great-grandson. Peter and Sarah (Sotcher) Williamson were the parents of eight children, as fol- lows : Letitia, born June 12, 1765, died Au- gust 5, 1847, married Jonathan Burton, of Falls ; Mercy, born June 12, 1766, died March 10, 1830, married William Crozer, of Falls, and had ten children; Parmelia, born January 16, 1768, died October 2^, 1813, married Thomas Crozer and had three children; Jesse, born September 21, 1769, died October 22,, 1852, married Sarah Williamson, daughter of Josephus, see for- ward, and had three children ; David, born March 14, I773, died August 10, 1799; IMah- lon, born M^rch 15, i777, died July 8, 1848; John, born February 24, 1778, was lost at sea March 4. 1798; Sarah, born November 28, 1781, married Nov. 30. 1815, Jesse Kelly, son of Joseph and Phoebe (Buckman) Kel- ley, and died July 18, 1862. Sarah (Sotcher) Williamson died November 3, 1799, and Peter married a second time Eliza- beth Banes, but had no children by her. Mahlon, sixth child and third son of Peter, and Sarah (Sotcher) Williamson, born March 15, I777, settled near Fallsing- ton, Bucks county, and lived there all his life, dying July 8, 1848. He married Charity Vansant, born November 16, 1781, died April 29, 1848. daughter of Cornelius and Ann (Larzelere) Vansant, and whose pa- ternal and maternal ancestry is given else- where in this volume. Mahlon and Charity were the parents of eight children, as fol- lows : John, born December 21, 1800, died July 28, 1802 ; Isaiah V., born February 4, 1803, died March 7, 1889, unmarried, was the founder of the Williamson Industrial School in Delaware county, Pennsylvania ; Peter, born September 4, 1805, died Febru- ary 21, 1880, married May 26, 1831, Eliza Martin, and had six children ; John B. 2l8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. born January 4, 1S08, died October 24, 1874, moved to New Albany, Indiana, about 1833, married and bad nine cbildren ; Jesse, born May 13, 1810, died October, 1892, mar- ried tirst Margaret Buckman, and second EHzabeth Albertson, (had five cbildren : Edward C, of Morrisville; Henry D., of Lancaster ; Franklin, of Lancaster ; Ida, wife of Headley Harper; and Ella, wife of J. D. Tantum) ; Sarah Ann, born ISIay 14, 1812, died July 22, 1891, married De- cember 14, 1836, Spencer W. Buckman of Falls, Bucks county, see forward ; Mah- lon, born March 9, 1815, died May i, 1871, married ]Mary Ann Stiles and settled in Philadelphia, had seven children; Eliza Ann, born February i, 1819, died July 26, 1891, married William J. Moon, son of Daniel and Mercy (Lovett) INIoon and bad eleven children.- Spencer W. Buckman, born December 18, 1814, was a son of Zenas and Mary (Wortbington) Buck- man. He married December 14, 1836, Sarah Ann Williamson above mentioned, and they were the parents of seven chil- dren, as follows : Mary, born December II, 1837, married Charles A. Parsons, see Parsons Family in this volume; Eliza- beth, born January 2, 1839, married Owen Moon, son of Evan and Ann (Palmer) Moon, see preceding sketch ; Isaiah, born May 26, 1841, died May 9. 1842; Charles, born July 13, 1842, married Henrietta Anderson and has eight chil- dren ; William A., Spencer W., Engene. Anna Mary, George, Ida, Sarah, and Macre ; Wallace, born April 26, 1845, mar- ried Elizabeth Hart, and has two chil- dren : Edwin H., and Williamson ; George, born 1846, died 1848; Sarah, born Alarch 5, 1854, died April 24, 1883, married ]\Iah- lon Wharton and had two children : Caro- bne and Albert. John Williamson, third son of William and Elizabeth (Claessen) Williamson, and grandson of Dunck and Wallery William- son, born 1698, died August 31, 1761, mar- ried Elizabeth , who survived him. They lived on the homestead (inherited from his father) and are buried in the old family burying ground on the banks of the Neshaminy. They had nine sons and two daughters, as follows : William, born June 14, 1727; John, born ]\Iay lO, 1730; Joseph, born September 16, 1731, removed to Philadelphia ; Abraham, born November 16, 1733; Elizabeth, born April 25. 1736, married Joseph Vandegrift , Katharine, born November 17. 1738, married Benjamin Walton, of Byberry; Jesse, born June 25, 1741, removed to Philadelphia ; Josephus, born December 3, 1743, died April 28. 1817,. married Mary Bush, who died July 28, 1843, aged 87 years, both buried at St. Peter's church- yard, Philadelphia, see forward; David, born September 21, 1748, died April 22, 1794, married Ann Bennett and had eight children, see below ; Jeremiah, born March 8, 1751, removed to Philadelphia; Ben- jamin, born July 8, 1752, also removed to- Philadelphia. Josephus and Mary (Bush) Williamson had nine children, as follows: Jeremiah; David, died September 7, 1803, aged 2>i r Joseph (^none of whom married) ; Rebec- ca, born 1774, died July 5, 1831, married December 3, 1797, David Fleckmire, of Philadelphia and had seven children; Sa- rah, born September 22, 1776, died May, 1868, in her ninety-second year, marriea November 2, 1794, Jesse Williamson, son of Peter and Sarah (Sotcher) William- son, before mentioned; Ann, born 1779^ died April 21, 1839, married her cousin David Williamson, of Philadelphia, a son of David and grandson of John, see for- ward; Elizabeth, died 1840, married May 3, 1804, John Burns, lived on a farm ad- jacent to Pennsbury until 1825, and then removed to Wayne county, Indiana; John, born May 15, 1786, died April i, 1791 ; John G., married Harriet Shardon, and after her death removed to St. Louis, Mis- souri, had three children. The children of David and Ann (Ben- nett) Williamson were as follows : Cath- arine, born April 20, 1777, died August 30, 1798; Thomas, born May 5, 1774; Jo- seph, born September 15, 1779, had one son; Jesse, born' January 24, 1782, died September 2, 1798; David, born June 18, 1785, died June 10, 1851, married his cousin Ann Williamson, and had three children: Joseph, Bennett, and David E. ; Benjamin, born June 5, 1788, married. El- len Fitzmaury; Ann; and Samuel, who died in infancy. LEWIS W. FELL, of Buckingham^ merchant, was born in Buckingham township, near Mechanicsville, on a farm that had been the property of his ances- tors since 1723. He is only son of David and Margaret (Atkinson) Fell, of Buck- ingham, and of the sixth generation in descent from Joseph Fell, who came from Longlands parish, Rockdale, Cum- berland, England with Bridget W^il^on,. his wife, in 1705. Joseph Fell, eldest child of Joseph and Bridget, born in Cumberland. England, 4 mo. 29, 1701, was reared on his father's farm near Pool's corner, wdiere H. Clay Large now lives, and on bis marriage in 1735 received from his father a' deed of gift of 125 acres of land on the Durham road, above Mechanicsville. purchased by Joseph. Sr., in 1723, and lived thereon until his death, 2 mo. 22, 1777- He mar- ried, I mo. 4, 1735. Mary Kinsey, daugh- ter of Edmund and Sarah (Ogborn) Kin- sey, the former an eminent preacher among Friends. The children of Joseph and Mary Fell w^ere seven in number, five of whom grew to maturity, viz.: Joseph, born 8 mo. 31, 173S: Sarah, never mar- ried: Rachel, born 1744. married Wdliam Lownes; David, born 1750, married Sarah HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 2:9 Kinsey; and Martha, born 1756, married Edward Rice. Mary (Kinsey) Fell, was born 2 mo. 29, 1715, and died 12 mo. 29, 1769. Joseph Fell, eldest son of Joseph and Mary, born 8 mo. 31, 1738, on the home- stead farm in Buckingham, married 10 mo, 21, 1767, Rachel Wilson, born 4 mo. 5, 1741, died 3 mo. 8, i8ro, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Canby) Wilson, of Buckingham, and removed to Upper Makefield, where he purchased a farm. He died there 3 mo. 26, 1789. He had eight children, six of whom grew to ma- turity, viz.: Joseph, born 1768, married Esther Burroughs; John, born 1770, mar- ried Edith Smith; Martha, married Ben- jamin Schofield; David, married Phebe Schofield; Jonathan, born S mo. 5, 1776; Rachel, born 1783, married John Speak- man. Jonathan, son of Joseph and Rachel, was born in Upper Makefield township, 5 mo. 5, 1776, and married i mo. 2, 1799, Sarah Balderston, and removed to North- ampton township. Two years later he removed to Falls township, near Mor- risville, where he lived until 1831, and then removed to the old homestead of his ancestors in Buckingham, where he died 7 mo. 27. 1849. His wife Sarah died at Morrisville 11 mo. 23, 1802, and he married 10 mo. 11, 1809, Jane Buckman, born 12 mo. 12. 1784. died 3 mo. 25, 1874, daughter of James and Sarah (Burroughs) Buckman. By his first wife he had two chil- dren— Jane, who married Seth Davis ; and Rebecca, who died an infant. By his second marriage he had six children, viz. : James, born in 1810, married (first) ]\Iary Cad- wallader, and (second) IMary Holcombe; Sarah, who never married; Joshua, born 2 mo. 22, 1814, married Mary Watson, has been postmaster and merchant at Mechanicsville for many years; Eliza- beth, born 1817, died 1853, unmarried; Hannah, born 2 mo. 22, 1820, married Thomas Story Smith, of Upper Make- field; David, born 11 mo. 13, 1823, mar- ried Margaret Atkinson. David Fell, the father of the subject of this sketch, born in Penn's IManor, near Morrisville, 11 mo. 13, 1823, was the youngest child of Jonathan and Jane Buckman Fell. As he was but eight years old when the family moved to the old homestead in Buckingham, his boy- hood days were spent on the farm that remained his home during the rest of his life. He was a man of high character, much esteemed in the neighborhood, and held many positions of trust. Like his ancestors for many generations, he was a member of the Society of Friends, and a regular attendant at Buckingham Meet- ing. He died on the old homestead 8 mo. 9. 1887. He had married I mo. 3, 1850. Margaret, daughter of Abner and Sarah Atkinson, who bore him three children; Sarah Jane, born 11 mo. 7, 1850, married Horace Michener, living in Doylestown; Marj- Lester, born 9 mo. 26, 1853, married Thomas B. Claxton. and died; and Lewis, the subject of this sketch. Margaret (Atkinson) Fell is still living in Doylestown. Lewis \W Fell was born on the home- stead of his ancestors in Buckingham, 6 mo. 2, 1857, and remained thereon until 1881. He was educated at the public school of the neighborhood and at the Doylestown English and Classical Sem- inary. In the spring of 1881 he accepted a position in the store of his brother-in- law, Evan T. Worthington, at Bucking- ham, and two years later acquired an interest in the business, forming a co- partnership under the firm name of Worthington & Fell, wdiich lasted for six years, when he purchased the entire interest in the store and has since con- ducted it with marked success. The store has the reputation of being one of the best country stores in the county and does a large, trade. Mr. Fell was ap- pointed postmaster of Buckingham on February 18, 1890. and has held the po- sition continuously since. In 1896 Mr. Fell was one of the organizers of a local telephone company in Buckingham, which was later purchased by the Stand- ard Telephone Company, who estab- lished their exchange in his store, which is also the exchange for the Bell Tele- phone Company. ]\Ir. Fell is a member of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., of Doylestown. and was an original member of Buckingham Castle, No. 208, A. O. K. of the M. C, and has been its treasurer since 1893. He is a member of Buckingham Friends' Meeting. Po- litically he is a Republican. Mr. Fell was married on January 20, 1881, to Emma Clara Worthington, daughter of Elisha and Harriet (Lukens) Worthington, who has borne him two children: Arthur D., who assists his father in the business; and Ashton W., w-ho is private secretary to John Shreeve. publisher . of the "Atlantic City Review," Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mr. Shreeve is also secretary for Congress- man Gardner, and secretary of the Con- gress of Labor. Both the sons are grad- uates of Friends Central School, Phila- delphia, and of Pierce's Business Col- lege. ALLEN G. MOYER belongs to one of the old and honored families of Bucks county. The name was variously spelled bv the ancestors, some using the form of Meyer, while others continued the spelling used by the subject of this re- view and his immediate branch of tFe family. His father. Christian Moyer. was born near Sumneytown, ]\Tontgomery couaty. about 1814. In early life he followed milling, but later engasred in merchan- dising at New Galena, Pennsylvania, for 220 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. many years one of the enterprising rep- resentatives of commercial interests in that place. He conducted his store with good success until his death, and was also the promoter of other business en- terprises which proved of direct value to the community. In i860 he discov- ered the lead mines at New Galena, which were on tlie property owned by himself and his brother-in-law, Daniel Barnes. His political views were in ac- cord with the principles of the Repub- lican party, which he always supported "by his ballot. He held the office ot school director, and at one time was postmaster of New Galena for your years. He be- longed to the Old Mennonite church, and died in that faith in 1867. His wife was Miss Barbara Godshalk in her maiden- liood, a daughter of John Godshalk. They had eight children, one of whom was drowned in a mill race when only two years of age, while another died at the age of six years. The surviving six members of the family are: Enos, who is now connected with mining interests in British Columbia; Isaac G., a butcher, residing in Dover, New Jersey; Allen G. ; Mahlon G., of North Wales, and who for the past thirty years has been in the employ of the Western Union Tele- graph Company; Lydia, the wife of Samuel Leatherman, of Doylestown; and Amanda, the wife of H. Erwin Fritz, of Bedminster. Allen G. Moyer, son of Christian Moyer, was born in New Britain town- ship, Bucks county, August 5, 1848, and at the usual age entered the public schools, where he completed his liter- ary education. In the school of experi- ence, however, he has learned many valuable lessons. He clerked in his father's store until seventeen years of age, and following his father's death ■was, employed for a year as a salesman in the store of R. J. Hillier, at Line Lex- ington. He afterward followed house painting and paper hanging for a num- ber of years, and since 1884 has been engaged in butchering hogs in Hilltown and Plumstead townships. In 1888 he purchased the place which is now his home at Danboro, and has made exten- sive and modern improvements there. This property is an evidence of his life of business activity and energy, for he started out with little capital, and all that he has acquired has been won through his own efforts. Mr. Moyer is a leading member of the Doylestown Presbyterian church, and has been par- ticularly active in Sunday-school work. He wedded Miss Mary Brand, a daughter of John and Margaret Brand, and in 1902 was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died on the nth of December of that year. They were the parents (if fifteen children, seven of whom died ere reaching the age of ten years. The others are Wannita, born January 6, 1871, and is the wife of J. r. Leatherman; J. Arthur, born March 9, 1872; Purdy B., born December 27, 1873, and was ordained as a minister of the Baptist church in 1900, now occupy- ing the pulpit of the Hepzibah Baptist church near Coatesville, in Chester county, Pennsylvania; Carey, born July 10, 1877, and is engaged in the butcher- ing business in Danboro; . Harvey K., born April 28, 1878, and is engaged in merchandising at Doylestown; Margar- etta B., born February 28, 1880, now the wife of Wilson Fretz; Jesse, born June I, 1882; and Nellie, born December i, 1887. ABRAHAM GEORGE MOYER. A type of the well-informed and energetic business man who is essential to the. well-being of any community is Abra- ham George Moyer, of Quakertown. He belongs to a well known family, the various branches of which are scattered through Bucks county. He is a grandson of Samuel Moyer, who was a resident of Hilltown. Joseph Hunsicker Moyer, son of Samuel Moyer. before mentioned, was born May 22, 1840. on the homestead in Hilltown township, and until his eighteenth year attended the public schools of his 'dis- trict. His life was devoted to agricul- tural pursuits. He married Elizabeth Yoder, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Yoder) George, the former a farmer of Milford township, who had obtained his education in the subscription school. The other children born to himself and his wife were: i. Charles, who married a Moyer. 2. Jacob, who married and lives at Milford Square. 3. Benjamin, who married and is a resident of Spin- nerstown. 4. Daniel, who is a farmer at Milford Square and has been twice married, his second wife being Mary, daughter of Jacob Shelly, of Milford township. 5. Anna, who is the wife of Abram Leatherman, of Plumsteadville. Mr. and Mrs. Moyer were the parents of the following children: i. Mary, who married Jacob Rush, son of William and ]\Iary (Moyer) Rush, of Bedminster towniship, and lives on the Moyer home- stead, near Plumsteadville. 2. Emma, born May 24, 1865. became the wife of John Bergstresser. of Haycock town- ship, and died in 1904, leaving four sons : Abel B., Howard. Daniel, and Elton. 3. Abraham George Moyer mentioned at length hereinafter. 4. Daniel born in May. 1870, married Maggie, daughter of Henry Souder. of Souderton, and lives at Perkasie. 5. Elizabeth, born in 1872, became the wife of John, son of William and Maria (Moyer) Staufifer. 6. Cath- arine, born in 1874, married Henry C, son of the Rev. John and Mary Beidlcr, of Rosedale Valley, and lives at Allen- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 221 town. 7. Adeline, who is the wife of John Fhick, and lives at. Lansdale. 8. Joseph Wilson died in infancy. Mr. Moyer, the father of the family, died at the comparatively early age of forty-six, passing away February 20, 1886, on his own farm in Plumstead township. Abraham George Moyer, son of Jo- seph Hunsicker and Elizabeth Yoder (George) Moyer, was born April 4, 1867, on his father's farm in Hilltown township. When he was one year old his father purchased a farm of fifty- eight acres near Plumsteadville, and there the family took up their abode. On this farm, which had previously been the property of Tobias Rickert, Abra- ham George rendered valuable assist- aince, at the same time attending the district school. He left school in his eighteenth year and was not yet nine- teen at the time of the death of his father. The farm was then sold, and Mr. Moyer became a pupil in the West Chester State Normal School. After teaching for a time in a school near Dublin, he went to Plumsteadville, where for four years he was engaged in the creamery business. He then devoted four years to a mercantile business at Milford Square, and at the end of that time purchased the Milford Square creamery which he conducted for five years. His next venture was to build a creamery in Milford township, which he still owns. In 1900 he purchased from Enos R. Artman the store which he now occupies, and which was then conducted by his brother-in-law, Henrj^ Beidler. On this site he is now doing a thriving business. The confidence reposed in Mr. Moyer by his fellow-citizens is dem- onstrated by the fact that he has been chosen by them to fill the office of com- mitteeman for Shelly district, and that while a resident of Milford township he served for one year as school director, resigning his position when he moved to Quakertown. In his political principles he is a Republican. He and his family are members of the Mennonite church at W^est Swamp, in which he served as superintendent of the Sunday school from 1896 to 1900. Mr. Moyer married, November 26, 1887, Hannah Oberholtzer. daughter of Levi and Mary (Oberholtzer) Fretz, the former a farmer of Plumsteadville. Mrs. Moyer received her education in the district school. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Moyer consists of the follow- ing children: i. Willis, born April 23, 1891. 2. Pearl, born February 12. 1893. 3. Edna, born November 28, 1895. 4. Elizabeth, born November 27, 1898. 5. Joseph, born June 16. 1901. It. is to Tae believed that these children will prove worthy heirs of the good qualities as well as of the good name of their an- cestors, and that they will live to do credit to their native county. HARVEY W. MOYER. Among Chal- font's progressive and public-spirited citizens must be numbered Harvey W. Moyer. Mr. Moyer is a son of Levi S. Moyer, who learned the trade of a miller at Diehl's mill near Hellertown, Pennsylvania, and afterward purchased the property and the business. Subse- quently he engaged in business "as a butcher. He married Caroline, daughter of Shelly Weinberger, of Milford, and the following children were born to them: Clinton W.; Mary A.; Joseph W.; Emma W. ; and Harvey W., men- tioned at length hereinafter. The pa- rents of these children were, as their names would indicate, of German de- scent. Harvey W. Moyer, son of Levi S. and Caroline (Weinberger) Moyer, was born June 21, 1868, in Bingham, North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public schools of his birthplace. There also he was trained by his father to the occupation of a' butcher, and followed the iDusiness for four years. Beginning in a small way and on borrowed capital, his efforts were crowned with success, and he was enabled to discharge his obligations and build up a flourishing trade. In 1894 he moved to Chalfont, and is now at the head of a large establishment, his con- nections extending throughout the adja- cent country. He is a successful busi- ness man and has built for himself a comfortable and attractive home. He is active as a citizen, and has been chosen by his neighbors a member of the town council, an oflice which he still holds. In politics he is a Republican, and in re- ligion a member of the Mennonite church. Mr. Moyer married, December 29, 1892, Lizzie S., born November 23, 1871, daughter of Abram and Ellamina (Sleifer) Kulp, and three children have been born to them : Florence, who was born January 30, 1894; Grace Lorene, born October 14. 1896; and Ray K., born November 23, 1898, and died July 19, 1900. H. WATSON JOHNSON, a prosper- ous agriculturist, son of Charles and Esther (Strawn) Johnson, was born No- vember II. 1832, on the farm where he now resides, it being part of the original tract acquired by Casper Johnson (great-grandfather), the first of that family to come to the colony of Penn- sylvania, emigrating from his home in Holland early in the eighteenth century. Casper Johnson (grandfather), son of the emigrant ancestor, was born on the farm now owned by Henry Johnson, the farm owned by H. Watson Johnson be- ing a part of that tract. Charles John- son (father), son of Casper and Geborah Johnson, was born on the homestead farm. He attended the subscription 222. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. schools of his community, and followed farming. He was a man of considerable fame as a farmer and man of affairs in northern Bucks county, and in 'his im- mediate neighborhood was looked upon as a leading agriculturist. His employes always received recognition and their just dues for faithful services, and his home was always a resort for neigh- borly intercourse. He was a member of the Whig party, and took an active interest in its affairs. He married Esther Strawn, davighter of Abel and Elizabeth Strawn, of Haycock township, and had issue: H. Watson, Mary Ann, wife of Aaron Walp, of Quakertown ; Oliver James married Maria Stover, and they reside in Haycock township; Anna Maria, wife of Louis N. Shelly, of Quakertown. H. Watson Johnson attended the sub- scription schools of Richland township until the free school system was intro- duced, and later the public schools, com- pleting his studies at the age of eigh- teen years, and in the meantime assisted on the home farm. For one year after leaving school he clerked in the general store of Mr. H. Buchacer, at Richland- town, but, his parents being insistent upon his returning home, he complied with their request and thereafter re- mained at home. After his marriage he assumed charge of his father's farm, working the same on shares, and con- tinuing thus until the death of his father, February 28, 1879, and at the settlement of the estate he became the owner, pur- chasing the interest of the other heirs. Since attaining his majority Mr. John- son has taken an active part in the affairs of his community. In politics he is a Republican, and has served his party in local, county and state conventions as delegate, and, has also served for fifteen years as director of the local school toard. In the campaign of 1874 Mr. Johnson, at the solicitation of his party, stood as candidate for the state legis- lature, and, although the county was at that time strongly Democratic, he, with no special effort on his part, came within twenty-two votes of being elected, which was an unmistakable proof of his pop- ularity. Of recent years Mr. Johnson has not taken so active a part in politi- cal affairs as of yore, devoting his time and attention to the care of his estate, he being of the fourth generation to re- side there. Mr. Johnson married, November 15, 1855, Margaret Kratz. daughter of Jacob and Eliza (Fretz) Kratz, of Plumstead township. Five children were the issue of this union: i. Erwin Thomas, now a practicing physician and surgeon at Leidytown, Hilltown township; he mar- ried Martha, daughter of Leidy Sheip. 2. Charles Jacob died in 1878. 3. Oliver Kratz died in 1893. 4. Harvey Ellwood. who attended the township schools, and is now at home, assisting his father with the duties of the farm. 5. Jennie, who married November 7, 1894, Wilson Erd- man, M. D., son of Owen and Mary Ann Erdman, of Richland township; Dr. and Mrs. Erdman reside in Richlandtown. Mr. Johnson and his family attend the Union Reformed church at Richland- town. LEVI SWARTLEY, of Chalfont, Bucks county, is the only surviving child of John and Mary (Moyer) Swartley, and was born in New Britain township, April 5, 1832. Philip Schwardley, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Eppingen, in Necker, grand duchy of Baden, Germany, October 28, 1764 and is supposed to have come to this country with his elder brothers John and Jacob in the ship "Minerva," arriving at Philadelphia on September 30, 1772. As, however, the list of pas- sengers does not include the names of the two younger brothers, it is possible they may have followed their brother to Pennsylvania some years later. Philip was probably a resident for some years of Franconia township, Montgomery county, where he married Sarah Rosenberger, born Januarj' 24, 1765, daughter of Rev. Henry and Bar- bara (Oberholtzer) Rosenberger, and a sister to Magdalena, the wife of his brother John Schwardley. About 1790 Philip Schwardley settled in New Brit- ain township, Bucks county, where he became a large landowner. He died Sep- tember 23. 1840, and his wife Sarah died April 6, 1849. They were the parents of nine children, viz.: Elizabeth, married Jacob Krout; Henry; John; Jacob; Mary, married Jacob Hafner; Philip; Abraham; Samuel; and Sarah, who mar- ried John Price. John Swartlej^ second son of Philip and Sarah (Rosenberger) Swartley, was born in New Britain township June 8, 1792, and was reared on his father's farm. In 1814 he married Mary Moyer, born in Springfield township, Bucks county, October 9, 1795, and died in New Britain, on April 10, 1872, daughter of Jacob and Magdalene ("Moyer") Moyer, of Springfield, and settled in Plumstead township, where they resided for one j'ear. April 3, 1816, his parents conveyed to him a farm of ninety-one acres in New Britain, where he lived from that date until his death, March 14. 1856. John and Mary (Moyer") Swartley were the parents of eight children, viz.: I. Jacob M.. born April 15, 1816, died De- cember 20, 1885, married Anna Rulh and left a number of children. 2. Sarah, born September 28, 1818, died Januarv 7, T901, married Abraham Kratz. 3. W'ill- iam, born June 2%. 1821, died April 17, 187s, was blind for thirty-eight years. 4. Magdalena, born September 28. 1824, died April 7, 1893, married in 1844 JOSEPH THOMAS HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY. 223 Henry Ruth; 5. Joseph AL, born Decem- ber 7, 1826, married three times; lived on the old homestead, where he died March 26, 1892. 6. John M., born Septem- ber 18, 1829, died September 24, 1900; Levi M., the subject of this sketch; and Mary, born May 5, 1835, died January 2, 1888, married William G. Meyer. Levi M. Swartley, youngest son of John and Mary, was born and reared on the I^Iew Britain homestead and re- mained there with his mother until he was twenty-seven years old. After a residence of a year and a half in Hill- town he purchased the old homestead and returned to it, and resided thereon until 1890, since which time he has lived a retired life in the borough of CHal- font. He is a member of the Mennon- ites, and politicall-y is a Republican. He married December 2, i860, Lydia H. Myers, daughter of Isaac Myers, of Plumsteadville, and they have been the parents of three children: Mary Ann, born September 22, 1862, married Abra- ham L. Garges, of New Britain, and has children: Anna, Howard and Lydia. Isaac M., born January 16, 1865. died May. 1892. married Alary L. Moyer, daughter of Abraham Moyer, and left one child, Bertha. Ella M., boi-n August 3, 1873, married Henry Rosenberger, and has one child, Laura Elizabeth. JOHN SWARTLEY, postmaster of Chalfont, was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, November 19, 1862, and is a son of John M. and Mary (Moyer) Swartley, and a grandson of John and Magdalene (Moyer) Swartley, whose ancestry is given in the sketch of Levi Swartley. John M. Swartley w-as born in New Britain township, September 18, 1829, and was educated at the local schools. He followed the life of a farmer, near the little village of Newville, and was a member of the Mennonite church. He was an active and progressive farmer, and filled the office of supervisor^of New Britain township for a number of years. He married on October 18, 1853, EHza- heth M. Moyer, daughter of Rev. Abra- ham and Anna Moyer, of Bedminster. the ancestors of the former having borne the name of Christian for four gener- ations, the first of whom was Christian Meyer, who came to Pennsylvania about 1712 and settled in Franconia township. His grandson, Christian Moyer, born in Franconia, March 27, 1763, married IMary Landis, and settled in Bucks county. Rev. Abraham Moyer, of Bed- minster, above mentioned, was the ninth of their eleven children; he married Anna Moyei', and Elizabeth M., who married John M. Swartley, was the youngest of their five children. John M. and Elizabeth M. (Moyer) Swartley were the parents of eight children, viz.: Mary Ann, born January 5, 1S55, died July 12. 1873; Amanda, born April 19, 1856, died June 22, 1878, married Novem- ber 13, 1877, A. G. Ruth; Oliver J., born November 15, 1857, died August 30, 1885; William M., born September 24, i860; John, the subject of this sketch; Emma Jane, born November 24, 1863, died April 19, 1878: Elizabeth M., born May II, 1865, died February 15, 1884; and El- mer M., born June 25, 1873, died April 29, 1899. John, the father, died Septem- ber 24, 1900. John Swartley, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the • farm near Newville', and was educated at the local schools. , In 1882 he entered the general merchandise store at Chalfont as clerk, and filled that position for sixteen years. In 1898 he entered into the mercantile business for himself, and carried it on for five years and "then sold out. He w^as appointed postmaster of Chalfont in February, 1897 and still fills that posi- tion. He is a member of the Methodist church, and politically a Republican. He married April 7, 1891, Laura 'Scholl, daughter of Leidy L. and Lucilla (Diehl) Scholl. They have no children. DR. JOSEPH THOMAS, of Quaker- town, Bucks county, one of the best known public men of Upper Bucks, was born in New Britain township, June 15, 1829, and is of Welsh, English and Ger- man descent. His paternal ancestor, Alban Thomas, a native .of Wales, lo- cated in Plumstead township about 1720, purchasing of Richard Hill 125 acres of land west of Danboro, and in 1749 adding fifty acres more, most of which remained in the family for four generations, Danboro itself being named for his son Daniel. Alban Thomas died June, 1776, his wife Jane surviving him a few years. Their children were Jo- seph, Daniel, and Isaac. Isaac, the third son, inherited the homestead, purchased other land adjoining, and lived there all his life, dying in 1825. He left several children, among them a son Alban, who was the grandfather of Dr. Thomas. Elias Thomas, son of Alban and grand- son of Isaac, was born at Danboro, Plumstead township, and on attaining manhood married Sarah Snyder, daugh- ter of Frederick Snyder, of German an- cestry, and settled on a farm in New Britain township, near the present vil- lage of Levin, where his son, Dr. Jo- seph Thomas was born. Dr. Joseph Thomas received a good English education, and at the age of seventeen began teaching school, which vocation he followed for eight years. In 1854 he began the study of medicine, and, entering the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, gradu- ated in 1856. He located at Applebachs- 224 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ville, where he practiced his profession until the breaking out of the war in 1861, when he organized a company of which he was commissioned captain, and it was assigned to the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. In the autumn of 1862 he was appointed surgeon of the ii8th Corn Exchange Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and subsequently became surgeon-in-chief of the field hospital and filled that position to the close of the war. At the return of peace he again lo- cated at Applebachsville and resumed his professional work. In 1866 he was appointed assistant assessor of internal revenue and remoyed to Quakertown, Bucks county, where he has ^ince re- sided. In 1870 he organized the Quak- ertown Savings Bank, was made its cashier, and filled that position until the bank closed out its successful career in 1877, by paying out .to its stockhold- ers four dollars for every one dollar in- vested. The Quakertown National Bank was then organized, and Dr. Thomas became its president, and has filled that position ever since. Like its predeces- sor, the Quakertown National Bank, with Dr. Thomas at its head, has been one of the most successful banks in Bucks county, and has always stood in the first rank of financial institutions. In 1904 the Quakertown Trust Company was organized, and the veteran finan- cier Dr. Thomas was one of its prom- inent promoters and sponsers, and is still intimately identified with the conduct and management of this institution. Jonas S. Harley is its president. Though he has not been in active practice of his profesion for manj^ years, he is still considered one of the able physicians of Upper Bucks, and is fre- quentlj^ called in as a consulting physi- cian. Politically Dr. Thomas is an ar- dent Republican, and has always taken an active interest in the success of the party in whose principles he believes. In 1878 he was elected to the state sen- ate by a handsome majority, though at that time the county was strongly Dem- ocratic. He has served as delegate to state and national conventions, and has filled a number of local positions. In the midst of an extraordinary busy life Dr. Thomas has found time to devote to science and literature, and is one of the best versed men in the county on orni- thologj' and natural history. In con- nection w'ith his former colleague. Dr. I. S. Moyer, of Quakertown, he prepared the catalogue of the flora, birds and mammals of Bucks county for General W. W. H. Davis's first edition of the History of Bucks County. He is past master of Quakertown Lodge, No. 512. F. and A. M., and is also a member of the chapter, commandery and other high branches of the Masonic fraternity, as well as a member of Quakertown Lodge, No. 714, I. O. O. F. He belongs to- Peter Lyle Post, G. A. R., No. 145, and to the Loyal Legion of the United States. L)r. Thomas married, April 3, i860, Sarah Ott, daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Fluck) Ott, and they are the parents of one son, Byron, who has been for many years teller of Quakertown National Bank. Dr. Thomas is one of the best known and most highly re- spected men in Bucks county. CHRISTIAN M. MYERS. Among the descendants of the early German settlers on the virgin land of Bedmin- ster, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, when it was still a wilderness and the haunt of the red men, is Christian M. Myers, still a resident of the township where his ancestors settled over a century and a half ago. Hans Meyer, the pioneer ancestor and great-great-grandfather of Christian M. Myers, emigrated from Germany or Switzerland, about the year, 1718, and in 1729 purchased a plantation in Skippack township, Philadelphia (now Montgom- ery) county, in that part later incor- porated into Upper Salford township, still in the occupancy of his great-grand- son. Hans Meyer was a Mennonite and one of the pioneer settlers in that lo- cality. He was married before emi- grating to America, and brought with Iiim his eldest son Henry, then but a year old. Six other children were born to him in Pennsylvania, viz.: John, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch; Barbara, who married John Fretz, another pioneer in Bedminster; Jacob, who enlisted in the colonial war of 1756, and never returned; Elizabeth, who married Christian Stover; Anna, who married Jacob Beidler. and became the ancestress of ]\Irs. Christian M. Myers; and Hester, who married Nich- olas Lear. John Meyer, born about 1720, settled in Bedminster township soon after at- taining manhood, on land owned by William Allen, Esq., which he later pur- chased. In 1762 he purchased a farm of two hundred acres in Plumstead township where he resided the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and blacksmith by occupation, and a member of the Mennonite congregation at Deep Run. He married a widow Nash, whose maid- en name was Sensenich. and they were the parents of six children, Henr\-. Abraham, and Christian, all of whom learned their father's trade and followed it in connection with farming in Plum- stead: Hester and Marj% who lived to an advanced age, but never married; and Barbara, who married Charles Dyer. Christian flyers, son of John, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on the old Plumstead home- stead, April 24. 1772, and later pur- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 22- chased it, and lived there all his life. He followed blacksmithiiig for many- years in the old smith-shop built by his father. He married Hanna Derstein, of Rockhill, where her ancestors were early settlers, born January 12, 1778, died August 27, 1848, and they were the parents of seven children, viz.: Amos, born 1800, died 1825, unmarried; John, died in infancy; Catharine, born February 14, 1803, married Abraham Wismer; Michael, born May 9, 1804, re- moved to Fairfield county, Ohio, where he died in 1889; Samuel, the father of the subject of this sketch; Abraham, born 1807, died 1834, unmarried; Charles, who married Susan Myers and left several sons still residing in Bucks county; and Isaac, who died in 1845, leaving an only daughter, Hannah Wolfsberger, of Philadelphia. Christian Myers, the father, died November 15, 1850. Samuel Myers, son of Christian and Hanna (Derstein) Myers, was born on the old homestead in Plumstead, De- cember 27, 1805, and lived there all his life, dying February 4, 1879. He prob- ably learned the blacksmith trade w^th his father, but never followed it fur- ther than to do his own work in that line. He was a mechanical genius, do- ing his own shoe and harness making, and manufacturing most of the imple- ments of husbandry needed on the farm. Those were the days when the farmer was almost independent of the outside world except for the luxuries of life. Mr. Myers raised and prepared the flax and wool for the spinning wheel, and the clothes of the family were exclu- sively the product of the spinning of Mrs. Myers, and the weaving of the father. Samuel Myers married Decem- ber 24, 1835, Susanna Nash, born De- cember 30, 1810, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Meyer) Nash, the latter be- ing also a descendant of Hans Meyer,, the emigrant, through his eldest son Henry, who married Barbara Miller, and their son Henry, born 1750, (died in Plumstead) who married Susan Smith. Elizabeth (Meyer) Nash, the daughter of the last named Henry, was born August 16, 1786, and married Jacob Nash, of Tinicum, son of Joseph Nash, and grand- son of William Nash, another pioneer of Bedminster. Samuel and Susanna (Nash) Myers were the parents of eight children, viz.: Hannah, died in infancy; Tobias N., married Rosanna Kratz, and lived for a time in Plumstead, now a resident of Philadelphia: Jacob, married Maria Myers, and resides in Hilltown, Bucks county; Christian M., the sub- ject of this sketch; Amos, married Hilda Myers, and resides on the homestead in Plumstead, being the fourth generation in the township; Elizabeth, died at the age of nineteen years; Anna, widow of David Kratz; and Charles, deceased. Samuel Myers was a member of the old 15-3 Deep Run Mennonite congregation, and a man much respected in the commun- ity. He never held or sought office. Christian M. Myers, son of Samuel and Susanna (Nash) Myers, who born April 29, 1841, on the old homestead in Plumstead, and educated at the public schools. He inherited the mechanical genius of his father, and made the first hay rake and hay drag used on the home farm, as well as a number of other im- plements of husbandry, and, in the ear- lier years of the conduct of the mill where he now resides, he dressed his own mill picks and did the necessary milhvrighting about the mill. On his marriage in 1863 he took charge of the Stover mill, on Tohickon creek, in Bedminster township, near Pipersville, Pennsylvania, belonging to his father-in-law, Samuel Stover, and conducted it until 1904, keeping in pace with the times in the installation of improved machinery, having in 1885, equipped the mill with the latest improved roller process for the manufacture of flour, and again in 1903, installed the Gyrator system of bolting and other improvements. In 1904 he retired and turned the business over to Norman L. Worman, who had been his foreman and head miller for many years, and who is now doing a flourishing business there. Mr. Myers is a strong advocate of higher education, and has given each of his sons a col- lege education. He and his wife are not members of any church, but are liberal supporters of church, Sabbath school and charitable w'ork. and to which and the temperance cause they have devoted much time and labor. Mr. Myers mar- ried, February 7, 1863, Eliza Beidler Stover, born February 22, 1844, daugh- ter of Samuel and Anna (Beidler) Stov- er, an account of whose ancestry fol- lows, and they are parents of three sons, viz.: I. Samuel Horace Myers, born May 9, 1864, a graduate of Lafayette Col- lege, class of 1888, and of the law de- partment of the University of Pennsyl- vania, July 17, 1892. He was admitr ted to the Philadelphia bar in 1892, and has since practiced there with success. He married, February 22, 1893, Elean- or Matilda Stover, daughter of Isaac S. and Ellen A. (Capner) Stover, and they are the parents of one daughter Roberta Eliza Myers, born October 9, 1897. 2. Hugh Ely Myers, born August 30, 1871. graduated at Lafayette Col- lege June 21, 1893, took a two years post-graduate course there in chemistry and is now employed as chemist with the United Engineering and Foundry Company, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 3. Ira Stover Myers, born August 3, 1876, educated at Germantown Academy and Lafayette College, graduated at College in class of 1898, is now in the office of his brother, Samuel Horace in Philadelphia. 226 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Eliza B. (Stover) Myers, the wife of Christian M. Myers, is descended from pioneer settlers in Bucks and Montgomery counties, who have been prominently identified with the settle- ment and development of the native resources of the county. Henry Stauf- fer, (as the name Stover was then spelled) Mrs. Myers' paternal ancestor, was born and reared in Alsace or Man- heim, Rhenish Prussia, and married there in 1749, Barbara Hockman, and accompanied by Christian, Daniel and Ulrich Stauffer, probably his brothers and Ulrich Hockman, his wife's broth- er, sailed for Pennsylvania in the ship "St. Andrew," Captain James Abercrom- bie, from Rotterdam, arriving in Phila- delphia on September 9, 1749. He lo- cated in Bedminster township on the Allen tract, where he purchased 213 acres of land June 12, 1762, having pre- viously resided for a time among his compatriots on the Skippack in Mont- gomery county. The Bedminster home- stead remained the property of his de- scendants for nearly a century, having been sold by Reuben Stover, a great- grandson, in i860 to Joseph Sine. The children of Henry and Barbara (Hock- man) Stauffer, were: i. Ulrich, born July 16, 1750, married Barbara Swartz, and died on the homestead November 2, 1811. 2. Barbara, died young. 3. Henry, born July 10, I754, married Elizabeth Fretz, and settled near Bursonville, Springfield township. 4. Jacob, see for- ward. 5. Ralph, born June 10, 1760, died November 7, 181 1, married Catharine Funk; was a very prominent man, jus- tice of the peace, member of assembly and one of the first board of directors of the poor of Bucks county. Jacob Stover, third son of Henry and Barbara, born May 13, 1757, was reared in Bedminster township. During the war of the Revolution his father's team and wagon was pressed into the service of the continental army under General Sullivan, and Jacob, a lad of sixteen years, accompanied it in the Jersey campaign, and endured many hardships. He purchased the mill property now owned by the subject of this sketch, December 27, 1784, and resided there the remainder of his life, 'dying April 28, 1844. He married (first) Elizabeth Swartz, and had -by her one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Philip Kratz. He married (second) Catharine Stauf- fer, daughter of Mathias and Anna (Clemens) Stauffer, who kept an inn in colonial times on their farm in Lower Salford, Montgomery county, where of- ficers of Washington's army were en- tertained and sheltered by them after the battle of Germantown. Mathias Staufifer was a son of Christian Staufifer, Jr., who died in Lower Salford in 1781, and a grandson of Christian Stauffer, a pioneer emigrant, who purchased 150 acres at the present site of Harleysville, Montgomery county, and died there in 1735, leaving a large family of children of whom Christian, Jr., was the eldest, and settled in Lower Salford in 1736. Jacob and Catharine Stover were the parents of eight children: Henry S., born October 17, 1786, died at Erwinna, Aug- ust 19, 1872, married Barbara Stout; Mathias, born April 28, 1789, died June 4, 1S07; Anna, born 1791, married David Worman, a tanner, at Parkerford, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania; Jacob, born July 12, 1794, died March 30, 1856, mar- ried Sarah Treichler; Abraham, died young; Catharine, born August ^2, 1799, married Henry Funk and removed to Northumberland county; Jonas, born February 27, 1802, died 1855, a miller at Church Hill, Bucks county; Samuel, see forward; and Isaac, born March 13, 1806, died January 21, 1876, miller at Carversville, married Elizabeth Wismer. Samuel Stover, father of Mrs. Myers, was the seventh child of Jacob and Cath- arine, and was born on the homestead, near Pipersville, November 25, 1804, and died there February 18, 1888. In 1836 he purchased of his father the brick dwell- ing erected in 1832, the mill and fifty acres of land, and in the same year re- built the mill. He continued to oper- ate the mill during his active days, and lived there all his life. He was a suc- cessful business man, and upright and conscientious in all his dealings. He married in December, 1836, Anna Beid- ler, born near Plumsteadville, Septem- ber 12, 1808, died March 2, 1893, daugh- ter of Jacob Beidler, and great-grand- daughter of Jacob and Anna (Meyer) Beidler, the latter daughter of Hans Meyer, the paternal ancestor of the sub- ject of this sketch, C. M. Myers. Sam- uel and Anna (Beidler) Stover were the parents of two children: Susan, born June 19, 1839, died March 25, 1842; and Eliza Beidler Stover, born February 22, 1844, the wife of Christian M. Myers. She was educated in the public schools of the township, both English and Ger- man, and at Excelsior Normal Institute at Carversville, in 1S61, Rev. Dr. F. R. S. Hunsicker, principal, where Hon. D. Newlin Fell was also a pupil. ISAAC PARRY. The name of Parry is closely interwoven with the history of eastern Pennsylvania, having been established in this part of the state when tlie country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Brit- ain. The ancestors of Isaac Parry were in comfortable financial circtmistances, and at the time of the Revolutionary war the homestead farm was foraged by both armies. On one occasion some British scouts made their way to the farm and seeing some fat sheep caught HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 227 and killed one, compelling Mrs. Parry- to cook it for them in the Dutch oven, but before their feast was prepared some American troops arrived on the scene and the British fled, so that the Continental troops enjoyed the meal in- stead. The ancestry of the family is traced back through several generations to Thomas Parry, Sr., who emigrated from Radmanshire, Wales, settling in America in colonial days. He became one of the pioneer residents of Mont- gomery county, and assisted materially in promoting its substantial develop- ment and moral improvement. He lived a straightforward, honorable life, leav- ing an example for his descendants that is well worthy of emulation. He was a coftsistent member of the religious So- ciety of Friends, and successive gener,a- tions of the family have always adhered to that faith, living lives of simplicity without vanity. They have been con- servative to a considerable degree, and yet they have won success and gained the respect of all with whom they have Tseen associated. The family has largely been represented in the great depart- ment of agriculture, and yet certain of its representatives have entered profes- sional and commercial life. Samuel Parry was a broadminded, intelligent business man, whose ability was often sought by people of the neighborhood who wished him to write wills, settle estates or act as guardian to minors. Thomas Parry, Sr., the progenitor of the family in America, obtained a large tract of land near Baronhill, Montgom- ery county, where he improved an ex- tensive farm, being one of the promi- nent and successful agriculturists of his day. Upon the home place he reared his family and continued to reside until his death. His son, Thomas Parry, Jr., was reared to manhood on the old home- stead, and after his marriage located in Warminster township, Bucks county, where by j)urchase he became the pos- sessor of large landed holdings. Set- tling thereon he improved the property, and a part of it is yet in possession of Tiis descendants. He continued to reside thereon until his death. Jacob Parry, son of Thomas Parry, Jr., was reared on the home farm in Warminster township, and at the time of his marriage took his bride to that farm and reared his family there. Isaac Parry, son of Jacob Parry, in- Tierited the old homestead and he, too, reared his family there. Isaac Parry, son of Isaac Parry, in turn inherited the old homestead, reared his family thereon, and died on the farm. Isaac Parry was born in June, 1774, and passed away in October, 1857. He first married Sarah Hopkins, and they became the parents of three chil- •dren: Rebecca, Jacob, and Richard H. After the death of his first wife Isaac Parry wedded Mary Nixon, a daughter of Samuel and Susan (Roberts) Nixon, also of a prominent early family of Bucks county. By the second marriage there were six children: Tacey, who died unmarried; Thomas, Samuel, Isaac C, Susanna, and Mary, who was the wife of Joseph Saunders, of Philadel- phia. Thomas Parry, second child of Isaac and Mary (Nixon) Parry, was born at the Parry homestead in Warminster township, was reared upon the farm there and at the time of his marriage took his bride to the old home place. He wedded Lydia Conard, a native of Hors- ham township, Montgomery county, and a daughter of Josephine and Hannah (Nixon) Conard. In his younger days her father was engaged in the lumber business at Philadelphia, but afterward removed to Horsham township, Mont- gomery county, where he purchased land and carried on farming. He also built a mill known in after years as. Walker's mills. This is still in use, being operated by Eugene Blair. Jonathan Conard spent the remainder of his life at that place and died upon his farm near the mill. He was a mem- ber of the religious Society of Friends, and was highly respected. His children were: John; Charles, a carpenter and builder of Philadelphia; Susanna, the wife of W. Folk; Deborah, the wife of N. Cleaver; Mary, the wife of B. Brown, of Byberry; Ann, the wife of B. Mor- gan; Lydia, who became Mrs. Thomas Parry; and Rebecca J., who died un- married. All were members of the re- ligious Society of Friends. Following his marriage Thomas Parry lived on a farm which he purchased from Jonathan Conard, now the property of Isaac Parry. He remodeled this farm, made substantial improvements, and continued to carry on agricultural pursuits there through- out his remaining days, passing away in 18.1^7 at the age of forty-five years. He followed general farming and also at- tended the city market, and was practical and successful in all his business deal- ings. He was a devoted member of the Friends Societ>^ ever • active in church work and was a generous contributor toward the erection of the Warminster Meeting, which was built on one cor- ner of his farm and is yet standing as a monument to the religious enterprise of its promoters. Politically he was an Abolitiqnist in early life. He at all times commanded the respect and confi- dence of those with whom he was asso- ciated because of his upright life and honorable purpose. To him and his wife were born eight children: Ed- ward H., who served in the First New jersev Cavalry during the war of the rebellion, joining the army with the rank of corporal and returning with 228 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. the rank of lieutenant, is now proprietor of a hat store in Philadelphia. Rebec- ca C, who became the wife of J. Tyson, of Abingdon, but both are now deceased; Isaac is the third of the family; Oliver, is a farmer of Warminster township ; William is a practicing physician of Haynesport, New Jersey; Charles C. is a farmer of Wrightstown township; Thomas E. is living in California; Jo- seph S. is an attorney-at-law of Ho- boken, New Jersey. Isaac Parry was born upon the home farm, June 30, 1844, and under his fa- ther's instructions learned the various meth- ods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. In 1869 he was married, after which he rented the homestead and con- tinued its cultivation for two years. In 1872 he purchased the Hart homestead, including the town site of Ivyland. He removed to this farm, remaining there- on for five years, and then sold forty acres of the land to Edwin Lacey, who desired to build the town of Ivyland there. Later he sold the remainder of the farm to Comly Walker, and in 1877 removed from the place. In 1878 he took up his abode upon the old Parry homestead, and in 1886 purchased the interest of the other heirs in the prop- erty, making his home thereon continu- ously. In 1877 he bought the interest of L. W. Damenhower in a coal and feed business at Bradyville, and continued in the business twenty-eight years. He se- cured an extensive patronage through- out the surroutiding country, and gave his personal attention to his mercantile interests, while his farm is operated un- der his personal supervision. He is both a practical and successful agriculturist and business man. In his political views Mr. Parry has always been a stanch Republican, and his filled some township offices, including those of audi- tor and supervisor, j^et he has always preferred to give his undivided attention to his business affairs. In addition to his agricultural and commercial inter- ests, he is a stockholder in the National Bank and in other corporations. He has a wide and favorable acquaintance, is known for his reliability and enterprise, and stands to-day as one of the repre- sentative men of his community. Mr. Parry was married March 11, 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Logan, who was born at Jenkintown. Pennsjdvania, and is a daughter of George and Jane (Shoe- maker) Logan, belonging to one of the old and honored families of eastern Pennsylvania. The children of the Lo- gan family were Elizabeth; Theodore, now deceased; and Albanus. To Mr, and Mrs. Parry have been born three children: Samuel D., who is principal of the Olney public school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; George, a practicing dent- ist of Jenkintown; and Charles K., who is engaged in the lumber business of Philadelphia as a member of the Right- er, Parry Lumber Company. The chil- dren have been provided with good educational privileges, thus fitting them for the responsible and practical duties of life. JOHN BURTON, of Tullytown, deal- er in coal and general merchandise, was born in Tullytown, Pennsylvania, Aug- ust 12, 1864, and is a son of Elwood and Anna H. (Bailey) Burton, of Tully- town,. and a representative of a family that have been prominent in the settle- ment and development of Bucks county for six generations. Anthony Burton, the emigrant ances- tor of the family, was a native of Eng- land, and was among the earliest settlers in Bristol township, where he owned land as early as 1684. His name ap- pears among those who registered the "ear marks" for their cattle in the old book kept for that purpose by Phinehas Pemberton in 1684. On March 16, 1695, he and Thomas Burk purchased the tract of land on which the town of Bris- tol was subsequently built, and laid it out in streets and building lots, and laid the foundation of the present metropolis of Bucks. It was incorporated by the provincial council of Pennsylvania at a meeting of that body held at the house of Phinehas Pemberton in Falls town- ship. Bucks county, on the petition of "severall in that countie for a Market Town, viz: att the Ferry agt. Burling- ton, within the said township of Buck- ingham, and that the sd persons have projected the same Into ways & streets, Haveing regard to the divisions of div- ers men's Land by the sd streets in the sd Town as how laid down," whereupon, "It was resolved by the Gouvernor & Council, that a town be there erected and the ways & streets to be according to ye model ye agreed upon." The town being erected, grew to such importance that Mr. Burton and other lot holders on October 17, 1718, petitioned* the coun- cil to erect it into a borough, which was done, and its charter as engrossed was agreed to by the board of provin- cial councillors at a meeting held July 19, 1720. The name of Buckingham, first selected for the new town, was soon dropped, and it retained the name of Bristol. Anthonj^ Burton was a man of liberal education and wielded a wide influence in the communitj'. He was commissioned a justice of the peace on May 13, 1715, and was regularly re-commissioned until '^72)?f and probably held the position un- til his death in 1739, the records for the intervening period merely stating "Justices now acting, re-commissioned." He was a member of the established church, and donated the land upon which St. James Episcopal church of ^^^ ci^rzrcrz^C:^ /^C//^^/^ irTX^ PUiliC - HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 229 Bristol was erected, and contributed liberally to its erection in 1712. From the records of this old church it ap- pears that his lineal descendants are en- titled to occupy two pews therein for- ■ever. Anthony Burton married, Decem- ber 18, 1687, Sarah Gibbs, a widow. She died June 28, 1718, without issue. On July 28, 1720, he married Susan Keene, by whom he had two children; Martha, who died unmarried; and Anthony, Jr., born July 17, 1721. Anthony Burton, Sr., died in 1739, and is buried in St. James churchyard at Bristol. Anthony Burton, Jr., son of Anthony and Susan (Keene) Burton, was a far- mer and a large landowner in Bristol township, residing on the road from Bristol to the "Falls of the Delaware." He married, February 12, 1752, Mary ' Hough, daughter of Richard Hough^, of Falls, and, she being a member of the Society of Friends, he also became af- filiated with that society, as have been "his descendants to this day. He died February, 1798. Anthony and Mary (Hough) Burton were the parents of eight children, four of whom died in infancy; those who survived were: John, born September 17, 1753; Martha, born July 25, 1756, married John Minster; Anthony, born August 9. 1758; and Jonathan born August 21, 1765. John Burton, eldest son of Anthony and Mary (Hough), born September 17, 1753. was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was a farmer and resided for many years on the old homestead in Bristol township, but removed late in life to Falls town- ship, where he died September 3. 1835. He was twice married, first in Febru- ary, 1778, to Rachel Wilson, nee Sotch- er, widow of Henry Wilson and daugh- ter o" Robert and ]\Iercy (Brown) Sotch- er. She died in 1781, leaving two sons, Joseph and John. On October 9, 1789, be inarried Hannah Watson, by whom be had five children: Benjamin, Mary, Rachel, Anthony, and Charles. Anthony, the second son of Anthony and Mary (Hough) Burton, born Aug- ust 9, 1758, married Jane, daughter of John and Deborah (Watson) Gregg, April 27, 1781, and had children: John G., Amos, Deborah, and William. The latter became a successful merchant in Philadelphia and afterwards a physician. He was a remarkably brilliant man. His wife was Susan Hallowell, of Philadel- phia, belonging to an old Bucks county family, who died in Penns Manor, Bucks ■county. Jonathan, the other son of An- thony and Mary, married Letitia Will- iamson, March 11, 1790. and died in 1840. His children were William, Sarah. Peter, Ann L., and Elizabeth. His grandson, Jonathan Burton, was a large manufacturer of iron, and died in Ohio. Joseph Burton, son of John and Rachel y lands of William Bryan. Joseph I'n- thanks, and James Green, and is owned now by Mary Moyer Geissinger, wife of Charles A. Geissinger, daughter of Abra- ham G. Moyer, a great-grandson. Rev. Peter ]\Ioyer was one of the early minis- ters of the Mennonite church of Spring- field. Children : Christian. John. Jacob, William, Henry, Isaac, Mary (Mrs. Kulp), Barbara. Two daughters married Kulps, and three children died young. William Moyer, grandfather of William G. Moyer, was born in Springfield town- ship, Bucks county, June 7, 1764. His oc- cupation was that of a farmer. He was united in marriage to Mary Overholt, who was born December 27, 1767, and their children were : Magdalena. Nancy. Han- nah. Kate. Mary and Abraham D. The death of William Moyer occurred February 12. 1848; he was survived by his wife, who passed away September i, 1850. Abraham D. Moyer, father of William G. Moyer. was born on the old Peter Moyer farm in Pleasant Valley, June 6, 1798. He was reared on the homestead, received a good common school education, and throughout his active career followed farm- ing as a means of livelihood. He was the leader of the singing in the Mennonite church. In 1832 he married Mary Geis- inger, who was born in Upper Milford, Lehigh county, September 18, 181 r, a daughter of Philip and Fanny (Hestand) Geisinger. Their children are: William G., mentioned hereinafter ; Fanny, who be- came the wife of Nathaniel Bechtel, of Berks county ; Mary and Abraham. The father of these children died September 15, 1871 ; the mother passed away December 9, 1900. They were honest and industrious people, and in every relation of life per- formed their duties conscientiously. William G. Moyer spent his childhood and early manhood years on the farm owned by his father, and his education was ob- tained in the schools of Springfield and Quakertown. For ten years, from 1855 to 1865, he served in the capacity of teacher, achieving a fair degree of success in this vocation owing to the fact that he was able to impart to others clearly and concisely the knowledge he wished them to receive. From the latter named year untTl 1872. a period of seven years, he engaged in farm- ing in Springfield township, after which he removed to New Britain township, where he owns a fine farm in the borough of Chal- font. He is practical and progressive in his methods, and, being familiar with all the details of this branch of industry, derives a goodlj' income from his labor. He has been active and prominent in political affairs, and has been chosen the incum- bent of several offices of trust and respon- sibility. He was township auditor for six years : secretary of the school board for a similar period and jury commissioner for Bucks county, having been elected in June, 1903 ; and was first president of the council of Chalfont. serving three years. For many years he has served as correspondent 246 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and reporter for the United States Agri- cultural Department. He is a prominent member of the Mennonite church, and a Republican in politics. In i860 Mr. Moyer was married to Tvlary Swartley, who was born in New Britain township, in 1835, a daughter of John Swartley. Their children arc: i. Emma, born December 17, i86r, died January 9, 1881. 2. Levi, born May 22, 1864, married Anna Detwiller, and they are the parents of the following named children : William D., born December 25. 1887; Sarah Amelia, born July 27, 1889; Hannah Theresa, born October 23, 1891 ; Mary Maria, born April 17, 1894; Irene, born February 2. 1896; Enos, born July 5, 1898; Eva. born Febru- ary 9, 1900; Nora, born in June, 1901. 3. Abraham S., born November 7, 1866, mar- ried Susie M. Fretz, daughter of Eli Fretz, of Bedminster, and one child is the issue of this union, Alvin, born October 18. 1900. 4. William, born November 29, 1S68. a mer- chant of Chalfont. 5. Menno S., born November 18, 1870, was educated in the State Normal School at West Chester, and Haverford College. After his graduation he taught school for a number of years, and now is a member of the firm of Moyer Brothers, merchants of Lansdale. He married Annie Souder, and their children are : Evelyn Elizabeth and Margarette, born February 2, 1904. 6. Harvey, born March 16, 1877, married Macie Johnson. The mother of these children died January 2, 1888. Mr. Moyer married for his second wife Mrs. Hannah Slifer Weis, who was born near Quakertown, Richland township, Bucks county. October 6, 1837, a daughter of Joseph Slifer. WILSON B. McKINSTRY. Nathan McKinstry, the founder of the Mc- Kinstry family in this country, was a native of the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1712 and came to this country when a youth. In connection with a brother-in-law, Hugh Young, they pur- chased in 1744 a tract of 195 acres in Wrightstown. which they subsequently di- vided. Ten years later he sold his Wrights- town farm and removed to that part of Buckingham township now included in Doylestown township, where he purchased a farm of 202 acres and resided thereon until his death, April 15. 1790. He and his wife Mary were active members of Neshaminy Presbyterian church of Warwick township, of which he was a trustee. Their children were John, born ^7?,6, died 1791 ; Jane, born 1745, married James Kerr, died 1797; Samuel, born 1748, died January 24, 1796; Henry, born 1750. died November 28. 1804; William, born 1752, died ; Robert, born 1756, died July 25. 1834. Robert McKinstry, youngest son of Na- than and Mary, was born on the Bucking- ham homestead in T756. and remained there until his father's death in 1790. He mar- ried in 1783 Mary Weir, daughter of James Weir, of Warrington. Her sister, Rebecca Weir, married John Simpson and became the grandmother of U. S. Grant. The dis- tinguished soldier and statesman, shortly after his graduation at West Point, paid a visit to his cousins, the McKinstrys of Warrington. On the marriage of Robert INIcKinstry, his father built a house for him on the old homestead, but at the settlement of his father's estate he did not elect to retain any of the paternal, farm, and took up his residence in New Britain. He died July 25, 1834. His wife Mary died April 6, 1846, at the age of eighty-nine years. Robert and Mary (Weir) McKinstry were the parents of seven children, viz : Jane, born 1784, died unmarried April 24, 1869; John, born November i, 1786, died unmar- ried September 24, 1863 ; Nathan, born Jan- uary 29, 1791, died December 23, I862 ; Rob- ert, born 1793, died September 5, 1871 ; Wil- liam, born 1796, settled in Ohio; James, borr» 1799, died 1877; and Henry, born 1805. Rob- ert McKinstry, wife and their five sons and one daughter who remained in Bucks county were all active and consistent members of Neshaminy Presbyterian church ; John was for a long period a trustee ; and Henry and Nathan were elders. In their later days services were frequently held in their houses^ John, Nathan, James and Henry lived in Warrington, and Robert lived and died ors the homestead in New Britain ; he left no issue. Henry McKinstry, the youngest son of Robert and Mary, was reared on the home- stead, and early in life learned the trade of a carpenter, which he followed for several years. In April, 1832, he purchased of Antlinn-" Robinson a farm of ninety acres, pnd erecting an entirely new set of buildings- thereon settled down to agricultural pur- suits. He married. November 29, 1838,. Amanda Brady, daughter of Alexander Brady, of Philadelphia, but for many years a resident of Warrington, where he died in 1863. Henry McKinstry was an elder in- the Neshaminy Presbyterian church for a number of years. He was active and prom- inent in social and political matters of his community, and served several years as school director. After a long and usefuT life, he died in 1885 at the age of eighty- years. His wife Amanda died in August, 1902. The children of Henry and Amanda CBradv) McKinstry were five in number, viz.: Sarah. Mary. Wilson Brady. Henry Martyn, and Franklin Pierce. Sarah mar- ried David Cornell ; Mary married Samuet McNair ; and Franklin married Jennie Boil- cau. He is now a prominent physician of Washington, New Jersey. Wilson Brady McKinstry, eldcn son of Henry and Amanda (Brady") McKinstry, was born March i. 1846, on the farm where he still resides. On arriving at manhood he assumed the conduct of the home farm which he purchased at the death of his mother. In politics he is a Democrat, but HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 247 has never sought or held other than local office. He has been a member of the local school board for nine years, serving both as treasurer and president of the board. He and his family are members of Neshaminy Presb>-terian church, with which the family has been connected for four generations. He married in 1876 Matilda Breuhl. born in Philadelphia, in 1855, \a daughter of John Breuhl, a native of Alsace, who came to this country when a youth and settled in Bucks county. To Wilson and Matilda (Breuhl) McKinstry have been born four children, viz: Mary, died in infancy; William. Henry and Herbert. William and Henry are elec- tricians and are both actively interested in the telephone business. William married Mary Stocker, and lives in West Chester. H. MARTYN McKINSTRY was born June 25, 1849, on the farm, in Warrington township where his brother, Wilson B. Mc- Kir..<«try, now resides. He is the second son of Henry and Amanda (Brady) McKinstry, the children of whom are five m number : Sarah B., wife of the late David Cornell, Southampton ; Mary, wife of Samuel INfac- Nair, Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania; Wilson B., Warrington, Pennsylvania ; H. Martyn, Warrington, Pennsylvania; Frank P., (M. D.) Washington, New Jersey. Henry McKinstry was born in 1805. He was a stanch Presbyterian and was a mem- ber of the Neshaminy Presbyterian church of Warwick. For many years and up to the time of his death, he was an elder in the church and although living six miles dis- tant, he was always in his place unless hindered by something over which he had no control. If the condition of the roads were such that he could not drive he quite often walked the whole distance to be able to be in his place. On November 29, 1838, he was married to Amanda Brady, daughter of Alexander and Achsah (Appleton) Brady, who helped and encouraged him in all duties, both spiritual and domestic. After his marriage he moved to the farm, which he had purchased a short time before, and which his son, Wilson B., now owns. He was a good, practical and prosperous farmer. H. Martyn McKinstry obtained his educa- tion at the local school and remained on the home farm, being associated with his brother in its management until 1893. On January 19, 1893, he married Mattie L., daughter of John B. and Adeline E. C Hoover) Walter, born ]\Iarch 9, 1862. Her father, John B. Walter, was born and reared where his daughter was born, in Warrington township, February 14. 1S35, and was a son of Samuel and Deborah (Brunner) Walter, and grandson of George Walter. He was a practical and active business man and a prominent member of the Reformed church. He died June 14, 1900. aged sixty-five years. He married on December 2, 1856. Adeline E., daughter of Frederick and ^laria (Fleck) Hoover, and granddaughter of Philip and Mary (Con- rad) Hoover, of one of the oldest and most prominent Pennsylvania German families of the vicinity. After his marriage H. Martyn McKinstry purchased a farm belonging to his father's estate, about one mile north of the village of Warrington, where he still resides and on which he has since made many improve- ments. It is now one of the most convenient and comfortable homes in the neighborhood, the house and barn being supplied with water and the house heated throughout. Another of the modern conveniences of this home is the telephone of the local tele- phone company, of which Mr. H. Martyn McKinstry is the president. He is a mem- ber of the Neshaminy Presbyterian church and in 1890 was elected a trustee and in 1904 he was elected an elder, which offices he still fills. H. Martyn and Mattie L. (Walter) McKinstry have been the parents of three children : Frank R., born November 3, 1893; and Adeline W. and Amanda B., twins, born January 5, 1895. Adeline died at the age of two weeks. LINFORD R. CRAVEN. Among the men who have achieved local eminence in their chosen profession is Linford R. Craven, photographer, Doylestown, Penn- sylvania. He was born iMarch 26, 1864, in Hilltown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, the son of Joseph and Ann (Ritchie) Craven. The family of Craven are of Holland des- cent, and have been residents of Bucks county since the first quarter of the eigh- teenth century. Jacobus (James) Craven was one of the trustees of Neshaminy Presbyterian church of Warwick in 1743. He was a large landowner in Warminster township and in Moreland township, !Mont- gomery county. He died about 1760 at an advanced age. His children were : Thomas, Giles, James, Alice, wife of Harman Van- sant ; Elinor, wife of Clement Dungan ; Hannah, wife of William McDowell ; Esther, wife of Williarrt Gilbert ; and Mary, wife of Anthony Scout. Giles died without issue in 1798, and James removed to Vir- ginia. Thomas Craven ma^rfed ,Lena, daughter of William and Janet (Suydam) Bennett, and settled in Warminster township, where he died August, 1799, leaving sons : Will- iam, James, Giles, Isaac and Thomas, and daughters : Christiana, wife of Thomas Beans ; Edith, wife of Charles Vansant ; Ann, Catharine and Helena. Isaac Craven inherited from his father the "Mansion House" and 103 acres of land in Warminster that had been his grand- father's, whereon he died in May, 1835, at an advanced age. His children were Will- iam. Isaac, Abraham, and Elenah, wife of John Finney. Only the last two survived him and inherited his lands. His son Abra- ham married Hannah Finnev and settled 248 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. on a farm in Moreland, but returned to Warminster some time after his father's decease. He died in 1882, aged al)out eighty-tive years, leaving seven children, four sons and three daughters. Joseph Craven, son of Abraham, and fath- er of the subject of this sketch, was born near Hatboro, in Moreland township, in 1823. He married Ann, daughter of Thomas Ritchie, and great-granddaughter of James Ritchie, a Scotch-Irish settler of Warwick township, Bucks county. In 1869 he removed to Hatlsoro, where he conducted a store for four years. In 1873 he purchased a farm in IMoreland, upon which he resided until 1883, when he removed to North Wales, Montgomery county, where he lived a retired life. His children , are : Edwin, residing in Scranton, Pennsylvania; Sue, wife of Frank McVeagh, of Philadelphia; Joanna, wife of Lewis K. Hall of Upper Makeheld; Will- iam of Bridgeport, Pennsylvania; Linford R. ; Robert, of Ashbourne, Pennsylvania ; and Mary deceased, who was the wife of Elmer Smith. Linford R. Craven, the subject of this sketch, was educated at the public schools of Hatboro and Upper Makefield, and at the age of fourteen years began his business career as a clerk in a store at Frankford, Philadelphia. In 1880 he removed to North Wales, where he was employed in making shirts, came to Doylestown three years later and followed the same business for one year, when he began photographing in connection with Samuel F. Dubois, a local photographer, and William Boyce of Phila- delphia. In 1885 he opened a portable studio in Doylestown, and a year later pur- chased the old spoke factory at the junction of Court and State streets and erected his present residence and studio. In politics Mr. Craven is a Democrat. He and his family belong to the Doylestown Presby- terian church. He is a member of Doyles- town Lodge, No. 94, I. O. O. F., Doyles- town Encampment, No. 35, I. O. O. F., St. Tammany Castle, No. 1^73, K. G. E., and of Lenape Council No. 11 17, Royal Arcanum. He has served three years in Doylestown borough council, and held other local offices. He was married February 14, 1883, to Fannie H., daughter of Gibson Johnson. CHARLES D. BIGLEY, the genial pro- prietor of the North Main Street Bakery, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and for man}- years an officer in the Bucks county courts, was born in Nockamixon township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1844, and is a son of Isaac and ]\Iary (Deemer) Bigley, both of German extraction. Adam Bigley, the grandfather of Charles D., was a saddler by trade, and a lifelong resident of Nockamixon township, having purchased a small farm there in 1807, which he conducted in connection with his vocation as a harness maker. He died in Nockamixon in 1839. He and his wife Sarah were the parents of four children : Isaac, Solomon, Ann, wife of David Haring, and John. Isaac Bigley, eldest son of Adam and Mary, was born in Nockamixon township, September 5, 1798, and died there October 12, 1883. He was a limeburner in Durham township and in Hunterdon county for sev- eral years, but during the last forty years of his life resided in Kintnersville, Nock- amixon township, on the line of Durham township, on a small lot conveyed to him in 1842. He married Mary Deemer, daughter of Solomon and Mary Deemer, of Nock- amixon, and a granddaughter of Michael Deemer, an early settler in Nockamixon. (See Deemer Family). They were the parents of nine children, viz : Elizabeth, who married James Lewis ; Sarah, who mar- ried Jesse Moser; Catharine, wife of Will- iam Cyphers of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania; Hannah, wife of Frank Laubenstaine ; Susan, wife of Owen Gares; Adam, who married Mary Bellis of New Jersey; Lydia, wife of William Nicholas; Solomon and Charles D. All three of the sons served in the Union army during the civil war ; Adam in a New Jersey regiment ; Solomon D. in the First Pennsylvania Regiment and later as recruiting sergeant ; and Charles D. in the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth regiment. Charles D. Bigley was born and reared in Nockamixon township, and acquired his education in the public schools. In early life he followed the trade of a cigar maker, aiid vras also engaged for some time in lime- burning. In October, 1862, he obtained the consent of his father and enlisted for nine months service in the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, under Colonel John W. Nyce, and at the organization of the regiment in Philadelphia on November I, 1862, was appointed corporal in Company F under Captain Thomas W. Harris. November ig, 1862, the regiment proceeded to Washington, D. C, and from there to Suffolk, Virginia, where it reported to General Peck and was assigned to General Ferry's brigade, and on December 31, was ordered to Newbern, North Carolina, where it arrived January 6, 1863. In the same month it was ordered to reinforce the army operating in front of Charleston, South Carolina, and sailed from Beaufort, arriving at Hilton Head on February 5, and was stationed on Helena Island for about a month. It then proceeded to Beau- fort, where it was engaged in provost duty imtil June, 1863, when it was again trans- ferred to Hilton Head. Towards the close of July, the term of enlistment being about to expire, the regiment was ordered north, and, returning to Philadelphia, was hon- orably mustered out of service August •/, 1S63. Mr. Bigley returned to Nockamixon, where he resided for the next twenty HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 2-\9 years, being employed for fourteen years at Durham furnace. Politically Mr. Big- ley is a Democrat, and has always taken an active part in the councils of his party, -as well as in the affairs of the commun- ity in which he lived. He was a member of the school board of Nockamixon town- ship for a number of years, and also filled other local offices. In the fall of 1884 he was electee^ on the Democratic ticket to the office of clerk of quarter sessions of Bucks county, and removed with his fam- ily to the county seat. He filled the of- fice of clerk of courts for three years with eminent ability, and since the expiration of his term of office has filled a number of official positions. He was a member of borough council for seven years, resign- ing the position during his third term by reason of his removal to a different ward. In 1896 he was appointed a tipstaff of the court, and in igor was advanced to the position of court crier, which he since filled to the satisfaction of the court. In 1890 he purchased the North Main Street Bakery of Enos Weiss, and is still en- gaged in conducting it. He is a member of Peace and Union Lodge, No. 456, I. O. O. F., of Rieglesville, Pennsylvania; of Pakonet Lodge, No. 158, I. O. R. M., of Kintnersville ; and of General Robert L. Bodine Post, G. A. R., of Doylestown. He and his family are members, of Salem Reformed church. Mr. Bigley has been twice married. His first wife was Mary Jane Fluck, daugh- ter of Amos Fluck, of Springfield town- ship, Bucks county, and they were the par- ents of two children; Oscar H., now trans- cribing clerk in the office of the recorder of deeds; and Minnie, wife of Reuben C. Stever. Oscar H., married A. Florence Grim, daughter of the late George W. and Elizabeth (Koons) Grim, of Nockamixon, and sister of Hon. Webster Grim of Doylestown, and they have been the parents of six children, three of whom survive, viz : Grace, a teacher in the public schools of Bucks county, Ethel, and Dorothy. Reu- "ben C. and Minnie CBigley") Stever are the parents of three children : Charles B., Helen and Frank, deceased. Mrs. Mary Jane Big- ley died July 11, 1894, and Mr. Bigley mar- ried ("second) Decenaber 3, 1896, Mrs. Ella (Harrold) Haldeman, widow of Ja- cob Haldeman, of Doylestown township, and daughter of William Harrold, of Doylestown. JAMES S. HARRAR, descended from an honored early family in Montgomery ■county, Pennsylvania, and now following farming in Warminster township, Bucks county, was born April 30, 1866, in the former county, his parents being Joel J. and Wilmina (Haupt) Harrar, who were likewise natives of Montgomery county. The father was a son of James S. Harrar, also born in Montgomery county, while the great-grandfather, John F. Harrar, Sr., was a native of Wales and emigrated to America during the colonial epoch in the history of the United States, settling in ISIontgomery county. He was a Baptist in religious . faith. In early manhood he learned the shoemaker's trade, and in ad- dition to that occupation followed farm- ing. James S. Harrar was reared in JMont- gomery county, and after his marriage set- tled upon a farm there, carrying on agri- cultural pursuits throughtout his remain- ing days. He, too, was a Baptist in relig- ious faith and was of a leading and influen- tial family of the county. He had a broth- er, Nathan Harrar, who was twice a repre- sentative of the district in the state legis- lature of Pennsylvania. The children of James S. Harrar, grandfather of our sub- ect,* were five in number : Lydia, Joel J., Martha, Elwood and Mary. Joel J. Harrar, father of James S. Har- rar, was married and settled near the old home farm, where he remained for five years. He afterward removed to the Thom- as Folk farm, upon which he lived for thirteen years, when he purchased the "Will- iam Shae farm in Horsham township, Bucks county, where he remained until his death, which occurred January 29, 1904. He lived the quiet life of a farmer, and his upright and honorable career gained for him the respect of his fellow men. His political support was given the Democracy. His wife survives him and finds a good home with her son James. She was a daughter of John and Susan (Fell) Haupt. The Haupt family, residents of Berks coun- ty, were of German descent, while the Fells lived in Buckingham township, Bucks county, and were of Quaker faith. John Haupt was an agriculturist, actively iden- tified with farming interests in Montgom- ery county, and he died upon the old fam- ily homestead near Montgomeryville. In his family were four children: Seneca, a farmer ; Wilmina, who became Mrs. Har- rar ; Nathan ; and Elizabeth. To Joel J. and Wilmina (Haupt) Harrar were born four children: John, a farmer; James S. : Elwood ; and Wilmar, a farmer for the iMcKean estate. James S. Harrar was reared to farm life and remained at home until his mar- riage, when in 1890 he rented the old his- toric farm known as the Isaac Parry prop- erty in Warminster township, Bucks coun- ty. He has since purchased this place and yet resides thereon, carrying on general farming and also attending the Philadel- phia market. He has repaired and remod- eled the barn, placed all of the buildings in good condition, has his fields under a high state of cultivation and, in fact, has made his farm one of the best improved properties of the locality. He uses modern machinery in its development and culti- vation, and everything about his place is kept in excellent condition. He also has a herd of cows and sells milk and he 2:;0 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. also keeps good horses, both for the farm work and driving. Mr. Harrar was reared in the Democratic faith, and has always supported the party, but has never sought or desired office. He has been married twice. His first wife died August 8, 1898, leaving a son, Carrell, who was born May 3, 1893. December 4, 1901, Mr. Harrar wedded Miss Susan C. Parry, belonging to one of the old and prominent families of Pennsyl- vania. Her parents were Isaac C. and Sarah B. (Hicks) Parry, both natives of Bucks county, descended from ancestors who have long been identified with the development and progress of the state. The mother was a daughter of Edward and Sarah (Worstel) Hicks, of Newtown. Ed- ward and Elias Hicks were cousins, and both were highly educated and became emi- nent preachers, being the founders of the Hicksite branch of the Friends society. Ed- ward Hicks was an eminent divine of that denomination, and was well known through- out ■ the world by the representatives of the Society of Friends. He resided in Lang- horne and at Newtown, Bucks county, but he preached the gospel according to his interpretation in many places in America and thoroughly established the faith in which he believed. The children of Ed- ward Hicks were : Mary. Mrs. Susan Car- lac, Isaac W.. Mrs. Elizabeth Plummer, and Mrs. Sarah H. Parry. In the paternal line the ancestral history of Mrs. Harrar can be traced back through many generations to Thomas Parry. Sr.. who came from Radmanshire, Wales, to America during colonial days and settled in Montgomery county, being one of the early promoters of development and prog- ress in eastern Pennsylvania. He assisted in laying broad and deep the foundation for the present development and progress of his part of the state, and was a leading and influential resident of. Pennsylvania. He and his descendants have been con- sistent members of the Society of Friends. to which they yet adhere. They have lived lives of simplicity and of honesty, and have ever commanded the respect of those with whom they have come in contact. Thomas Parry, Sr., was the father of Thomas Par- ry, Jr., and he was the father of Jacob Parry, whose son Isaac Parry. Sr., was the father of Isaac C. Parry, who was Mrs. Harrar's father. Isaac Parry, Sr.,* was a broad-minded, intelligent business man and farmer, who was often called upon to write wills, settle estates and acts as guardian for heirs. None of the family have ever as- pired to elective offices or public notoriety of any kind. They have mostly followed farming, but others have been concerned with industrial and commercial interests. Thomas Parry, Sr., obtained a large tract of land at Edgehill. where he improved nn extensive farm, becoming very successful. There he reared his family and spent his remaining days. Thomas Parry, Jr., his son, was reared to manhood upon the old homestead and after his marriage removed to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased an extensive tract of land^ including the farm upon which James S. Harrar now resides. Thomas Parry- improved a large portion of his property and thereon reared his family. His son Jacob married and settled upon the. old homestead, continuing the work of further development and there he, too, lived and died. His son, Isaac Parry, Sr., obtained the old homestead, which in turn was inherited by his son, Isaac C. Parrj^ and both reared their fami- lies and died upon that place. During the period of the revolutionary war the Parry family was often molested by the contending armies, who foraged upon their place. On one occasion a scouting party of English came to the homestead farm and found there some fat sheep, one of which they killed, compelling Mrs. Parry to cook it for them in the Dutch oven. Before the cooking pro- cess had been completed, however, a: party of American scouts appeared and the British fled, so that the American' troops got the meal which had been prepared for the other soldiers. The Parry family, from Thomas Parry, the progenitor in America, down to the present generation, has always been dis- tinguished for simplicity of living, pur- ity of morals, untiring industry and high principles. Isaac Parry, Sr., grandfather of Mrs. Harrar, was born upon the old family homestead in June, 1774, and died there in October, 1857. He was mar- ried twice, his first union being with Sarah Hopkins, by whom he had three children: Rebecca. Jacob and Richard H. His second wife was Mary Nixon, a daughter of Samuel and Susan (Rob- erts") Nixon, also of a prominent family of Bucks county, and their children were: Tacey, who died unmarried; Thomas; Samuel; Isaac C; Susanna; and Mary, who became the wife of Jo- seph Saunders, of Philadelphia, and is the only one now living. Isaac C. Parry, father of Mrs. Har- rar, was born and reared on the old fam- ily homestead in Bucks county, and became one of the prominent farmers of the locality, carrying forward the work of agric\iltural development that had been instituted by his ancestors. He was a man of sterling integrity and honor, his name being above reproach, and he lived a life in harmony with the principles of Friends, in which he reared his family and they have never departed from that faith. He married Miss Hicks, and they became the parents of five children: Elizabeth H., who mar- ried Isaac Warner; J. C. of Philadel- phia: Tacey M.. the wife of R. Willetts: Mary S.; and Susan C. the wife of J. S. Harrar. The father died upon the old HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 2^1 family homestead July 12, 1893, passing away at the age of seventy-seven years, while his wife's death occurred Febru- ary 23, 1895. ABRAHAM M. MYERS. Six genera- tions of the Myers family, to which Abra- ham M. Myers belongs, have resided in Bucks county. His great-great-grandfather was the first of the name to locate here, settling in Bedminster township, near Pipersville, whence he removed to Plum- rtead township. He was a farmer and blacksmith, following those pursuits throughout his entire life. He married a Miss Nash and they had children : Henry, Abraham, Christian, Esther, Mary and Bar- bara. Henry Myers (2) son of John Myers, also learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed in connection with agricultural pursuits. He lived near Smith's corner, in Plumstead township, on land which had hitherto been in possession of his father. He married Margaret Geisinger, and they had children : Abraham G.. Joseph G., Mary, Nancy, Esther and Henry G. Abraham G. Myers (3) son of Henry and Margaret (Geisinger) Myers, was born on the old home farm in Plumstead town- ship, October 27, 1800, and died January 27, 1881. He, too, followed the occupation of farming, and lived near Pipersville. He was married in 1834 to Sarah Fritz, and their children were three in number : Francis F., Mary, who was born April 23, 1840, and died June 7, 1893; and Aaron F., born May 4. 1846. Francis F. Myers (4), elder son of Abra- ham G. and Sarah (Fritz) Myers, was born in Bedminster township. April 22, 1838. He was a farmer, and lived all his life in the township of his nativity. His wife bore the maiden name of Rachel Ivlyers, and they had the following children : Abraham M., Sarah Ann, the wife of Allen Zetty; IMary Ellen, wife of Levi Myers ; Minerva, wife of Henry Myers ; Huldah ; Rachel , Amanda ; Ida : and Livvie. deceased. Abraham M. Myers (5), the eldest child of Francis Myers, was born in Bedminster township, July 19, 1861, and was reared upon his father's farm, while his education was acquired in the district schools of the neighborhood. At the time of his marriage he settled in Skippack township, ]\Iontgom- ery county, where he conducted a farm for two years and then returned to Bedminster township, where he worked in a mill for three years. On the expiration of that period he purchased the Jacoby farm, on which he still resides, and to the further development and improvement of which he still directs his energies, making it an excellent property. He has also been active in community af- fairs, and in 1892 was elected a school director, which position he has since con- tinued to fill. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and he is a member of the Lutheran church. On January 13, 1883, Mr. Myers was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Ann Gruver, a daughter of John and Hannah (Hillpot) Gruver, and they now have seven children, who are rep- resentatives of the Myers family in the sixth generation in Bucks county. These are : Ervin G.. born April 7, 1884; Eva G.. born May 9, 1885 ; Francis G., bom August 17^ 1887; Jerome G., born September 19, 1894; Hannah C., born IMarch 6, 1896. died April 15. 1897 ; Aaron G., born September 14,. 1898; and Norman, born June 21, 1902. WILLIAM PENN ROBERTS, a mem- ber of the firm of Roberts, Winner & Co., manufacturers, of Quakertown, Pennsyl- vania, was born August 16, 1843, near Per- kiomen Junction, Schuylkill township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, a son of Lewis and Harriet (Brooke) Roberts and grandson of Israel and Anna (Foulke) Roberts, who resided near Trumbauers- ville, Pennsylvania, where Israel Roberts was engaged in agricultural pursuits. Lewis Roberts (father) was born December 21, 1791, in Milford township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He attended the subscription schools of his district, and received some instruction from the Friends' school at Richland Monthly Meeting^ Quakertown. He then learned wheelwright- ing and ploughmaking, which trades he fol- lowed throughout the active years of his career. On May 24. 1821, Mr. Roberts married Harriet Brooke, daughter of Isaac and Susan (Jones) Brooke; her father was a miller of Conshohocken, Montgomery county, and settled at Perkiomen Junction, Chester county. Their children were as fol- low? : Clementina Brooke, became the wife of Samuel Lee, of Leesport, Berks county. Anna Foulke became the wife of Evan Vanderslice, of Schuylkill township, Chester county; they now reside at Valley Forge. Sarah Emily became the wife of Joseph Fussell. of Chester Springs. Chester county. Mary became the wife of Charles Fish, and thev now reside at Reading. Charles Brooke, born September 13, 1829, died February 5. 1885. married Rebecca Rossitej ; they lived in Perry county, Pennsylvania. Lewis Ellwood, born February 26, 1835, married Jane Foulke, of Quakertown, and thev reside in the city of Philadelphia. Jo- seph Jones, died at Relay Station, iMary- land ; he was a member of the One Hundred and Twentj'-eighth Pennsylvania Volun- teers during the Civil war. William Penn, mentioned at length hereinafter. David Brooke was killed in the battle of Peters- burg, April, 1865 ; he was first lieutenant of Company H, Two Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Ninth Army Corps, during the civil war. William Penn Roberts attended the dis- trict school, and at the same time assisted with the work at home until the death of 252 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. his father, in 1861, wlicn the family moved to Port Kennedy, jMontgomery county! lie attended the school of that section for one winter, 1861-62, and in the spring of tlie latter named year went to Piiiladclphia and entered an apprenticeship to learn stove- plate molding with Cox, Weightman & Cox, founders. Here he remained for one year, but on account of labor troubles was com- pelled to give up learning the trade at that place. He went to Stuyvesant, New York, and entered the employ of the Columbia Company, where his brother, Lewis E. Rob- erts, was engaged as moulder, and here com- pleted his term of apprenticeship, serving one and one-half years with this firm. He worked as a journeyman for the same com- pany until the fall of 1865, when he was Employed by his brother, Lewis E. Roberts, who had established a stove plate foundry at Quakertown, Pennsylvania, in 1864, in conjunction with David H. Thomas, who Tiad erected a small shop near Strawn's Mill. In 1867 the firm felt the necessity of enlarging their facilities to meet the de- mands of their constantly increasing busi- ness, and accordingly located on Broad street, near Third street, Quakertown, where they erected a large foundry and stove fitting room, taking possession of the same in that year. William P. Roberts continued with them as a floor worker until 1875, in which year he was engaged as fore- man of the molding department, and con- tinued in that capacity until the destruction of the plant by fire in 1880. The firm then leased the American Stove Foundry, at Second and Mifflin streets. Philadelphia. In 1881 William P. Roberts joined with several other former employes of Roberts & Thomas and purchased the 'ruins of that firm at •Quakertown, and under the title of Rogers, Roberts, Ecypes & Co. started the plant in February, 1882. Since then there have been some changes in the personnel of the firm, but Mr. Roberts has kept his place, and to- gether with William P. Winner and Francis Cavanaugh form the firm of Roberts, Win- ner & Co., master mechanics in their lines, all of them, and during this latter partner- ship the business has gained in volume and importance until at the present time (1905) the stoves of Roberts, Winner & Co. can be found at the homes of people from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The firm gives em- ployment to about one hundred hands in its various departments, and is thus an im- portant factor in the industrial life of the town. Mr. Roberts is actively interested in local political affairs, has served on the Quakertown board of education, and also in other positions of usefulness to the citizens of that town. His views coincide with those of the Republican party. Mr. Roberts was twice married. His first wife was Anna Rawlings, daughter of Franklin and Martha ("Roberts) Rawlings. of Quakertown. who died M^rch 24. 1882. Their children were : Rachel, born May 23, 1871, attended the public schools of Quakertown, is unmarried, and re- sides at home. Warren, born Sep- tember I, 1873, died December 6, 1873. Thomas, born August 12, 1876, died August 12, 1876. William Arthur, born June 13, 1879, attended the public schools of Quakertown, also the George School, at Newtown, Bucks county, and then entered the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the class of 1902. He practiced for a time at Ambler, Pennsylvania, but is now traveling through the south, west and Mexico. In 1884 Mr. Roberts married Le- titia K. Kinsey, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Morgan) Kinsey, of Quaker- town. Their children are : Linford Brook, born December 15, 1885, attends the Quakertown public school. Nathaniel Jo- seph, born October 25, 1888, attends the Quakertown public school. Marian Eliza- beth, born September 7, 1890, also attends the Quakertown public school. The family are members of the Society of Friends. JAMES VANSANT RANDALL, of Newtown, one of the best known and largest carriage manufacturers in Bucks county, was born in Byberry, Philadel- phia county. December 10, 1831, and is a son of Eber and Rachel (Vansant) Randall. The- Randall family have been resi- dents of Bucks county for over two cen- turies, and are of English descent. Nich- olas Randall, a carpenter by trade and a native of England, settled in South- ampton township, Bucks county, where he purchased 250 acres of land in 1698. His son, Nicholas Randall, Jr., married in 1738 Agnes Comly, daughter of Henry and Agnes (Heaton) Comly, of Middletown, and later removed to More- land township. George, Joseph and William Randall, supposed to be sons of Nicholas, became members of Buck- ingham Meeting of Friends in/ 1722. They lived for a time near Newtown, re- moving later to Southampton. Joseph removed to York county with his fam- ily in 1755. Both George and Joseph married Doans. daughters of Daniel Doan and Mehetabel his wife, who came to Middletown, Bucks county, from Sandwich, Massachusetts. George married (second) Mary Harding, widow of Thomas Harding, Jr., and another daughter of Henry and Agnes (Heaton) Comly. The paternal grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch was Amos Randall, said to have been a grandson of Jacob Randall, eldest son of George by his second marriage with Mary (Comly) Randall. Jacob was married in 1753 to "a woman of another perstiasion" and was disowned by the Friends. Amos Randall was a carpenter by trade and HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 253 lived from early life in Buckingham township. He was born in the year 1779, and was married December ir, 1804, before John Wilson, Esq., of Buckingham, to Jane Hartley, daughter of Anthony and Sarah (Betts) Hartley, of Buckingham, granddaughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hartley, and great-granddaughter of Edward Hart- ley,, who settled in Buckingham in 1702, and was the ancestor of all the Hart- leys of Bucks county. Edward w-as the father of three sons — Thomas, John and Roger, all of whom had large families and were large land-owners in Bucking- ham and Solebury. Thomas and Eliza- beth had twelve children, of whom An- thony was the fourth. He was twice married; by his first wife, Elizabeth Smith, he had seven children, and by his second, Sarah Betts, six more, Jane, born 4 mo. i, 1779, being the fourth. Her mother, Sarah Betts. was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Betts, of Buck- ingham, and was born 4 mo. 14, I747. and died in 1797. Her grandfather, Thomas Betts, was a native of Long Island and died at Newtown, Bucks county, in 1747- Amos Randall purchased in 1810 a small farm in Buckingham, which he conducted in connection with carpen- tering until his death on April 14, 1854, at the age of seventy-five years. Amos and Jane . (Hartley) Randall were the parents of eight sons: Aaron, Eber, David, Levi, Ralph, Isaac, Jesse and Edward. Jane, the mother of these chil- dren, was a member of Friends' Meet- ing: the father was not a member, though frequently attending their meet- ings. All of the eight boys were reared to mechanical trades, and five of them eventually engaged in the manufacture of carriages in Bucks county. Aaron and Levi never married: David removed to the west; Isaac and Jesse married sisters by the name of Lambert, the for- mer settling in Makefield and the latter in Solebury: Ralph married Deborah Firman, and died in 1883; Edward never married. Eber Randall, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born in Buck- ingham township in the year 1807. and was educated at the local and Friends' schools. He remained on the farm until the age of sixteen years, when he be- came an apprentice to the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for a number of years. He later purchased and rrtoved to his father-in-law's farm in Middle- town, and followed farming until 1858, when he removed to New^town. and later to Princeton, New Jersey, where he re- sided for a short time, and then removed to Bristol, Bucks county, where he died in T887. at the age of eighty years. His wife was Rachel • Harrison Vansant, daughter of Garret Vansant, of Middle- town township, Bucks county, whose ancestors had been residents of Bucks county, for several generations, being of Holland descent and settling origmally on Long Island, from whence his great- grandfather, Garret VanSandt, removed to Bucks county in 1699. Garret Van- sant, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Randall, was the father of six children, three sons and three daughters — Rachel, the mother of Mr. Randall; Jane, who married Isaac Randall, a cousin of Eber; and Mary, who married Jonathan Hunter. Eber and Rachel (Vansant; Randall were the parents of five chil- dren: I. James V. 2. Wilson, who mar- ried Caroline Harding, and was for a number of years associated with his brother James in the carriage business, and some time afterwards in the same business at Bristol, Bucks county. Their children were: Clarence, who married Hannie L. White, one son, Clifford W. Randall; James Merton, who married IMartinette Patterson, daughters, Helen and Marian; Clara, who married Will- iam Broadnax, issue: Clara, Wilfred and Wilson. Clara married for second hus- band Thomas Ivins, issue: Charles; Rachel, who married Samuel Roberts, issue: Samuel Ralph and Wayne Wal- ton. 3. Mary Jane. 4. Anna L., who married Penrose Wilson, one son, George R. 5. Isaac, who died at the age of four years. James V. Randall was educated in the public schools of Bucks county, and at an early age learned the carriage manu- facturing business with his uncle Isaac Randall, at Dolington, Bucks county, serving an apprenticeship of five years and working as a journeyman for his uncle one year. In 1854 he located at Newportville, Bucks county, and en- gaged in the manufacture of carriages. In the fall of the same year he took his brother Wilson into partnership and they did a small business there until 1857 under the firm name of J. V. & W. Randall. In the latter year they re- moved to Newtown, having purchased the plant of J. E. Woolsey, who had es- tablished a carriage manufacturing business there in 1852. This firm con- tinued the business at Newtown until 1865, doing a large business. In that year James V. purchased the interest of his brother and continued the business alone until 1895, when his nephew, Clarence Randall, became a member of the firm, under the firm name of J. V. & C. Randall, which has continued to the present time. This firm do a large business in the manufacture and repair of carriages and wagons of all kinds used in this part of the country, and have built up an enviable reputation for the character of the work they turn out, and for fair and reliable methods of doing business with their home people. Their plant is thoroughly equipped with the best up-to-date machinery, and by a 254 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. careful study of the wants and needs of the people they are able to keep in their large warerooms and sell at reas- onable prices every variety of wagon and carriage used in this part of the country. The plant is one of the valu- able institutions of Newtown, and em- ploys several hands. In politics, Mr. Randall is a Republican, but is a man of unassuming manners and retiring dispo- sition, devoted to his business, and has never sought public office. He has served one term in the town council of Newtown. He is a strong advocate of temperance principles, and from boy- hood has lived a moral, upright and tem- perate life, and devoted time and money to the cause of temperance. As an em- ployer of a large number of hands over a period of fifty years, he has never permitted intemperance, profanity or the inordinate use of tobacco among his employees. His support and sympa- thy have always been with the Society of Friends, and all others whose teaching makes men better citizens and fits them for the whole of life's duties. He takes little interest in dogmatic theology, but much in the discoveries of science in the nineteenth century relating to the prob- lems of the universe and man's place in nature. He was married in 1858 to Mrs. Han- nah L. Stradling, a daughter of Thomas Harding, and they were the parents of two children: George, who died at the age^of four years; and William E., who is a photographer at Newtown, and is married to Meta Schisler, of German- town, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hannah Lee- dom Randall, the mother of his children, died in 1886, and Mr. Randall married in 1894 Kate Larue Krewson, daughter of Jonathan K. Krewson, of an old and highly respected family of lower Bucks. Her father devoted most of his life to school teaching and was for many years -one of the prominent educators of Bucks county. WILLIAM JOHNSON, of South Perkasie, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born February 6, 1847, at White Marsh, Montgomery county, on the old Tiomestead where his ancestors had lived for several generations. Henry John- son, the father of William, was a son of Henry, and was born and reared on the old homestead at White Marsh. He was a farmer and lime burner, carrying on ■for many years an extensive business in lime burning. He died on the old homestead in 1901. His wife was Deb- orah DeWees, of an old family in the •nieghborhood of Valley Forge, and they were the parents of six children, Henry; Ihe subject of this sketch; Samuel: Ra- •chel: Emma, wife of Joseph Nyce; and Annie, wife of Daniel Hallman. William Johnson was reared and edu- cated in White Marsh township. He was for several years engaged in the lime business, and also was an exten- sive contractor in the building of ma- cadam roads. He built the macadam road from Philadelphia to Chestnut Hill, and also filled other large con- tracts. In 1902 he came to South Per- kasie and purchased the hotel property there, which he has since conducted. He is a member of the Masonic frater- nity, being affiliated with Thompson Lodge, No. 340, F. and A. M.; and Thompson Chapter, No. 360, R. A. M., of Philadelphia. Mr. Johnson was for ten years a resident of Chester county, where he did an extensive business in lime burning, stone crushing and road building. In 1870 he married Sarah Leisinger, of Montgomery county, and they have been the parents of four chil- dren: Henry, who married Rebecca Schultz, of Norristown, and is engaged in the lime and stone business at Read- ing, Pennsylvania; Howard and Alfred, both of whom are deceased ; and Mary. HESTON WALTON, who was born December 31, 1845, on the home farm near Hatboro, where he yet resides, traces his ancestry back through sev- eral generations to William Walton, who was the youngest of four brothers of the Walton branch who came from England to America in 1678 and settled at Wilmington, Delaware, whence they found their wary to Byberry, in Phila- delphia county, locating on land as a temporary place of residence. Later two of the brothers went on foot to Wil- mington for supplies, and each carried a half bushel of wheat home with him. It is supposed that this was the first wheat seeded in eastern Pennsylvania. The brothers concluded to remain in the vi- cinity of their first location, and" there they became valued settlers, promoting in large measure the early development and progress of the locality. William Walton, the youngest of the brothers, be- came the progenitor of the branch of the family to which Heston Walton be- longs, and his descendants are now num- erous in Montgomery and Bucks coun- ties. The brothers were consistent mem- bers of the Friends' meeting in England, and became early representatives of the denomination in Pennsylvania. They were allied with the farming interests, and lived exemplary lives, contributing in large measure to the moral develop- ment as well as material upbuilding of the localities in which they lived. Will- iam Walton married Sarah Howell, and their son Cin Jeremiah W«ilton. wedded Eliza- beth Wamsley. and continued farming in eastern Pennsylvania. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 'OD (III) Jacob Walton, son of Jeremiah Walton, was a farmer of Montgomery- county, and his son (IV) Isaiah Walton was born in ^Montgomery county, and wedded Mary Harding, whose birth occurred in Bucks county, and who belonged to a promi- nent old family founded in America in early colonial days. She was descend- •ed from Henry Harding, of Churchville, Bucks county. The children of Henry Harding were: Thomas, Joseph, Jon- athan, Isaac, Abram, and Sarah, who married Jesse Gilbert. Thomas Hard- ing was a farmer by occupation, and was a member of the Friends' meeting. His children w^ere: Thomas, Henry, and Mary, the last named the grandmother of Heston Walton and the wife of Isa- iah Walton. Isaiah Walton settled near York Pike, below Hatboro, where he reared his family and remained until his death. His children were: Seth, Sarah, Joseph, Jacob, Thomas, and Mary. (V) Thomas Walton, son of Isaiah and Mary Walton, was born in Mont- gomery^ county, and wedded Mercy Hes- ton, also a native of Bucks county. Thomas Walton was reared to the oc- cupation of farming and afterward learned the stone-mason's trade, which he followed for twenty years. He then engaged in agricultural pursuits, and at the time of his marriage settled upon the farm which is now occupied by the son, Heston, taking up his abode there about 1842. He reared his family upon that place, and died December 14, 1882, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He lived the quiet life of a mechanic and farmer, attending strictly to his busi- ness without active participation in pub- lic affairs, save that he never neglected his duties of citizenship. He was a faithful adherent of the Friends' meet- ing. His wife survived him and died March 26, 1888, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was a- daughter of John and Rachel (Warner) Heston, who also belonged to colonial families that were identified with the Friends' meeting and were highly respected peo- ple. John and Rachel (Warner) Heston had four children: Rebecca, who died unmarried; Esther, who became the wife of A. Michner; Mercy, who became Mrs Walton; and Hannah, the wife of C. Starkhou5^e. (VI) Heston Walton, the only child of Thomas and Mercy (Heston) Walton, was born and reared on the old family homestead, where he yet resides, early becoming familiar with the labors neces- sary for the cultivation and develop- ment of the fields and the care of the crops. He pursued a public-school edu- cation, and largely assisted his father in the farm work during the period of his youth, while later he has engaged in farming and marketing on his own ac- count. In his work' he has prospered, owing to his close application and care- ful management, and he now has a well improved farm on which is a commodi- ous stone residence, large barns and other outbuildings, and groves of forest and fruit trees. He keeps the entire place under a high state of cultivation and uses the latest improved machin- ery in operating his land. He is an en- terprising and public spirited agricul- turist, and in addition to his home place owns a well improved farm in Mont- gomery county. Mr. Walton exercises his right of franchise in support of the Republican party, takes an active inter- est in the questions of the day and fre- quently attends the party conventions, but has never sought or desired office. He was reared in the Friends' faith, and although not a member of any church has lived a life in consistent harmony with high principles. In 1874 Mr. Walton was married to Elizabeth Eastburn, who was born in Makefield township, and is a daughter of John and Sarah (Smith) Eastburn, rep- resentatives of families long connected with eastern Pennsylvania. The father, John Eastburn, was a well known far- mer of Bucks county, and throughout his entire life remained on the old home- stead, where he died January 27, 1878, at the age of seventy^even years. His wife had passed away August 18, 1863, at the age of sixty-three years. They were the parents of three children: Het- tie A., the wife of C. Williams; Eliza- beth, now Mrs. Walton; and one that died unmarried. Mr. and Mrs. Walton had a daughter, Hettie A., who was born May 10, 1875. Mrs. Walton's death occurred September 9, 1888. JOSHUA RICHARDSON. The Richardson family of Attleboro, Penn- sylvania, the members of which have been noted for sterling integrity and in- domitable courage and patriotism, was founded in America in 1724 by Joseph Richardson, who upon his arrival here from his native land, England, located near Oxford, where he commenced work on the farm of William Paxson. Octo- ber -21, 1732, he married Mary Paxson, daughter of William Paxson. and short- ly afterward moved to Four-Lanes-End, where he engaged in business for him- self in a country store. The line of de- scent from the pioneer ancestors is as follows: Joshua, who married Sarah Preston: Joseph, who married Mary Dixon; and Joshua, whose name appears at the head of this sketch. Joshua Richardson, son of Joseph and Mary (Dixon) Richardson, was born in Attleboro, Pennsylvania, (now Lang- horn borough) March 6, 1803. After completing his studies in the Friends' 256 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. school at Attleboro he assisted in the farm work, as was the custom with the boys of that period, on his father's es- tate, and this occupation proving con- genial to his tastes and also highly re- munerative he followed the same throughout the active years of his car- eer. October 15, 1835, Mr. Richardson mar- ried Mary Carpenter Hunt, who died July 18, 1836, leaving no issue. On March 15, 1838, he was united in mar- riage to Mary Knight, of Lower Make- field, Bucks county, daughter of Joshua and Jane (Bunting) Knight, the former named having been a son of John and Margery (Paxson) Knight, and the lat- ter a daughter of William and Margery (Woolston) Bunting. Three children were the issue of the second marriage, namely: _, 1. Joseph, born March 14, 1839, at- tended the Friends' school, Bucks Coun- ty Academy at Langhorn, and Foulk's boarding school at Gwynedd. He is now retired from active agricultural pursuits. February 16, 1865, he married Hannah Gillingham Rowland, of Middletown township, daughter of William D. and Margaret G. Rowland, and their chil- dren are as follows: Margaret, born February 3, 1866, attended the public schools of Middletown township and the Friends' school at Langhorne, and January 23, 1890, became the wife of Newton May Comly, of Philadelphia, and their children are: Rowland Rich- ardson, born December 23, 1890; Bessie May, born February 11, 1892; Edith Bosler, born July 17, 1894; John Byron, born June 17, 1896; Mary Richardson, born July 14, 1897; and Helen Maud, born February 18, 1899. These children attended the public schools of Bustle- ton, and the eldest, Rowland Richard- son Comly, is completing his studies at the Manual Training School in Phila- delphia. Mary Rowland, born July 13, 1867, attended the public schools of Mid- dletown township and the Friends* school at Langhorne. Samuel, born February 25, 1869, also acquired his edu- cation in the same institutions. Joshua, born November 12, 1872, attended the same institutions of learning as his brothers and sisters, and the knowledge thus obtained was supplemented by at- tendance at Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia, from which he was gradu- ated. 2. Edward, born April 21, 1841, attend- ed the Friends' school and the Bucks County Academy at Langhorne, and he is now one of the representative agri- culturists of Bucks county, his prosper- ity being the direct result of capability and efficiency. 3. Mary, born March 7, 1844, acquired her educational advantages at the Friends' school and Bucks County Acad- emy, and is widely known and highly esteemed throughout the section in which she resides for her many estima- ble traits of character. SIPRON C. KEITH, the genial pro- prietor of the popular hostelry known as the White Hall Hotel in Newtown, was born in Kings county, province of New Brunswick, Domonion of Canada, where his paternal ancestors had resided for several generations, on October I, 1854. He is a son of Noah and Cathar- ine (Alward) Keith, the ancestors of the latter having resided in the state of New York for several generations. He was educated at the parish schools of his native county, and early in life learned the trade of a plasterer, which he followed in his native county until 1883, when he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he remained for three years. After a year spent in Chicago he removed to Philadelphia in the spring of 1886 and was employed there until the spring of 1891, when he came to New- town and purchased the White Hall Ho- tel, which he has since successfully con- ducted, making it one of the popular hostelries of lower Bucks. Mr. Keith married in Philadelphia, July 18, 1889, Kate E. Salter, daughter of Charles Burleigh and Anna E. (Sperry) Salter, of that city. Their only child is Ruth Marion, born at Newtown, May 10, 1892. The White Hall Hotel, while not one of the old colonial inns, is nevertheless of historic interest. At the time of the revolutionary war and for many years after it was kept as a store, the proprietor at that time being a man by the name of Campbell. During a great part of the war it was occupied by a government quartermaster as a store house for sup- plies for the American army, and was raided by the Doan outlaws, who car- ried off a lot of government stores. It was later occupied as a store by a man by the name of Evans, who Josiah B. Smith, the historian of the town, re- ferred to as "one of the noisy store- keepers." In 1796 it was purchased by Isaac Hicks. Esq., and was occupied by him as a residence and justice's office for the next forty years. The "Old Squire," as he was known, was a char- acter in his day, and did an immense amount of public business, and could the old timbers of the White Hall be giv- en a tongue they could probably recite for our edification many amusing legal tilts held within its walls. After the death of the "Squire" it was purchased by his grandson, Dr. Edward H. Ken- nedy, who soon after built a new h'ouse, and the old White Hall was occupied as a school, the title being vested in about a dozen of the prominent citi- zens of the town at that time. It was ,,^X AND atd^uJ a^tm4^diJL^ 'K. (y/iA^ W : HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 257 first licensed as a tavern in 1852 to Daniel Y. Harman, on the petition of about one hundred residents of the town and vicinity, and against the remon- strance of about half that number and was re-licensed the following year. For the next five years the license was re- fused by the court. In 1858 a license was granted to Amos W. Buckman, and it has remained a regularly licensed place every since. Mr. Buckman con- ducted the tavern until 1864. and was succeeded by Samuel Thatcher, and he in turn three years later by Mahlon S. Harding, who remained for two years, and then sold out to James Wesley Hel- lings, who in less than a year sold the tavern to Samuel L. Ettenger, who owned the property for many years, and was its proprietor at three different pe- riods during the next ten years, it being conducted in the intervals by his ten- ants, Burtis Magill, George W. Shinn, Mrs. Alice Shinn, and Frederick Schie- fer. From February, 1880, to May, 1891, it was conducted by Edward A. Tomlin- son. who was then succeeded by Mr. Keith. During the year 1904 Mr. Keith made extensive improvements, practi- cally renewing and remodeling the whole structure. JAMES CONRAD, for many years the popular funeral director of Mozart, Buckingham township, Bucks county, was born in Warwick township, July 12, 1835, and died January 20, 1905. He was a son of Charles and Mary (Patterson) Conrad, and grandson of William and Hannah (DeCoursey) Conrad. Both the father and grandfather were farmers and lifelong residents of Buckingham and Warwick townships. Charles Con- rad was born in Buckingham in 1800, and died there in 1873. He was the fath- er of four children, three of whom sur- vive, John Conrad, of Rushland: Rob- ert, of Philadelphia; and the subject of this sketch. James Conrad was reared in Bucking- ham and received his education at the public schools. At the age of eighteen years he apprenticed himself to the car- penter trade, and after finishing his ap- prenticeship, followed the trade for several years, erecting many buildings in that section of Bucks county. He also engaged for some time in the manu- facture of pumps. In 1870 he began the business of an undertaker, which he fol- lowed up to his decease, conducting a large number of funerals in central Bucks county during the last thirty years. Mr. Conrad was a man of high standing in the community, and filled many positions of trust. He served as a school director, and was one of the trustees and directors of the Hughesian free school. In politics he was a Repub- lican. He was a member of Doylestown 17-3 Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M., and Doylestown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M. He was married March 13, 1862, to Mar- tha C. Worthington, daughter of Will- iam and Seraphina (Taylor) Worthing- ton, of Buckingham. She was a native of Wrightstown, but her girlhood days were spent in Buckingham. She died in April, 1902. Their only child Minnie Jane died at the age of twenty-one years. HENRY GARGES. Among the men who have achieved financial success in the management of their farming inter- ests, and have thus been enabled to re- tire from active business pursuits during the latter years of their life, is Henry Garges, who was born on the old home- stead near Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsj'lvania, August 19, 1830. John Garges, grandfather of Henry Garges, lived and died near Doylestown, Bucks county, where he followed farm- ing as a means of livelihood during his entire active career. He owned the farm adjoining that of Henry Garges, now in the possession of the (Tounty Historical Society. He was a member of the old Mennonite church. His family consisted of -four sons an"d five daughters, namely: William, Henry, John, Abraham, Mary, wife of Abram Gile; Sarah, wife of John ]\I\-ers: Elizabeth, wife of Philip Gile; Percilla, wife of William Borrows; and Margaret, wife of William Fritz. Abraham Garges, father of Henry Garges, was born on the old homestead near Doylestown, Bucks county, in 1784. In early life he served an apprenticeship at the trade of blacksmith, which occu- pation he worked at in connection with farming for a number of years, thereby providing a comfortable home for his family. He was one of the first school directors of Doylestown township after the free school system was inaugurated, this giving evidence of the appreciation in v^diich he was held by his fellow citi- zens. In 1845 he removed to War- wick township, and also -served a> school director there for a number of years. He held membership in the old Alennonite church, and his political views were in accord with those of the old Whig partJ^ He was united in mar- riage to Leah Ruth, and eight chil- dren were born to them: William, de- ceased, who was a farmer of New Brit- ain township; INIary, wife of James C. Fell; Rebecca, wife of Joseph Funck; Henry, mentioned hereinafter; Sarah Ann, wife of Oliver P. Shutt; Prucilla, wife of Henry Haines; Amy L., who died in early life; and Lewis, a farmer of Dojdestown township. Abraham Garges (father) died in Doj'lestown township, i\Iay 5, 1861, aged seventy- seven years. Henry Garges spent the years of his 258 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. boyhood in the same fashion' as the majority of boys reared on a farm — at- tending the common schools and as- sisting with the duties pertaining to farm life. He remained at home with his father — cultivating and tilling the farm — until the death of the latter in 1861, when he inherited the property, on which he continued his operations until 1900, since which time he has lived re- tired. He served as school director of Doylestown township for three years, and the cause of education has always, found in him an active and willing sup- porter. He is staunch in his advocacy of Republican principles, contributing materially to the success of that party in his community. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Doylestown. Mr. Garges was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of George and Anna Roberts, and three children were the issue of this union: Annie Leah, born March 16, 1864, wife of B. Frank Bodine; Edward, born April 6, 1865, a farmer of Warrington township: and Isaac B., born Febru- ary 9, 1867, a grocer of Philadelphia. Mrs. Garges, the mother of these chil- dren, died June 9, 1901. CHARLES H. RHOADES, livery- man, Doylestown, was born near Brick Tavern, Milford township, Bucks coun- ty, June 4, i860, a son of Jacob B. and Mary (Hockman) Roth. The family of Roth (the original form of the name) is a German one, many of the name emigrating to Pennsylvania between the years 1730 and 1800. One branch of the family settled in Rockhill, where their descendants still reside. The name be- ing pronounced "Rote," came to be spelled Rhoad, and in various other forms. The subject of this sketch was, however, descended from a later emigrant. Johan Jost Roth, with wife, Louise Rodepil- ler, (later Reedmiller), and children, J'ohn Heinrich. Ludwig, and Herman, migrated from Germany in the ship "Fortune." from Hamburg, and settled in Bedminster township. Ludwig_ Roth, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, purchased a small farm near Bedministerville in 1806, and died there in 1824, leaving wife Elizabeth, sons Mathew and George, and grand- sons John B. and Jacob B., sons of his deceased son Christian. Jacob B. Roth settled in Milford town- ship in 184T, where he followed the trade of a stone mason. As early as 1841 Tie purchased land near Brick Tavern on the Bethlehem road. He was twice married, his first wife being Roselna Groude, by whom he had one child that died young. He married (second) Mary Hockman, who survives him, living with her daughter in Doylestown. Jacob B. Roth died at Brick Tavern, Milford township, November 6, 1866. His cliil- ren were: Sallie, who married Eliab Ritchie; and Charles H., the subject of this sketch. Charles Hockman Rhoades, the sub- ject of this sketch, was but six years old at the death of his father, and his sister Sallie was but two years his sen- ior. As soon as the estate of his father was settled, the widow Roth, with her two children, removed to Doylestown, where her brother Peter Hockman had a livery stable, and about a year later removed to Warrington, where his mother was housekeeper for Joseph Paul, Esq., for two years. The fam- ily then removed to Fox Chase, Mont- gomery county, where the boyhood of the subject of this sketch was spent. He was educated at the Abington Friends' school, and on arriving at his majority in 1881 he came to Doylestown, and, in connection with his brother-in-law, Eliab Ritchie, opened a livery stable near the railroad depot, where he still has his stand. A year later he bought out the interest of his brother-in-law, and has since conducted the business alone. In T)olitics Mr. Rhoades is a Republi<:an. He has served three years as a member of town council, and has filled other local offices. He is a mem- ber of Aquetong Lodge. No. 193, I. O. O. F., and of St. Tammany Castle, K. G. E., of Doylestown. He was married February 6. "1886. to Ella, daughter of George and Anna Maria Burgstresser, and has one daughter Edith, now fifteen years of age. JOHN PHILLIPS BLACK. Among the active business men of Langhorne, Bucks county, is John Phillips Black, who was born in that town March 16, 1839, and is a son of John and Rachel Shaw (Wells) Black. John Black, the father, born in 1807. was a cooper by trade, and followed that trade for several years in Lang- horne, where he purchased a home in 1850. He also assisted in building a number of the older buildings in that vicinity. He was a native of Bucks coun- ty, and a son of James and Judith (Searle) Black, the latter being a granddaughter of Arthur Searle, an ear- ly settler near the Neshaminy in South- ampton, who married a daughter of John Naylor of Southampton. John Black married Rachel Shaw Wells, born 1814, daughter of Valentine (born 1784) and Phoebe (Shaw) Wells of Middle- town (born 1785) the latter being a daughter of Gideon Shaw. John and Rachel S. (Wells) Black were the par- ents of nine children: John P., the sub- ject of this sketch; Elizabeth, wife of William Gillingham; Margaret, wife of Barclay Wildman; Franklin S.. of Tully- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 259 town; Emma T., wife of Byran Wright; Phebe W. ; William G., George D., and •Catherine, died young. John Black, Sr., died in July, 1859, and his widow survived him many years, dy- ing August 6, 1904, at the age of nearly ninety years. John Phillips Black was reared in Langhorne, and obtained his education in the public and Friends' schools of that town. At the age of twelve years he hired out on a farm, where he remained for four years. In 1856 he went to New- town to learn the trade of a carriage blacksmith, which he finished at Lang- horne. He found employment at Hulme- ville as a journeyman, and later located at Bridgetown, where he remained for five years. He then bought the T. W. Boileau property in Langhorne, and later the wheelwright shops and busi- ness adjoining, thus uniting under one ownership and management a complete carriage building establishment which he has since successfully conducted, doing a large and profitable business, mak- ing his establishment one of the largest of its kind in lower Bucks. Mr. Black is an enterprising and active citizen-, and takes an active interest in the affairs of his town. He has served several terms in the town council, and has filled other local offices. He is a member of Orion- to Lodge, No. 177, L O. O. F., of Lang- horne. On February 5, 1863, Mr. Black mar- ried Rachel Pyle Boyce, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Stevens) Boyce, of Philadelphia county, the former a na- tive of Delaware, and a son of Robert Boyce, whose father v^^as a large tobac- co planter and snuff manufacturer in that state; and the latter a native of South- ampton township, Bucks county, and a daughter of Benjamin Stevens, whose ancestors had been residents of that lo- cality for several generations. Mr. and Mrs. Black are the parents of three chil- dren, viz: Wilmer Stevens, born April 18, 1865: Emma Elizabeth, born August 15, 1869; and Clarence Randall, born June 6, 1873, all of wdiom were born and reared in Langhorne, and were educated in the local schools. Wilmer Stevens Black at an early age became associated with his father in the conduct of the carriage building estab- lishment, and has been a valuable as- sistant in ^the work. He married April 17, 1890, Anne Bentley Candy, daugh- ter of James B. and Mary Jane (Moser) Candy, of Langhorne, an account of whose ancestry is given elsewhere in this work. Wilmer S. and Anne C. Black are the parents of two children: Edith Holbrook, born. September 13, 1898; and Cyrille Kershaw, born July 29, 1904. Emma Elizabeth Black, only daughter of John P. and Rachel (Boyce) Black, ■married August 21, 1890, Samuel Mills Myers, and they are the parents of five children, viz: Elenore Kruger, born Oc- tober 12, 1893; John Harold, born Octo- ber 8, 1895; Boyce Mills, born October 7, 1897; Liez May, born December 4, 1899; and Dever, born April 15, 1902. CLARENCE RANDALL BLACK, son of John Phillips and Rachel Pyle (Boyce) Black, was born in Langhorne, June 6, 1873, and was educated in the public and Friends' schools of Lang- horne. At the age of sixteen years he entered the wood working department of his father's carriage building estab- lishment, where he was employed for about two years, when, having an incli- nation towards the painting department, he learned that branch of the work and now has entire charge of the carriage painting department of the works as superintendent of the entire force of men employed therein. He also acts as salesman, and has a general oversight over the whole establishment. In poli- tics Mr. Black is a Republican, and takes an active interest in local affairs. He is a member of Langhorne Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle. He and his family attend the Langhorne Metho- dist Episcopal church, both Mr. and Mrs. Black being members of the choir of that church. He married. May 26, 1898, Elizabeth Davis Duffield, daugh- ter of the late Thomas Hart Benton and Rebecca (Search) Duffield, granddaugh- ter of Alfred Torbert and Rebecca Miles (Davis) Duffield, and great-granddaugh- ter of General John Davis, of Davis- ville, Bucks county. Her maternal grandparents were James and Susanna (Hall) Search, the former a son of Sam- uel and Katharine (Puff) Search, and grandson of Christopher and (Torbert) Search , and the latter a daughter of John and Eleanor (Conily) Hall, all early and prominent residents of lower Bucks. SAMUEL G. PRICE, V. S., of Doylestown, was born in Solebury town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 25. 1846, and is a son of John N. and Christianna (Godshalk) Price, of Sole- bury. The paternal ancestors of Dr. Price were early settlers in New Jersey, but were probably descendants of John Price, who came from England to Phila- delphia, in 1683. James Price was a considerable land- owner in Maidenhead township, near the present site of Lawrenceville, New Jer- sey, as early as 1698. and was a promi- nent man in that section. He was corn- missioned lieutenant of provincial mi- litia, March 19, 1714, and hisson John was a captain in the provincial service during the colonial wars, and died at Hopewell in 1773, leaving sons: John, 26o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY James, and David and several daugh- ters, one of whom, Elizabeth, married James Slack, of Hunterdon county in 1732. James Price, above mentioned, married Elizabeth Ely, daughter of George Ely, of Trenton, in 1737, and had one son George. David Price, supposed to have been a son of James of Maidenhead, was the direct ancestor of Dr. Price. He was a large landholder in the neighborhood of Hopewell, New Jersey, and in 1756 purchased 200 acres of land in Middle- town township, and died there in 1765, leaving two sons, Nathan and James, and four daughters, Rebecca, who mar- ried Daniel Price of Kingwood, Hun- terdon county. New Jersey, and doubt- less a descendant of Benjamin Price, who settled at Elizabethtown, New Jer- sey, in 1677, whose son Daniel was sheriff of his county in 1692; Eleanor, who married Benjamin Stackhouse of Bucks county in 1761; Sarah, who died single in Merion, Philadelphia county, in 1767; and Susannah, who married Jo- seph Mahr, of Northampton county. James Price, the second son, married Sarah Huddleston, of Middletown, and lived and died on the old homestead there. Nathan Price was for some years a resident of Bucks county, but removed to Kingwood, Hunterdon county. New Jersey, prior to 1775, where he became a prominent citizen, and served as sher- iff of the county, 1806-8. He is said to have married a daughter of Timothy Smith, sheriff of Bucks county, 1728-30, and 1737-9. The children of Nathan Price in 1767 as shown by the will of his sister Sarah were : John, Rebecca, Smith, Elizabeth, Sarah, Phebe, James and David. Smith Price, second son of Nathan, was born September 11, 1748. Both he and his brother John were residents of Plumstead township during the revolu- tion, the latter serving as first lieuten- ant of militia. Smith was a wheel- wright by trade and followed that line of work for r number of years in Plum- stead. He later became a storekeeper at Gardenville, and was a considerable land owner in Plumstead. He married, September i, 1776, before Isaac Hicks, Esq., of Newtown, Martha Carver, born December 21. 1756, died April 11, 1793, daughter of Joseph Carvver, of Bucking- ham, and had one son John, born May IS. 1779- He married (second) Hannah -^ and had children: Jonathan. Jo- seph. Samuel, Smith. Mary and Bur- roughs. He died October 17, 1816, at the age of eighty-eight years. John Price, only surviving child of Smith and Martha (Carver) Price, born in Plumstead township May 15. 1779- was a lifelong resident of Plumstead. On his marriage in 1798 he settled on his father's farm on the Durham road, below Gardenville, which he inherited later under his father's will, and lived there until his death, November 2, 1828^ in his fiftieth year. He married, Janu- ary 21, 1798, Elizabeth Kirk, born Oc- tober 19, 1773, died January 11, 1849, daughter of Stephen and Phebe (Fell) Kirk, and granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, and of Ben- jamin and Hannah (Scarborough) Fell, the former of whom was born in Cum- berland, England, in 1703. (See Fell, Kirk, and Scarborough families in this work). The children of John and Eliza- beth (Kirk) Price were: Phebe, born 1799, died 1802; Charles M., born June 29, 1801, married Susan Rich; Martha, born February 8, 1804, married Yeam- ans Paul Jones; Kirk J., born Septem- ber 24, 1805, married Sarah Brown; Stephen K., born October 30, 1807, mar- ried (first) Rebecca Carey and (second) Nancy Flack; Sarah B., born October 7, 1809, married James Meredith; John N., born September 19, 181 1, married Chris- tianna Godshalk ; Hannah Brock, born January 20, 1814, married Eleazer F, Church, of Newtown: Smith, twin to Hannah B:, married Harriet Opp; and Preston, born September 30, 1816. John N. Price, son of John and Eliza- beth (Kirk) Price, born in Plumstead, September 19, 181 1, resided the greater part of his life in Solebury township, where he owned and operated a small farm. After the death of his wife he re- sided for a number of years with his son Samuel G., in Plumstead and Doylestown, dying at the later place August 8, 1888, in his seventy-seventh year. He married, December 27, 1832, Christianna Godshalk, daughter of Sam- uel and Sidney Godslalk, born April 20, 181 1, died February 19, 1865. Sam- uel Godslalk w-as born November li, 177S, and died June 26, i860, and his wife Sidney, whom he married in Febru- ary, 1801, was born December 17, 1780, and died May 30. 1850. The children of John N. and Christianna (Godshalk) Price were: Edmund M., born Novem- ber 7, 1833, died at Lahaska, Bucks county, August 12, 1893, was for many years a veterinary surgeon in Bucking- ham; Elizabeth H., born July i, 1836, died April 2, 1856. married Walker Booz. of Carversville; Sidney G., born Aug- ust 16, 1840, married Joseph Mathews, of Solebury, and is still Iiving;i John Beatty, born April 17, 1842, died in a military hospital at Mound City, Illinois, August 19, 1863, from sickness contract- ed in the army in the civil war, in Dur- ell's Battery; Marj^ P., born November 26, 1843, married Harvey Fretz ; and Samuel G.. born May 25, 1846. Samuel G. Price was born and reared in Solebury township, and acquired his education at llic public schools and at Carversville Excelsior Normal Institute. On leaving school he filled the po- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 261 sition of clerk in the store of Richard R.\ Paxson, at Lahaska, for two years. H^ then taught school in Warwick township for one term, in the meanwhile studying veterinary surgery under Dr. Joshua C. Smith, of New Hope. He be- gan practice as a veterinary surgeon in Plumstead, in 1869, and followed his profession there for seventeen years, most of which time he was located at Danboro. In 1886 he removed to Doylestown, where he has since conducted a large practice. He takes an active in- terest in local affairs, has served for three years as a member of the Doyles- town school board, and is serving his second term of three years each as a member of borough council. At Dan- boro he was affiliated with the local lodges of I. O. R. AI. and the Golden Eagles. He is a member and past mas- ter of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M., and a past high priest of Doylestown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. AI. He is also a past officer of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, and Doylestown En- campment, No. 35, L O. O. F., and takes a leading part in the degree staffs of l)Oth lodge and encampment. Dr. Price married, at the Doyles- town Presbyterian manse, November 29, 1872, Rachel A. Cadwallader, daughter of James and Christianna (Fell) Cad- wallader, of Buckingham, and grand- daughter of Eli and Rachel (Morris) Cadw-allader. On the maternal line Mrs. Price is descended from Joseph Fell, who came from Cumberland, Eng- land, in 1795, and settled in Buckingham two years later, through his son Benja- min, before mentioned. To Dr. and Mrs. Price have been born two chil- dren: Beatty, July 2, 1876. died May 8, 1877; and Christianna, February 24, 1879, wife of John L. DuBois, Jr.. a member of Bucks county bar. To Mr. and Mrs. DuBois have been born two children: Rachel, who died September 29, 1901, and John Latta DuBois, born December 5, 1903. WILMER KRUSEN, M. D., was "born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1869, a son of John and Eliza- beth A. (Sager) Krusen. He is of Holland-Dutch descent, and his father was a farmer of Bucks county. He was educated in the public schools ■of his native county, and read medicine for a year with Dr. Charles B. Smith, •of Newtown, Pennsylvania, before enter- ing Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1893, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a year following he was resident physi- cian in the Jefferson Hospital. He then opened a practice in Philadelphia, Tiis specialty being gynecology, and since 1894 has been instructor in gynecology at Jefferson College. He has been as- sistant gynecologist in the Jefferson Hospital, the St. Joseph Hospital and the Samaritan Hospital. He is chief of the Gynecological Dispensary of St. Jo- seph's Hospital, and a fellow of the College of Physicians. He is at pres- ent (1905) chief gynecologist of the Sa- maritan Hospital, and professor of gynecology in the Temple Medical Col- lege. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Philadel- phia County Medical Association, of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Philadelphia Medical Club, the Phil- adelphia Obstetrical Society, the North- western Medical Society, and the Phila- delphia Pathological Society. He is a collaborator on "American Medicine," and has written many articles in the line of his specialty. In politics he is a Re- publican. In 1895 Dr. Krusen married Elizabeth W. Gilbert, and his three chil- dren are: Edward M., Francis H., and Carolyn A. JOHN H. VANSANT, whose exten- sive agricultural pursuits have brought to him a large degree of prosperity as a result of his reliable and progressive methods, is a native of the community in which he resides, Eddington, Ben- salem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, born October 31, 1840, a son of John F. and Mary (Boozer) Vansant. John F. Vansant (father) was also a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, born in 1806. He was a blacksmith by trade, which line of work he followed in Cornwells, opposite the old tavern where the stage horses were changed, and, being an expert mechanic, his trade increased steadily both in volume and importance from year to year, becoming a lucrative means of livelihood. In 1840 he purchased the farm at Eddington where his son John H. now resides, and in connection with his farming pursuits conducted a blacksmith shop at that place, continuing until his death. By his marriage to Mary Boozer, of Ben- salem township, Bucks county, nine chil- dren were born, seven of whom attained years of maturity, as follows: Charles, Jesse, Thomas, Margaret, Elizabeth, John H., and James. The family at- tended the Episcopal church, in the work and to the support of which they were liberal contributors. Mr. Van- sant died in 1866, in the sixty-seventh year of his age; his wife died Septem- ber 29, 1889, having attained the ad- vanced age of eighty-six years. John H. Vansant was reared on his father's farm, whereon he has resided during his entire lifetime, and thus be- came thoroughly familiar with all the details of the quiet but useful calling of agriculture, to which he has since de- voted his entire time and attention. His 262 HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. land is under a hish state of cultivation and therefore produces goodly harvests, and, the products being of a superior quality, find a ready sale in the nearby markets. Mr. Vansant has always taken a keen interest in township affairs, and has been the incumbent of several local offices, including that of assessor, in which capacity he served for a number of years. His political views coincide with those advocated by the Democratic party, whose candidates and measures he has upheld since attaining his ma- jority. He and family attend the Epis- copal church. Mr. Vansant married, September 11, 1867, Ella Van Horn, daughter of Thomas Van Horn, of Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and two children were the issue of this union : i. Will- iam N., born February 5, 1869, educated in the public schools, and at the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, grad- uating at the head of his class in 1888. He was sent by the government to The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Eng- land, studying three years as a naval constructor, and ranked as lieutenant His death occurred January I, 1893. 2. Charles H. born February 19, 1871, attended the Lehigh University, and is now a civil engineer. He is connected with the Berlin Construction Company, and he assisted in the construction of the New York Subway. HARRY F. ^lOLLOY, recorder of deeds of the county of Bucks, was born in Wrightstown, August 14, 1856, and is a son of Nicholas E. and Frances Jenks (Stradling) Molloy. Nicholas E. Molloy, for many years a well known farmer and highly re- spected citizen of Wrightstown, was born on the Atlantic ocean when his parents were on their way to America from Ireland in 1817. At the age of six he was taken charge of by David Shipps of Northampton township, and was reared in his family. Soon after arriv- ing at manhood he purchased a farm in Northampton, near Richboro, on which he resided for a number of years, and then sold it and removed to Wrights- town where he resided for two years, and then removed to the old Lacey farm in Buckingham, on the Wrightstown line, the birthplace of General John Lacey, living in the house erected by the Lacey family about 1706, now torn down. He purchased this farm in 1878, but had previously purchased and re- moved upon an adjoining farm, now oc- cupied by his son Harry F. INIolloy, where he died in August, 1880, aged sixty-three years. Mr. Molloy was an industrious and successful man, and was highly respected in the community. For over thirty years he ran a commis- sion wagon to Philadelphia, carrying: his own and his neighbors' country pro- duce to the Philadelphia market. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment. Frances J. Stradling, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of Thomas Stradling, and a descendant of Thomas Stradling who married, October 5, 1715, Lydia Doan, daughter of Daniel Doan, who came to Middletown from Massachu- setts in 1699. Thomas Stradling settled in Newtown township, where he died in 1761, leaving two sons: Daniel, of Plum- stead, and Joseph, who died on the homestead in 1810, without issue, and the children of his second son Thomas who died in Newtown in 1757. Thomas, Jr., the ancestor of Mrs. Molloy, mar- ried, December 13, 1744, Elizabeth. Fisher, born June 13, 1727, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Scarborough) Fisher, who, after his death, married^ December 4, 1759, Joseph Lee. The chil- dren of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fisher) Stradling were: Sarah, Elizabeth, John,. Thomas, and Daniel, of whom Thomas was the grandfather of Mrs. Molloy. Nicholas^ E. and Frances J. (Stradling) Molloy were the parents of three chil- dren: Harry F., the present recorder of deeds of 1 Bucks county, and popular merchant at Pineville; Anna, wife of W. Harry Rockafellow ,of Buckingham; and' John B. Molloy,, of Wycombe, a sketcb of whom appears in this work. Harry F. Molloy was born and reared in Wrightstown and has always lived, in that vicinity. He was educated at the public schools, and continued to reside on his father's farm until 1875, when he became a clerk in the store of Jesse P. Carver, at Pineville. of which he is now proprietor. On Mr. Carver's retirement in 1877 he continued with his successor, Seth Cattell Van Pelt, until 1879 when he went back to the farm. In 1888 he purchased the store at Mozart, Buck- ingham township, where he conducted' the mercantile business for five years. Having purchased the store stand at Pineville, he removed there April i, 1893, and has since conducted a large and successful business there. In poli- tics Mr. Molloy is a Democrat, and in' the fall of 1902 was elected on the Dem- ocrat ticket to the office of recorder of deeds. He continued to conduct his store at Pineville, spending a portion of each week in the office in Doylestown, which is mainly condiicted by his son J. Carroll, a young man of much prom- ise. Mr. Molloy takes an active interest in local affairs, and is well and favorably known in his native township. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge No. 245, F. and A. M. ; Doylestown Chapter No. 270, R. A. M.; of Northern Star Lodge No. 54. I. O. O. F. at Richboro: New- town^ Council, K. of P.; and Wycombe Castle No. 125, K. G. E. 'a/i/7Ai,^^M(McY HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 263 He married in 18S3 Anna 'SI. Leedoni, daughter of John and Sarah (Harrold) Leedom, of Wrightstown. She died Oc- tober 5, 1902. On the paternal side she was descended from Richard Leedom, an early English settler in Southampton, the ancestor of a numerous and prom- inent family in Lower Bucks and else- where, and on the maternal side from Samuel Harrold, who came from Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury and settled in Buckingham, where he became a large landholder and prom- inent man. He was twice married and reared a large family, who have left numerous descendants in Bucks, though few of the name now reside here. Th*^ children of Harry F. and Anna M. (Leedom) Molloy are: J. Carroll and William H. JOSEPH L. SMITH connected with the farming interests of Warminster township, was born in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, June 8, i860. The family is of German lineage and was established in America at an early epoch in the history of this part of the state. The paternal grandfather, An- drew Smith, was a native of Bucks county, following the occupation of farming and was widely known and highly respected. He gave his political allegiance to the Democratic party. His sons and daughters were as follows: Elias A.; William; Andrew; James; Jessie H.; Alfred R. ; Mary, the wife of J. B. Tumbleson; Elizabeth, the wife of George Slack; and Jane and Etta, who are still living. The parents were consis- tent and faithful members of the Epis- copal church. William Smith, father of Joseph L. Smith, was boxn in Makefield township, and was reared to the occupation of farming in Bucks county. He followed that pursuit throughout his entire life, remaining upon the old homestead farm lip to the time of his marriage, when he settled upon a tract of rented land, which he'continued to operate for a few years or until his industry and economy had brought him capital sufficient to en- able him to make purchase of land. He then bought a farm, which he conducted for a number of years; he then sold that and purchased a larger tract of land whereon he spent his rem.aining days. He follow^ed general farming and sold his produce in the Philadelphia market. In all of his business interests he was practical and energetic, and his well conducted affairs brought to him- de- served success. He left to his family an untarnished name because of his in- tegrity and honor in all life's relations. His political views were in harmony with Democratic principles, and he kept well informed on all the questions and issues of the day. He belonged to the Friends' Meeting, and died in that faith in April, 1904. In early manhood he wedded Sarah A. Linton, who died May 25, 1902. She was a daughter of Thomas and Hannah Linton, descendants of old families of Bucks county. Her father was a leading and influential farmer, whose political support was given to the Whig party and afterward to the Re- publican party, and who in his religious faith was a Friend. In his familj^ were two sons and a daughter: William and Joseph, who follow farming; and Sarah, who became Mrs. Smith. To Mr. and Mrs. William Smith were born six chil- dren: Anna, who married Joseph R. Comlj'; Emma, the wife of S. D. Tom- linson; William A., who follows farming on the old homestead ; Joseph L. ; Sarah H., who married Joseph W. Ross; and Jennie E. Joseph L. Smith remained in the home of his parents up to the time of his marriage, which occurred in 1888. He had been reared to the occupation of farming, and he chose that pursuit as a life work. At the time of his mar- riage he settled on the farm where he now resides, one mile east of Ivyland, and there he carries on general agricul- tural pursuits, attending the Philadel- phia market, where he places his farm products on sale. He has many regular patrons, and his business has become profitable. His farm is productive and is kept in a high state of cultivation. There is a commodious residence, splen- didly situated on a building site that commands an excellent view of the sur- rounding country. There are beautiful trees about the place and everything is neat and attractive in appearance. There is a large barn, commodious outbuild- ings and, in fact, the entire property is well improved. He uses the best farm implements in conducting the labor of field and meadow, and he raises some stock for the support of the farm. Fie is a fancier of fine horses and always has some splendid ones upon his place. He is now raising some colts, having two fine thoroughbreds which will un- doubtedly develop into superior road- sters if not race horses. Mr. Srnith is a stanch advocate of Democratic prin- ciples, and uses his influence to further the growth and success of his party. He is well qualified for public office, but the Democracy is in the minority m Bucks countj% and Mr. Smith belongs to that class of men who would never surrender a principle for an office within the gift of the people. He has served as school director, however, for nine years and the cause of education has found in him a warm friend. He is a man of social nature, of pleasant ad- dress, public-spirited and highly re- spected. Mr. Smith married Miss Martha H. Spencer, who was born in Northampton 264 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY. township, in 1864, a daughter of Cam- eron and Rachel B. (Hart) Spencer, both natives of Bucks county, their an- cestors having located here in early- days. In fact the name of Spencer is closely associated with the history of the material and moral development of this part of the state. The early repre- sentatives of the name here were of Irish birth and of Presbyterian faith. John Spencer was enrolled with the volun- teers in the war of 1812, and afterward received a pension in recognition of his services. His son, Samirel Spencer, was a reliable farmer, successfully conduct- ing his business affairs. He voted with the Whig party in early life, and upon its dissolution joined the ranks of the new Republican party. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church. He married Sarah A. Harmon, and died in March, 1889. Their only son, Cameron G. Spencer, was born in Bucks county and reared and educated there, remaining upon the old homestead as his father's assistant until 1859, when he married and brought his bride to the farm, of which he then took charge, making a home for his father during his remaining days. Cameron Spencer was born in November, 1836, and was but five years of age w-hen he lost his mother in 1841. He was reared by his father and the latter's housekeeper, and his life developed into that of a man of remarkable strength of character and sterling purpose. He never used to- bacco or liquor in any form, and he was popular and prominent in the commun- ity, receiving the unqualified trust and respect of those w-ith whom he was as- sociated. After l>is marriage he con- ducted the home farm for eleven years, and then sold that property, removing to Philadelphia, where he rented a hotel property in Spring Garden street. He made it a temperance house and to the astonishment of all his friends pros- pered in this undertaking, although those who knew him predicted that he could not wfin success unless he sold liquors there. However, he conducted a tem- perance house for ten years after which he purchased a farm near Jacksonville, Bucks county. He then resumed farm- ing, in which line of activity he contin- ued until his death. He was a Repub- lican, and although he was never an as- pirant for office he served for one term as assessor, while residing in Philadel- phia, discharging the duties of the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the general public. He was widely known and coinmanded the confidence and good will of the people of every community in which he lived. His death occurred in May, 1882. His wife still survives him and makes her home with her two children, ]\Irs. Smith, and a son who resides upon the homestead farm. She was born in Northampton township in 1837, and is a lady of cul- ture and intelligence; she is a daughter of Joshua and Martha (Bonham) Hart, both connected with early colonial fam- ilies. Her father was a son of John and Sarah (Dungan) Hart, also of Bucks county. John Hart followed farming and merchandising, making his home in Jacksonville, and he became widely known as a highly respected citizen. He w'as of Irish lineage, affiliated with the Baptist church, and his political allegi- ance was given to the Democracy. His children w-ere: Joshua, William, Rachel, Joseph, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hum- phrey, and Rebecca. Joshua Hart, who was born in 1802, was reared to farm pursuits, and after his marriage settled in Northampton township, while later he took up his abode upon the farm now occupied by ■ Mrs. Smith. Throughout his entire life he carried on agricultural pursuits, and died in Buckingham township. In poii- itics he was a Democrat, but had no political aspirations. In an early day he served as captain in a militia com- pany. His w^ife was born in 1809, and was a daughter of Joseph and Letitia (Kinsey) Bonham, both of Bucks county, her father being a prominent and well known farmer. In politics he was a Whig. The members of the Bonham family were Jonathan, Isaiah, Charles, Kinsey, Samuel and Martha. The children of Joshua Hart were: Sarah, the wife of John Spencer; Letitia; Charles, wdio died in the civil war; Rachel B., who became the mother of Mrs. Smith; Elizabeth, the wife of Jo- siah Thompson, of Philadelphia; and John, also of Philadelphia. To Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Spencer were born three children: Horace G., who was reared upon the home farm, and was later em- ployed by the Presbyterian board of publication; died in September, 1888, leaving a wife but no children; Martha H., who became Mrs. Smith; and A. Lincoln, who is now farming the old homestead: he is a stanch Republican in his political views; he has a son, Cameron, born Januarj^ 23, 1895. FRANK F. BELL, deceased, who was elected the first treasurer of Philadelphia under the new city charter, popularly known as the "Bullit Bill." having been the youngest incumbent upon whom this responsible office had ever fallen, was of old and honored German origin. His paternal grandparents were natives of Wurtemberg, Germany. His grand- mother died when her son, John Bell, father of Frank F. Bell, was about eleven years of age. and subsequently her husband and son emigrated to America, the former named dying dur- ing the voyage at sea. •.V YORK Fu HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 26: John Bell (father) came to Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, an orphan, and sub- sequently became a well known and re- spected citizen of Old Northern Liber- ties, having established an extensive business as caterer and confectioner. He was united in marriage to Mary Lang- enstein, who was born in Gros-Glatt- bach, Wurtemberg, Germany, daughter of Frederick and Anna Mary (Wein- gartner) Langenstein, whom she accom- panied to America in 1839, settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Frederick Langenstein was a son of Michael and Eva Dorothea (Schaefle) Langerstein, both of Gros-Glattbach, Wurtemberg, Germany, and grandson of Michael Lan- genstein, who served in the capacity of burgomaster of the aforementioned place. John Bell (father) died at the early age of thirty-six years, his son Frank F. being then only two years of age. Frank F. Bell was born in the city of Philadelphia, May 26, 1855. Upon reaching the qualified age he was entered ■as a pupil at Girard College, Irom which institution he was graduated with high honors at the conclusion of the eight years' course. After his graduation he entered upon the study of architectural drawing in the office of Professor Rich- ards, of the University of Pennsylvania, and later he accepted a position in the manufacturing firm of W. C. Allison & Sons. He had a special aptitude for ac- counts which rapidly brought him to promotion in the counting room of this great firm. Not long after, however, an opportunity arose which promised him an opening in the political arena, and served to afiford opportunity for the study of law, which he had already de- cided to follow as a profession. He was offered a position of trust in the office of the receiver of taxes, which he ac- cepted, and at the same time became a law student in the office of Hampton Todd. Shortly after his acceptance of this new office an investigation of its af- fairs was ordered by the city comp- troller, which proved to be prolonged and exhaustive, and Mr. Bell acquired a reputation in this investigation which led directly to his future advancement. Shortly after its conclusion William B. Irvine was elected city treasurer of Philadelphia, and he. having a knowl- edge of the executive ability of Mr. Bell, tendered to him the important office of ■chief of the department for the collec- tion of revenue due the commonwealth. The successful efiforts of Mr. Bell in this position brought him prominently into public favor, and resulted in making him the nominee of his party to succeed Mr. Irvine. The public confidence in his fitness for the office was expressed by a popular majority of 21,106 votes, and he met the responsibilities and fulfilled the duties of the position in' a highly cred- itable manner. In his business and po- litical relations he was eminently con- sistent and reliable. His matured capa- bilities had received ample and thorough training in the great trusts and in all the departments of activity to which he had been called, and in his handling of the millions of dollars in the city treas- ury there was not the slightest whisper of the innuendos and scandals so fre- quently alleged of men in public life. Mr. Bell was a member of the Union League Club of Philadelphia; of the Philadelphia Athletic Club; of the Al- gonquin Club of Bristol; and of the Stock Exchange of Philadelphia and New York. In i88r Mr. Bell was made a Mason in Oriental Lodge, No. 385, and four 3'ears from that date was chosen wor- shipful master, and this rapid rise in Masonry and in the affections of the craft was but a reflex of his walks in life. The following is an extract from the eulogy paid to Frank F. Bell by Past Master Z. Taylor Rickards : "Ac-. quaintance with him elicited admiration, intimacy was to love him; to contribute to his ambitions was but to do right and receive his gratitude always. To-mor- row we shall look for the last time at the face of our dear friend and brother, stilled, no longer to respond to the cheerful greeting he had for all who knew him. We shall not look again into those soul-lit eyes. He is dead— and what is this condition we call death? What of it? It has come to Frank F. Bell at forty-eight. When it will come to each of us, no man can tell, but of him we know that in this preparing room he leaves a record so good that we believe it is well with him now. Let us emulate his virtues and remember him for his ever kindly walks with us here." On January 18, 1888, Mr. Bell was married to Helen Geneva Edwards, of Philadelphia, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Atmore) Edwards, paternal granddaughter of James and Mary Ed- wards, maternal granddaughter of Will- iam Penn and Caroline (Stowe) Atmore, maternal great-granddaughter of Will- iam and Mary Magdalene Stull, and ma- ternal great-great-granddaughter of George and Caroline Lausatte, who were born in Alsace or Lorraine, France. William Penn Atmore came to America in the same ship with William Penn and settled in Philadelphia. George Stroup, maternal great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Bell, served with Washington during the revolutionary war, as did also his son. The children of Frank F. and Helen G. (Edwards) Bell are as follows: Frank Frederic, born September 25, 1888, is being educated at Swarthmore preparatory to entering the Institute of Technology at Boston, Massachusetts; Helen Florentine, born January 29, 1891, is a student at the Holman School, Phil- adelphia; Dudley Edwards, born Octo- 266 HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY. ber 4, 1894, attends the Friends' Central School, Philadelphia. Frank F. Bell, father of these children, died August 31, 1903. His widow resides in a beautiful home, elegant in its appointments, is devoted to her children, and prominent in the social life of Bristol, Pennsyl- vania. ROBERT M. JOPINSON, one of the energetic business men of Chalfont, is a son of William Johnson, who was reared on a farm, and upon the breaking out of the civil war enlisted in the Union army from New Britain township. He married Hannah Lutz, and . their children were: F"ranklin L., Emma E., and Robert M., mentioned at length hereinafter. Franklin L. married Anna Lister. Emma E.. became the wife of Abraham Clymer, of Line Lexington, and after his death married John Lewis, of Hilltown. Robert M. Johnson, son of William and Hannah (Lutz) Johnson, was born July 13, 1859, i" New Britain township, and was educated in the public schools of his birthplace. He acquired a knowledge of plumbing, heating and ventilation with David E. Hebner, of Chalfont, and after the expiration of his time he worked for five years as jour- neyman at Line Lexington. In 1887 he purchased the store of William Bruner, at Chalfont, .where he now conducts an extensive . plumbing and heating busi- ness, carrying a large stock of stoves, heaters, ranges and similar articles. His patronage is not limited to Chalfont, but includes the surrounding towns. His political connections are with the Demo- cratic party, and he is a member of the Pleasantville Reformed church. Mr. Johnson married Lillie L, daugh- ter of Dr. Louis C. and Lucilla (Ely) Rice, and they are the parents of the following children: Marion, who was born January i, 1882; Florence, born October 31, 1891; and Chester, who was born December 3, 1898. BYRON M. FELL, _D. D. S., of Doylestown, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. December 21, 1872, being a son of James B. and Josephine B. (Conard) Fell, and of the sixth generation in de- scent from Joseph and Bridget (Wilson) Fell;, of Longlands, Cumberland. Eng- land, who Settled in Buckingham in 1707. Benjamin Fell, son of Joseph, born in Cumberland, England, 9 mo. 12, 1703, died in Buckingham 9 mo. 12, 1758, was thrice married, first 6 mo. 27, 1728, to Hannah Scarborough, by whom he had six children, second to Hannah Iredell, who bore him four children, and third to Sarah Rawlins, bj^ whom he had one son. John Fell, eldest child of Benjamin and Hannah (Scarborough) Fell, was born in Buckingham, 4 mo. I, 1730, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Paxson) Hartley, 10 mo. 30, 1753, and had by her thirteen chil- dren. Among them were Seneca and Nathan, twins, born 4 mo. 5, 1760. Seneca Fell married Grace Holt, of Horsham, Montgomery county and set- tled in Buckingham on a farm purchased by his grandfather in 1753, part of which has remained, in the family to the pres- ent time, the late residence of E. Hicks Fell. Seneca and Grace had eight chil- dren, viz.: Sarah, married John Stock- dale; Eli, see forward; Martha, 'married Jacob Michener; Rachel, married Charles Wilson; Jesse, died unmarried; Seneca, married Sarah Cress; and Grace, married Benjamin Buckman. In 1817 Grace Fell, the widow of Seneca, re- moved with lier son Jesse and son-in- law Jacob Michener to Harrison county, Ohio, and died at the residence of her son-in-law Jacob Michener, in Morgan county, Ohio, about 1845. Eli Fell, eldest son of Seneca and Grace, was born on the homestead above referred to in 1787, and died there 3 mo. 6, 1859. He married 5 mo. 4. 1808, Rachel Bradshaw, daughter of William Bradshaw, and had thirteen children, nine of whom grew to matur- ity; Jane, wife of Cornelius Shepherd; Ruth, died unmarried; Eunice, married Charles M. Shaw; Uree, married Abra- ham Geil; Eli; Rachel, widow of Wilson Pearson; Martha, married John Bur- gess; James B.; Elias Hicks; and Hulda Ann, married John M. Kirk. James B. Fell, the eleventh child of Eli. and Rachel (Bradshaw) Fell, was born on the old homestead in Bucking- ham 8 mo. 17, 1827, and died in Buck- ingham 5 mo. 19, 1880. He was a farmer, and lived all his life in Buckingham. He married i mo. I, 1857, Josephine B. Conard, daughter- of Jacob and Martha Conard, of Buckingham, who died 5 mo. 28, 1891. They were the parents of seven children, five of whom lived to mature age: Clara M., late wife of Elmer W. Kirk, of Doylestown; J. Conard, of New Hope; Eli H., of New York; Marian V., wife of Earl Peters, of Mt. Holly Springs, Pennsylvania; and Byron M., the subject of this sketch. The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm in Buckingham, and ac- quired an elementary education at the public schools. In November, 1891, he entered Trenton Business College, from which he graduated in 1892, and accepted a clerical position with the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, which he filled until October. 1893. when he entered Pliiladclphia Dental College, from which he graduated March 5, 1896. On his (£p^ ^.^^^ THE ^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 267 graduation he at once located in Doyles- town, opening an otfice in the Rhoads build- ing on Main street, and began the practice of his profession. He soon built up a lucra- tive practice, and four years later purchased his present residence and offices on Court street. Dr. Fell was married February 17, 1897, to Catharine E. Kenney, of Phil- adelphia, daughter of William R. and Savilla Kenney. Four children have been born to them: Foster Flagg, born December 2, 1897; Earl Garretson, born May 26, 1899; Alargaret Gaskill, born September 29, 1902; Max Kenney Fell, born December 12, 1904. ABRAHAM M. SWARTLEY. Among the old German families of Penn- sylvania is that of which Abraham M. Swartley, of Chalfont, is a represen- tative. Mr. Swartlej' is a great-grand- son of Philip Swartley, who was born in 1764 in Baden, Germany, and in 1782 emigrated to America. He married Sarah Rosenberger. and they were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Among the sons was Philip, mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Swartley died September 2, 1840, and his wife passed away in April, 1847, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Philip Swartley, son of Philip and Sarah (Rosenberger) Swartley. was born February 28, 1799, in New Britain township, and followed the calling of a farmer. He married Mary Smith, and their family consisted of the following children: George, born July 12, 1820, married Catharine Funk; Henry S., mentioned at length hereinafter; Levi, born April 7, 1824, married Catharine Haldeman: Philip, born November 12, 1825; Susanna, born March 2^, 1827, married Jacob Alderfer; Sarah, born November ii. 1830, married John Alder- fer, whom she survived but one day and whose grave she shared; Mar3^ born December 9, 183,3, married David Rosen- berger; Elizabeth, born August 15, 1838, became the wife of Louis Schleier, and Aaron, born February 7, 1841, married Maria Leidy. Henry S. Swartley, son of Philip and Mary (Smith) Swartley, was born March 24, 1822, on the homestead. He married Sarah IMyers. and the following children were born to them: Lavinia, who married Isaac, son of Joseph Funk; Abraham M., mentioned at length hereinafter; Anna Eliza, who became the wife of Henry F., son of Abraham Moyer; and Sallie J., who married David, son of Joseph Funk. Abraham ]\L Swartley, son of Henry S. and Sarah (Myers) Swartley. was born November 6. 1854, on the home- stead in New Britain township. He re- ceived his primary education in the New- ville public school, and graduated at the Millersville high school. His youth and early manhood were passed in assisting his father in the cultivation of the pater- nal acres, and on reaching the age of twenty-eight years he settled on the farm which is now his home. For a number of years he conducted a large dairy, disposing of its products in the markets of Philadelphia, but is now en- gaged exclusively in general farming. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Mennonite church at Line Lexington. Mr. Swartley married, March 28, 1885, Anna M., daughter of Oliver K. and Mary Jane (Stever) Myers. The latter was the daughter of Reuben Stever, who built the Dublin Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Swartley are the parents of the follow- ing children: Mary M., who was born December 15, 1886, and died August 5. 1887; Harry M., born December 9, 1890; Sadie M., born March 9, 1892; Viola Mae, born April 18, 1900; and Minnie Isabella, born August 20, 1903, and died February 2, 1904. WILLIAM SHIMMEL TAYLOR, a manufacturer, of Quakertown, was born on a small farm near Passer Post Office, in Springfield townhsip, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. July 31, 1854, son of Thomas and IMaria (Shimmel) Taylor. Thomas Taylor (father), son of Joseph and Nancy Taylor, was born in Spring- field township, July 19, 1827. He ac- quired the limited education afforded- by the subscription schools of that place and day, and afterwards learned the trade of shoemaking, which he followed in conjunction with farming. He was industrious, economical and thrifty, and was one of the representative citizens of the community. September 24, 1850, he married Mary' Shimmel, daughter of John and Hannah (Oberholtzer) Shim- mel, farmers, of Springfield township, and had issue: Emeline, born June 23, 1853. died September 30, 1853; William S., born July 31. 1854, mentioned here- inafter: Joseph S., born March 15. 1856, married Kate Johnson, and resides at Sedgwick Park, Fordham Heights, New York; he is an educator; Elemina, born November 9, 1859, became the wife of Louis Link, and they reside at No. 1925 North Eleventh street, Philadelphia. When William S. Taylor was nine years of age his father died, leaving him a small patrimony, and in the care of a guardian, Louis Slifer. with whom he resided for two years. He then went to Philadelphia to work with an uncle, a brother of his mother, with whom he proposed making his home. Finding the work too difficult and arduous for a bov of his vears, he returned to Bucks 268 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. county and hired out with a farmer, a Mr. Geisinger, but, not taking very well to the strenuous life of the farm, after being there for six months, during which time he worked for his board and also attended school, he left the place and en- tered as an apprentice to learn shoe- making with Christian Musselman, near Steinsburg, in Milford township, and remained there for two years. He then went to live with a farmer, Henry Moyer, near Line Port, Bucks county, and later purchased a farm in Spring- field township, which he cultivated and whereon he resided up to 1887, when he disposed of the same. He then pur- chased the property where he now re- sides, at Sixth and Juniper streets, Quak- ertown, where he is a manufacturer of ice cream, and has established an exten- sive trade throughout northern Bucks county, from which he realizes a goodly income. Mr. Taylor adheres to the Re- publican party, but, takes no interest in local affairs outside the casting of his vote for the candidates of the party of his choice. While a resident of Line Port, August 23, 1873, Mr. Taylor married Sarah Roth, daughter of David and Lydia (Mussel- man) Roth, of Rockhill township, where Mr. Roth followed agricultural pursuits. Their children were as follows: Elmer M., born May 2, 1875, married Sarah Rissmiller, daughter of Josiah and El- enia Rissmiller, of Richland township, farmers, and they reside in Quaker- town, Pennsylvania. Addie R., born November 3, 1876, became the wife of Harvey Benner, of Lansdale. The mother of these children died February 5, 1881, aged twenty-seven years, four months and live days. Mr. Taylor mar- ried for his second wife, Mary Roth, a sister of his first wife, and had issue: Joseph Warren, born October 24, 1885, ■died August 23, 1886. Katie, born June IS, 1887, died July i, 1901. Elsie, born January 28, 1895, resides with her pa- rents. The family are members of the Bathany Mennonite church of Quaker- town, in which body Mr. Taylor is serv- ing as trustee. HENRY M. KRATZ. The Kratz family, of which Henry M. Kratz is a representative, is of German origin, and was established in America in the early part of the eighteenth century, its pro- genitor in the new world being John Valentine Kratz, a son of John Philip Kratz, who was born in Germany, Oc- tober 8, 1665, (lied in 1746, aged eighty years; his wife died in 1710. John V. Kratz emigrated from the Palatinate in Germany to Pennsylvania in the year 1727, and he married Ann Clemmens, whose death occurred in 1793. Abraham Kratz, son of John Valen- tine and Ann (Clemmens) Kratz, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1741, and resided for many years in New Britain township. He purchased the Williams homestead in that township and continued its cultiva- tion through a long period. He married Barbara Moyer, and they became the parents of ten children: Anna, Mary, Valentine, Susanna, Barbara, Veronica, Magdaline, Elizabeth, Abram and Cath- erine. Valentine Kratz, son of Abram and Barbara (Moyer) Kratz, was born April 22, 1773, in New Britain township, and in his youth learned the weaver's trade, which he followed throughout his entire business career. He also engaged in farming in connection with his other occupation, and died September 18, 1830. His wife bore the maiden name of Anna Overholt, and they were the parents of six children: Simeon, Elizabeth, Jacob, Abram, Barbara and Mary. Jacob Kratz, son of Valentine and Anna (Overholt) Kratz, was born on the old homestead in New Britian town- ship in a house which was built in 1795. He was educated in the public schools of his home* locality, and afterward en- gaged in teaching school in New Britian and Hilltown townships, following that profession for several years. He also engaged in farming, and for a long period served as a school director in Hilltown township and took an active and helpful interest in public affairs. He died February 23, 1903. November 28, 1838 he married Mary Myers, a daughter of Christian Myers, and they had four children: Salome, who was born August 30. 1839, and was married January 19, 1864. to John F. Funk, by whom she has six children; Henry M.; Anna, who was born July 22, 1850. and was married July 22, 1899, to Joseph D. Bishop; Isaiah, who was born May 7, 1856, and died on the 31st of August of the same year. Henry M. Kratz, elder son of Jacob and Mary (Myers) Kratz. was born at Naces Corner in Hilltown township, Bucks county, July 2.-^, 1845. He pur- sued his education after attending the public schools in the New Britian Sem- inary and at the North Wales Normal Institute at Carversville, and following his graduation he engaged in teaching for three terms, being thus occupied suc- cessively at Hilltown. Bedminster and Milford. He has since followed farm- ing at his present home at Naces Corner, where he was born and has always lived. He is a member of the IMennonite church, and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party. He was married January 4. 1868, to Sophia L. Shaddinger, a daughter of Jacob L. and Mary (Leathermau') Shaddinger. They have one child. Mary Emma, born Sep- tember 22,, 1868. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 269 HENRY O. MOYER. Among the well known and enterprising business men of upper Bucks is Henry O. Moyer, of Perkasie. He is a native of Hilltown township, and was born November 27, 1845. He is a descendant of that sturdy, frugal, truth-loving race of German Mennonites who peopled upper Bucks and Montgomery counties in the early part of the seventeenth century, and have probably added more to the wealth and prosperity of our country than any other nationality or sect. Christian Meyer, supposed to have been a native of Switzerland, founded an as3'lum from religious persecution in the Netherlands prior to i/oo, and some time after that date emigrated from Am- sterdam to Pennsylvania and settled in Lower Salford township, Montgomery county, where he was a landowner prior to 1719. He was an ardent Mennonite, and one of the founders of the earliest Mennonite congregation in that locality. He died in June, 1757, leaving children. Christian, Jacob, Samuel, Elizabeth, Ann and Barbara. Christian Meyer, Jr., was born in the year, 1705. probably in Holland, and was reared in Lower Salford. On at- taining manhood he settled in Franconia township, Montgomery county, where he purchased 170 acres of land in 1729, most of which is still owned and occu- pied by his descendants. He was the first deacon and one of the founders in 173S of the Mennonite meeting at Fran- conia, and was later a minister there. He died in May, 1787. By his wife, Magdalena he had children: Christian, Jacob, Samuel. Anna, Maria, Fronica, Esther, Barbara, all except one of whom married and raised families. Samuel Mej-er, third son of Christian Jr., and Magdalena, was born in Fran- conia, June 10, 1734, and became a widely known Mennonite preacher. He settled in Hilltown township, Bucks countj^ early in life, and spent his remaining days there, living to a venerable and highly respected old age. He married Catharine Kolb, and reared a family of nine children, as follows: I. Fronica, born 1757, died 1818; married Abraham Wismer, of Plumstead township, where they have numerous and worthy descen- dants. 2. Isaac, born 1758, married a Landis and reared a large family. 3. Elizabeth, died young. 4. Christian, born 1763, married Marj^ Landis and settled in Bedminster township. 5. Sam- uel, born 1765, died 1847, married Sus- anna Bleam, and lived and died in Hill- town. 6. Rev. Jacob Moyer, born 1767, married Magdalena Bechtel and re- moved to Canada. 7. Abraham, see for- ward. 8. Dilman, born December 20, 1772; married Barbara Latshaw, and emigrated to Canada in 1801. 9. Hein- rich, born October 27. 1774, died Oc- tober 19, 1857; was a farmer and weaver in Hilltown; married Salome Stover; was a deacon of the Mennonite meeting at Blooming Glen. Samuel Moyer, the father of the above children, was de- vised by his father the homestead in Franconia, but having already settled in Hilltown he never returned to his na- tive county. The homestead he con- veyed to his sons Isaac of Franconia, and Christian of Bedminster. The lat- ter conveyed his portion to his son Ru- dolf in 1810, and it is now the property of Abraham F. Aloyer, son of Rudolph. Abraham Moyer, seventh child of Samuel and Catharine (Kolb) Meyer, was born in Hilltown, November 19, 1770, and was reared to the life of a farmer. He married Elizabeth Bechtel, and reared a family of ten children as follows: I. Susan, married John Bergy. 2. Anna, married Samuel S. Yeakel. 3. Abraham B. married a Delp and left one son, Francis. 4. Samuel B., see forward. 5. Rev. Henry B., removed to Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, where he was ordained a Mennonite minister, and returned to Hilltown and preached for some years at Blooming Glen. 6. Martin, died unmarried. 7. Catharine died unmarried. 8. John B., moved to Canada, married there ; later moved to Michigan and had children. He died in Michigan. 9. Mary married George Swartz, and removed to Illinois. 10. Elizabeth, married Rev. Isaac Over- holt (or Oberholtzer). Samuel B. Moyer, fourth child of Abraham and Elizabeth (Bechtel) Moyer, was born in Hilltown in Feb- ruary, 1815, and died there November 7, 1852, leaving a family of five small chil- dren, the youngest but a j^ear old. He was a farmer and a consistent member of the Mennonite congregation at Blooming Glen. He married October 31, 1841, Hannah Overholt, who was born in Plumstead, January i, 1819. Their children were: Abraham, who died j^oung; Isaac, born December 5, 1843, died April 12, 1854; Henry O., the sub- ject of this sketch; Samuel, born August 2, 1847; Mary Ann, born September 23, 1844, died October 12, 1877, married Peter Yoder; Enos, born 1851, died 1873. Henry O. Moyer was born and reared on his father's farm in Hilltown. In early life he learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for ten years in Hilltown. In 1881 he started in the creamery business and successfully operated a creamery at Bedminsterville for thirteen years. In 1894 he removed to Perkasie, where he conducted a cloth- ing and gents' furnishing store until 1899, when he sold out, and in the au- tumn of the same j^ear entered into the real estate business with his son Theo- dore, of Uhlertown, Bucks county, and they still conduct that business. At the organization of the National Bank of Perkasie he was selected as one of the directors of that successful financial in- 2/0 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. stitution. and has served as such ever since. He is one of the active and suc- cessful business men of the thriving borough, and is interested in all that pertains to the best interest of that growing business town. He is a mem- ber of the German Reformed church, and politically is a Republican. He is a member of Bedminster Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle, and was for many years its keeper of records. He married October 6, 1866, Sarah Jane Moyer, daughter of Henry A. and Sarah (Gear- hart) Moyer, and a sister of Hon. Henry G. Moyer, of Perkasie. She was born in Hilltown, October 15, 1845- Mr. and Mrs. Moyer are the parents of eight children, as follows : Theodore M., born February 10, 1868; a prom- inent justice and business man in Nock- amixon, Bucks county; married Belle Mills, and has seven children. Hannah M., born February 14, 1871; married Jo- seph H. Gulden, a prominent creamery man. Ida Jane, born July 25, 1873, wife of Charles M. Meredith, editor of the "Perkasie Central News." Henry Clin- ton, born June 25, 1876. Samuel Linford, born April 19, 1879. Sarah Alice, born July 25, 1882: Florence Mabel, born March 13, 1885. Marian Viola, born April 4, 1888. ELI L. CLYMER. At the time that the United States formed a part oi the colonial possessions of Great Britain the Clymer family was established in Bucks county. The progenitor of the family in America came from Germany, and most of his descendants have been till- ers of the soil, recognized in the various generations as men of prominence and influence in the community and of un- questioned honor, integrity and worth. Henry Clymer, Sr., grandfather of Eli Clymer, was born and reared in Bucks county, and married Elizabeth Kulp, also a native of this county. They became the parents of eleven children: Abram, Henry, William, Hannah, wife of Jonas Clvmer; Polly, wife of C. Moyer; Eliza- beth, wife of B. Kulp; Mrs. Ann S. Haldeman, Valentine, John, Fannie, who became the wife of John Kulp; and Sarah, the wife of H. Swartley. All were reared in the faith of the Mennonite church, and continued adherents of that denomination. Henry Clvmer, Jr., son of Henry and Elizabeth (Kulp) Clymer, was born in New Britain township, and remained with his parents up to the time of his marriage, when he purchased a farm in Warrington township, whereon he set- tled and reared his family. He carried on general farming and also attended the market, and was practical, enterpris- ing and therefore successful in his la- bors. His political support was given to the Republican party. Reared in the faith of the Mennonite church, he was always a faithful member thereof and was widely known and highly respected in his township. He was a man of me- dium size, but of- strong constitution and did much hard work in his younger years. He married Mary Benner, a na- tive of Hatfield township, Bucks county, and a daughter of John Benner, a farmer and a member of one of the pioneer families of this county. He, too, was a devoted member of the Mennonite church. He married a Miss Haldeman, also connected with one of the leading families, and their only child became the wife of Henry Clymer. She survived her husband about twelve years. They were the parents of eight children: John, a farmer; Eli L., Ann, who became the wife of Joseph Sapp;' Valentine, a me- chanic; Daniel, a farmer; Henry, a car- penter; K94e, the wife of E. Kratz; and Abiiarn, -Who is an assessor and auc- tioneer^ in Warrington township. Eli L. Clymer was born in Warring- ton township on his father's farm, June 5, 1841, and acquired his education m the public schools. He began earning his own living as a farm hand and after- ward rented land for a year. Subse- quently he purchased a house, but sold this property in the fall of 1868, and bought the farm where he now resides, comprising seventy-one acres, which was originally the John Grove farm. This was but partly improved, but he at once began its further development and cultivation, and made it a splendid prop- erty. He has erected all the present substantial buildings, including a com- modious two story frame residence, which is built in modern style of archi- tecture and is one of the attractive fea- tures of the landscape. There is also large barn and substantial outbuildings. He has set out a good orchard and fol- lows general farming, sending his pro- ducts to the city where they are sold to the commission merchant. In all of his business transactions he is active and energetic, and whatever he undertakes he carries forward to successful com- pletion. On May 6, 1865, Mr. Clymer was mar- ried to Miss Magdalena Detweiler. who was born in New Britain township. March 12, 1844, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Burdy) Detweiler, the former a native of Bucks county. Pennsylvania, and the latter of IMontgomery county. Her paternal grandfather, Jacob Det- weiler. of New Britain township, repre- sented an old colonial family of German lineage. They became prominent and progressive citizens of this part of the state and were faithful adherents of the Mennonite church. Jacob Detweiler was a farmer and also owned and operated a sawmill. His children were : Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Roscnlierger : Jacob and John, farmers; Mary, the wife of M. THE NEW YORK [PUBLIC LLlRARvl Til D MRS. LEVI CASSELL MISS ELMANDA BIEHN LEVI CASSELL JOHN C. HILLEGASS MRS. JOHN C. HILLEGASS HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 271 Kindy; Joseph, father of Mrs. Clymer; and JNIagdalena, wife ' of J. Knise. At the time of his marriage Joseph Det- weiler purchased a farm in New Britain township, where he spent his remaining days, living a quiet and uneventful life, yet commanding the good will and con- fidence of all by reason of his fidelity to honorable, manly principles. He mar- ried Hannah Burdy, and died in 1849 at the age of forty-seven years, while his wife, long surviving him, passed away in 1890. He had left but a small estate, and in her later years she made her home with her older children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Detweiler were members of the Mennonite church. Their chil- dren arc: Isaac, a practicing physician of Lancaster, ■. Pennsylvania; Mary, the wife of M. Rosenberger; Sarah, who married Eli Yoder; Jesse, a farmer; Elizabeth, whomarried E. Rosenberger; Magdalene, wife of Eli L. Clymer; Jo- seph, a farmer and tailor to the trade; and Hannah, who died at the age . of forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Clymer have become the parents of eight children: Ellen, wife of William Swartley, a farmer; Adda, wife of L. McCune, a farmer; Hannah, who married William Worth; Frank, who died at the age of thirteen years; Elmer, a farmer; Flora, the wife of Frank McNare; Oliver, at home; and Emma, a school teacher. All were given good educational privileges, and the daughters have becoine successful teach- ers. The parents and children are mem- bers of the Mennonite church, and Mr. Clymer is a Republican, who has filled the office of school director for ten years, and takes an active interest in public affairs. He is a typical Ameri- can, alert and enterprising in business, loyal in citizenship, and interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and progress of his county, state and nation. LEVI CASSEL, deceased, was born on the old Cassel homestead farm in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Feb- ruary 24. 1816, and died in Richland township, September i, iS/O- The pater- nal grandfatehr, Hoopert Cassel, was a joiner by trade, and lived in Franconia township, Philadelphia county, Penn- sylvania. In 1758 he purchased a tract of land, one hundred and six acres, ad- joining Perkasie ]\Ianor. He married Susan Swartz, a daughter of Abram Swartz, a minister of the Mennonite church and a man of considerable influ- ence and ability in his day. Isaac Cassel, son of Hoopert Cassel, was born April 20. 1776, in Hilltown township, on the farm purchased by his father. Throughout his entire life he carried on agricultural pursuits, and was one of the leading citizens of his neighborhood, active in business affairs, reliable and energetic in business, and highly esteemed in social circles because of his hospitality and of his genuine worth. He succeeded his father in the ownership of the old home farm, and there lived for many years. He was married to Catherine Trumbore, who was born February 8, 1776. - His death occurred July 3, 1856, while his wife passed away several years earlier. Their children were: Susan B., born March 2, 1804, died May ii„ 1889; Polly, married Michael Kulp; Kate, married Jacob Fill- man; Elizabeth, married Philip Hood; Sallie, married Joseph Schull; Joseph, deceased ; Enos, married Marie Gerhart ; Samuel, married Susan Mann; and Levi, married Sarah Ann Biehn. Levi Cassel was born on the old home- stead farm in Hilltown township, where two generations- of the family had prev- iously lived, and there he was reared in the usual manner of farmer lads of that period. He attended the subscription schools of his district, although his ad- vantages ~for an education were some- what limited owing to the primitive con- ditions of the schools of that period. He worked with his father on the old home farm until his m.arriage, and later be- came proprietor of a hotel at Sellers- ville, where he remained for two years. He then removed to Hagersville, and later to Dublin, while subsequently he lived at Richlandtown, where he con- ducted a hotel for fourteen years, and it was while thus engaged that his death occurred. He was energetic in his bus- iness affairs, carefully watching every indication that pointed to success, and by his keen discernment and strong pur- pose he won a comfortable competence. September 17, 1848, Mr. Cassel was united in marriage to Mrs. Sara Ann Beihn, a daughter of Abraham and Hanna (Fluck) Beihn, who were farm- ing people living at Ridgehill, in Rock- hill township, Bucks county. Her father was born August 5, 1800, and died De- cember 5, 1875. He was descended from one of the old families of this country, long connected with the material up- building of eastern Pennsylvania. He was married July 18, 1823, to Hanna Ott Fluck, born May 29, 1801, died April 12, 1891, at the advanced age of ninety vears. Her parents were Jacob and Elizabeth Ott Fluck. The children of iNIr. and Mrs. Beihn were as follows: Sara, born September 17, 1826, became the wife of Levi Cassel; Maria, born July 8, 1829, married John Louright, of Richlandtown; Elizabeth, born July 9, 1837, married Leno Kile, a veterinary surgeon of Perkasie; Hanna, born Au- gust 28, 1839, married John C. Hille- goss, who was born February 19, 1839, and died May 2,=;, 1893. his parents bein^ William and Eliza (Carver) Hillegoss, farming people of Milford township; 2'J2 HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. Elmanda, born July 12, 1843, living with Mrs. Cassel at Quakertown. In his political affiliations Mr. Cassel was a stalwart Republican, and although he never aspired to office he took deep and active interest in the welfare of his party, and assisted materially in its growth and upbuilding. He and his family were members of the Reformed church at Richlandtown, and he lived an upright, honorable life. Passing away in September, 1879, his remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining the Reformed church. He was always lib- eral in his support of the church and of every worthy object, and his entire life was actuated by high manly principles. He was well liked by all who knew him, the circle of his friends being al- most coextensive with the circle of_his acquaintance. FRANK HEADMAN FLUM, of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who has won and retained an enviable reputation in the community for in- tegrity and probity, and whose career has been one of marked enterprise, was born in Bensalem township, Pennsyl- vania, April 2, 1868, a son of Frederic and Catherine (Barth) Flum. Frederic Flum (father) was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 18, 1823. He came to America about the year 1850, followed some years later by his wife and children, and settled in Ben- salem towmship, where they resided for many years, and where Mrs. Flum is re- siding at the present time (1904), Mr. Flum having passed away May 5, 1875. Mrs. Flum, whose maiden name was Catherine Barth, was born in Wurtem- berg, Germany, June 15, 1826, and was the mother of the following named chil- dren: I. John, born September 27, 1847, married Emma Page, and they were the parents of three children: Fred, John, and George. 2. Fred, born Decem- ber 2, 1849. 3. Hannah, born October 10. 1853, wndow of George Thackara. 4. David, born August 31, 1859, 5. Frank H., born April 2, 186S, mentioned here- inafter. 6. Lizzie, died in infancy. 7. Daniel, born October 3, 1869, married Annie Kilpatrick, June 5. 1880, and three children were born to them: Catharine, Bessie and Helen. Frank H. Flum was educated in the public schools of Bensalem township. He then worked at farming with his father, remaining until 1880, when he took up his residence in Bristol, Bucks county, and at once engaged in the butchering business, which he has fol- lowed ever since, and in which he has achieved a large degree of success. Mr. Flum stands well in the community, as is evidenced by the fact that he has served two terms in the borough coun- cil. He is a charter member of the Good Will Fire Company of Bristol, serving in the capacity of its treasurer, a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and a member of the Knights of Friendship. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Flum \vas married August 18, 1890, to Eliza- beth Rotta Guyon,' of Bristol, a daugh- ter of Robert and Eleanor (Murray) Guyon, and granddaughter, on the pa- ternal side, of John and Elizabeth (Thomas) Guyon, and on the maternal side of Lewis and Martha (Wolohon) Murray. Their children are: Edith Guyon, born May 8, 1893; and Frank Leslie, born May 8, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Flum are Presbyterians in religion. JOHN S. WILLIAMS, a public-spirit- ed citizen of Solebury township who has givejvj' generous and helpful support to many movements fostering progress and improvement in the county, was born in Buckingham township, March 21, 1831. The first ancestry of whom the family has definite record was Jeremiah Williams, of English descent, who wedded Mercy Ste- phenson. (II) Benjamin Williams, son of Jere- miah and Mercy (Stephenson) Williams, was a resident of Nockamixon township, where he followed the occupation of farm- ing. He wedded Mercy Stevenson Octo- ber II, 1744, in Huntington township, New Jersey. (HI) Samuel Williams, son of Benja- niin and Mercy (Stevenson) Williams, was born July 20, 1762, and reared in Tini- cum township, where he resided until after his marriage, when he removed to Buck- ingham township and continued to engage in farming there up to the time of his death, which resulted from typhus fever when he was about forty-five or fifty years of age. His political allegiance had been given to the Whig party, and he was a man of local prominence, highly respected throughout his community. He wedded Sarah Watson, who was also reared in Tin- icum township. (IV) Edward Williams, son of Samuel and Sarah (Watson) Williams, was born on the old homestead farm in Buckingham township, and he, too, devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits, becoming not only one of the leading farmers of his community, but also a man of prominence in community affairs, whose integrity stood as an unquestioned fact in his career. He was frequently called upon to serve in po- sitions of public trust, was president of a turnpike company and one of the trustees of the Hughesian free school. His political allegiance was given first to the Whig and afterward to the Republican party. He was married twice, his first union being with Phoebe Esther Schofield. They had three children, but John S. Williams, whose name introduces this record, is the only one now living. .\ second marriage result- ed in the birth of seven children: Charles HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 273 H., deceased ; Esther S. ; Mary E. ; Wil- liam, deceased; Marshall, who resides in Florida ; Frank H., a practicing physician of Trenton ; and Harriet F. The father, Edward Williams, died at the age of sev- enty-two years. John S. Williams, son of Edward and Phoebe Esther (Schofield) Williams, was reared under the parental roof, acquired his early education in the common schools and afterward attended the Friends' school in Buckingham, also in Langhorne as a student in a boarding school conducted by James Anderson, and in the boarding school at Abington conducted by Samuel Smith, and in the Tremont Seminary at Norristown, Pennsylvania, of which Sam- uel Aaron was principal. When twenty-one years of age he assumed the management of the farm in Solebury township, which was the ancestral home of the Scholield family and descended to him through his maternal grandfather, John Schofield. He has since been actively and prominently identified with agricultural interests along progressive lines, and his splendidly im- proved property is an indication of his un- flagging thrift and enterprise. He has been vice president and director of the Bucks County Trust Company since its organiza- tion, has for thirty years been a director of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Insurance Company, and for twenty years its treasur- er, and is secretary and treasurer of the New Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, in which capacity he has served for several years. His interest in public progress and the material upbuilding and improvement of his county has found tangible evidence in the hearty co-operation which he has given to many measures for the benefit of his community. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and for several years served as school director, but otherwise has declined public office. He belongs to the Friends' Society, and stands today as one of the best known and honored men of Solebury township. Mr. Williams was married to Miss Ra- chel R. Magill, a daughter of Jonathan Paxson and Mary (Watson) MeGill, of Solebury towaiship, one of the early fam- ilies of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have three children: Carroll R., the eld- est, was graduated from Swarthmore Col- lege in 1877 and completed the latter course in the University of Pennsylvania with the class of 1880. He was admitted to the bar the same year, began the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, and is today one of the most successful lawyers of that city. He was elected a member of the common council from the twenty-fourth ward, serving thereon from 1835 until 1839. On January 23, 1890, he married Eleanor (Boyd) Palmer, of Baltimore, Maryland, and they have three children : Catherine B., born September 26, 1891 ; John S., born April 8, 1893 ; and Carroll R., born Sep- tember 3. 1903. Agnes Blackfan, the only daughter of John S. and Rachel Williams, is at home. Edward Newlin, the younger 18-3 son, died when but twenty-six years of age. He was a graduate of the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, and was acting as physician and surgeon on the American Line steamship plying be- tween London and New York. THE WILLIAMS FAMILY of Nockamixon and Tinicum, and other parts of Bucks county, trace their an- cestry to Joseph Williams, of Boston, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Lydia, had ten children, namely: Joseph, born 12 mo., 14, 1670 (O. S.) ; William, 10 mo., 13, 1671 ; Richard, 12 mo., 8, 1673; Hannah, 3 mo., 20, 1674, died in infancy; Daniel, 10 mo., 25, 1676; Hannah, 3 mo., 26, 1679; Jeremiah,. 6 mo., 22, 1683 (refer- red to hereafter) ; Elizabeth, 7 mo., 22, 1686, died in infancy; Elizabeth, 10 mo., 9, 1688; and Mary, 9 mo., 6, 1869. Jeremiah at an early age was bound to a ship carpenter to learn the trade. Dur- ing his apprenticeship he left the church of England and joined the Friends or Qua- kers. I mo, 28, 1706-07 (O. S.), he pre- sented a certificate to the monthly meeting of Philadelphia from the Monthly Meeting of Rhode Island, i mo., 1707-08, he requested a "Certificate of Clearness" from the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to Flush- ing Monthly Meeting to marry Philadel- phia, daughter of George and Mary (Wil- lis) Masters. In 1680 or '81 George Mast- ers, a tailor of New York, married Mary, daughter of Henry Willis, of Flushing, Long Island. Henry was fined for allow- ing his daughter to be married by Friends ceremony. After their marriage they went to England, where their first child, a daugh- ter named Mary, was born in 1682. Upon their return to this country they must have been in Philadelphia for a time, as their second child, a daughter, was born there in 1684. She was the first white female child born in the city, and was named Philadelphia for the city in which she was born. Jeremiah and Philadelphia Williams lived in the city of New York. They had two children. Joseph, born 3 mo., 15, 1710, died in infancy; and Hannah, born 9 mo., 8, 171 1, married Benjamin, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Jackson) Doughty, of Long Island, in 1737. Philadelphia Williams died 3 mo., 16, 1715, and the same year, 5 mo., 5, he bought a m.ill property at Hempstead Harbor, Nassau Island, Queens county. New York, of John Robinson. The follow- ing year, 7 mo., 11, 1716, Jeremiah married Mary, daughter of Walter and Anne (Col- lins) New^bury, of Newport, Rhode Island, and widow of Jedediah How-land. This is a copy of their marriage certificate. Marriage Certificate — Whereas, Jeremiah Williams, late of New York, but now of Hempstead in Long Island, and Mary Howland, widow and relict of Jedediah Howland. of Newport, in Rhoad Island, Having declared their intention of taking 274 lUSTOXV OF BUCKS COUNTY. each other in Marriage before several! Pub- lick Meetings of the people commonly called Quakers in said Rhoad Island, ac- cording to the Good order used among them whose proceedings therein after a de- liberate consideration thereof with regard unto the righteous law- of God and exam- ple of his people recorded in the Scriptures of Truth in that case were approved by the said Meetings, they appearing clear of all others and Having consent of parents and others concerned. Now these are to certifie all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing of their said Intentions this eleventh day of the Seventh month called September in the year according to the English, one thou- sand seven hundred and sixteen they the said Jeremiah Williams and Mary_ How- land appearing in a publick assemWy -&f ^ the People and others met together for that purpose in their Publick Meeting place at said Newport and in a solemn manner, he the said Jeremiah Williams taking the said Mary Howland by the hand did openly de- clare as foUow-eth : Friends, in the fear of God and before this assembly whom I desire to my wit- nesses I take this my friend Mary Howland to be my wife promising through the Lord's assistance to be to her a faithful and lov- ing husband till death separate us. And then and there in the said assembly the said Mary Howland did in like manner de- clare as followeth; Friends, in the fear of God and before this assembly whom I de- clare to be my witnesses I take this my friend Jeremiah Williams to be my hus- band promising through the Lord's assist- ance to be to him a faithful and loving wife till death separate us. And the said Jeremiah Williams and Mary Howland as a further consideration thereof did then and there to these presents set their hands. And we whose names are hereunto sub- scribed being present among others at the Solemnizing of their said Marriage and sub- scription in manner aforesaid as witnesses hereunto have to these presents subscribed our names the dav and year above written. JEREMIAH WILLIAMS, MARY WILLIAMS. ■ Witnesses— Johannah Mott, Elizabeth Whartenby, Jacob Mott, Mary Wing, Wil- liam Barker, Hannah Brinley, Bethia Fol- ger, Ann Kay, Clarke Rodman, Susanna Freeborne, Ephraim Hicks, Katherine Hull, Thos. Leach, Hannah Hull, Samuel Col- lins, Thomas Rodman, John Headly, Thomas Borden, Ruth Fry, Peter Easton, John Stanton, Jimr., Dorcas Easton, Sam- uel Bufifum, Johannah Leach, Thomas Hicks, Susannah Hicks, John Hull, Junr., Mary Caine, Deliverance Cornell, Abigail Hicks, Elizabeth Borden, Rebecca Bennett. Hope Borden, Ann Redwood, Alice Bor- den, Sarah Redwood, Mary Borden. Mary Stanton, Thomas Rodman, John Easton, Walter Newberry. William Anthonv, Ann Cranston, John Wanton. Justice, Elizabeth Bordens, George Cornell, Leah Newberry, Joseph Borden, Ann Richardson, John Bor- den, Martha Cornell, Thos. Richardson, Patience Anthony, Patience Redwood, Hannah Fry, Sarah Newberry, Sarah Bor- den, Ann Newberry, Blcnham Stanton, A. Redwood, Catherine Clarke, Ann Clarke, Hannah Rodman, Katherine Shefifield. At the time of her marriage to Jeremiah, Mary had one son, Joseph Howland, born lo mo., 25, 1710 (O. S.) The children of Jeremiah and Mary Williams were : Anne, born 4 mo., 17, 1719, married, first, For- tunatus Woods, second, Ebenezer Carter; Walter, born 10 mo., 17, 1720, married out of meeting, 1744; Benjamin, born 9 mo., 4, 1722 (referred to hereafter) ; Mary, born 9 mo. 26, 1724; Jeremiah, born 3 mo. 18, 1726; Lydia, born 12 mo., 6, 1729; and Martha, date of birth unknown, married Benjamin Hill, at Kingwood, 8 mo., 3, 1753 (N. S.). In the year 1743 or '44 Jeremiah and his two sons, Walter and Benjamin, and daughter Martha moved to Kingwood, Hunterdon county. New Jersey. His daughter Mary came in 1758. Jeremiah, at the establishment of the Monthly Meet- ing at Kingwood, was made with Joseph King the first elder of that meeting. Some years after this his health failing he, with his wife and daughter Mary, moved to their son Benjamin's, he having moved some years before to Nockamixon township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He remained with his son until his death, 3 mo., 15, 1766 (N. S.), and was buried in the old grave yard at Quakertown, New Jersey. His will was written in Nockamixon, i mo., 23, 1760, proved 6 mo., 6, 1766. His wife died in 1774. Her will is dated Nockamix- on, Pennsylvania, 6 mo., 12, 1766, proved 3 mo., 20, 1774. Benjamin Williams, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Newbury) Williams, was born 9 mo., 4, 1722 (O. S.). He married Mercy, daughter of John and Margaret Stevenson, of Kingwood, New Jersey, in 1744. Their children were: John, born i mo., 29, 1745, married Hannah Pursell; Mary, born 10 mo., II, 1747; Jeremiah, born 5 mo., 9, 1749 (referred to hereafter) ; Margaret, born 4 mo., 4, 1751, married John IlitT; Lydia, born 8 mo., 18, 1752 (N. S.), mar- ried David Burson; Benjamin, born 10 mo., 30, 1756, married Dorothy Leiper; Anne, born 7 mo., 15, 1758, married Jacob Ritter; William, born 9 mo., 20, 1760, married Rachel Leiper; Samuel, bom 7 mo., 20, 1762, married Sarah Watson: Sui^anna, born 7 mo., 30, 1765, married a Mr. Stroud : Benjamin and his family moved to Nock- amixon township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, some time prior to 1760, and must have lived there some considerable time be- fore receiving a deed for the property. It w-as finally deeded to him in 1769. There were 515 acres and 31 perches, the boundar- ies reaching from near the Narrows to the village of L^pper Black's Eddy along the river, and extending over the hill regions for a considerable distance. This was the land once owned and controlled bv the HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 2 1 :5 Chief Nutimus and his tribe, and this chief was always an honored guest of Benjamin WiUiams, Sr., whose home was nearly on the site of the mansion built by Jacob Sto- ver soon after purchasing in 1818. Benja- min Williams, Sr., and his family lived here during the time of the raids by the Doans, and having a valuable horse of which he was very fond, and hearing of the approach of the Doans, he quietly stabled his favorite horse in his kitchen and it was thus saved from falling into the hands of the lawless gang. Soon after taking pos- session of the land in Nockamixon the young Indians roaming over it at will, gathered the apples from the trees and took them away, and disturbed the water in the spring until it was unfit for use for a time. Benjamin expostulated with Nuti- mus, and asiced why they did it. Nutimus replied it was true the Indians had sold the land, but not the apples and spring. Ben- jamin asked them how much they wanted for the apples and spring, and the chief replied, five bushels of Indian corn, five bushels of buckwheat and five loaves of rye bread. After that the spring and the apples were not disturbed. In 1778 or '79 Benjamin bought about 500 acres of land in Tinicum township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, and built the house on the river road now owned by Clinton Haney, near the little hamlet of Lodi. The little creek which empties into the Delaware was the northern boundary of this tract. His son, Jeremiah, took possession of this tract in 1779. Some time after this Benjamin bought about 500 acres in the beautiful Buckingham Valley, which was occupied by his youngest son Samuel. In his will, which was dated Nockamix- on township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 3 mo., 16, 1809, and probated 5 mo- 3°, i8og lie mentions "a general arrangement of my estate," in which, on the '4th d of the 1st m. in the year one thousand eight hundred and three" he deeded to his three sons, Jeremiah and Benjamin the land on which they were living, and on the "3ra of the first m. in the year one thousand eight hundred and four" he deeded the land in Buckingham to his son Samuel, who was then residing there. Benjamin died at the home of his son Samuel in Bucking- ham and was buried in the grave yard at the Buckingham Meeting House. He died in 1809, probably in the early part of the fifth month. Jeremiah, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Stevenson) Williams, born 5 mo.. 9, I749- married 4 mo. 25, 1779 (N. S.), ^lary, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Black- ledge, of Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Their children were : John, born I mo., 27, 1780 (referred to here- after) ; Thomas B., born 4 mo., 11, 1781. married Rebecca Arndt ; Benjamin, born 12 mo.. 18, 1782, married, first, Mary (Mer- edith), widow of (?) Burson, sec- ond, Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and Dorothy (Leiper) Williams; Susan, born 6 mo., 10, 1785, never married; William, born 6 mo., 12, 1789, married Hannah Whiting; Samuel, born 6 mo., 18, 1792, died 1812; Isaac B., born 4 mo., 23, 1794, married Martha Shelton White; Margaret, born 4 mo., 28, 1796, married Abel Lester; Jeremiah, born 12 mo., 28, 1798, married Elizabeth Lake. John, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Black- ledge) Williams, born i mo., 27, 1780, mar- ried July, 1804, Christiana, daughter of John and Anne (Kimple or Kimball) Moore. Christiana was born 3 mo., 5, 1781, Their children were: Marj-, born 5 mo. 20, 1805, married Nathan Whiting; New- bury Davenport, born 5 mo. 9, 1807, mar- ried Lucy Adelaide Gould; was made the first cashier of the Frenchtown, New Jer- sey, National Bank, when that institution was established ; James, born 8 mo. 23, 1809, married first Phoebe Treichler, sec- ond, Josephine Krause (widow). He died March 14, 1903, at the age of nearly ninety- four years ; Ann Eliza, born 7 mo. 30, 1812, married Jonas Smith, at this writ- ing, August 26, 1905, she is still living in possession of all her faculities, and enjoying a ripe old age in the home of her only child, John W. Smith, at Stockton, New Jersey. Barzilla Newbold, born 7 mo. 4, 1814, referred to later; and Caroline, born I mo. 18, 182 1, married Thomas W. Har- ris. John and Christiana Williams built a home on the estate of his father, at Lodi, at the intersection of the river road and a road leading back to the western part of the township. The place is now owned by a Mr. Adams. After the death of his father, Jeremiah Williams, in 1834, John bought land, in Tinicum township, of the William Erwin estate, about 300 acres, and moved there in the spring of 1837. In the settlement of his father's estate, Thomas was the only purchaser of any part of the original estate ; his pur- chase being about one-half of the land on the north and west side of the tract. His three brothers, Benjamin, Isaac and Jere- miah, with their sisters, Margaret Lester and Susan Williams moved to Ohio with their families about 1840. John died 6 mo. 6, 1858. Prior to his death he sold the middle portion of the tract, bought of the Erwins, to Conrad Wyker and at the sale, after his death, the northern portion w-as bought by his son Barzilla and the re- maining portion by his daughter Caro- line. There had been a few lots sold to others for building purposes, and these together with three houses on the south side of the Dublic road comprise the little village of Erwinna. Barzilla Newbold Williams, born 7 mo. 4, 1814, married first, in 1839. Mary, daugh- ter of Azariah and Anna Cummings Davis, of Sussex countv. New Jersey, and had two daughters: Stella, born 6 mo. 13, 1841, died 10 mo. 4, 1843 : and Anna M., born I mo. 4, 1844, married. 2 mo. 15. 1877, William H.. r^on of Rev. Samuel and Katherine (Wolfinger) Stahr. William 276 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and Anna lived in Philadelphia ; he died 3 mo. 9, 1903; they have one daughter, Francelia Williams, who resides with her mother in Philadelphia. She was born I mo. 10, 1878. In September, 1847, he married Sarah S., daughter of William L. and Elizabeth (Large) King, by whom he had two children : Josephine King, born 10 mo. 4, 1852, referred to hereinafter, and Sarah Francelia, born 3 mo. 4, 1855, married 3 mo. 7, 1878, Evan Thomas, son of Elisha and Harriet (Lukens) Worthington. Their children were : Elisha, born 2 mo. 27, 1879 ; Helen born 6 mo. 15, 1881, died 9 mo. 30, 1881 ; Eleanor F., born 12 mo. 7, 1887, died 6 mo. 15, 1888. Evan T. and Sarah 1^. Worthington resided in Buckingham, Penn- sylvania, where he had a general store until the spring of 1890 when they mov-ed to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where he con-- ducts the middle store purchased by him before his removal to Newtown. Barzilla's second wife died i mo. 26, 1856, and in March, 1858, he married Mary, daughter of George and Maria (Davis) Morrow, by whom he had one son, Samuel Silvey, born 2 mo. i, 1859 ; he married Harriet May, daughter of William and Mary Ann (Hagenbuck) Hendricks, of Chicago. They were married 12 mo. 10, 1888, have one child, Marion Francelia, born 6 mo. 7, 1897. Samuel Silvey and his family re- side in Chicago, he is the associate man- ager of the Detroit Stove Works, whose main office is located in Chicago. On 6 mo. I, 1875, Barzilla married his fourth wife, Hannah, daughter of Ralph and Mar- tha Harrison, and widow of a Mr. John- son, of Camden, New Jersey, who still survives him. They had no children. He died 6 mo. i, 1901, and was buried in the Pursell burying ground at Upper Black's Eddy, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Josephine King Williams, daughter of Barzilla and Sarah (King) Williams, and the compiler of this record, was born at Erwinna, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 10 mo. 4, 1852. She married, 4 mo. 22, 1885, Stacy B., son of Bruce M. and ]\Iartha (Poore) Pursell, of Upper Black's Eddy, Pennsylvania, a record of whose ancestry on both sides is embraced in this work. At the time of their marriage Stacy was a druggist in Portland, Northampton coun- ty,-Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1888 he sold his drug store in Portland and they removed to Bristol, Pennsylvania, their present place of residence. In the settle- ment of the estate of Barzilla Williams, the administrator, Stacy B. Pursell, sold the farm to Readen Tettemer, and thus, excepting a store property in Erwinna, owned by Joseph Williams, and a house and lot at Lodi, owned by Mrs. Alice (Williams) Winter, all the ancestral es- tate in Tinicum has passed out of the name, as it has also in Nockamixon : only a few acres of the hill regions of that tract are now owned by the descendants of Ben- jamin Williams, the original purchaser. REUBEN ORLANDO SWOPE, at present prinicpal of Glen Rock High School, Glen Rock borough, Bergen coun- ty. New Jersey, was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, No- vember 17, 1868. The ancestors of Mr. Swope were of German extraction and have been residents of Bucks county for many generations. But little is known of the earlier generations of the family further than that they belonged to the solid substantial yeomanry of Upper Bucks,, and filled their places in the history with honor and integrity. The grandparents of the subject of this sketch were John and Mary (Wildonger) Swope, whose son Jo- seph Swope, born in Tinicum township, Bucks county, August 6, 183 1, was reared arid, educated in that and Bedminster town- ships, and followed the occupation of a farmer in Bedminster and Plumstead town- ships— and he, as well as his immediate ancestors, was a member of the Ludieran church, and politically he was a Democrat, though he never sought or held political office. He married Mary Overholt, daugh- ter of Abraham and Hannah (Shutt) Over- holt, and granddaughter of Martin and Elizabeth (Nash) Overholt. She was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1833. Reuben Orlando Swope was educated in the common schools of Bucks county, and later took a course at the West Chester State Normal School, and followed the profession of teacher for eight years in the public schools of Bucks county, two of which he was principal of the high school at Richlandtown. He is now prin- cipal of the high school at Glen Rock, Bergen county, New Jersey. Thoroughly devoted to his profession, he has taken little part in public affairs. He is a mem- ber of the Lutheran church of Hilltown,. and filled the position as organist there for some time. He also served as superin- tendent of the' Sunday school for two- years. Mr. Swope is unmarried. THE NATIONAL FARM SCHOOL. In the summer of 1894 the Rev. Dr. Jo- seph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia, visited' Russia in an effort to secure data con- cerning the condition of the Jews in that country and to urge means for its ameliora- tion. While there he observed the aston- ishing zeal with which Jews pursued agri- culture within the limits allowed by the Russian Government. He saw a people yearning, not as common prejudice has as- sumed, for a life of trade, but for op- portunities to work out their existence from the soil. He further visited, at the suggestion of Count Tolstoi, the Jewish Agricultural School at Odessa, the end and aim of whose activity was the gradua- tion of practical working farmers, and in- structors and managers of agricultural' HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 277 colonies. The avidity with which the Jewish lads avail themselves of the facili- ties thus given them convinced him that the agricultural instincts, fostered in Bible times, still lingered, and needed but op- portunity for their manifestation. On his return to America, Dr. Kraus- kopf proceeded to formulate plans for the institution of a Farm School, which, while welcoming all students regardless of creed, might satisfy the demand of large num- bers of Jews for agricultural opportunities. After months of agitation sufficient funds were procured for the purchase of a farm and the erection of adequate buildings thereon. On April 10, 1896 the National Farm School was incorporated. The Wat- son farm, situated a mile from Doylestown, the county seat of Bucks, was purchased, where school buildings were erected, and the school opened with fifteen pupils in its first class. The school is a purely technical institution which has for its purpose the •education of young men in both practical and scientific agriculture. The course of instruction contmues for four years. The entrance requirements are those ordinarily demanded of candidates to enter a good high school. The grade of instruction is somewhat higher than that of a high school, because the length of the school year is II months. The academic studies con- sist of instruction in many of the different branches of agriculture and horticulture, general, analytical and agricultural chem- istry; general and agricultural physics, animal hygiene. United States history, Eng- lish, mathematics and surveying. The technical or practical agriculture is required of each pupil every day for three hours, and during the summer months the time is extended to seven hours per day. All of the work on the farm is performed by the pupils. The young men graduating from the school are sufficiently proficient to take positions in the United States De- partment of Agriculture at Washing'ton and with different Experiment Stations, and some have full charge of farms, other conduct dairies, while others go into farm- ing for themselves. The facilities for instruction consist of a home farm of 122 acres, well stocked with fifty head of cattle, fifteen horses, sheep, swine and poultry. There is donated or loaned to the school from the manu- facturers for use and instruction every kind of a farm implement that is considered of practical use on a Pennsylvania farm. There is also a well equipped dairy where the pupils are taught how to make butter. In addition to these advantages the school possesses two farms of about forty acres ■each, which are equipped as model farms, and which are used for post-graduate in- struction, upon wdiich the graduates of the school have practice in superintendence. One also finds at this schoo"l well equipped laboratories of chemistry and physics with surveying instruments and a good green- house, together with orchards and vine- yards and small fruit gardens, for in- struction in horticulture. A library con- sisting of over 2,000 well chosen books adds greatly to the equipment of all depart- ments. A comfortable dormitory provides a home for forty-five pupils, which is the number enrolled for January i, 1906. A large number of names are on the waiting list due to the school's limited accommo- dations. The president of the board of managers is the Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia ; the secretary is Mr. Harry Felix; the director of the school is John H. Washburn, Ph. D. HENRY CLAY STUCKERT, of War- rington, Bucks county, is the eldest son of William H. and Rachel (Scarborough) Stuckert, and one of the prominent farm- ers of Warrington township. Henry Stuckert, the father of William H., and grandfather of H. Clay Stuckert, was born and reared in Germany, where he learned the trade of a baker. He came to Philadelphia when a young man and followed his trade there until 181 1, first as a journeyman but for many years afterwards carrying on busi- ness for himself. On April 6, 181 1, he purchased the farms now occupied by his tw'O grandsons, 213 acres, in Warrington township, Bucks county, and turning over his baker business to his eldest son George removed to Bucks county. He was an in- telligent, practical and successful business man, and was highly respected in the community. He married soon after coming to America, Elizabeth Bennett, of Phila- delphia. He died in 1836, at the age of sev- enty years, and his wife died in 1843. They were the parents of six children: i. George, who succeeded his father as baker in Philadelphia, but later removed to Northampton township, Bucks county, mar- ried Anne Hough, of Warrington, but re- turned to Philadelphia where he died. 2. Louisa, married George Jamison. 3. John, who remained in Philadelphia. 4. William H., the father of the subject of this sketch. 5. Anna Maria, who married A. Jackson Beaumont, of Solebury. 6. Jacob, who purchased a portion of the home farm in 184s, but some years later removed to Trenton, New Jersey, where he died. William H. Stuckert, third son of Henry and Elizabeth (Bennett) Stuckert, was born at Warrington, October 2, 1816, and was reared on the farm. At his father's death in 1836 he took charge of the farm for his mother and conducted it for seven years. At the death of his mother he pur- chased that part of the homestead now occupied by his son, H. Clay Stuckert, and made substantial improvements. Sev- eral years later he purchased the home- stead of his brother Jacob and lived there until his death with the exception of a few years spent on a farm in Doylestown 278 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. township, in 1874. returning to the home-, stead at the death of his wife in 1880, and residing with his son Amos. He was an enterprising and successful farmer and business man, and held many positions of trust. He and his family were members of the Presbyterian church, of which he was a trustee. He died in November, 1896. He married in 1841 Rachel Scarborough, of Wrightstovvn, daughter of Amos and Elizabeth (Cooper) Scarborough, both na- tives of Bucks county and of English Quaker descent. Both the Cooper and Scarborough families were among the earliest settlers in Bucks county. William H. and Rachel (Scarborough) Struckert were the parents of five children, viz. : i. Henry Clay, born August 7, 1842, see for- ward; 2. Sarah, wife of Dr. A. H. Clay- ton, of Richboro, Bucks county ; 3. Amos,^ born March 19, 1846, see forward ; 4. Will- iam, a prominent lawyer of Do3destown ; 5. John C, a prominent lawyer of Bristol, Bucks county. Henry Clay Stuckert, eldest son of William H. and Rachel (Scarborough) Stuckert, was born on the farm where he still lives, August 7, 1842. He was reared on the farm and acquired his education at the common schools and at a normal school at Upland, Chester county, Penn- sylvania. On reaching manhood he took charge of the home farm, which he event- ually purchased of his father, and this he has greatly improved and beautified ; he is an enterprising and successful farmer. He married in 1875, Emma J. Harman, born in 1849, daughter of Daniel Y. and Elizabeth K. (Bennett) Harman, and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth Addis) Harman. both of Holland descent, .ohn Harman was an early settler in Upper Makefield township. Daniel, the ninth of his ten children, married first Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Simp- son) Hough, of Doylestown township, by whom he had six children. He married second Elizabeth K. Bennett, daughter of Miles and Hannah (Kroesen) Bennett, both of Holland descent, and representa- tives of early Knickerbocker families that settled first on Long Island and removed later to North and Southampton, Bucks county. Daniel Y. Harman was in early life a farmer, but later was a hotel keeper at Newtown ; he was for several years a justice of the peace. He died in 1855. By his second wife, Elizabeth K. Bennett, he had three children: Emma J., the wife of the subject of this sketch; Lewis C, a mer- chant of Philadelphia; and Franklin P., who died at the age of seven years. The children of Henry Clay and Emma J. (Har- man) Stuckert are: Frederick, an attorney at law at Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania; William R., see forward; Louis H., a bookkeeper at Trenton, Ne_w Jersey; Henry, a student at Jefferson Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia ; and Anna P.. residing at home. Mr. Stuckert and family are members of the Presbyterian church. AMOS STUCKERT, of Warrington, the second son of William H. and Rachel (Scarborough) Stuckert, was born on the Warrington farm March 19^ 1846, and on his marriage in 1873 took up his residence where he still resides,, on the original homestead, buying the farm of his father. He is an enterpris- ing and successful farmer, and has in- troduced all the latest improvements in farm machinery. He married in 1873, Esther N. Fesmire, daughter of H. C. and Sydonia (Chappelle) Fesmire, of Moreland township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Stuckert was born December 6, 1852. Her grandfather, Peter Fesmire, was a native of Germany, who settled in Mont- gomery county in early life, was a suc- l^joessflil farmer. His son, Henry C, the third of seven children, settled in More- land township, where he lived for a num- ber of yeafs and then removed to Dela- ware, where he lived for three years on ah experimental farm, and then returned' to Glenside where he died in 1900. His widow still survives, residing at Glen- side at the age of seventy-eight years. She is of French Heugenot descent, and a daughter of John Santell, a life-long resident of Montgomery county. Mr. and Mrs. Stuckert have been the parents of eleven children, viz.: George J., died at the age of eighteen years; Esther B., wife of Professor William H. Black, who was captain of a company \n the Spanish-American war, and is now principal of a school at High Bridge, New Jersey; Elizabeth, wife of Albert Reed, a machinist; John C, a farmer, married Eva Jamison; Grace, wife of H. J. Worthington; W^illiam H., residing at home; Sarah, married B. R. Yerkes; Sidney, residing at home; Clarence, who died young; Anna and Claud, who reside at home. Mr. Stuckert and his family are members of the Presbyterian church. WILLIAM R. STUCKERT, second son of Henry Clay and Emma J. (Har- man) Stuckert, was born on the old homestead in Warrington township, March 23. 1877. He was educated in the public schools of Warrington. the Doylestown High School and Ursinus College. After completing his course of study at college in 1899. he taught school for one year in Bucks county, and then entered upon the study of the law in the offices of his uncles, William and John C. Stuckert, and was admitted to practice in the Bucks county courts in December, 1902. In March. 1903. the law firm of William and J. C. Stuckert was dissolved, and W'illiam R. Stuckert was taken into partnership by his. uncle, William Stuckert, under the firm name of William & William R. Stuckert, with oftices at Doylestown and Newtown, and he at once took cliarge of tlie Newtowit office and entered upon the active prac- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 279 tice of his profession. ]\rr. Stuckert is the present borough solicitor of the borough of Newtown, and has already, built up a remunerative business, and established a reputation for careful and painstaking service in behalf of his clients. GEORGE W. HARTLEY, Jr.. of Pineville, Buckingham township. Bucks county, was born in New Hope borough. Bucks county. December 28, 1867, and is a son of William H. and Sarah Ellen (Girton) Hartley, and a grandson of Levi and Rachel (Heaton) Hartley. The pioneer ancestor of the Hartley family was Edward Hartley of English Quaker stock who settled m Bucking- ham about 1700, and has left numerous descendants in various parts of the union, although few of the name now reside in Bucks county. William H. Hartley, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Buckingham. July 4. 1836. At the age of sixteen he left the paternal roof and learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he followed in connection with farming until t886, when he retired from active life. He resided in Pineville from 1877 until his decease on April 10. 1904. He married Sarah Ellen Girton. daughter of James and Diadama Girton. who was born at Dolington, Bucks county, No- vember 18, 1841, and died at Pineville. January 6, 1900. Their children were as follows: J. Howard: INIary. widow of Piers'on Eddowes of Hartsville: George W.. the subject of this sketch; .Eh of Doylestown: and Dr. William K. Hart- ley of Dovlestown. George 'W. Hartley. Jr., acquired his education at the public schools and re- mained on the farm with his father as- sisting in the operations during the summer months, and during the winter months followed various other occupa- tions. After the death of his father he moved to his present residence where he has since lived a retired life. He mar- ried November i. 1894. Margaret Ann Kelley. daughter of Isaac' and Martha E. (Mathews) Kelley. of Solebury.^ and they are the parents of one child. Walter Sickle, born March 28. 1899- In politics Mr. Hartley is a Republican, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of Wycombe castle. No. 125, Knights of the Golden Eagle. CYRUS T. VANARTSDALEN. of Newtown township. Bucks county, was born in Northampton township. April 5. 1823. He is a son of Isaac and Ann (Torbert) Vanartsdalen, the former a descendart through seven generations in an unbrrken line from as many Dutch ancestors who emigrated from Holland to New Netherlands in the first half of the seventeenth century, while the lat- ter's ancestry traces back to at least four Ulster Scots who found homes in Bucks county a century later. The pa- ternal ancestor of the Van Artsdalens, who bore their patronymic, was Simon jansen Van Artsdalen, who emigrated from Holland in 1656 ,and settled m Flatlands. Long Island, where he mar- ried Pieterje Claesen Wycoff. who had accompanied her brother to New Neth- erlands in 16,36. Simon Jansen Van Artsdalen was a magistrate of Flatlands. 1661-1686. 'and a deacon of the Dutch church there. He died in 1710, leavmg several sons and daughters: among the former was Cornelis Symonse Van Artsdalen, born in Flatlands in 1665, and died there in 1745- He was thrice mar- ried, first to Tlletje Reinerse Wizzel- penning. second, on March 16, 1687, to A.eltje Willemse Couvenhoven, born De- cember 14. 1665. daughter of Willemse Gerretse Covenhoven and Altie Brinck- erhoff. and granddaughter of Gerret Wolfertse Couvenhoven. who had emi- grated from Holland with his father m 1630 having been born in Holland in 1610 Cornelis Symonse Van Artsdalen married third, Maretje or Mary Dirckse. ^:i^ on May 2. 1691. By the three wives he had ten children: Aeltje, Jacobus, Dirck. Petronella, Alaria, Abraham, Jannetje, Jacobiis, who married Alice, daughter of Jacob Hogeland. of New Jersey. Philip. John, and Simon, born August 16. 1697. Cornelis Symonse Van Artsdalen purchased a farm of his father at Gravesend. May 7. ^700. and is supposed to have lived thereon until 1726 when he sold it to his brother John and removed to Somerset county. New Jersey. / He was active in building the Dutch church there, and was prominent in the affairs of the com- munity. It is possible that he returned to Long Island prior to his death, as his will is registered at the surrogate's office at New York in 1745, though dated at Somerset in 1738. Simon Van ARXsnALEN, son of Cornells and Marv (Dirckse) Van Artsdalen. was born at "Flatbush. Long Island. August 16. 1697. and married there. October 30. 1716 jannetje Romevn, whose father and' his tw^o brothers had emigrated from Holland about 1650. Simon re- moved with his father to Somerset county New Jersey, and prior to 1730 removed with his family to the Dutch colony in Southampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he was one of the early elders of the Dutch church, lived a long and useful life, and reared a family of seven children, hve sons and two daughters. He died m the winter of 1770. and is buried at "The Buck." The children of Simon and Jane (Romeyn) Van Artsdalen were as 280 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY. follows: I. John, born at Flatlands, Long Island, June 27, 1718, died in North- ampton in 1777. 2. Lammetje, born Au- gust 21, 1720, married first Derick Kroesen, and second Cornelius Wj'ckoff. 3. Chris- toffel, born April 15, 1722, married, Oc- tober 26, 1748, Elizabeth Kroesen, daughter of Henry Kroesen. Died 1765, leaving children, Simon, born 1752; Else, born 1754; Jane, born 1757; Henry, born 1759; and Jacob, born in 1762. 4. Simon, born April 18, 1726, married, January 24, 1751, Elsie Kroesen. Died 1795, leaving nine children, Cor- nelia, wife of Jacob Vandegrift; Simon, married Joanna Hogeland; Jane, mar- ried Joshua Praul; Derrick; Margaret, married Abraham Lefferts; Jacob; John; Elizabeth, married Thomas Fenton; and Mary, married Joseph Fenton. 5. Mar- garet, 'born January 12, 1729, married Derick Kroesen, and had several chil- dren. 6. Jacobus or James, born Janu- ary 25, 1732, married Rachel LaRue, daughter of Isaac LaRue. 7. Nicholas, born July 14, 1736, died 1805, married December 29, 1759, Jane Vansant. 8. Peter, born March 2, 1739, probably died young, not mentioned in father's will. John Van Artsdalen, born January 29, 1718, accompanied his father to Bucks county and settled on a farm in North- ampton township, containing 250 acres, where he lived and died. He married, April 30, 1742, Elizabeth Kroesen, daughter of Garret, granddaughter of Dirck Kroesen and Elizabeth Kregier, and great-granddaughter of Gerret Dirckse Kroesen, who emigrated from Holland about 1650 and settled in Brook- lyn, where he died in 1680. John and Elizabeth (Kroeson) Van Artsdalen had seven children, as follows: I. Jane, born November 17, 1744, died of smallpox, January 30, 1756, unmarried; 2. Ariantje. born May 25, 1746, married, February 18, 1767, Arthur Lefferts; 3. Lammetje, born April 2. 1748, married, January II, 1770, Peter Lefferts; 4. Elizabeth, born Sep- tember I, 1750, died at the age of two years; 5. Simon or Simeon, born July 10, 1753. was pastor of the Dutch church at Readington. Hunterdon county. New Jersey, died 1788, married IVIagdalen Hogeland; 6. Elizabeth, born May 7, 1756, married John Cornell, left no is- sue surviving : 7. Garret, born ]\Iay 8, 1758, died 1848, married, November 29, 1781, Euphemia Hogeland, born October 24, 1761. died February 19, 1829, daugh- ter of George and Maria (Scheneck) Hogeland, a lineal descendant of Dirck Hogeland, the emigrant. (See Hogeland Family in this work.) Garret Van Artsdalen purchased the interest of his brother and sisters in the old homestead and resided thereon. He and his brother Simon were members of Captain Henry Lott's company of as- sociators in Northampton in 1775- The children of Garret and Euphemia (Hogeland) Van Artsdalen were: I. John, born January 17, 1784, married, April 17, 1806, Jane Kroesen, died 1844; 2. Simon, born November 10, 1786, mar- ried Deborah Dyer, had twelve children; 3. Isaac, born September 23, 1791, mar- ried. September i, 1814, Ann Torbert. 4. Garret, born May 5, 1797, died Sep- tember 20, 1799. 5- Maria, born May 2, 1-794, married Joel Carver. Isaac Van Artsdalen was reared on the old plantation in Northampton, and in 1831, his father conveyed to him ninety acres thereof, and a year later he acquired of his brother Simeon another tract, part of the same, and he spent his whole life on the farm of his ancestors. He died in i860. Ann Torbert, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of James and Margaret (McNair) Torbert, of Makefield, and a granddaughter of James Torbert and Hannah Burley, and of James and Mar- tha (Keith) McNair. Her four great- grandfathers Samuel Torbert, Samuel McNair, John Burleigh and William Keith emigrated from the north of Ire- land and settled in Makefield, Bucks county, about the year 1730. Samuel Torbert came from Carrick-Fergus on the northeast coast of Ireland in 1726. He was a tanner, and located in New- town where he lived for many years. Late in life he became a farmer in Upper Makefield, where he died in 1778. Isaac and Ann (Torbert) Van Artsdalen had eight children, as follows: i. Garret, born 1816. died 1881, married Harriet E. Warne and had seven children ; 2. James Torbert, born in 1818. married Catharine Nag- ^ lee; 3. Theodore Milton, born 1821, died 1904, married, 1843, Cornelia M. Cornell; 4. Cyrus Torbert, born April 5, 1823, married Jane E. Cornell, see forward; 5. Margaret Ann, born 1825, married, 1846, David Wynkoop ]\IcNair. 6. Alice Elizabeth, born 1828, married James An- derson; 7. Maria, born 1831, married, 1850. James L. Torbert; 8. Isaac Keith, born 1834. married Sarah IMatthiea. Cyrus T. Vanartsdalen was born and reared on the old homestead in North- ampton, and remained on the farm with his father until twenty-five years of age. He then followed farming in Northamp- ton until 1859, when he purchased the farm in Newtown township, where he still resides. He married, December 15. 1847. Jane Eliza Cornell, daughter of Jacob and Maria Cornell, of Northamp- ton, who bore him three children: Mary, born December 18, 1850, died January 25. 1875, was wife of George C. Fetter. Alice, born November 22. 1853, died Feb- ruary II, 1880, was wife of Murray Gardner. Isaac T., born March 28, 1757, married Addie C. Camm. Mr. Vanartsdalen has been a member of the Presbyterian church since his eigh- teenth year, served several yearr> as dea- con and has been an elder of lue New- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 281 town church since 1868. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or held office except that of school director. HENRY H. VAN ARTSDALEN, of Feasterville, Southampton township, Bucks county, was born near Feaster- A'ille, November i, 1842, and is a son of James and Rachel (Hough) Van Arts- dalen. He is a lineal descendant of Si- mon Jansen Van Artsdalen, who emi- grated from Holland in 1653 and settled on Long Island, his great-grandfather being Nicholas Van Artsdalen, men- tioned in the preceding sketch, who was born July 14, 1736, son of Simon and Jane (Romeyn) Van Artsdalen, the pio- neer ancestor of the family in Bucks county. Nicholas Van Artsdalen mar- ried, December 29, 1759, Jannetje or Jane Vansant. Being the youngest surviving son, he remained upon the old home- stead which was devised to him at the death of his father, and died there in November, 1805. His widow Jane sur- vived him, dying in August, 1813. They were the parents of seven children, four sons, Simon, James, John and Chris- topher, and three daughters. Anna, mar- ried Garret Stevens, Jane, who married John Kroesen, and Margaret, who mar- ried Jesse Willard. James Van Artsdalen, son of Nicholas and Jane, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was born on the old homestead and inherited a portion of it at his father's death, and died there August 29. 1834. His wife was Elizabeth Staats, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Praul) Staats, and a grand- daughter of Peter Praul. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: Silas, who married Effie Cox and had children, Silas and Elizabeth. Nicho- las, who married Louisa Knight and had •children, Joseph, Cursey and James. Cornelius, who married and had chil- dren. Daniel. Truxton, and Mrs. Silas Twining. Daniel, who married Maria Clayton and had children, George, Jona- than, Elizabeth, and Lucinda. Jesse, ■who married and had a family. James, father of subject of this sketch. George, who married and had children, Walter, Emanuel and Lydia. Phebe, who mar- ried Allen Dyer, and had children. Peleg and James. James Van Artsdalen. Junior, was born on the old homestead in 1803. and re- ceived his education at local schools. He learned the trade of a wheelwright and followed it at Feasterville, until succeeded by his son in the seventies. He purchased a house and lot in Feasterville of Aaron Feaster in 1834, and died there in i8qi. He married, about 1828, Jiachel Hough, who was born in 1805 and died in 1888. They were the parents of six children, as follows: Charles, born November 3, 1830, married Mary Elizabeth Cornell, and had one daughter who married James Cornell, and has a son, Charles Cornell. Martha, born 1832, married Christopher Clayton and has three children. Spencer, died young. Mary Elizabeth died at age of seventeen years. Eliza Ellen, mar- ried Michael Irwin and had two chil- dren, both deceased. Henry H., born November i, 1842. Henry H. Van Artsdalen was reared at the Feastersville home purchased by his father in 1834, and acquired a common school education at the local schools. He learned the trade of blacksmithing and has carried on the business for upwards of forty years. In politics he is an ardent Demo- crat, and has always taken an active interest in the councils of his party. He served one term as auditor of the county, and has filled local offices at different periods. He was his party's candidate for director of the poor in 1902. but was defeated. He married Annie, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Clayton) Worthington, and they have been the parents of three children: Min- nie, born March 26, 1867. died October. 1900. married Israel Stack and had one child. Anna; Henry, who died young, and Benjamin, born November 14, 1880. WILLIAM JOHN COOLEY, Esq., of the Philadelphia 'bar, though not a native of Bucks county was reared from childhood within its borders and still retains his residence at New Hope, where his grandfather was a prominent manufacturer many years ago. Mr. Cooley was born at Trenton, New Jer- sey. July 9. 1877. and is a son of John P. and Catharine Young (Umbleby) Coolev. On the paternal side he is de- scended from an old New Jersey fam- ily, and on the maternal side his grand- father. William Umbleby, came from England at the age of eight years and located in Chester county. Pennsylvania. He was a manufacturer of cordage, and later removed to New Hope, Bucks county, where he owned and operated the flax or cordage mills for many years. He was a man of a high sense of honor and of a deep religious nature, and was for many years a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church. He had one son, John, and two daughters, Mary, the wife of William H. Closson, and Mrs. Cooley. On the death of Mrs. Cooley. in Trenton. New Jersey, the subject of this sketch was reared by his uncle, William H. Closson, of New Hope. William J. Cooley was educated at. the New Hope high school, Pennington (New Jersev) Seminary, and at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the law department of the latter 282 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. institution in the class of i8(j8. and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia county in the same year. He has smce practiced his profession in that city, with offices at the Hale Building, 1328 Chestnut street. He is a member of the Law Association of Philadelphia, and of the Law Academy. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a, local preacher of that faith. ALBERT C. LARUE, one of the young enterprising farmers of Bucking- ham, was born in Southampton town- ship, in which vicinity his paternal an- cestors have been residents for two^cen- turies, on November 10, 1874; he is a^ son of John B. and Eva (Cadwallader) Larue. His father, John B. Larue, was born on the same farm as his son in the 3'ear 1850, being a son of Marmaduke Larue of Southatnpton. He w^as a farmer for several years in Southamp- ton, and then removed to Buckingham, purchasing a farm near Pineville, wdiere he still resides with his son-in-law. He is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and in politics is a Re- publican. The family of La Rue is of French descent, the American progeni- tors being Huguenots who came to America about the middle of the seven- teenth centur3\ and became residents of Bucks county early in the next centurj-. John B. and Eva (Cadwallader) Larue are the parents of four children: viz.: Albert C, the subject of this sketch; Harry C, Alice, wife of Fred Worth- ington, and Edgar J., all of whom are residents of Buckingham. ^ Albert C. Larue was reared on the farm in Southampton. From his twelfth year he lived in the family of his uncle, Samuel K. Tomlinson, of Southampton. On February 10, 1897, he married Sarah Rhoads. daughter of Nathan and Re- becca Rhoads, and removed to his pres- ent farm in Buckingham, previously pur- chased by his uncle. He and his fam- ily are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. To Mr. and Mrs. Larue have been born three children: Horace Raymond, Earl Stanley and Edith May. ROBERT L. CYLMER. the success- ful merchant of Doylestown, Bucks count3% was born in Bethlehem, Penn- sylvania, June 20, 1872, and is a son of John H. and Maria (Kiser) Clymer. The Clymer family is of German origin, but has figured in the history of Pennsyl- vania for nearly two centuries. Richard Clymer having come to Philadelphia in 1795, and engaged in shin building uiuil his death in 1734. From his sons. Chris- tian and William, have descended a nu- merous progeny that have been more or less prominent in the affairs of .I'enn- sylvania, many of them holding high official position. George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of Lidependence, was a son of Christian, and was born in Phil- adelphia in 1838, and died in Morrisville, Bucks county, in 1813, leaving two sons: Henry and George. Another branch of the family now numerous in Bucks and Montgomery counties are descendants from Valentine Clemmer, a bishop of the Mennonite church, who came to this country from Germany or Switzerland in 1717, and settled in what is now Montgomery county, most of his de- >. scendants becoming known later by the ^ name of Clymer. Tradition connects the subject of this sketch with the former family, but there is absence of -'-authentic records to prove the con- nection. Christian Clymer, the great-grand- father of Robert L. Clymer, was an ex- tensive landowner in Alilford township, and died there in 1802, leaving severt sons, Jacob, Christian, Isaac, Gerhard, John, David and Samuel, and three daughters, Esther, wife of Adam Scheetz, Ann, wife of Henry Souder^ and Mary, wife of Henry Beidler. John Clymer. the grandfather of Rob- ert L. Clymer, born March 31, 1793, lo- cated in Nockamixon township soort- after arriving at manhood, married Mar- garet Pearson, daughter of Lawrence Pearson, of that township, and pur- chased a small farm, part of his father- in-law's homestead. He followed the vocation of a weaver for some years, and was also a merchant at what is now Ferndal^ prior to 1826. He later pur- chased considerable other land in that vicinity, and his later days seem to have been devoted to agricultural pursuits. He died in Nockamixon, March 11, 1868. His wnfe, Margaret Pearson, was horn in Nockamixon, near Ferndale, Novem- ber 22. 1794. and died September 30,. 1863. They were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Sarah Lavina, wife of Ephraim Yost; Caroline, wife of Fred- erick Horn; Sybilla, wife of William Loudenberger; Catharine, wife of Frank- lin J. Shick; Esther, wife of Jacob Sum- stone; Elwood; Margaret, who died un- married; and John H., the father of the subject of this sketch. Lawrence Pearson, great-great-grand- father of Margaret (Pearson) Clymer. was a native of Yorkshire. England, and came to Pennsylvania with his father,. Edward Pearson, in 1683, and settled in Falls township. Bucks county, from whence he removed to Buckingham in 1701, and later to Plumstead, where he died in 1756, and his wife Ann in 1760. They were members of the Society of Friends and their children were reared in that faith. They were the parents of two sons: Enoch, who died in 1748, un- married, and Joseph, and daughters: HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 283. Hannah Fenton, Elizabeth Allen, Martha Shrigley, Priscilla jMcKinstry, and Mary Jewell. Lawrence Pearson, son of Joseph and grandson of Lawrence and Ann, was born about the year 1720, and in 1744 purchased of Barthol- omew Longstreth 250 acres of land in Nockamixon, including the site of Nockamixon German Lutheran and Re- form church, a portion of which he con- veyed to the trustees of the church in 1797 to enlarge their graveyard. Lawrence Pearson died in 1803, leaving a widow. Elizabeth, and eight children, viz.: Christian, Henry, Philip, Lawrence, Peter, Mary, wife of John Kohl; Cath- arine, wife of Jacob Saassaman; and Susanna, wife of John Easterling. Kohl and Sassaman were trustees of Nocka- mixon church. Lawrence Pearson, son of the above named Lawrence, was the father of Margaret Clymer. He married Margaret , of German ancestry. and became a member of the Nocka- mixon church, where his children were baptised. Lawrence, the eldest, born August 27, 1782; William. June 27, 1784; Abraham, November 28, 1790; Margaret, November 22, 1794; John, about 1800: and Elizabeth, January 4, 1807. The lat- ter married Jesse Algart. Lawrence, the father, died in 1810. Though of English ancestry on the paternal side, the chil- dren of Lawrence Pearson (3) imbibed the language and customs of their ma- ternal ancestors, and both spoke and wrote in the German language. John H. Clymer, youngest son of John and Margaret (Pearson) Clymer, was born in Nockamixon, November 3, i8.?6. On arriving at manhood he lo- cated for a time in Durham township, but on the death of his father in 1868 purchased of the other heirs a portion of his father's real estate in Nockamixon and lived thereon for some years, re- moving later to Tinicum township, where he died August' 5, 1881. He mar- ried Maria Kiser, daughter of Jacob rnd Ann (Seiner) Kiser, of Nockamixon, granddaughter of Frederick and Ger- trude (Hoffman) Kiser, and great-grand- daughter of Frederick and Anna Bar- bara (Stein) Kiser. who emigrated from Bretzinger, in the grand duchy of Baden, and settled in Durham township, Bucks county, prior to 1770. Maria (Kiser) Clymer is living with her son in Doyles- town. The children of John H. and Maria (Kiser) Clymer are: Robert L., the subject of this sketch, and Idella, wife of Edward Steely, of Tinicum. Robert L. Clymer was reared in Nock- amixon and Tinicum townships, and ac- quired his education at the public schools. At the age of fifteen years he began his mercantile career as a clerk in the general merchandise store at Kintnersville, where he was employed for eight years. In 1897 he came to Doylestown and purchased the stock and fixtures of the general merchandise store at the corner of Clinton and Ash- land streets, of Kohn K. Benner, where he has since successfully conducted the business. He has taken an active inter- est in the affairs of the town and is a well known and popular business man. t\\v. Clymer is a member of the Re- formed church, and is affiliated with Aqueton Lodge No. 193, L O. O. F., of Doylestown, the Junior O. U. A. M.,, Ferndale Council No. 685, and the F. and A. M., of Doylestown. He married October 18, 1894, Stella Rufe, daughter of Josiah and Mary Jane Rufe, of Nock- amixon, wdiere her ancestors had been prominent landowners and business men for several generations. F. M. MARPLE. The Marple familjr has been connected with Bucks county through various generations. N. David Marple. grandfather of F. M. Marple,. was born in Bucks county and became an influential and leading farmer of his community. His early political support was given the Democracy, but at the time of the civil war he joined the ranks of the Republican party, and upon that ticket was called to offices of honor and trust. He held office as a Democrat long before the war. He served as county commissioner and prothonotary of Bucks county, and acted as clerk for General John Davis when the latter was serving as collector of customs for the United States. N. David Marple was a man ,of superior education and was closely identified with the educational interests of his county at an early day„ having been a competent school teacher. He served as a colonel in his regiment in the war of 1812, and was thus promi- nent in business, political and military circles, a man whose life was above re- proach, and who in consequence com- manded the entire respect and con- fidence of those with whom he was as- sociated. His last days were spent in Kansas, to which state he removed in his later years.. He belonged to the Baptist church, and all of his relations with his fellowmen exemplified his Christian faith. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Hart, was born in Bucks county and was descended from an old colonial family of Pennsylvania. Their children were : Eliza A.. Mary P., Clara, Virginia. Ellen, Alfred, Joseph,. Silas. Nathan, Warren, and Eugene. Alfred Marple, born in Bucks county,, was reared upon his father's farm, ac- quired a liberal education and became a' capable teacher in the public schools. At the time of his marriage he located upon a farm, but later turned his atten- tion to merchandising at Langhorne. He also served as postmaster there for a number of years, and at one time was 284 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. principal of the Soldier's Orphan's schools of Quakertown. He served for three years in the war of the rebellion, becoming a member of the One Hun- dred and Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, Colonel W. H. Davis commanding. He performed his full duty as a valorous soldier and on the expiration of his term of service w^as honorably discharged. Po- litically he vt-as a Democrat until the time of the war, when he espoused the cause of the Republican party that stood so loyally by the Union in the darkest hour of our country's history. Follow- ing the war he engaged in farming, and in his later life lived retired, making his home in Langhorne, where he died in 1896, when seventy-four years of age. In early manhood he married Anna A. Van Sant, a native of Bucks county, who died in 1871, and later he wedded Sarah Aaron. His first wife was a daughter of Garrett Van Sant. of Bucks county, who was a blacksmith by trade, for many j'cars closely identified with the industrial life of his community. His political views accorded with the prin- ciples of Democracy, and he filled the office of county commissioner. His re- ligious faith was that of the Presbyter- ian church. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Van Sant are: George, William, Maria, Elizabeth, Anna, and Jane. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Mar- pie are : Frank H. ; William W.. a prom- inent farmer; Mary, deceased; Florence; and Ida, wife of Dr. Heritage, a physi- cian of Langhorne. Frank H. Marple, son of Alfred Mar- pie, was born in Langhorne township. Bucks county, December 31, 1849, and was reared to farm life, while in the pub- lic schools he acquired his education. He remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority, and in 1876 he was married and settled on the old Hart homestead, where he remained for four years. He then returned to the township of his nativity and rented his father's old homestead, there carrying on agricultural pursuits until 1902, when he purchased the old Hart homestead on which he had resided immediately after his marriage. Hereon he has since made his home, his farm lying partly in Warminster and partly in Southampton townships. He carried on general farming and matketed his own produce, and for two years also operated a creamery, but is now devoting his en- tire time and attention to the produc- tion of vegetables and cereals and to the sale of his products in the Philadelphia markets. His business af¥airs are ca- pably managed and his enterprise and unremitting diligence form strong and basic elements for a successful career. Mr. Marple was married to Miss Laura Tomlinson, a native of Bucks county, and a daughter of William Tom- linson, also of Bucks county. He was a carpenter by trade, and was killed while serving his country in the civil war, being for three years a member of the Union army. In his political views he was a Republican. His wife long survived him, passing away in T882. Their children were: Charles, Eliza- beth, and Laura, the last named the wife of Mr. Marple. To Mr. and Mrs. JMarple were born three children: Will- iam, who is clerking; Grace, at home; and Alfred, who is a stenographer in California. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Marple married Mrs. Susan Johnson, a cultured lady, whose par- ents were William B. and Mary A. (Al- ford) Kitchen, of Philadelphia. Her father, a tailor by trade, followed that business throughout his entire life, and died at Center Hill in 1869. In his polit- ical views he was a Republican, and he held some local political positions. He belonged to the Baptist church, of which his wife, who now makes her home with her children, is also a mem- ber. In the Johnson family were six children: Victor, Florence, Orville, Claude. May and Burleigh. In his polit- ical views Mr. Marple is a Republican, but the honors and emoluments of of- fice have had no attraction for him, and although he is never remiss in the du- ties of citizenship, he prefers to devote his time and energies to his business af- fairs, which are now bringing him a de- sirable financial return. A. J. MILLER, following farming near Neshaminy, was born in Philadel- phia, February 18, 1845, and in the ma- ternal line comes of German ancestry. His father, A. J. Miller, was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and after ac- quiring a good education went to Phila- delphia as a young man, there engaging in mercantile pursuits. He made for himself an excellent place in business circles in that city, becoming a member of the firm of Miller, Weber & Hand, conducting an extensive and profitable business as dealers in dry goods at the corner of Fourth and Market streets. Mr. Miller remained a member of the house until 1847, when his death oc- curred at the age of forty years. While business afifairs claimed much of his time, he yet found opportunity to de- vote to movements effecting the general interests of society. He was a leading member of the Presbyterian church, and served as an elder and as superin- tendent of its Sunday-school. He con- tributed generously to the work of the church .and did all in his power to ad- vance the cause of Christianity. He was also generous to those who needed assistance, sympathetic with those in sorrow, and at all times kind and con- siderate. Having prospered in his busi- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 285 ness he was able to leave his family in comfortable circumstances. In 1831, in Philadelphia, he married Miss Cather- ine Helffenstein, a cultured and intelli- gent lady, a granddaughter of John C. Helffenstein, of honored Germany an- cestry, belonging to a distinguished fam- ily of that country, connected with the nobility and possessing a coat-of-arms. Her parents were Rev. Samuel and Ann (Stitle) Helffenstein, both of German descent. Her father, who was born April 17, 1775, was regularly ordained as a minister of the German Reformed church in 1796, at which time he took charge of the old Bean church in Blue- bell, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. In 1799 he became pastor of the congre- gation of that denomination at Fourth and Race streets, in Philadelphia, where he remained for thirty-two years, preaching in both the German and Eng- lish languages. Later in life he retired to his farm near North Wales, where he spent his remaining days. He still continued preaching, taking charge of a church in Northampton county, to which he rode twenty miles in order to deliver the gospel message. He preached his last sermon at North Wales when ninety years of age. He was a fine musician, and his musical talent added greatly to his services. He passed away on his home farm at the age of ninety-three years, after a long, useful and honorable career. He had likewise prospered in his material af- fairs, and became possessed of a large estate. In his family were twelve chil- dren, eleven sons and a daughter, all of whom are now deceased. Three of the sons became ministers of the gospel, and all were professional men or mer- chants. Seven sons and a daughter sur- vived him, the latter being Mrs. Cath- erine IMiller. A. J. Miller, Sr. died in 1847 and his wife, long surviving him, passed away in 1884. She remained at the old home in Philadelphia through- out that period, and both were buried in one of the cemeteries of that city. They had five children: Samuel H., a merchant, now deceased; Lavina G. ; Mary M., the wife of Joseph Linton; Annie M., the widow of E. D. Wakeling, who was an attorney of Philadelphia; and A. J., of this review. A. J. Miller, whose name introduces this record, spent his boyhood days in the manner of most city lads, his time being largely given to his school work as a student in the grammar and high schools of Philadelphia. He thus ob- tained a good education. He was but a young lad when his father died, but the mother kept her children together, care- fully rearing them. When he had at- tained the proper age he was employed as a clerk in his brother's store, and later engaged in he real esate business in Philadelphia, which he continued to follow for many years. At length he turned his attention to general merchan- dising at Bethayres, and subsequently expanded the field of his labors by es- tablishing a coal and lumber business in connection with his real estate opera- tions, continuing therein until 1890. He then bought the farm upon which he now resides; it is one of the old historic places of the county, and the house is a commodious three story stone resi- dence, which was occupied at the time of the revolutionary war and is yet in a good state of preservation. Many ad- ditions have since been made and mod- ern improvements added, but one of the old doors yet swings with its latch string that always hung out in the old- en times. In 1774 the Rev. N. Erwin resided here, and ministered to the spiritual wants of the people of the lo- cality for many years as pastor of the Neshaminy Presbyterian church. In 1800, however, he built the residence that Joseph Dobbins now occupies and there he remained until his death, his remains being then interred in the Ne- shaminy cemetery. Since taking up his abode upon the farm Mr. Miller has de- voted his entire attention to its further cultivation and improvement, and he annually harvests good crops and mar- kets the products of the gardens. A. J. Miller was married to Miss El- len V. Sickel, who was born in Quaker- town, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1844. She was a devoted wife and helpmate to him, and was the only daughter of General H. G. Sickel, of national fame. Her mother, who bore the maiden name of Eliza Van Sant, was a daughter of William Van Sant, a representative of one of the oldest fami- lies of Bucks county. Mr. and Mrs. Sickel had but two children: Jane, who became the wife of Joseph Hart; and Eliza, the mother of Mrs. Miller. Gen- eral Sickel was reared in the vicinity of Mechanicsville, and being left an or- phan when quite young was entirely a self-made man. He learned the wheel- wright's and blacksmith's trades, which he followed for many years. He was married at Davisville and later settled at Quakertown, where he followed his pursuits, conducting an extensive busi- ness. About 1846 he removed to Phila- delphia, where he became connected with mercantile interests as a dealer in lamp and gas fixtures, continuing in that line until 1857. He afterward held various public positions by appoint- ments of the governor, and was promi- nent and influential in community and state afifairs. At the tin;ie of the out- break of the civil war Vie raised a com- pany for service in dr-tense of the Union, was made its captam and was promoted from time to tirae, being brevetted ma- jor general at 'the close of the war. He served throur^hout the entire period of •^86 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. hostilities with honor and distinction, his promotion coming in realization ot meritorious conduct on the lield of bat- tle. He was several times wounded, and on one occasion it was thought that he would lose an arm because of injuries. Following the cessation of hostilities he was appointed revenue collector and health oflicer of Philadelphia, filling these positions for a number of years. He was aLso appointed pension agent at Phila- delphia by appointment of the president, and he occupied many positions of of- ficial preferment, discharging the duties •of all in a most creditable and honorable manner. His last position was that of pension attorney, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death, which occurred April 17, T§S9, when he was seventy-two years of age.^iJI^e wjis a consistent and worthy member of the Presbyterian church, taking a most ac- tive and helpful part in its work and con- tributing generously to its support. Broad-minded, liberal and charitable. Tie was ever found fearless in conduct, lionorable in action and stainless in reputation. As the years have passed he had made investment in different public enterprises, becoming a stock- holder in some paying business con- cerns. He was president and one of the promoters of the Newtown railroad. His military service and the influential po- sition he occupied in political circles of Pennsylvania won him national fame. His wife died prior to his demise, pass- ing away at the age of sixty-two years. They were the parents of five children, all of whom are living: Howard V., who entered the pension office during his father's service and yet holds a position in that department in Washington, D. C. ; Ellen, the wife of A. T. Miller: Charles A., who is a pension attorney in Washington, D. C. : William V., a pension attorney in Philadelphia: and Horatio, who is a major in the United States army in the Philippines. All are married, and this circle constitutes an interesting family. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have become the parents of three children: Randolph H., a structural engineer, who married Miss Catherine Darrah: Clarence, who is foreman for the Kittarlinus Lithograph- ic Company of Philadelphia, and mar- ried Miss Helen Warner: and Augus- ^ tus J., an architect of Philadelphia. The p.^arents and their children are mem- ijers ^ of the Presbyterian church. Politi- cally -Mr. Miller is a Republican where national ' issues are involved, but at local elections i:'s independent, casting his bal- lot for meii ''and measures rather than for party. He is active in the church work, serving as superintendent of the Sunday school at v 'Harrington. He has also been connected w.^Vh several federal organizations, but has n q.^ withdrawn ironi these and his time ^nd energies are devoted in more undivided manner to his business affairs, which, capably conducted, are bringing him desn'able success. B. FRANK COPE. Among the active and efficient business men of Lower Buckingham is B. Frank Cope, for many years a director and superintendent of the Forest Grove Creamery. Mr. Cope was born in Doylestown township, Bucks county, August 14, 1859, and is a son of Amandus F. and Anna Elizabeth (Funk) Cope. His father, who is a son of Franklin S. and Magdalena (Urfer) Cope, was born near Pennsburg, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, and soon after his marriage purchased a farm in Doylestown township, where he resid- ed until 1870, when he removed to Mont- gomery county, near Bryn Mawr. He was a farmer during his active life, but now resides with a daughter at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The subject of this sketch was born and reared on the farm, and received a good education at the schools of Doylestown township and Bryn Mawr. At the age of twenty-one he accepted a position as assistant in the Pine Run creamery, Doylestown township. On June 4, 1882, he took charge of the For- est Grove creamery, and was superin- tendent and salesman, as well as a mem- ber of the board of directors, for many- years, and giving entire satisfaction to the patrons and stockholders. ]\Ir. Cope was for many years an ardent Democrat and took an active part in the councils of his party. He was the party nominee for director of the poor in 1898, and re- ceived the highest vote of any on the ticket, running far ahead of other can- didates in his home township. In 1902 he was nominated for the assembly, but a fusion was later effected by the local leaders, and he was forced off the ticket. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245. F. and A. M.; Warrington Lodge, No. 447, L O. O. F., of which he has been secretary and representa- tive for ten years; Neshaminy Castle, No. 139, K. G. E.; and Paunacussing Lodge. No. 221, K. of P. In the spring of 1004 he purchased a farm in Lower Buckingham, upon which he now re- sides. He was married, in 1883. to Rose Ella Barton, daughter of Joel and Phoebe (Carver) Barton, of Solebury. Her parents now reside in Warwick township. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have been the parents of four children: Linford W., deceased; Edmund B.; Anna E., de- ceased; and Harman Yerkes. The brothers and sisters of Mr. Cope are as follows: Mary J., widow of Sam- uel Eckstein, of Philadelphia; Samuel E., of Telford. Pennsylvania; Edward- ine, wife of Harry L. Riley, of Atlantic City; Clinton B., of Buckingham; James w York] ■~) r-l HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 287 R., of Egg Harbor; John A., of Atlan- tic City, and Daniel, who has been an employe of John Wanamaker for several years. HENRY CRAWFORD PARRY, one of the best known citizens of Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, retired business man, president of the People's National Bank, is of Welsh descent. His earliest ancestor in America was Thom- as Parry, who was born in Caernarvon- shire, North Wales, in 1680, and came to Pennsylvania when a young man, married Jane Phillips, in 1715, and set- tled in Moreland, near the present site of Willow Grove. The family of Par- ry is one of the most ancient in the United Kingdom, and their coat-of-arms is registered in Burke's General Arm- ory. Thomas Parry, above mentioned, was a grandson of Colonel Geofifrey Parry, of Caernarvonshire, who married Mar- garet Hughes, of Cefn Llanfair, and son of Love Parry, of Wanfour, who was high sherifif of Caernervonshire in 1685, and his wife Ellen, daughter of Hugh Wynn of Penarth. Thomas and Jane (Phillips) Parry were the parents of ten children, eight sons and two daughters. He died in 1751, aged seventy-one years. Philip Parry, born in the "Manor of Moorland," now Moreland township, Montgomery county, 11 mo. 18, 1716, married 2 mo., 1740, Rachel Harker, daughter of Adam Harker, one of the most prominent Friends of his day in Pennsylvania, and settled in Bucking- • ham township, where he purchased March 11, 1746, 170 acres of land near Holicong. He died on this plantation, the late residence of E. Watson Fell, in 1784. leaving three sons: John, Philip, and Thomas; and five daughters: Han- nah, Jane, Grace, Rachel and Mary. John Parry, son of Philip and Rachel (Harker) Parry, born in Moreland, 9 mo. 10, 1743. married 4 mo. 17. 1771, Rachel, daughter of Titus and Elizabeth (Heston) Fell, and granddaughter of Joseph Fell, who came 'from Longlands, in Cumberland. England, in 1705. by his second wife, Elizabeth Doyle, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle. John Parry died in Buckingham II mo. 13. 1807, and his wife Rachel, 2 mo. 18, 1818. ' They were the parents of nine children: Elizabeth, who married George Shoemaker;. Joyce, who married Jacob Shoemaker: Mercy: Charity; Tacy: Rachel; and' John, who died un- married; David, who married Elizabeth Ely, and (second) Lydia Richardson, and settled in Drumore. Lancaster coun- ty, and Thomas Fell Parry. _ Thomas Fell Parry, youngest child of John and Rachel (Fell) Parry, was born in Buckingham 7 mo. 8. 1791. He mar- ried 12 mo. 17, 1829, IMary, daughter of Moses and Rachel (Knowles) Eastburn, of Solebury, who was born 9 mo. 13, 1800. Mr. Parry was for many years a resident of Philadelphia, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1846 he purchased property at Lang- horne and two years later removed to that locality, where he spent the remain- ing years of his long and useful life. He died 3 mo. 27, 1876. His wife, Mary E'., died 6 mo. 5, 1872. Th^y were the par- ents of five children: Rachel, born 9 mo. 20, 1830, married Gilbert Shaw : Eliza beth, born 4 mo. 16, 1832, married Wil- son Croasdale; Henry C, born 3 mo. 23, 1834; John E., born li mo. 22, 1836, married 2 mo. 14, 1861, Mary Jane Live- zey; Charles, born ii mo, 24, 1839, died 12 mo. 19, 1842. Henry C. Parry, the subject of this sketch, eldest son of Thomas Fell and Mary (Eastburn) Parry, was born in the city of Philadelphia and received his primary education at private and pub- lic schools in that city. He was fifteen years of age when the family removed to IMiddletown, Bucks county, and then entered Pennington, New Jersey, Semi- nary, where he finished his education. On arriving at manhood he engaged in farming in Middletown township, which vocation he followed successfully for sixteen years. In 18.76 he engaged in the coal and lumber business at Langhorne station, which he conducted for twenty- one years, building up a fine and profi- table business. He sold out the busi- ness in 1887, and has since lived retired. Mr. Parry has always been actively in- terested in the local affairs of his neigh- borhood, and has held many positions of trust. He has served as chief bur- gess of the borough for two terms, and tw^o terms as a member of council. He was for many years a director of the First National Bank of Newtown, has been for eight years a director of the People's National Bank of Langhorne, and was- unanimously elected president of the latter institution in 1899, a posi- tion he still fills. ]\Ir. Parry has been actively interested in the improvements in and around Langhorne, and is one of the solid substantial business men of that section. He and his family are members of the Society of Friends. Po- litically he is a Republican. He was married November 13. 1856, to Susan Gillam Blakey, daughter of William Watson and Anna. (Gillam) Blakey, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Watson) Blakey. On the maternal side she is a granddaughter of William and Susanna (Woolston) Gil- lam. and great-granddaughter of Simon and Anna (Paxson) Gillam, and of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Harvey) Wool- store. There of her lineal ancestors were members of the colonial assembly at one time — Thomas Watson, William Paxson and John Sotcher, all of them 288 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY serving a number of years. Her great- great-grandfather ]\Jazry Watson, was also a member of colonial assembly for very many years. Henry C. Parry i.^ alsr, a descendant of John Sotcher, through his grandmother Rachel (Knowles) East- burn. (See Eastburn sketch in this work.) William Blakey Parry, only child of Henry C. and Susan G. (Blakey) Parry, "was born in Middletown township, 5 mo. i8, 1858. He was educated in the schools of Middletown and in Phila'del- phia. He married September 27, 1883, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Williamson) Moon, who was born 7 mo. 27, 1857. Two children have been born to this marriage: Laura Elizabeth, born July 28, 1891; and Henry Crawford, Jr., born November^ l?^ i895-~ PROFESSOR ALLEN S. MARTIN. County Superintendent of Public Schools, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1868, and is a son of the late Henry K. and Anna (Sahn) Martin, both natives of Lancas- ter county. He was reared on his fath- er's farm, and attended the public schools until the age of sixteen years, when he began teaching in the public schools of his native county, teaching in all in that county for five years. He graduated at the State Normal School at Millersville, Lancaster county, and later took a course in arts and sciences in the University of Pennsylvania, re- ceiving the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ences. In June, 1893, he became prin- cipal of the high school of Sellersville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and tw^o years later accepted the position of prin- cipal of the Doylestown high school, which latter position he filled with emi- nent ability for seven years. In 1902 Prof. Martin was elected to the office of Superintendent of Public Schools of the county, and was unanimously re- elected to the same position in 1905. Superintendent Martin is deeply inter- ested in the cause of popular education, and has done much to improve the effi- ciency of our public schools. He has a superior talent for organization and one of his plans that has proved emi- nently successful, is the holding of fre- quent "educational meetings" of teach- ers and directors in different parts of the county, where subjects that are of direct interest to teachers and direc- tors are discussed, whereby the interest of both in the work of bettering the schools is stimulated and strengthened, and the best methods of imparting knowl- edge are brought within the reach of all. Professor Martin is president of the Bucks County Natural Science Asso- ciation, and a member of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. He takes a deep interest in botany and zool- ogy, and is considered an authority on the flora and mammals of the section in which he lives. He is a member of the State Teachers' Association, and has been frequently called upon to aid in educational work in different parts of the state. Professor Martin was married, in Lancaster county, to Mary Magdalena Kauffman, of an old family in that coun- ty, and they are the parents of four chil- dren— Edith and H. Clay, born in Lan- caster county; and Lenore and Mildred, born in Doylestown. GULICK FAMILY. Joachim Gulick, or, as he signed his name, "Jochem Guyllyck," the pioneer ancestor of the Gulick family of Hilltown, Bucks coun- ty, emigrated from the Netherlands in 1653, and settled in Gravesend, Long Island, removing later to Staten Island. He married Jacomyntje Van Pelt, daughter of Teunis Janse Lanen Van Pelt, who emigrated from Liege, Bel- gium, in 1663, with wife Grietje Jans and six children and settled at New Ut- recht, Long Island, from whence his grandson, Joseph Van Pelt, migrated to Staten Island and later to Byberry, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and has numerous descendants in Bucks county. Jochem Gulick was an ensign at Gravesend in 1689, and about 1691 purchased land on Staten Island, and is said to have removed later to New Jer- sey, though of this there is no proof. Jochem and Jacomyntje (Van Pelt) Gu- lick were the parents of four sons,— Hendrick; Samuel, born 1685; Joachim, born 1687; and Peter, born 1689. Of these, Joachim and Hendrick located on Threc-Mile-Run, Somerset county. New Jersej^, in 1717, and left numerous descendants. Hendrick Gulick, eldest son of Joa- chim, the founder, married Cantje Dirckse Amerman, who was baptized on Long Island, April 2, 1677. He locat- ed in Somerset county. New Jersey, where he died in 1757, leaving eleven children: Joachim, Derrick, Jacomynt- je, Samuel, Alshe, Catrin, Mary, Grreb- rantje, Hendrick, Peter and Antje or Anna. Hendrick (or Henry, as he later signed himself), son of Hendrick and Cantje (Amerman) Gulick, settled in Alexan- dria township, Hunterdon county. New Jersey, near the present site of Milford, where he died in April, 1798. leaving nine children, Samuel, Nicholas, Char- ity Hoagland, Minnor, Catharine Buck- alew\ ]\Iary Duckworth, Ranshea Allen, Abraham and Rachel. His wife, Mary Williamson, whom he married Septem- ber 26, 1754, survived him. Samuel Gulick. eldest son of Henry and Mary (Williamson) Gulick, settled' in Northampton county, whore he mar- ried and reared a family. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 289 Jonathan GuHck, son of Samtiel, born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1795, removed to Towamencin town- ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, where he followed farming un- til 1837, when he removed to Hilltown, Bucks county, where he located on a small farm adjudged to him in right of his wife as part of the real estate of her father, Obed Aaron, and later purchased other land adjoining. He died in Hill- town in 1873, at the age of seventy-sev- en years. He married Urey Aaron, daugh- ter of Obed Aaron, and granddaughter of Moses and Elizabeth (James) Aaron, the former a native of Wales, settled in New Britain about 1725, and died there in 1765. Thomas James, the father of Elizabeth Aaron, was also a native of Wales, and came with his father, John James, from Pembrokeshire in 1712. Obed Aaron was born in 1761 and died in 1837. The children of Jonathan and Urey (Aaron) Gulick were Merari, Har- riet, Sybylla and Urey, all of whom are deceased. Merari Gulick, only son of Jonathan and Urey, was born on his father's farm in Towamencin township, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and removed with his parents to Hill- town in 1837- In 1843 he purchased a farm in Hilltown of 117 acres, winch he conducted during the active years of his life. He was an active and promi- nent farmer of that section, and followed the Philadelphia markets for some thir- ty years. He married, in 1841, Chris- tina Swartz, who was born in New Brit- ain township in 1819, and died in Hill- town in 1888. She was a daughter of Christian Swartz, a prominent farmer of New Britain township, of German ancestry. He married Margaret FunV, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Lewis) Funk of Line Lexington, the former a son of Martin Funk, who came from Germany in 1737 and settled in Hatfield, Montgomery county, and the latter a native of Wales and a daughter of Henry Lewis of New Britain. John Funk was the founder of a branch of the jMennonites known as Funkites. He is said to have preached at German- town while residing in Hilltown, making the journey back and forth on horseback. Christian and Margaret Funk Swartz were the parents of eight children: John, died young; Andrew F.; Eliza- beth, wife of John Rosenberger; Mar- garet, wife of Enos Gehman; "Christina, wife 'of Merari Gulick; Lydia, wife of John Heckler; Amelia, wife of John Hunsberger; and Mary, wife of Samuel Rosenberger. The children of Merari and Christina (Swartz) Gulick w^ere: Mary, wife of William D. Yocum, a farmer of Hill- town; Urey, wife of Joseph B. Alla- baugh, also a farmer in Hilltown; Jon- athan, of Hilltown; Obed Aaron, a gro- 10-3 cer in Philadelphia; Merari, who died at the age of two years; Samuel S., of South Perkasie; Christopher S., of Blooming Glen; and John S., born Feb- ruary 17, 1861, died September 28, 1878. SAMUEL S. GULICK, son of Merari and Christina (Swartz) Gulick, was born in Hilltown township, October 10, 1856, and was educated at the public schools. He was reared on his father's farm and remained there until his mar- riage in 1886, when he located at what is now South Perkasie. In 1890 he was elected a justice of the peace of Rock- hill township, and was re-elected in 1895, and served until 1900. He is an auctioneer, which business he has fol- lowed for many years, crying hundreds of sales in a single year. Since his election as justice of the peace he has conducted a general business agency in connection with his official duties, and has settled a great number of estates and done a large amount of public busi- ness. He .is the owner of several pri- vate properties at South Perkasie, a small farm located within the limits of Perkasie borough, and his present resi- dence in South Perkasie. He is direc- tor of the Quakertown Trust Company, and one of the progressive and promi- nent business men of the growing town of Perkasie. He is a member of Mc- Calla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., of Sellersville, and of the brotherhood of the Union. Politically he is a Republi- can. He and his family are members of the German Reformed church. He married, March 13, 1886, Mary E. Shell- enberger, daughter of Jacob S. and Cath- arine (Rudy) Shellenberger, "and they have been the parents of eight children: Paul, Katie, deceased; Ella, Herman, Esther, Emma, Samuel and Robert, de- ceased. CHRISTOPHER S. GULICK, ex- register of wills of Bucks county, now (1905) deputy treasurer of the county, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. June 11, 1859, and is the youngest son of Merari and Chris- tina (Swartz) Gulick, whose ancestry is given in a preceding ske-tch. He was reared in Hilltown township, and has resided there all his life with the exception of the three years, 1896- 98, during which he filled the office of register of wills, when he resided in Doylestown. He received his elemen- tary education at the public schools of Hilltown township, later attending Sellersville high school, from which he graduated at the age of nineteen years, and began teaching in the public schools of the county. He taught for one year in Bedminster and ten in his native township, eight of which were spent in conducting the school at Blooming Glen, where he now lives. In politics Mr^ 290 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Gulick is a Republican, and has always given an unfaltering support to the prin- ciples of that party, and done effective service in its behalf in his home local- ity, and keeping himself well informed as to the questions and issues of the day. In 1885 he was elected to the office of justice of the peace in Hilltown town- ship, and filled that position for five years, doing a large amount of official business and assisting in the settlement of estates. He also took up the business of auctioneering, and did considerable business in that line. On the termina- tion of his term as justice, in 1889, he was appointedr-, under President Harrison, deputy collector of internal revenue for the district in ^vhich Bucks county is included, and served in that capacity for four years. In 1894 he em- barked in the mercantift business at" the thriving village of Blooming Glen, in partnership with M. H. Leidy, under the firm name of Leidy & Gulick, which continued until his election to the office of register of wills, in the fall of 1895. On assuming the duties of this office in January, 1896, he transferred his in- terest in the store to Abram M. Moyer, and removed with his family to Doyles- town. Thoroughly diligent and consci- entious in the transaction of his offi- cial duties, and courteous to all with whom he came in contact, he made a very popular and efficient official, and made many friends throughout the county. On the termination of his term of office in 1899, he returned to Bloom- ing Glen, and in August of that year purchased his former store of the firm of Leidy & ]Moyer, and conducted the business 'Until February. 1904, when he sold out to the present firm of Apple & Shaddinger, and, purchasing a residence of his former partner. M. H. Leidy, followed farming and auctioneering im- til May, 1905. w^hen he was appointed deputy county treasurer, under John B. Poore, and assumed the duti.es of that office, retaining his residence at Bloom- ing Glen. Mr. Gulick is a member of McCalla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., of Sellers- ville ; of Doylestnwn Chanter, No. 270. R. A. M.; of Perkasie Lodge, No. 671, I. O. O. F., and of Doylestown Encamp- ment. No. 35. I. O. O. F.. of which he is a past chief patriarch. Mr. Gulick has always taken an active interest in all that pertains tn imorovement and devel- opment nf the material interest of the community in which he lived, and has filled a number of positions of trust. At the organization of the Perkasie Na- tional Bank he was elected one of the original board of directors, and _ has served continuouslv in that position since. He is a member of the Reformed church. He married. February 28. 1885. Emma H. Moyer, daughter of Rev. Abraham and Hester (Hunsberger) Moyer, of Hilltown. She was born in Hilltown, October i, 1864, and was the tenth of eleven children. Her father. Rev. Abra- ham F. Moyer, was born in Upper Sal- ford, Montgomery county, Pennsylvan- ia, September 19, 1822, and was a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Fretz) Moyer, grandson of Christian Meyer, great grandson of Henry INIeyer, who came to Pennsylvania about 1725, at the age of one year,- with his father, Hans Meyer, from Germany or Switzerland, who set- tled in Skippack, now Salford township, Montgomery county, and purchased land there in 1729, which is still in the tenure of his great-great-grandson, Ja- cob L. Moyer. Henry, the son of Hans, married Barbara Miller, who came from Germany at the age of eighteen years, and inherited the homestead at the death of his father, in 1748. He reared a family of seven children, many of whom have left descendants in Bucks county. Rev. Abraham F. Moj-er came to Bucks county when a lad, and lived with his maternal uncle, Martin Fretz. From the age of sixteen to twenty-one he was a clerk in a store, but later be- came a farmer in Hilltown. He was ordained minister of the Mennonite congregation at Blooming Glen Novem- ber 6, 185s, and continued to minister to that flock until his death. He was an active and faithful Christian teacher, and much respected in that community. He was 'twice married. His fir=t wife, and the mother of his eleven children, was Hester, daughter of Jacob and Mary Hunsberger. of Hilltown, who died Feb- ruary 28, 1873. He married, in 1874, Anna, widow of Henry M. Hunsberger, of Montgomery countA% and daughter of Abraham L. Moyer. The children of Christopher S. and Emma H. (Mover) Gulick, are: Arnon M., born July 8, 1886; Mabel M., born April 13. 1889; Gertrude Hester, born December 3, 1891; Blanche M., born February 15, 1894; Russel Blair, born March 5, 1898: Howard M., born Janu- ary 6. 1901; and LeRoy M., born April 12, 1904. SAVACOOL FAMILY. The paternal , and pioneer ancestor of the Savacool family of Hilltown and South Perkasie was Jacob Savacool (or Sabelkool, as the name was then spelled), who was born in German^' in the year 1713. and emigrated to Pennsjdvania at the age of eighteen years, arriving in Philadelphia on board the ship "Brittnnia." Michael Franklin, master. September 21. 1731. Like all the other early German settlers of Upper Bucks he made his waj'^ into Bucks through the present county of Montgomery. The earliest record of him Ts his purchase on Time 14, 1742, of 102J/2 acres of land in Rockhill town- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 291 «hip, near the present site of Sellers- ville, of Michael Durstine, the pioneer -ancestor of that family, whose descend- ants still reside on a part of the same tract, one mile south of Sellersville, at ■ the station bearing their name. Here Jacob Savacool lived and reared a fam- ily of six children, — two sons, William and Isaac; and four daughters,— Cath- arine, Eleanor, Susanna, and Elizabeth. He was a member of the Menncnite congregation of Rockhill, to whom he devised a legacy of ten pounds. His widow, Elizabeth, survived him. Will- iam Savacool, the eldest son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born at Derstines, Rockhill township, but on his marriage located on a farm in Hilltown purchased for him by his father in 1772, and devised to him by his father in 1782, Isaac, the second son, being devised the Rockhill homestead. William married Eliza- beth Miller, and they were the parents of seven children: Michael; Catharine, wife of George Jenkins; Susanna, wife of John Cope; John; Henry; Maria, and Jacob. William, the father, lived to a good old age, dying in 1832. Jacob Savacool, youngest son of Will- iam and Elizabeth (Miller) Savacool, was born on the old homestead in Hill- town in the year 1803. Early in life he learned the wheelwright trade, which he followed until after the death of his father in 1832, when he purchased the old homestead and conducted it until his death in 1878. He married Lydia Snvder, daughter of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Yost) Snyder, of Hilltown, (whose ancestry is given elsewhere in this work), and they were the parents of fourteen children, three of whom ■died in infancy; those who survive are: Enos B., born January 18. 1831. of South Perkasie: Aaron, a sketch of whom fol- lows: Elizabeth, wife of Leidy SchoU; William B., see forward; Lydia; Amelia', wife of Benjamin Althouse; Caroline, wife of John Sherm; Jacob A., see for- ward; Emma, who married Tobias Cuf- fel, of Lansdale, and is now deceased, leaving nine children; and Elias, de- ceased. The old homestead still remains in the family and is occupied by Jacob • A. Savacool, the youngest son. ENOS SAVACOOL. eldest son of Jacob and Lydia (Snyder) Savacool, was born in Hilltown, January 18, 1829, and was reared on the old homestead, acquiring his education in the public schools of that township. At the age of sixteen years he entered the general merchandise store of his uncle. C. A. Snyder, in Richland township. He later engaged in the business with his uncle in Rockhill township. In 1884 he pur- chased a farm at Bridgetown, now South Perkasie. where he still resides. He is a member of St. Andrew's Luth- eran church, and politically is a Demo- crat. He married, February 26, 1854, Hannah Moyer, daughter of Samuel M. and Barbara (High) Moyer, and they have been the parents of five children: I. Susan, died at the age of fourteen years; 2. James Erwin, born January I, 1856, died at the age of eight years; 3. William Henry, born February, 1858, now a resident of Philadelphia; has been twice married; by his first wife, Ella Stoneback, he has two children, — Lizzie and James Erwin: he married (second) Mrs. Lavinia (Clymer) Savacool, by whom he has three children; 4. Levi M., born January 15, i860, died December 31, 1882; 5. Franklin M., born December 5, 1864. married Lydia Weigner, and has one child, Frank. AARON SAVACOOL was born in Hill- town township, and reared on the old home- stead, acquiring his education at the lo- cal schools. Reared to the life of a farmer, he has never followed any other vocation. Until 1898 he was one of the active and progressive farmers of Hill- town township. In connection with the tilling of the soil he ran a commission wagon, carrying his own and his neigh- bors' lighter produce to the Philadelpnia markets. In the latter year he built himself a handsome and commodious residence in Perkasie, where he now re- sides, enjoying the fruits of a life of industry and usefulness. He is a mem- ber of St. Andrew's Lutheran church, and in politics is a Democrat, but has never sought or held other than local office, having served for four years as assessor of Hilltown township. He mar- ried, November, 1857, Esther Shetler, and to them have been born three chil- dren: Martha, wife of J. Howard Gear-, hart, and has four children; Susan, de- ceased, the latter having been the wife of Milton L. Cope, and had two chil- dren, and one son, Jacob, who married a distant cousin, Lizzie Savacool, daugh- ter of Mahlon Savacool, and has one child, Esther. WILLIAM B. SAVACOOL, son of Jacob and Lydia (Snyder) Savacool, whose ancestry is traced in a preceding sketch, he being a grandson of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Savacool, and a great-grandson of Jacob Savelkool. who came to Pennsylvania in 1731, and settled in Rockhill, was born on the old homestead in Hilltown. August 27, 1833. He was educated in the public schools of Hilltown. and remained on the farm with his parents until his marriage in 1856, when he removed to Sellersville. where he lived for five years. He then returned to the homestead and worked for his father for five years. In 1880 he settled at South Perkasie, and opened a 292 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY flour and feed store, , and also purchased calves for the New York and Philadel- phia markets. He continued the busi- • ness until 1904, when he leased the mill and feed store to his nephew, W. Elmer ■ Savacool, and now lives retired in South Perkasie. He is a member of the Luth- eran church of Perkasie, and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. Savacool married in November, 1858, Christiana Fulmer, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Kramer) Fulmer. W. ELMER SAVACOOL, of South Perkasie, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born on the old homestead in Hill- town township, which has been the prop- erty of his ancestors for over one hun- dred and fifty years, and is still occu- pied by his parents, Jacob A. and Eva (Steeley) Savacool. Jacob A. Savacool, the father of Will- iam Elmer, was born on the old home- stead October 9, 1850, and is the young- est son of Jacob and Lydia (Snyder) Savacool, whose ancestry is traced in preceding pages.* He was reared on the old homestead where he still resides, and was educated in the public scTiools of Hilltown township. Being the young- est of the family, he remained with his parents on the homestead, and at the death of his father in 1876 he purchased the homestead of ninety-four acres, and has always followed the life of a farmer. He is a member of the Lutheran church of South Perkasie. and in poli- tics is a Democrat. He married, May 10, 1873, Eva Steeley, of Tinicum_ town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of five children; William Elmer, the subject of this sketch; Stella: Emma, deceased; Ada and Jacob. William Elmer Savacool was reared on the old homestead and attended the Red Hill school, later entering the Sel- lersville high school. He remained on the farm with his father until the age of twenty-two years, and then removed to Hagersville. Bedminster township, where he lived for two years. He then removed to South Perkasie and entered the emplov of his uncle. William B. Sava- cool, in the mill and feed store, and five years later (in 1904) leased the plant of his uncle and now conducts the business for himself. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs, filling a number of local offices. He has been a member of the board of health of Per- kasie borough and is now servmg a term as school director of that borough. He is a member of Relief Circle, No. 57, Brotherhood of the Union, and religi- ously is affiliated with the Lutheran church of South Perkasie. He married, December 16, 1896, Clara Meyers, born August 6, 1877, daughter of Abraham F. and Susanna (High) Myers, the latter deceased; and grand- daughter of Joseph F. and Barbara (Fretz) Myers. Her great-grandfather Henry Meyer, was born in Bucks coun- ty, February 23, 1780, and died in Plum- stead township, Bucks county, October, 1847. His wife was Elizabeth Fretz, born March 24, 1807. John Meyers, the father of Henry, was also a resident of Plum- stead township, and was born in 1756 and died in 1814. His wife was Cath- arine Souder. William Elmer and Clara (Meyers) Savacool are the parents of two children — Eva M. and William Russell. *For ancestry of Lvdia (Snyder) Savacool see sketch of Henry H. Snyder. SHELLENBERGER FAMILY. The paternal ancestors of Mary E. (Shell- enberger) Gulick were early settlers in Hatfield township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and were the descendants of Johannes Schellenberger, who emigrat- ed from Germany and settled in that township, arriving in Philadelphia, Oc- tober 4, 1751. in the ship "Queen of Denmark." He purchased 250 acres in Hatfield and became one of the promi- nent men of that section. By his wife Margaret he had at least five sons, Con- rad. John, Philip, Jacob and Charles^ all but the two last settling in Bucks coun- ty. In 1776 he purchased several tracts of land in Hilltown, which he soon after convej^ed to his sons above mentioned. Conrad Shellenberger, son of John of Hatfield, settled in Rockhill town- ship, where he was living in 1779. when his father conveyed to him 120 acres of land in Hilltown. He eventually pur- chased several other farms in Hilltown, and became one of the prominent land- holders there. He died in 1839 in Hill- town. His wife. Eve Leidy, died about 1828. They were the parents of seven children, — two sons, John L. and Jacob L,, and five daughters: Hannah, who married a Trauger, and died before her father, leaving two daughters. Eve and Mary; Elizabeth, who married Jacob Datesman; Eve, who married John Wart, of Bedminster; Susanna, who • married John Drumbore; and Anna, who' married George Mumbauer. Jacob L. died on a portion of the old homestead in 1857. John L. Shellenberger, eldest son of Conrad and Eve (Leidy) Shellenberger, was born in Hilltown township in 1792. In 1829 his father conveyed to him 102 acres of the old homestead, purchased by his grandfather in 1772. and at Con- rad's death ten acres additional were adjudged to him. He lived on the old h-^mestead all his life, dying Anril 26, 1882, at the age of ninety years. He was twice married, his first wife being Cath- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 293 arine Snyder, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Yost) Snyder of Hilltown, whose ancestry is given elsewhere in this volume and they were the parents •of eight children : Elias, late of Sellers- ville; Eve; Elizabeth; Catharine; John; Levi, of Hagersville; Jacob S., and Amelia. He married (second) Elizabeth (Harr) Savacool, a widow, and had by her one son, Henry H., who lives on the old homestead in Hilltown. Jacob S. Shellenberger, son of John L. and Catharine (Snyder) Shellenber- ger, was the father of Mrs. S. S. Gu- lick. He was born in Hilltown in 1824, and died there in 1881. He married Catharine Rudy, born June 8, 1830. died June 6, 1898, and had seven children; Amanda, wife of Frank Alderfer; Mary E., wife of Samuel S. Gulick; Emma, wife of Dr. Milton Fretz, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania; Hiram R., of North Da- kota, who married Sarah Rolfe; Ella, wife of Simon Snyder, of Swarthmore; Leidy R., a civil engineer in New York, who married Mary Stump, and Jacob, of Montana, who married Bertha Risk. JACOB M. RUSH. The Rush family has been represented in Bucks county since an early period in its develop- ment. Jacob Rush, grandfather of Ja- cob M. Rush, was a son of Peter Rush, who lived and died in Bucks county. By trade he w^as a tailor and followed that pursuit for a number of years, but subsequently turned his attention to farming. He was a member of the To- liickon Reformed church. He married Miss Catherine Hofford, and thev be- came the parents of six children: Charles, Hillary, Peter. William. Re- mandus. and Lucy Ann, the wife of Eleazer McCarty. William Rush, father of Jacob M. Rush, was born in Bedminster town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where Tie has followed farming all his life. His religious faith is indicated by his mem- bership in the Old Mennonite church. He married Miss Annie Myers, and they became the parents of nine children: Jacob M.: Lizzie, wife of Joseph Schuler ; Catherine, the wife of Philip Musselman; Annie, wife of Newton Snyder; Isaac M.; Allen M.; William M. : Amanda, who died at the age of four years; and Mahlon M. Rev. Jacob M. Rush was born in Bed- minister township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, April 4, 1862, and his education was acquired in the common schools near his home. In the periods of vaca- tion he assisted in the work of the home farm, gaining practical knowledge of the l3est methods of conducting agricultural interests, so that he w-as well qualified to successfully carry on business for liimself in the same line. He remained on the homestead farm until twenty years of age, and then entered the employ of the Plumsteadville Dairymen's Associa- tion in the capacity of foreman. He re- mained in that service for about four or five years, and in 1887 purchased the fann whereon he now resides. His at- tention has been chiefiy given to agri- cultural pursuits and his property is now well improved, his fields being un- der a high state of cultivation. He was ordained on the 24th of October, 1895, a minister of the Old Deep Run Men- nonite church by Bishop Andrew Mack, of Bucks county, since which time he has ofificiated as pastor of the Deep Run church, and was also a supply for the Plumstead church. His life consecrated to his holy calling has been a potent element in the moral development of his community, and by example as well as precept he teaches the living truths of the gospel. Rev. Mr. Rush was mar- ried on the fourth of August, 1883, to Miss Mary G. Mover, a daughter of Jo- seph H. and Elizabeth (George) Moyer. Their union has been blessed with ten children: Nora Lizzie, born February 20, 1885; Anna M.. April 16, 1889; Aquil- la M., June 30, 1891; William Norman M., November 4, 1892; Joseph ]\I., April 22. 1894; Mary M., August 7, 1896; Ja- cob Paul, December 15, 1897; Raymond M., June 30, 1900; Isaac M., August 17, 1902; Theodore M., March 28, 1905. THE PENROSE FAMILY. The Penrose family is an old one and v/as established in Yorkshire. England, many generations before Robert Penrose, the ancestor of the subject of the sketch left there in 1669. He was the son of Robert and Jane Penrose, and in that year removed to county Wicklow, Ire- land, where in the same year he married Anna Russell. In 1673 he w-as impris- oned for refusing to take an oath. He was probably accompanied or preceded to Ireland by other members of the family, as Richard and John Penrose, of county Wicklow, suffered persecution in the same year for their religious faith. Robert Penrose, a son of Robert and Anna (Russell) Penrose, born in county Wicklow, married in 1695 Mary Clay- ton, of Back Lane, Dublin, by whom he had thirteen children. On 3 mo. 2, 1717. Robert Penrose and INIary his wife of Ballykenny. county Wicklow, Ire- land, with daughters Ann and Margaret and son Christopher, obtained a certifi- cate from the Two Weeks Meeting at Dublin, which they produced at Phila- delphia Monthly Meeting. 8 mo. 25. 1717. Another son Robert soon followed them to Pennsylvania, and the family settled first in Philadelphia and later at Mar- pie, Chester, (now Delaware) county. 294 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. where Christopher married at Middle- town Meeting, 3 mo. 1719, Ann Hunter. Robert Penrose, son of Robert and Mary (Clayton) Penrose, born in Ire- land, as before stated, followed his par- ents to Pennsylvania and located near them in Chester county. On September 13. '^723, he married at Springfield Meet- ing, Mary Heacock, and in 1734 ob- tained a certificate to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. He located in the Great Swamp, later Richland township, be- coming a member of Richland Monthly Meeting at its organization in 1742. Their children, all born in Richland, were: Jonathan, born March i, 1736; Jo- seph, born August 10, 1737; John, born January 19, 1740. married Ann Roberts; William, born April 15, 1742, married Mary Roberts; Robert, Jr., born May 6. 1744; Samuel, born Arugust 21, 1748, see forward; Benjamin, born Decem- ber 30, 1749; Mary, born June 5. 1753; and Jesse, born May 2, 1755. Of the above named children of Robert and Mary Penrose Jonathan, Joseph, John and William remained in Richland and reared families. Jesse, the youngest son, removed to Warrington. York county, by way of Exeter, 1776. Samuel Penrose, sixth son of Robert and Mary (Heacock) Penrose, born in Richland, August 21, 1748, remained there until April, 1801, when he re- moved with his wife and children, Will- iam, Eeverard, Benjamin and Margaret, to the Graeme Park farm in Horsham, Montgomery count3\ which he had just purchased. Graeme Park was established as the country residence of Sir Will- iam Keith, the last of the English pro- vincial governors of Pennsylvania. The old historic mansion erected by him in 1721 and still standing, an illustration of which appears in these volumes, is replete with historic associations as narrated in a previous volume. He mar- ried at Richland, November 9, 1777, Sarah Roberts, born June, 1758, daugh- ter of Abel and Gainor (Morris) Rob- erts, and granddaughter of Edward Roberts, born in Merionethshire. Wales. in May, 1687, came to Pennsylvania in 1699, and settled in Byberry, Philadel- phia county. He married in 1714 Mary Bolton, daughter of Everard, and in 1816 removed to Richland, where he be- came an extensive landholder and reared a family of eight children. He was a minister among Friends for many years, and died on his Richland farm, Novem- ber 25, 1768, in his eighty-second year. His widow died July 22, 1784, in her ninety-seventh year. Abel Roberts, their second child and eldest son, born October 23, T717, married, April 17, 1744, Gainor Morris, daughter of Morris and Susanna (Heath) Morris. Morris Mor- ris was also a native of Wales. His father, Evan Morris, born in Grikhoth, Caernarvonshire, Wales, in 1654, became a convert to Friends' faith and suffered persecution therefor. He emigrated to Pennsylvania with his wife and family about 1690, and lived for a time in the present limits of Delaware, removing later to near Abington, now Montgom- ery county, where he died. His son Mor- ris Morris, born 1674, was a farmer near Abington for a number of years but be- came one of the pioneers to the Great Swamp, where he died June 2, 1764. His wife Susanna was a daughter of Robert Heath; she died in Richland, June 8^ 1755. The children of Samuel and Sarah (Roberts) Penrose, all but the youngest of whom were born at Richland, were- as follows: Abel, born August 7, 1778, died in Richland, married (first) Keziah Speakman and (second) Abi.gail Foulke; Gainor, born March 4, 1780; William^ born March 13, 1782; Everard, born Oc- tober 7, 1784; Mary, born May 11, 1787^ died young; Benjamin, born September 16, 1791; Susanna, born August 21, 1793; , Samuel, born August 10, 1796; Margaret,, born September 20, 1798, and Morris, born June 15, 1801. Samuel Penrose, the father, on the marriage of his son William sold him the Graeme Park farm and removed to Warminster, where he died February 2, 1833. William Penrose, second son of Sam- uel and Sarah, born in Richland, March 14, 1782, removed with his parents to- Horsham, in 1801. In i8ro he married' Hannah Jarret, daughter of William and Ann, of Horsham, purchased the home farm of his father, and erecting a com- modious residence on a natural building site, lived thereon until a few years be- fore his death, when he purchased a farm adjoining and there spent his re- maining days. His seven children were: Ann J., born September 25. 181 1, married Abraham Iredell, of Horsham; Samuel, born April 18, 1813, died unmarried at the age of thirty-five years; Jarret, bom April' I, 1815; Abel, born May 3, 1817, married Sarah Beisel, of Allentown, in 1856; Hannah, born February 28, 1820, married Isaac W. Hicks, of Newtown. (See Hicks Family) ; William, born 1822, died in infancy; and Tacy S., born Oc- tober 14, 1823, married Morris Davis, of Warminster. William Penrose, the father, died November 20, 1863. and his wife in 1850. Both were consistent mem- bers of Horsham Friends' Meeting, and their children were reared in that faith. Jarrett Penrose, second son of Will- iam and Hannah (Jarrett) Penrose. born- April T, 1815, was reared at the Hor- sham homestead and lived all his life \n that township. On his marriage he pur- chased the Abraham Iredell farm irr Horsham and lived thereon until his death in 1889. His life was one of un- faltering industry and straightforward dealing. He and his wife were members of Horsham Meeting of Friends, and their children were reared in that faith. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 295 In politics Mr. Penrose was a Repub- lican, but while giving his unfaltering support to the principles of that party by his ballot he neither sought nor held public office. He married Tacy Ann Kirk, daughter of John and Tabitha Kirk, who still survives at the age of eighty-three years. Her great-grand- father, a mason by trade, born 1692, and a son of John and Joan (Elliot) Kirk, the pioneer ancestors of the family, erected for Sir William Keith, the last of the provincial governors of Pennsyl- vania, Graeme Hall, the home of her husband's ancestors in Horsham. The children of Jarrett and Tacy Ann (Kirk) Penrose were: Ellen S., born January 14, 1843, married Edward T. Betts, late of Buffalo, New York, deceased; Eliza- beth H., born January 4, 1845, wife of Alfred Moore, of Horsham; William, of Warrington, Bucks county, born July 31, 1847, mentioned hereinafter; Alfred, born May 14, 1849. died in infancy; and Samuel, also mentioned hereinafter. William Penrose, born in Horsham township, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania, July 31. 1847, spent the days of his childhood and youth upon the home farm and early became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. After his marriage he began farming on his own account in Warrington township, Bucks county, upon the tract of land which is yet his home. He has attended market and is regarded as a practical and prosperous agriculturist. He has one of the exten sive and valuable farms of Warrington township, comprising three hundred acres, upon which are two sets of farm buildings, houses, barns and outbuild- ings. The farm is well equipped in every way and its highly cultivated con- ditions indicates the careful supervision which he has given to it. He is now largely living retired, having given the management of the property over to his son. His present residence is situated on the Doylestown pike and trolley line, and is a commodious two story stone structure, built in modern style of ar- chitecture. It is surrounded by a fine stone fence, the gates being formed by heavy pillars, and beautiful forest and evergreen trees adorn the land, while in the rear are many fine fruit trees. He endorses Republican principles and is deeply interested in the success of his party, but has never sought or desired office for himself. He was reared in the Friends' meeting and has never de- parted from that faith. William Penrose was married Decem- ber 14, 1871, to Miss Hannah Paul, who was born in Warrington township. Buck? county, a daughter of Morris and Lydia (Hallowell) Paul. Joseph and Mary Paul, ancestors of INIrs. Penrose, came from Yorkshire, England, about 1682, and settled near the site of the present village of Fox Chase. Joseph Paul pur- chased the farm now occupied by Will- iam Penrose in 1727, and it descended to his son James, who married 2 mo. 25, T737, Mary Worth, daughter of Judge Worth, of Maryland; she was a lady of education and culture and a warm friend of Lady Fereuson, who then lived at Graeme Park. Joseph Paul, first child of James and Mary (Worth) Paul, born 1739, became the next owner of the old Warrington homestead. He married his cousin, Hannah Paul, whose mother, Sarah Morris, was a daughter of Mor- ris and Susanna Morris, the latter a prominent minister of the Society of Friends for forty years, and although the mother of twelve children she made several religious visits to various parts of the American colonies and three voyages over the sea, attending the Meetings of Friends, and the gracious arm of divine providence was evidently manifested in preserving and supporting her through divers remarkable perils and dangers, which she ever reverently re- membered and gratefully acknowledged. Her paternal grandfather, Joshua Paul, was a descendant of an old colonial fam- ily connected with the Friends' meet- ing. Morris Paul was reared in War- rington township, where he settled on a farm after attaining man's estate, re- maining one of the reliable and enter- prising agriculturists of his community up to the time of his death, his life be- ing in harmony with his profession as a member of the Society of Friends. His onlv child became the wife of Mr. Pen- rose. She was a lady of culture and in- telligence, who proved a devoted wife and loving mother and was also a con- sistent Christian. She died of typhoid fever in 1900, and their daughter Lydia H. died on the 29th of April of the same year when twenty years of age, also from an attack of typhoid. The other children are J. Howard, born May 10, 1873; Morris P., born November 8, 1875; and William, born October 16, 1877. Howard married Miss Edith Chapman, and is in the office of the Reading Coa) & Iron Company. Morris is connected with the extensive lumber, coal, and milling business in Pedricktown, New Jersey. William Penrose. Jr., is oper- ating the old homestead farm. On the i6th of October, 1902, William Penrose married (second) Miss Anna Hallowell, who was born in Abingdon township, ^lontgomery county, September 28, 1865, her parents being Joseph W. and Hannah (Lloyd) Hallowell, the former born in Abingdon township and the latter in Moreland township, Montgornery county, where both were representatives of distinguished early families of this state. Her father, Joseph W., was a «on of John R. and Ann (Jarrett) Hallo- well, the former descended from John Hallowell and a native of Nottingham- 296 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. shire, England. Emigrating to America he became one of the first settlers of Pennsylvania. John R. was one of the directors of the old York pike road. Joseph Hallowell was a brother-in-law of Edwin Sattefthwaite. who was a grandson of Betsey Ross, who made the first American flag and who made the ruffles for General Washington's shirt fronts. The Satterthwaite family were among the oldest and most respected members of the Abingdon meeting. The children of John R. Hallowell were: William, Lydia, Mrs. Martha Saiter- thwaite, Joseph and Penrose. Joseph Hal- lowell was reared to farm pursuits and always carried on the work of an agri- culturist. However, he extended his ef- forts to various other lines and was con- nected with many enterprises, his good management winning him desirable suc- cess. He was recognized as one of the substantial men of his county. After his retirement from the farm he resided at Jenkintown, becoming one of the in- corporators of the Jen^cintown Bank and a director thereof for many years. He was a man of plain deportment, but re- liable and trustworthy at all times, and his freedom from self laudation and os- tentation commanded the good will of all who recognized and appreciated true worth. He died at Jenkintown. April 3, 1904, leaving a wife and four children. His widow still occupies the residence at Jenkintown and she, too, is a mem- ber of the Friends' meeting. They were parents of four children: Edwin S., a prominent farmer of Abingdon, Penn- sylvania; Emma L., who is living with her mother; Fanny, born August 12, 1856, died March 25, 1900; and Anna, the wife of William Penrose. Hannah (Lloyd) Hallowell, the mother of these children, was descended through Ben- jamin Lloyd and Sarah Child, whose marriage took place 6 mo., 1775, and is also descended from George and Sarah Shoemaker, of Warrington, who were married in 1662, and George and Sarah (Wall) Shoemaker, who were married at Abington Meeting, 12 mo. 14, 1694. T3en- jamin H. Shoemaker commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the mar- riage of the latter named by a dinner, Sixth day evening, twelfth month four- teenth, 1894, at seven o'clock. George Shoemaker, Jr., and Sarah Wall, his wife, were the great-great-great-grand- parents of Benjamin H. Shoemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Penrose have one son, Joseph Hallowell, born July 31, 1903. They are prominent socially in the commun- ity where they reside, and the circle of their friends is almost co-extensive with the circle of their acquaintance. Samuel Jarrett Penrose, born at Hor- sham, May 5, 1852, was reared in that township and educated at the Friends' school, at LoUer Academy, Hatboro, the Excelsior Normal Institute at Carver- ville, and Swarthmore College. At the close of his school days he accepted a clerical position with the firm of Ellis P. Moore & Co., lumber merchants in Philadelphia, where he remained for eighteen months. He then returned to his father's farm in Horsham, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his marriage in 1881 with Mary C. Far- ren, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fretz) Farren, of Doylestown town- ship, whose ancestry is given under the title of "The Fretz Family" in this work. He continued as a farmer in Horsham until 1884, when he removed to his mother-in-law's farm in Doylestown township, where he has since resided, he and his wife having inherited it at the death of Mrs. Farren, and devotes his time to the care of his three farms com- prising 278 acres. Mr. Penrose is now serving his second term as director of the poor of Bucks county, and is also a director of the Doylestown Trust Com- pany, vice-president and director of the Philadelphia and Eastern Railway Com- pany, and director of Fellowship Norse Company. Their children are: Cyril, Ralph F., and Norman, all of whom re- side with their father. The mother of these children is deceased. HON. HARRY J. SHOEMAKER, one of the prominent members of the Bucks county bar, and an officer of sev- eral of the important corporations of the county, was born in Horsham township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 25, 1855, and is a son of James and Phebe (Shoemaker) Shoemaker, of that township. He comes of a distin- guished ancestry that have been potent in the affairs of their respective com- munities since the founding of Penn's colony on the Delaware. His paternal ancestor, Peter Shoe- maker, was born in Kreigsheim, a rural village on the Upper Rhine, "two hours ride from the City of Worms," in the year 1622. He was one of the earliest converts to the principles of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, and suffered persecution for his religious faith as early as 1665 when he had goods to the value of two guilders taken from him in payment of a fine for attending a meeting of Friends at W^orms. He was also imprisoned and fined at subsequent periods for his re- ligious faith. He was one of _ the Friends seen by Penn on his visit to Kreigsheim early in 1683, and was in- duced to join a company of Palatines in founding a colony in Penn's new prov- ince of Pennsylvania. He was a car- penter by trade, and before leaving Krcighsheim entered into an agreement with Dirck Sidman, of Crefeld, on Au- gust 16, 1685, to proceed to German- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 297 town, .where the original thirteen fami- lies from Crefeld had already formed a settlement, and receive from Herman Op den Graef 200 acres of land upon which he was to erect a dwelling and pay therefore two rix dollars. This old agreement and the deed for the land is recorded in German at Philadelphia and has been seen by the writer. He em- barked in the "Frances & Dorothy," with his son Peter, daughters, Mary, Frances, and Gertrude, and the widow of his cousin, Sarah Shoemaker and her children, and arrived at Germantown, October 12, 1685. He at once became one of the active men of the youthful colony, and is frequently mentioned in the old annals of Germantown. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and ^one of the signers of the certificate to the Meeting at London in 1695 for Samuel Jennings, who carried the protest of Pennsylvania Friends against the schism of George Keith. He died in Germantown in 1707, aged eighty-five years. His daughter Frances married John Jacob Van Bebber, and another daughter married Rynier Her- man von Barkelow and removed to Bo- hemia Manor, Maryland. A grandson Martin Kolb accompanied him from Germany and has left numerous de- scendants. Peter Shoemaker, Jr., born at Kreig- sheim, accompanied his father and sis- ters to Germantown in 1685 and became one of the prominent men of the colony, filling the office of burgess of German- town in 1696, 1704 and 1707, and many other positions of trust. He was one of the committee appointed December 30, 1701, to organize a school at German- town, erect a school house and arrange for a teacher. Through his efforts Francis Daniel Pastorius was induced to take charge of the school and it became one of the famous institutions of the infant province. Peter, Jr., was like his father a carpenter or "Turner," and had a part in the erection of most of the •early buildings in Germantown. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and was frequently the repre- sentative of his meeting in quarterly and yearly meetings. He married, at Germantown Meeting, 2 mo. 6, 1697, Margaret Op den Graef, daughter of Herman Op den Graef, one of three brothers who were among the first thir- teen families to settle Germantown in October, 1683. He was a native of Cre- feld on the Lower Rhine, and a son of Isaac and grandson of Herman Op den Graef, who was born at Alderkerk, No- vember 26, 1585, and died at Crefeld, De- cember 27, 1642. He was a delegate to the Mennonite council at Dordrecht in 1632 that formulated the creed of that sect. Herman Op den Graef and his "brothers were the authors of the famous protest against human slavery presented to Germantown Meeting in 1688 and by them forwarded to the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings of the Society. It was the first protest of its kind ever formu- lated in America. Peter Shoemaker died at Germantown, 4 mo. i, 1741, and his widow Margaret on 7 mo. 14, 1748. They were the parents of ten children, as fol- lows: r. Sarah, born 5 mo. 22, 1698, mar- ried Daniel Potts; 2. Mary, born 7 mo. 15, 1701, married Thomas Phipps; 3. Margaret, born 6 mo. 8, 1704, married Benjamin Masin; 4. Peter, born 6 mo. 8, 1706; 5. Daniel, born 11 mo. 14, 1709; 6. Isaac, born i mo. 15, 171 1, see for- ward; 7. Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 6, 1713. married Joseph Davis; 8. Agnes, born 3 mo. 9, 1716, married William Hallowell; 9. John, born 6 mo. 30, 1718; 10. Samuel, born 6 mo. 13, 1720, died young. Isaac Shoemaker, son of Peter and Margaret, born at Germantown, March 15, 1711, on arriving at manhood settled in Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, where he purchased a tract of land and followed the life of a farmer. He was a member of Abington Meeting and took a cer- tificate from there to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 5 mo. 27, 1741. to marry Hannah Roberts, daughter of John Roberts, of Philadelphia. They were members of Horsham Meeting at its or- ganization. Isaac and Hannah (Rob- erts) Shoemaker were the parents of thirteen children, as follows: Margaret, born 10 mo. 3, 1742, died unmarried in 1788; Peter, born 4 mo. 12, 1744, married Hannah Norman; Elizabeth, born 4 mo. 23, 1748, married John Letchworth; Martha, born 7 mo. 14, 1750, married Jonathan Shoemaker; Daniel, born 12 mo. 9, 1752, married Phebe Walton, daughter of Thomas, of Byberry; Isaac, born 10 mo. 29, 1754; James, born 10 mo. 13, 1757. see forward; Rachel, born 3 mo. 26, 1759; David, born 6 mo. 15, 1761; Hannah and Mary, born 3 mo. 9, 1764; Thomas, born 3 mo. 22, 1766, and Rebecca, born 4 mo. 29, 1769. James Shoemaker, seventh child of Isaac and Hannah, born in Upper Dub- lin, 10 mo. 13. 1757, was a farmer and lived all his life in Upper Dublin. He married in Horsham Meeting house, 6 mo. I, 1781, Phebe Walton, daughter of William and Phebe (Atkinson) Walton, the original certificate of the marriage engraved on parchment, as well as that of the marriage of William Walton and Phebe Atkinson, which was solemnized at the same place, 9 mo. 26, 1741, are in the possession of the subject of this sketch. William Walton, father of Phebe Shoemaker, was a resident of Moreland, and a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Walmsley) Walton, of By- berry. William Walton, father of Jere- miah, was one of the four Walton broth- ers who landed at New Castle in 1675 and subsequently located in Byberry. He 298 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. was married at Byberry. 4 mo. 29, 1689. to Sarah Howell, and was the first min- ister at Byberry after the Keithian trouble and continued to preach there for many years. Phcbe (Atkinson) Wal- ton was a daughter of William and Phcbe (Taylor) Atkinson, of Upper Dublin, and granddaughter of John and Susannah (Hinde) Atkinson, of Lan- cashire, England, an account of whom is given elsewhere in this volume. William and Phebe (Atkinson) Wal- ton were the parents of ten children, sev- eral of whom died j^oung. Phebe, who married James Shoemaker, was the sec- ond of the name and was born 11 mo. 16, 1759. The children of James and Phebe (Walton) Shoemaker were as follows: William, born 3_ mo. 16, 1782; Joseph, died an infant; Isaac, born 4 mo. 6, 1785; John, born 9 mo. 8, 1786; Hannah, born 2 mo. 24, 1789; Jesse, born 4 mo. 17, 1791, see forward; Jonathan, born 9 mo. 3, 1793. married in 1822 Margaret Rut- ter; Rebecca, died an infant; Rachel, born 2 mo. 28, 1798; and Phebe, born 9 mo. 2, 1802. Jesse Shoemaker, sixth child of James and Phebe, was born and reared in Up- per Dublin, and spent the active years of his life in that township, removing late in life to Horsham where he died in 1882, aged over ninety years. He married at Horsham Meeting, 3 mo. 8, 1821, Edith Tongstreth, daughter of Isaac and Jane Longstreth, of Bucks county, a descendant of Bartholomew Longstreth, one of the earliest settlers in Warminster, who was born in Longstrothdale, Yorkshire, in 1679, came to Pennsylvania in 1698, and married Ann Dawson in 1727. The children of Jesse and Edith (Longstreth) Shoe- maker were: James, the, father of the subject of this sketch, born 8 mo. 20, 1822; Charlotte L., who died in infancjs and John L., born ID mo. 7, 1832. The latter became an eminent lawyer in Phil- adelphia and filled manj' important posi- tions. He was a member of select and common council for a number of years, and took an active part in the manage- ment of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. James Shoemaker, eldest son of Jesse and Edith, was born in Upper Dublin, but on arriving at manhood settled on a farm in Horsham township, where he has since resided, following the life of a farmer during his active years. He mar- ried Phoebe Shoemaker, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret (Rutter) Shoe- maker, and granddaughter of James and Mary Rutter. She died in April, 1896. James and Phoebe were the parents of eight children : Bella, residing with her father in Horsham: Adeline B., wife of Charles E. Chandler, of Germantown; Jesse, who died in infancy: Harry J., the subject of this sketch; Augustus Brock, an active business man of Tullytown, Bucks county, who married Ida, daugh- ter of Elwood and Anna Burton, and has one son Lester; Charlotte L., wife of Russel Twining, of Horsham; Emily P., wife of Edward B. Webster, of Phil- adelphia; and Mary G., wife of Isaac Warner, of Horsham. Hon. Harry J. Shoemaker was borrr and reared in Horsham township and acquired his education at the public schools and at Doylestown Seminary. At the age of nineteen j-ears he began teaching school in Bedminster township, Bucks county, and the following year was appointed principal of the Tully- town (Bucks county) school, which he taught for three years. In 1880 he em- barked in the mercantile business at Tullytown, conducting a general mer- chandise store there until 1884. In poli- tics he is an ardent Republican, and has always taken an active interest in the councils of his party and in everything that pertains to the best interest W., J. Oscar, and Elizabeth, who as stated occupies the home farm in Plumstead town ship. J. Oscar Doan, son of Wilson and Han- nah (Fenton) Doan, was born in Solebur> township, October 26, 1854, and having ac- quired his education in the common schools worked with his father on the home farm during the periods of vacation and until his seventeenth year, when he started out in life on his own account as a farm hand. He was employed in this way for nine years, after which he spent two or three years at home. He was married April 17, 1884, to Miss Ida E. Thomas, a daughter of Newton R. and Margaret (Jamison) Thomas, both of whom died during the early girlhood of their daughter. Two children have been l.«arn of this union, Newton R. W. and Otis H. After his mar- riage Mr. Doan purchased a farm in the northwestern part of Solebury township, where he turned his attention to agricul- tural interests, and four years later re- moved to the Jacob Booz farm in Bucking- ham township, which he operated as a renter for eight years. In 1897 he purchased that property and still devotes his time and ener- gies to its further development and im- provement. He exercises his right of franchise in support of the Republican party, and he is a member of Pannaucus- sing Lodge, No. 221, K. P., of Carvers- ville. The success which he has achieved has come as the direct result of his labors, and in his business career he has proved that a competence and an honored name may be won simultaneously. JOSEPH M. LEWIS. Bucks county is ever mindful of the scions of her old fam- ilies, watching with interest their progress and rejoicing in their prosperity. This she has not failed to do in the case of Joseph M. Lewis, of Lambertville, New Jersey. The founder of the Lewis family emigrated from Wales, and his son Ephraim was born in Bucks county. Ephraim Lewis was a volunteer in the war of 1812, serving in the Pennsylvania line and being stationed at Marcus Hook. David M. Lewis, son of Ephraim Lewis, mentioned above, was born in Doylestown township, where he was brought up by an aunt, Mrs. Malsbury, attending the old Doylestown Academy. As a young man he went to New Hope, where he served a nine years' apprenticeship at the tailor's trade, after which he went to Davisville, where for a short time he carried on a tail-- oring business. He then removed to Lam- bertville, and was living there in 1841, whea the sweeping away of the bridge by the flood brought such disaster to the place. At the end of a year he returned to New Hope ' and there conducted business for many years. During the Mexican war he was orderly sergeant of the Doylestown Greys, a company of the National Guard, and en- listed for the war, but the quota being full his services were not accepted. He was for a number of years a member of the I. O. O. F., but allowed his membership to lapse prior to his death. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Elizabeth Stackhouse, and one child was born to- them ; Joseph M., mentioned at length here- inafter. The death of Mr. Lewis occurred in New Hope, of which place he had been, a resident of so many years. Joseph M. Lewis, only child of David M. and Elizabeth (Stackhouse) Lewis, was born February 15, 1840, in Davisville, and in his sixteenth year went to Lambertville to learn the jeweler's trade. His five years' apprenticeship expired in February, 1861, and the. following April witnessed the out- break of the Civil war. Mr. Lewis was among those who responded to the first call for troops, two companies being raised in Lambertville. He joined and helped to drill Company E, commanded by Captain A. W. Angel. This company was attached to the Third New Jersey Regiment, Col- onel Napton commanding, and formed part of the brigade commanded by Brigadier- General Runyon. Mr. Lewis was made drum major prior to leaving the state and served three months, his term expiring two days after the battle of Bull Run. The brigade was then resting at Fort Runyon after their retreat from Manassas. Mr- Lewis then returned home, and six weeks later re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel William W. H. Davis commanding. He was made a drummer in the band, serving all through the peninsula campaign, and remaining with the regiment until the pas- sage of the act of congress disbanding all regiment bands, his discharge occurring August II, 1862, at Harrison's Landing, Virginia. Mr. Lewis then returned home and accepted a position with a Doylestown jeweler, where he remained nine months, returning to Lambertville to accept a po- sition in the store where he had served his apprenticeship. For one year he worked for his former employer, who then sold the business, Mr. Lewis entering the service of the new owner. At the end of three years Mr. Lewis purchased the business which he has conducted for the last thirty-six years, and is now the leading jeweler of Lambertville. He belongs to Angel Post, No. 20, G. A. R., of Lambertville, is a HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 3^5 Democrat in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Lewis married December 9, 1868, Victoria R., daughter of Phihp Harper Matthews, a hmiber mer- chant of Lambertville, and they have one son, Frank B., who is in business with his father, and married Jennie H., daughter of WilHam Price, of New Hope. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are the parents of one child, Florence Josephine. CHARLES T. DAGER, proprietor of a hotel at Warminster, also identified with farming interests in the township of that name, was born at Baron Hill, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1834. His grandfather, Frederick Dager, was a miller by trade and followed that pursuit through- out his entire life. He voted with the Democracy, but never aspired to office. During the revolutionary war he saved the life of an American ofiicer who was being pursued by the British by hiding him in a chimney in the house at Marble Hall. Montgomery county. Frederick Dager died and was buried at Baron Hill. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran church at that place. Their children were: Philip, John, Henry, Charles, Martha, and Mrs. Frye. Major John Dager, son of Frederick Dager, was born in Montgomery county, at Spring Mill, and in his youth assisted' his father in the milling business, thus learn- ing the trade in his younger days. After his marriage he settled upon the home farm, purchasing the property at Baron Hill, comprising twelve acres. There he ■conducted a hotel and upon his land raised much of the products needed for consump- tion by the guests of the house. He con- •ducted the hotel altogether for forty-eight years, and was one of the best known citi- zens of that locality. He was largely in- strumental in securing the postolSce at Baron Hill, and acted as postmaster when the office paid no salary. At the time of the building of the' pike he stronglv en- dorsed that movement, and in fact was an advocate of all progressive measures. Li politics a Democrat, he was recognized as one of the leading supporters of the party in his locality and he filled a number of local offices, including that of school director and justice of the peace, occupying the latter position for many years. He was an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, a popular business man, and was widely known and highly respected. He was usually called Major Dager, having served his country as a major in the war of 181 2. He was a devoted member of the Lutheran church, in which his wife was also identi- fied. She bore the maiden name of Ann Freas, and was a daughter of Simon treas. who belonged to one of the old families of Montgomery county. He engaged exten- sively in dealing in marble and was an en- terprising farmer, recognized as one of the leading business men of his neighborhood. He held membership in the Lutheran church, and gave his political allegiance to the Democracy. His children were : Philip, who became editor of the Germantown Telegraph ; Nicholas, a partner in the ownership of the paper ; Charles, an ex- tensive farmer, also a dealer in marble; Mrs. Ann Dager ; Barbara, who became the wife of , a teacher in the high school of ; and Henry, a merchant of Germantown. To Major and Mrs. Dager were born the following children : Margaret, wife of H. S. Hitner; Susanna, the wife of S. Struper; Mrs. Harriet Zim- merman; Mrs. Eliza Stif er ; Mrs. Mary Lismyer; Mrs. Martha Richardson; Sarah and Anna, deceased; William, a farmer, and for many years overseer of the Lutheran church; Moulton R., a merchant; Charles Nicholas, who also follows mer- chandising; and Albert, a dealer in coal. The sons have become prominent and in- fluential in business circles, and the daugh- ters all married leading citizens of their respective communities. Charles T. Dager was born in the Baron Hill hotel, became familiar with the busi- ness of conducting a hotel in his youth, and throughout the greater part of his life has continued in that line of activity. For fourteen years he has been proprietor of the hotel at Warminster and is popular in this connection, having made an excellent record as a landlord. He remained under the parental roof until 1861, when he enlisted for three months setrvice under General Hartranft. On the expiration of that period he received an honorable discharge, but in the following month he again enlisted, be- coming one of the body guard of General Anderson's troop. H'e was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland and after reaching Ringgold, Georgia, was trans- ferred to General Buell's body guard, serv- ing in that capacity for more than three years or until the close of the war. He was then again honorably discharged and returned to his home with a most creditable military record, having displayed marked valor and loyalty in times of great danger. Mr. Dager was married at Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the period of the war, and after the cessation of hostilities he re- turned home bringing his bride to the north. He then located at the old home- stead at Baron Hill land acted as ba(r- keeper for his father. Later he followed the trade of brick mason, which he had learned in his youth. He conducted the business of contractor for a number of years, and at the same time assisted his father in the hotel business. Later he went to Marble Hall, where he took charge of a mining, marble and iron enterprise, con- tinuing there for fifteen vears, after which he again located at the Baron Hill Hotel, continuing in charge until April, 1890. He then bought the hotel and farm at War- minster, where he has since remained. He is a practical and successful hotel man. 326 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. also active and energetic in his farming operations, and as the years have passed he has acquired considerable valuable falrm property in Georgia and Tennessee and owns a number of farm mortgages. He has good, business discernment, has made creditable and judicious investment, and in guiding his business affairs has shown capa- bility and sound sense. During the period of the civil war Mr. Dager married Miss Margaret Springer, who was born at Look- cut Mountain, and was a daughter of Joel and Sarah (Lewis) Springer, the former a native of Pennsylvania. He went to the south, however, where he obtained a large plantation and became an extensive slave owner. Prior to the war of the reliellion he was one of the leading planters of his section of the country, and he remained and died upon the old homestead in Georgia. He was an earnest, Christian man. He was connected with the Whitesides family, who owned Lookout Mountain and were promi- nent people of his portion of the State. To Mr. and Mrs. Dager have been born five children: Henry, a farmer; Maggie, the wife of George Miller, who is engaged in the butchering business ; Charles, who is engaged in the raising of vegetables which he sells in the Philadelphia market; Al- bert and Anna, both at home. Mrs. Danger is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Dager votes with the Democracy and exer- cises considerable influence in the party councils. He served as a school director at Baron Hill for three years, was justice of the peace for three years and has also been supervisor of his township. He has never been a politician, however, in the sense of office seeking, his official positions being bestowed upon him by his fellow townsmen, who recognized his worth and ability. He is a member of the Lutheran church at Baron Hill, and has led an up- right, honorable life. He has reared three sons who have never used intoxicants. His entire career has been characterized by fidelity to duty and straightforward deal- ing with his followmen, and during his long residence in this part of Pennsylvania has become widely and favorably known. THE ROBERTS FAMILY. Robert Roberts, the progenitor of that branch of the Roberts family resident in Southamp- ton. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whose birth is supposed to have occurred in Mont- gomery county, near Willow Grove, about the year 1797, died in 1876. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Tyson, bore him the following children ; Tacy. Mary, who became the wife of Ed. C. Wal- ton and two children were born to them : John and Seth. Jonathan, who married (first) Martha Walton, of Monts-nmery countv, who bore him two children : Edwin and Hannah; married (second) Marv N. Lawrence, who was born in Philadolpliia. Pennsylvania, June 20. 1832, daughter of George and Mary (Boss) Lawrence, ancf granddaughter of William and Mary (Weaver) Lawrence. George Lawrence was born April 25, 1798, and his wife Mary was born April 25, 1798, which was a most unusual incident. Jonathan and Mary N. Lawrence were the parents of one child., Jonathan Lawrence, born April 27, 1871^ died April 26, 1879. Edwin, born April 9, 1851, in Montgomery county; in 1863 he accompanied his parents to Davisville^ Southampton township, Bucks county^ where his education was continued in the common schools. He began his career as a farmer, which vocation he followed for several years, or until his marriage with Annie E. Search. He then moved to the city of Philadelphia, where he engaged irfc the produce commission business, but after a residence of eleven years there returned to Bucks county, locating at Southampton, where his death occurred in the spring of 1898. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, namely : Harry, born jNlarch 14, 1877, died December 23, 1885; and Harold S., born January 22, 1889. Annie E. (Search) Roberts, widow of Edwin Roberts, traces her ancestry to one of three brothers — Charles, William and Lot Search — who came to this country dur- ing the eighteenth century and settled re- spectively in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Christopher Search, probably a son of Charles Search, a descendant of one of the three brothers aforementioned, was married twice. His first wife bore him six children, as follows : Samuel, who married Catherine Puff; William, Sarah, John, Charles, and James. His second wife,, whose maiden name was Ann Miles, bore him eight children, namely : Miles, who died in infancy ; George, who married Martha Owens and their family consisted of lWO children; Elizabeth and Celina ; Jacob, men- tioned hereinafter ; Margaret, who became the wife of Elias Lefferts and they reared a family of eleven children : Ellen, Anna, George, Rachel, Neismuth, Samuel, Sarah,. Lizetta, Jacob, Laura and Mary; Christo- pher, who married Margaret Fetter and they reared a family of seven children : Cornelia,. George, NewLon, Casper, Margaret. Kattie^ and Weedie ; Anthony, who married Eliza • — , and he with two of his sons- served in the Civil war, the latter being- killed; Ann, who became the wife of Casper Fetter and mother of five children : George, Christopher, Anna. Anthony, and one who- died in infancy; Griffith, who married Louisa Fetter and their family consisted of the following named children ; Amy, Ida,. Cora, Louisa, Mary and Alice. Jacob M. Search, son of Christopher and' Ann (Miles) Search, was born at South- ampton, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. De- cember 7, 1810, on the old homestead farm now occupied by John Finney. His active- career was devoted to farming pursuits. Although always intensely interested iit politics he never held any public office other than that of school director. He purchased HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 2>^7 the old homestead farm of one hundred acres from his father, and a large portion of the present village of bouthampton was built on this land. He married Xancy uor- son, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Bennett) Corson, and their children were: Elwood, born September 22, 1838 ; Theo- dore, born March 20, 184 1, married Anna White and by her had one daughter, Ida May, who married George Howard Cliff and has one child, Anna S. ; Harry, born September 18, 1846, married Mary M. Lef- ferts and two children were born to them : Susannah, wife of Maurice Hartman, and they have one child, Vernon ; and Theodore, unmarried; Erasmus, born March 7, 1851, married Mary Ella Warren, and three chil- dren were born to them : Pauline, who be- came the wife of William Benny, and they have one child, Doris; Pauline Benny died in March, 1905 ; Leroy, and Ethel ; Anna E., born March 13, 1858, aforementioned as having become the wife of Edwin Roberts. JOHN DAVIS SELLS, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania, was born at Dublin, Ohio, May 4, 1857, and is a son of Dr. Holmes and Amy (Davis) Sells. His oaternal ancestors were political refugees from the provinces along the Rhine and came to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, settling in Virginia about 1750. His ereat-great-grandfather was John Sells, and in about 1780 his son, John Sells, Jr., moved out to the Scioto valley, in what was then called Virginia, and settled at a point about twelve miles from where the city of Columbus now stands, in the state of (Dhio, county of Franklin. At this place his grandfather Charles, his father Holmes Sells and himself were born. Dr. Holmes Sells was born at Dublin, Ohio, Alarch 29, 1826. and finished his med- ical studies in Philadelphia at Jefferson College. He married, June 12, 1850, Amy Hart Davis, born June 24, 1827, daughter of John and Amy (Hart) Davis, and sister of General W. W. H. Davis, and began the practice of his profession at Dublin, Ohio, from which point he removed with his fam- ily to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1859, where he was proprietor of a large drug store and practiced medicine for many years. They were residents of Atlanta during its bom- bardment by General Sherman in the fall of 1864 and lived for six weeks in their cellar. Several shells struck the house and the kitchen was entirely demolished, the cooking stove being the only article of furniture uninjured. In the beginning of the siege a shell burst on the bed from which Mrs. Sells had recently risen, and the concussion threw her through a partially opened door into the yard. Dr. Sells was almost financially ruined by the destruction of his property during the war, and though entirely loyal to the Union he received no remuneration therefor. The family re- mained in Atlanta until the death of Dr. Sells in 1888. Mrs. Sells now resides with her sister 'at the old Davis homestead at Davisville. Dr. Holmes and Amy H. (Davis) Sells were the parents of two chil- dren: Charles Watts, born May 15, 1851, died September 9, 1862; and John Davis, the subject of this sketch. Charles Watts Sells had an extraordinary talent for music, and though dying at the early age of eleven years was quite a ijoted performer on the piano. John Davis Sells was reared in Atlanta, Georgia. He entered Lehigh University, class of 1876, and finished his education at the University of Georgia, graduating in the class of 1876. He came north to live in 1877, and while residin- at Davisville took up the study of law in the office of Hon. Harman Yerkes, at Doylestown, and was admitted to the Bucks county bar in June, 1882. In the fall of the same year he removed to Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and being admitted to the bar of that county practiced law tliere for ten years. In 1893 he went to Washing- ton to fill a governmental position under President Cleveland, which he retained for two years. In 1895 he removed to Phila- delphia and engaged in the iron and steel business, becoming associated with the Royersford Foundry and ^lachine Company, Inc., manufacturers of power transmission machinery, in which he has an interest, and is manager of the "power department" with offices at 43 North Seventh street. Mr. Sells resides with his family at Hat- boro, Montgomery county Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of Revolution, and the Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania, the Trans- Atlantic Society, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. He married. June 6. 1889, Ella Lane Schofield, daughter of Samuel Lane Schofield, of Scotch Irish ancestry, one of the pioneer civil engineers in locating the original surveys of several of the early railroads of Pennsylvania. His early an- cestors settled in Philadelphia about 1745. On the maternal side Mrs. Sells is a great- great-granddaughter of Michael Kauffman, one of the original settlers of Lancaster county. Mr. and Mrs. Sells have one daughter, Elizabeth Davis Sells, a graduate of Hatboro high school, who now attends St. ]\Iary's Hall, Burlington, New Jersey, GEORGE McKINSTRY, one of the younger generation of farmers of Bucking- ham townshin. is a native of Plumstead township, though hi,s paternal ancestors for three generations had been residents of Buckingham. He is a son of Oliver and Louisa (Miller) IMcKinstry, of Plumstead, both deceased, the former of Scotch-Irish and the latter of German descent. Nathan McKinstry. the great-great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch was born in the year 1712 and came to this country in the "Scotch-Irish Invasion," 328 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. as Secretary Logan termed the great in- flux of Ulster Scots about 1735. Whether accompanied by his parents is not known. Certain it is that he was accompanied by a sister Elenor, who married Hugh Young in 1737. and possibly by a younger brother Samuel who settled in Plumstead in 1761. Hugh Young purchased a tract of 195 acres in Wrightstown township, and in June, 1744, conveyed ninety-seven and one- half acres thereof to his brother-in-law, Nathan McKinstry. Here Nathan Mc- Kinstry and his wife Mary lived until 1753. when he sold his Wrightstown farm and purchased a tract of 202 acres in Bucking- ham (now Doylestown) township, one mile southeast of Doylestown^ where he spent his remaining days, dying April 15, 1790, at the age of seventy-eight years. His wife Mary survived him several years. They were members of Neshaminy Pres- byterian church, of which he was a trustee, and both are buried there. Their children were: Jane, born 1745, died July 15, 1797, married James Kerr; John, died 1791 ; Sam- uel, born 1748, died January 24, 1796; Henry, born 1750, died November 28, 1804; William; and Robert, born 1756, died July 25, 1834, married Mary Wier, sister to the grandmother of General U. S. Grant. Samuel McKinstry, second son of Nathan and Mary, born in Wrightstown in 1748, died January 24, 1796, on the old home- stead in Buckingham, which had been ad- judged to him in 1791. His wife Mary survived him twenty-two years, dying April 4, 1818, at the age of sixty-four years. Samuel McKinstry had lived for a time prior to his father's death in Hilltown town- ship, but his later days w^ere spent on the homestead, where his father had built him a house. The children of Samuel and Mary McKinstry were: Nathan; James, Jane and Jesse, among whom the Buck- ingham plantation was divided in 18 13. Nathan took the present farm of Frank Heaton, where he died in 1852 ; James the farm now owned by Amos Worthington, and Jane and Jesse thirty-four acres of the present Doan farm. James conveyed his farm to Jane in 1819, and she at her death in 1822 devised it to her brothers Nathan and Jesse. Jes.«e McKinstry, youngest son of Sam- uel and Mary, born 1790, was the grand- father of the subject of this sketch. He was married prior to 1814 to Rachel Pierce and resided on the old homestead in Doyles- town township until April i, 1837, having purchased the interest of his brother Nathan in the lower farm in 1827. In 1837 he sold the farm and after residing for one year in New Britain purchased a farm on the Durham road in Upper Buckingham which he sold a year later and removed to Pulmstead, where he died November 7. 185T. He was a member of Doylestown Presbyterian church, to which he left a legacy of forty dollars. His wife Rachel died July 22, 1869. at the age of sixty- eight years. Their children were : Harri- son, born March 5, 1814, died May 20, 1876; Sophia; Jane; Nathan; Mary; Oliver; Alfred; Ezra; and John W., the latter dying in 185 1, aged seventeen years. Oliver McKinstry, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Doylestown township, in 1822, and died in Plumstead township, August 2, 1902. His wife Louisa Miller was born in New Britain township, in 1827, and died in 1895. Oliver Mc- Kinstry on his marriage settled on a farm purchased for him by his father in 1846, and conveyed to him in 1850, and spent his whole life thereon, the farm being now oc- cupied by his son Harry. Oliver and Louisa McKinstry were the parents of live chil- dren, four of whom survive, Harry, resid- ing on the homestead ; Nannie, wife of Frank L. Gordon, of Seattle, Washington ; Ida, of Plumstead ; and George. George McKinstry was born and reared on the Plumstead farm and acquired his education at the public schools of that township and the Doylestown high school. He married in 1883 Mary R. Paist, daugh- ter of James Monroe and Elizabeth (Con- rad) Paist, of Buckingham, and for three years conducted the Cowdrick farm near Carversville. In 1886 he moved to a farm in Buckingham, purchased for him by his father, which he conducted for sixteen years. In 1901 he purchased his present home, a farm of sixty acres in Landisville, and removed there in the spring of 1904. To Mr. and Mrs. McKinstry have been born five children : Ethel. Bernice P., Clara F., Grace I., and Frances G., all of whom reside at home. AMOS S. BERINGER, one of the prominent and active business men of the little borough of Silverdale, was born in Hilltown near the location of the present borough on October 22, 1868, and is a son of Amos and Sophia (Sheip) Beringer, both of German origin and descendants of early settlers in that locality. Nicholas Beringer, the pioneer paternal ancestor of Amos S., came to Pennsylvania from Germany in the ship "Neptune." John Mason master, arriving in Philadelphia, September 24. 1754. He probably followed the trend of German emigration into Bucks by way of the present county of Montgom- ery. The first authentic record we have of him is in the list of non-a«sociators of Hilltown township in 1775. On June 29. 1777, he purchased 140 acres of land in Hilltown of John Penn, the deed for which is still in the possession of the subject of this sketch as well as a large portion of the land therein represented. Nicholas Beringer died on the Hilltown plantation about October i, 1783. and his wife Eliza- beth died in March, 1808. They were the parents of three sons, John, Henry, and George, and three daughters. Elizabeth, wife of George Cramer, a cabinet maker of Hilltown; Catharine, wife of Amos HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 329 Miner, of Marlboro, Montgomery county ; and Mary, wife of John henner of Hill- town. John Beringer, the eldest son of Nicholas and Elizabeth, purchased the homestead farm of his brothers and sisters and lived thereon during the active years of his life. In 1820 he and his wife Elizabeth con- veyed it to their sons Henry and George. John, the father, lived to an advanced age, dying in December, 1842, his wife having died some years earlier. Their children were : John, Henry, and George ; Henry died before his father, leaving a family. George Beringer, son of John and Eliza- beth, was born on the old homestead in Hilltown and lived there all his life. He purchased ninety-nine acres of it of his father in 1820, and in 1858 conveyed it to his son Amos Beringer, reserving for him- self and wife the "new dwelling and garden" for their use during the remainder of their lives. He died in December. 1864. He married Catharine Nunamaker, daugh- ter of Adam Nunamaker, of Rockhill, and granddaughter of Henry Nunamaker, who had purchased a tract of land in Rockhill and Hilltown in 1782 which descended to his son Adam in 1807. Adam died in 1742, leaving several children, among whom was Catharine, wife of George Beringer. George and Catharine (Nunamaker) Berin- ger were the parents of two children, Amos and Mary. Amos N. Beringer, only son of George and Catharine, was born on the old home- stead May 29, 1824, and lived there all his life, dying December 4, 1885. He pur- chased the homestead of his r.arents, April 21, 1858, and later acquired two lots in the village, now borough, of Silverdale, now occupied by the subject of this sketch. He was for many years a member of the school board of Hilltown and active in local affairs. He was twice married, first to Barbara Anglemoyer by whom he had two ■children, Ephraim and Mary, neither of whom survived him. He married (second) Sophia Sheip, of an old New Britain fam- ily, who survived him. Amos and Sophia (Sheip) Beringer were the parents of two children, Amos S. and Ellen. The family were members of the Lutheran church. Amos S. Beringer, born on the old home- stead which had been the home of his an- cestors nearly a century, was educated in the public schools. His father dying when he was sixteen years of age, he at once assumed the superintendence of the farm which he has continued ever since and has never lived anywhere else. In 1893 he be- gan pork butchering in connection with the conduct of his farm, which he has since continued with success, enlarging his busi- ness from year to year and marketing the product in Philadelphia. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs and has served in the town council of Silverdale ^ince its organization, this being hi« third term. He is a member of the South Per- kasie Lutheran church. Mr. Beringer mar- ried on October 29,' 1887, at Quakertown, Sophia Hedrick, daughter of Oliver and Mary (Fretz) Hedrick, who was one of twelve children and was born September i, 1868. Her paternal grandparents were Henry and Elizabeth (Heistand) Hedrick, the latter being a daughter of David Heis- tand, born January 24, 1788, died July 17, i860, by his wife Susan Kephard, born January 15, 1785, died January 23, 185 1, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Fretz) Kephard; and the former, born July 10, 1751, being for many years minister of the Mennonite congregation at Doyles- town. FREDERICK R. VOID is engaged in general agricultural pursuits on the farm on which his birth occurred in Hilltown township, Bucks county, April 15, 1856. His father, Frederick Void, Sr., was born in Germany, in 1831, and was a noted musi- cian, being able to play any musical in- strument. He was a wheelwright by trade and followed that pursuit for many years. In 1844 he purchased a farm in Hilltown township and continued its cultivation and improvement up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1876. He was a Demo- crat in his political affiliation, was a mem- ber of the Reformed church, and lived a useful and upright life. He married Mag- daline Roth, a daughter of Abram and Mary (Cramer) Roth, and they had two children, Charles R. and Frederick R. The former married Diana Housekeeper, a daughter of Samuel Housekeeper, and they have three children, Samuel, Harvey and Erasmus. Having mastered the common branches of learning in the public schools of Hill- town township, Frederick R. Void worked with his father on the home farm, gaining practical knowledge of the best methods of cultivating the fields and caring for the stock. When he was married he began farming for himself and in 1884 purchased a farm adjoining his father's land, while in 1877 he bought the old homestead farm. He carries on general agricultural pursuits, having placed his land under a high state of cultivation, while neatness and thrift characterizes the entire place. Mr. Void is a member of the Reformed church of Hilltown, and is interested in the sub- stantial improvement of his locality, giving his co-operation to many movements for the general good. He was married in April, i88r, to Miss Mary Alice Cope, who was born January 10, 1861. a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Kile) Cope. Her father was born October 23, 1814. His first wife was Elizabeth Hackman, a daughter of John and Catharine Hackman. She was born June 4, 181 r, and by her marriage he- came the mother of four children, namely: Catharine, born April 3. 1844; Andrew J., born November 5. 1837. died at the age of one vear and ten months; Malinda, born 330 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. March 6, 1839, t'icd January 28, 1859 ; and Sarah B., born July 23, 1841. The niotlicr of these children died March 22, 1853. Air. Cope afterward married Elizabeth Kile, by whom he had three children : Charles, born December 17, 1856; Annie E., born September 30, 1857, died May 18, 1858 ; and Mary Alice. To Mr. and Mrs. Void have been born thirteen children, as follows: Bertha C, born July 14, 1882, died August 22,, 1894; Charles C, born January 17, 1884; Elsie C, born June 12, 1885; Mable C, born October 9, 1887, died December 22,, 1887 ; Edith C, born October 3, 1888 ; Wel- lington C., born December 8, 1889; Agnes C, born December 6, 1890; Delia C, born August I, 1893, died May 25, 1894; Harry C, born June 24, 1895 ; Edna C, born Jan- uary 23, 1897, died September 14, 1897 ; Florence C, born December 7, 1898; Helen C, born October 19, 1903; and one that died in infancy. DR. WILLIAM RIDGE COOPER, of Point Pleasant, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, was born at Point Pleasant, August 26, 1862, and is a son of the late Dr. Alfred M. and Elizabeth (Ridge) Cooper. The great-great-grandfather of Dr. Al- fred M. Cooper was a native of Stratford- on-Avon, England. William Cooper, the great-grandfather, settled in Tinicum town- ship and his son, James Cooper, was born and reared there. William B. Cooper, son of James, was born in Tinicum, Decem- ber 24, 1807, and came of English Quaker ancestry. He became an extensive land- owner in Tinicum township and died there December 12, 1854. He married Elizabeth Meyer, born May 9, 1807, died December 4, 1871, daughter of John Meyer, who was born June 22,, '^^773, and died September 9, 1823, by his wife Eve Fry, and granddaugh- ter of Henrv Meyer, who was born in Montgomery county, in 1750, married Susan Smith, and settled in Plumstead townshin, Bucks county. Henry Meyer, the father of the last named Henry, was a son of Hans Meyer and came to America with his pa- rents at the age of one year about 1720. He inherited the homestead of his father, Hans Meyer, in Upper Salford, Montgom- ery county, and died there about 1800. His wife. Barbara Miller, came from Germany at the age of eighteen years, in 1738, and was a niece of Anna (Miller) Leisse, who married Jacob Stout, the pioneer ancestor of the Stout family in Bucks county. John Meyer, above mentioned, and his brother Henry followed teaming between Philadel- phia and Pittsburg when much of the inter- vening country was a wilderness. On one of their trips John was taken sick and died and his brother Henry buried him in the wilderness. William B. and EHzabeth (Mey-er) Cooper were the parents of eleven children: Lavina. born Julv 15. 1826, died December 24, 1893, married John H. Wat- son; Rebecca, who died young; Dr. Alfred M. ; Clara, living in Philadelphia unmar- ried; Rachel and Jane, who died young; Eve, who died in January, 1899; James B., born August 11, 1842, killed at a barn rais- ing in Tinicum, October 5, 1875 ; Caroline,, born January 14, 1845, married Eli Siga- foos, of Easton ; Newton R., born August 26, 1848, died June 14, 1865 ; and Justus,, born July 28, 1851. Dr. Alfred M. Cooper, eldest son of William B. and Elizabeth (Meyer) Cooper,, was born in Tinicum township, Bucks coun- ty, September 15, 1830, and was reared on a farm to the age of nineteen years. He received a good common school education and taught school for five years. At the age of twenty-three years he began the study of medicine and graduated at Jeffer- son Medical College, March 10, 1856. He located at Point Pleasant and began prac- tice the same year, and was considered one of the leading physicians of Middle Bucks, being highly respected in the community for his many excellent qualities. He prac- ticed at Point Pleasant until his death,. September 15, 1898, after a continuous- practice there for forty-two years. He was a member of the State Medical Society, the Bucks County Medical Society, the Le- high Valley Medical Society, and the Hun- terdon County ( N. J.) Medical Society. He married, March 21, 1861, Elizabeth Ridge, daughter of Will'am and Catharine (Wyker) Ridge, of Point Pleasant, and a descendant of Edward Marshall, the Walker of 1737. Dr. and Mrs. Cooper were members of the Baptist church of Point Pleasant, of which the former served as deacon and elder for many years. He alsc^ took an active interest in educational mat- ters and served several years as school di- rector. Dr. and Elizabeth (Ridge) Cooper were the parents of three children: Dr. William R., the subject of this sketch; J. Howard Cooper, M, D., now practicing- medicine at Middle Bush, New Jersey ; and Katherine E. C, wife of William S. AcufY, a lawyer of Ambler, Pennsylvania. William R. Cooper was reared at Point Pleasant and attended public school there and later the First Pennsylvania State Nor- mal school at Millersville, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine with his father for two years and then entered Jefferson Medi- cal College, from which he was graduated April 2, 188=;, and began to practice the same year as an assistant to his father. Five years later he established an office of his own. On the death of his father he re- moved to the old homestead, in the spring of T899, where he has since resided and continued the practice of his profession, retaining practicallv all the practice of his honored father. He is a "member of the American Medical Association, the State Medical Society, the Bucks County Medical Society, and the Lehigh Valley Medical Association. He is a member of the Point Pleasant Banti=t church, of which he is a trustee. Dr. Cooper married, March 20. 1890, Marv Smith Shaddinger, daughter ot HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 33^ Andrew and Martha (Smith) Shaddinger, of Point Pleasant, and they are the parents of two children, Lloyd Napier, and Dorothy S. WILLIAM H. MURRAY, one, if not the oldest resident of New Hope, Penn- sylvania, at the time of his death, was born in the city of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, January 31, 1817, and died in New Hope, Pennsylvania, November 23, 1904, after an almost continuous res- idence of nearly eighty-eight years. He was one of thirteen children born to Jo- seph D. and Margaret M. (Sharp) Mur- ray, four of whom still survive. Thomas S., a resident of Trenton, New Jersey; Frances, wife of James E. Darrow, Tren- ton, New Jersey; Anna, widow of Charles E. Aaron, of Norristown, Penn- sylvania; and J. Howard Murray, of Trenton, New Jersey. Joseph D. Mur- ray (father) was born in Edenton, North Carolina, November 7, 1788. His grand- father emigrated from Scotland with a colony that settled on the Roanoke river, naming the settlement Scotland Neck. His parents settled in Edenton. His mother dying in his infancy, he was left an orphan at the age of seven years by the death of his father, and came under the care of his uncle Henry. After his uncle's death, and at the age of eighteen years he came to Philadelphia, engag- ing in the dry goods business. In the spring of 1817 when his son William was but two weeks old he removed to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he en- gaged in general merchandising. He purchased the house in which his son so long resided (a portion of the resi- dence being built later), and in two rooms of this house conducted a suc- cessful business. After engaging several years in mercantile pursuits he disposed of the same, and then turned his atten- tion to the lumber business, from which he derived a goodly income. At the age of fifteen years, after com- pleting a common school education with two years at a private school at Bur- lington. New Jersey, William H. Mur- ray accepted a position in an engineer corps engaged in laying out and build- ing the Beaver Meadow Railroad above Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, with Ario Pardee at head of corps. His compen- sation at first was $14 per month, which was later advanced until it reached $4 per day, and at finishing of road was made superintendent of same at nineteen years of age. Subsequently he engaged in the lumber business with his father. In 1838 and '39 he was in the silk busi- ness, hatching out the eggs and carry- ing it on in its different branches to the finished product. This was considered at the time as a business with a bright future. In 1840 Mr. Murray engaged in mercantile pursuits, but at the expira- tion of six years he disposed of same to his brother Thomas. In 1848 he joined in partnership with A. J. Beau- mont and Samuel Sutton in the plow business, continuing until 1852. In 1853 and '54 he was engaged with his brother Thomas in building a portion of the Flemington railroad. In 1858 and '59 he was in the soap and candle business bought of Charles B. Knowles. In April,. 1859, he again became interested in the agricultural implement business, and. for the next ten years manufactured the same. When the civil war broke out Mr. Murray told his employees to ofifer their services to their country if they so wished and he would take care of their families as far as he was able. He called upon the burgess and prom- inent citizens in order to secure funds to raise a company, was successful therein and he assisted in putting in the crops for the men who went to the front. In 1871 he was engaged in the lumber business with his brother-in-law, James E. Darrow, Trenton, New Jersey, for four years. In 1877 he engaged in the grocery business, continuing until 1896 when he retired from active pursuits and lived a retired life. He was a consistent member of the Baptist church for many years, and an earnest advocate of Re- publican principles. CHARLES EDWARD DURNER. a prominent factor in commercial circles in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born on Front street, Quakertown, the son of Charles Frederick and Mary Jane (Speaker) Durner, and belongs to a family distinguished for five generations as organ builders. Charles Edward Dur- ner is descended from Conrad Durner and his wife, Rosina Gauibier, of Wur- temberg, Germany. Their son, Chris- tian Durner, (grandfather of Charles Edward Durner) was born 1810, and died 1879. He followed the trade of or- gan building, as did his ancestors, and emigrated to America, settling in Zion Hill.' He married Catherine Goll and had a son, Charles Frederick. Charles Frederick Durner, father of Charles E. Durner, was the son of Christian and Catherine (Goll) Durner, and was born April 3, 1838. in Wurtem- berg, Germany. He attended the state schools until he was fourteen years of age, when he commenced a term of ap- prenticeship to learn the trade of organ- building, serving five years. He then went to Lyons and Grenoble, France, at these places working as journeyman and tradesman for about five months. The experience thus gained proved of no little value to him in later years. In 1859 he emigrated to this country, set- tling at Zion's Hill. Here he entered into business for himself, but met with opposition at first, owing to the fact that 332 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. the trade of organ-builder was not a popular one with the people of this country at that time, who considered that time wasted that was spent in "pro- ducing sounds" from an instrument. However, Mr. Burner persevered in his work and has been attended with great success, as is demonstrated by the large and well-equipped factory in Quaker- town, to which place he removed his business in 1861. The first organ ^Ir. Durner built was valued at seven hun- dred and fifty dollars, the building of which occupied Mr. Durner for nearly a year, the compensation he received be- ing the munificent sum of about fifty cents per day. His means being lim- ited, he began with foot-power, which was superceded by steam as his business developed, and he is now at the head of one of the largest and most com- pleteh' equipped organ factories in Pennsylvania. In 1876 he built an or- gan for the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia, which won for him the Tiighest honors. Though small in size, (compared with many others on exhibi- tion) it was considered in volume and sweetness of tone and perfection of me- chanism superior to many other organs on exhibition, the production of more pretentious establishments. His instru- ments also received the first premium at the State fair in 1878. Mr. Durn^r's business has extended over the greater part of eastern Pennsylvania, and his handiwork is highly appreciated where- ever seen. Mr. Burner's political affilia- tions are with the Democratic party, and while he takes much interest in local affairs, he has little to do with politics, beyond the influence of his opinion as expressed in his vote. He is a member of St. John's Lutheran church, and is especially interested in religious work, and was a trustee for many years. In 1862 jMr. Durner was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Speaker, daughter of William and Lydia (Poor- man) Speaker, of Center county, Penn-, sylvania. Immediately after his mar- riage Mr. Durner and his wife removed to Quakertown, settling in the house where they now reside. The following named children were born to them: Charles Edward, September i, 1863, spoken of at length hereinafter; 2. Anna Elizabeth, born January 5, 1866, married Calvin F. Heckler, lawyer, son of John and Victoria (Fluck) Heckler, farmers •of Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 3. Mary Katherine, un- married, and lives at home. INIrs. Dur- ner died January 5, 1893, in the seventy- first year- of her age. CHARLES EBWARB BURNER, •eldest child of Charles Frederick and Mary Jane (Speaker) Burner, attended the common schools of his native place until his sixteenth year. He then de- voted himself to learning the trade of organ-building with his father, with whom he is still engaged at the organ factory in Quakertown, on the corner of F"ront and Juniper streets, one of the largest and most prosperous of its kind in that section of the country. Mr. Burner and his father have worked themselves up to a very high place in the world of business, and theirs is an example of what perseverance, indom- itable will and unfailing energy can ac- complish in the way of assisting men to attain the highest success. In political affairs, Mr. Charles E. Burner helps support the Bemocratic party, and al- though he never aspired to public office, takes a lively interest in the welfare of that organization. He is a member of St. John's Lutheran church, in the af- fairs of which he has always taken an active part. He was a member of the church council for fourteen years, and for a period of thirteen years was sec- retary of that bod3^ June 17, 1889, Charles Edward Burner was united in marriage to Miss Emma Jane Fluck, daughter of William Ben- jamin and Catherine (Hager) Fluck, of Quakertown. She is a descendant of an old German family who emigrated to this country under Richard and Thomas Penn, settling in Bucks county. Penn- sylvania. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Burner settled in Juniper and Third streets, in a house that they had had erected previous to their marriage. The following named children were born to them: Harold Frederick, born October 25, 1890, lives at home and at- tends the Quakertown schools; and Laura Catherine, born ]\Iarch 22, 1893, also lives at home, attanding school in Quakertown. CALVIN F. HECKLER. The early ancestors of Calvin F. Heckler, both di- rect and collateral, settled in the south- eastern counties of Pennsylvania more than one hundred and fifty years ago. Mr. Heckler is a descendant of George Heckler, a Redemptioner, who arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Neptune," September 30, I7S4- He was purchased by John Steiner of North Coventry township, Chester county, near Potts- town. George Heckler was the son of ^lichael Heckler, and was born in 1736 in the province of Lower Alsace, on the Rhine. He was obliged to work on a farm for three years in order to redeem his passage, and afterwards married Christiana Freed, daughter of Peter Freed, of Lower Salford township, Montgomery county. He died August 28, t8t6, aged eighty years, and by his thrift and industry had acquired consid- erable property. At the beginning of the .American Revolution George Heck- ler bought a two hundred acre farm on HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 333 or near the site of the Mennonite meet- ing house at Blooming Glen, in Hill- town township, Bucks county. He ren- dered assistance to the patriots when the Continental army was in and around Philadelphia. In 1774, according to a tax duplicate record, he was rated among the list of taxables of Hilltown township. The European branch of the family fought alternately for and against Napoleon, according to the fate of the Alsace and Loraine provinces as deter- mined by the fortunes of the Napoleonic wars. Samuel (Detweiler) Heckler, grand- son of George Heckler mentioned above, whose father's name was also George, was born in Lower Salford township, Montgomery county, in 1803. After his marriage he settled in New Britain township, near the village of Greer's Corner, where he resided for six years. He then purchased a farm of about one hundred and twenty acres in the western part of Hilltown township, where he resided until his death, which occurred in the spring of 1884, at the age of eighty-one years. He was a life- long farmer, disposing of his produce in the Philadelphia markets. He was very successful, reared a family of twelve children, and accumulated considerable property. In religious belief he was a liberal Mennonite, and belonged to the church of that sect at Line Lexington, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. In poli- tics he was affiliated with the Whigs, and later with the Republicans. He mar- ried, in 1825, Anna Rosenberger, of the vicinity of Norristown, Montgomery county. Their children were as follow^s: 1. Anna Eliza, unmarried, died at the age of twenty-two years. 2. George, unmarried, died in 1859, at the age of twenty-nine years. 3. Elias, married Rebecca Gerhart, of Hilltown township, and died in 1900. 4. Hester Ann, deceased, became the wife of George W. Magargal, of Elkins Park, Montgomery county. 5. David R., married Amanda Kimbel, of Buckingham township, in 1862, and is now a prosperous farmer in West Bedminster township, Bucks county. 6. Jacob R., married Lydia Baringer, of Hilltown township, and is now a re- tired resident of Perkasie, Pennsylvania. 7. Aaron R., married Sophia Rosen- berger, of Hatfield, Pennsylvania, and is one of the substantial farmers of that township. 8. Samuel, died in infancy. 9. John R., mentioned at length here- after. 10. Samuel R., having served through- out the great civil war as a volunteer, married Rebecca Kimbel, of Bucking- ham, and is now a retired farmer living near Lansdale, Pennsylvania. 11. Amanda, the widow of Charles Massinger, deceased, of Chalfont. 12. Franklin R., deceased, married ]Margaret, daughter of Christian Meyer, of Hilltown. John R. Heckler, son of Samuel Det- weiler and Anna (Rosenberger) Heck- ler, was born November 3, 1840, on the homestead in Hilltown township. His boyhood was passed in rendering assist- ance on the farm, and at the same time attending the subscription and free schools. He taught a public school in Monroe county, Pennsylvania, and after- wards at Pluck's school house, in Hill- town township for two years. He was for some years afterward a tenant- farmer, but in 1885 purchased one of his father's farms, where he lived until 1892, when he moved to Perkasie, Pennsyl- vania. John R. Heckler married, in 1861, Victoria S. (Stout), daughter of Tobias and Anna (Stout) Fluck of Hill- town and the following children were born to them: 1. Calvin F. (christened Samuel Cal- vin), mentioned at length hereafter. 2. Allen Henry, born August 26, 1866, married in 1891 to Elizabeth, daughter of John D. Hunsberger, of Souderton, one child, Sallie Lorene, being born in 1892. Mrs. Heckler's death occurred shortly afterwards. Mr. Heckler mar- ried again, in 1894, Kate Abele, of the- city of Philadelphia, where he now re- sides. Since 1888 he has been a foreman of carpenters in the service of the Phil- adelphia and Reading Railroad Com- pany. Their children are: Calvin F., Jr., deceased; Henry Frederick, and Ernest Abele. Nari Franklin, the third son of John R. Heckler, was born February 4, 1873, in Hilltown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, and attended the common schools and the Sellersville high school. In July, 1888, he became a telegraphic stu- dent with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company at Souderton, Penn- sylvania, and afterwards served as a tel- egraph operator of the Philadelphia and New York divisions until October 24, 1895, when he resigned to enter the serv- ice of the American Printing Company, of New York City. On March 30, 1896, he was employed by the Union League of Philadelphia, as a stenographer, and was gradually promoted until he was appointed superintendent of that fa- mous organization on IMarch 20. 1900, which position he still retains. He is an active member of the Baptist church, and was married to Alberta Lorene, daughter of John G. Fritz, of Lafayette, Montgomery county, and has one child, John Franklin, who was born July 12, 1806. Calvin F. Heckler, son of John R., and Victoria Stout (Fluck) Heckler, wa« born on the Heckler homestead in Hilltown township, Bucks county, June 12. 1864. He received hi^ preliminnry education in the common schools of the township, after- 334 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ward attending the Sellersville high school and dlso the normal school at Millers- ville, Pennsylvania. He ' worked on the farm during the summer, taught school during the winter in Hilltown and Bed- minster townships, saved his money, and worked his way through the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with high honors in the law department of that in- stitution in 1887. He registered as a law student with Hon. Henry M. Hoyt, for- mer governor of Pennsylvania, with whom he served three years, and on whose mo- tion he was admitted to practice in all the county courts. He was afterward admit- ted to the Pennsylvania supreme court and the United States courts. He further sup- plemented his legal attainments by after- wards associating himself with the law firm hi Arundel & Moon (Congressman Reuben O. Moon of Philadelphia) until he took offices for himself in the Pennsyl- vania Building at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia-, where he is favored with a large clientage. He has held var- ious positions of trust, and since February, 1904, is serving as a member of the bor- ough council. His political support is al- ways freely given to the Republican party, and he has actively participated in every state and national campaign since 1884. Mr. Heckler has traveled extensively in the United States and many of the provinces of Canada. He is a member of the German Reformed church, to which his parents also belong. Mr. Heckler is past master, by merit, of the Quakertown Lodge, No. 512, F. and A. M., and member of the Philadel- phia Sovereign Consistory, S. P. R. S. 32d degree. He also belongs to numerous oth- er fraternal organizations. Mr. Heckler married, 1892, Anna Elizabeth Burner, who for ten years prior was a successful teacher in the public schools of Quakertown. She is an active member of the Lutheran church and other auxiliary organizations, and is devoted to all the interests and duties of her home and family. Mrs. Heckler be- longs to a family distinguished for five generations as church-organ builders. She is a daughter of Charles F. and Mary J. (Speaker) Burner, of Quakertown, Penn- sylvania. MILTON ALTHOUSE BIEHN, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, was born June 10, 185T, at Bunker Hill, now Rich Hill, in Rockhill township, Bucks county, Pennsjdvania, a son of Michael Martin and Catharine (Althouse) Biehn, and grandson of Abram and Mary (Mar- tin) Biehn. Michael Martin Biehn (father) was born in Rockhill township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 3, i8to. His an- cestors were among the German emi- grants who came to this country under Th(imas and Richard Penn and took up a considerable tract of land. They fol- lowed farming and the weaving of cloth and carpets. On June 10, 1838, Mr. Biehn married Catharine Althouse' daughter of Baniel and Elizabeth (Wert) Althouse, of Richland township, farm- ers, and settled at Bunker Hill. Their children are: Maria, born April 13 18^0 married, September 10, 1859, Tobils Hinkle, of Bunker, or Rich Hill, a full account of whom appears in the sketch of Harry Hinkle; Elizabeth, born March 8, 1847, resides with her sister, Mrs Maria Hinkle, at Quakertown; and Mil- ton Althouse, mentioned hereinafter. Milton Althouse Biehn attended the Rock Ridge public school until his four- teenth year, after which he was appren- ticed to learn the boot and shoe making with his brother-in-law, Tobias Hinkle, with whom he continued as journeyman or tradesman for several years there- after. In 1871 he moved to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, m company with Tobias Hinkle, in whose service he continued there and finally formed a copartnership with him in a boot and shoe store on Front street. In 1874 Mr. Biehn erected the storehouse now occupied by Harry Wilson Hinkle, son of Tobias Hinkle, and conducted business under the title of Hinkle & Biehn, this connection con- tinuing until the retirement of Tobias Hinkle on account of failing health, when he was succeeded by his sons Harry W. and Nelson B. Hinkle, and this partner- ship was continued until 1892. In 1893 Mr. Biehn moved to West Chester, Ches- ter county, and established a boot and shoe store in that town. Mr. Biehn has been remarkably successful in his bus- iness ventures, which is owing largely to his close study of trade conditions and the needs of his customers. His store is located at No. 2>3 West Gay street, this being the first one he established, but in 1904 he established another at the cor- ner of Gay and Church streets, which is managed by his son, Harry Biehn. Mr. Biehn and his family are members of the West Chester Methodist Episcopal church, in the affairs of which Mr. Biehn is much interested, serving as class leader, and for nine years assistant su- perintendent of the Sunday school con- nected therewith. He is a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association of West Chester, in which position his services are highly apprecated. He was formerly an adherent of the Republican part}', but differing from them on several issues, particularly the liquor question, he thought best to cast his vote with the party whose principles were more closely allied with his own, the Prohi- bition party. On Becember 11, 1877, ]\Ir. Biehn was married to Sarah Ed- wards, daughter of Benjamin Roberts and Lydia (Bartholomew) Edwards, of Quakertown, a family descended from the early and substantial settlers of Bucks county. The issue of this mar- riage was: I. Nellie E., born September HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 335 i8, 1878, attended the Quakertown pub- lic schools, the West Chester high school, from which she was graduated in the class of 1896; Philadelphia Colle- giate Institute, from which she was graduated in the class of 1897; and the Woman's College, at Baltimore, Mary- land, from which she was graduated in the class of 1901. She is now (1905) a teacher in the department of mathe- matics at the West Chester high school; she resides at home. 2. Harry E., born May 24, 1880, attended the Quakertown public schools, West Chester public schools, Williamson Trade school, Dela- ware county, and State Normal school, at West Chester. He entered his father's boot and shoe store, and is now inanager of the new store established by his father in the fall of 1904 at West Ches- ter. 3. Grace E., born October 14, 1886, died July i, 1887. Mrs. Biehn traces her ancestry to Hugh Edwards, of Wales, who mi- grated to this country under William Penn and settled first in the southern part of Bucks county. Pennsylvania. He resided for a time in the vicinity of Pen- lyn, Gwynedd township, now in Mont- gomery county. He was a man of con- siderable force of character, was a member of the Society of Friends and devoted considerable time to preaching. During the early part of the eighteenth century he settled in that part of Bucks county now occupied by Milford and Richland townships. William Edwards, son of Hugh Edwards, married Martha . and among their children was a son. William Edwards, born May 13, 1746, near Trumbauersville, Milford township, Bucks county; he was a farmer ty occupation. He married Maribah Gaskill, daughter of Samuel and Mar- garet Gaskill and h-ad issue: Margaret and Amos. Amos Edwards w-as born in Richland township, April 10, 1786. mar- ried Abigail Roberts, daughter of Abel and Margaret Roberts, and their chil- dren were: Eveline, born Mav 18, 1821. married Milton Johnson, a farmer, of Richland township; and Benjamin R., born January i. 1824. Benjamin R. Ed- wards, father of Mrs. Biehn, was born as above stated in Richland township on a farm containing forty acres then owned and operated by his parents. He at- tended the subscription schools of his township, also the school attached to Richland ' Monthly Meeting of the So- ciety of Friends, and among the teach- ers at the latter school were John Ball and Hannah Foulke. prominent educa- tors of that day and place. Leavmg school at the age of nineteen years, he for a time conducted a subscription school of his own and also assisted on the home farm. At the age of twenty- five years, he went to Milford township and there learned the milling trade with Daniel Heist, who conducted a grist mill at Swamp creek. Settling at Milford Square, he conducted for a time a mill for grinding feeds, but in 1856 disposed of his business and moved to Quaker- town wdiere he conducted a flour and feed store until 1899, in which j-ear he retired from active pursuits. He is a birthright member of Richland Monthly Meeting of Friends, of Quakertown, and in politics is a Republican, taking an ac- tive interest in the success of that party. On November 13, 1853. Mr. Ed- wards married Lydia Bartholomew, daughter of Henry and Ann (Bleam) Bartholomew, farmers of Milford town- ship. Their children are: Ellen R., born July 19, 1856, became the wife of George T. Hersh, of Allentown. Henry, born February 13, 1858, married Hermina Brown, of Rockhill township, and they reside in Quakertown. Sarah Roberts, born May 20, i860, became the wife of Milton A. Biehn, as afore mentioned. Amos, born March 27, 1870, is unmar- ried and resides at home. JOHN B. HERITAGE. The Herit- age family is of English ancestry and was founded in America by two broth- ers, one of whom settled in New Jersey and the other in Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania being among the first set- tlers in that village. John F. Heritage, grandfather of John B. Heritage, was born in Bustleton, Philadelphia. He served his country in the war of 1812 and in his home community was re- garded as a representative citizen. He was a tailor by trade, and while carry- ing on that business for many years also conducted agricultural pursuits. In politics he was a Democrat. He mar- ried Ann Fetters, a native of Montgom- ery county, and their children were: John F.; Joseph; George; Samuel, who died at the age of thirty years; Sarah, the wnfe of D. Test; and two daughters W'ho died in early womanhood. John F. Heritage, Jr., son of John F. and Ann (Fetters) Heritage, was born in Philadelphia county, and in his youth learned the trade of tailor under the di- rection of his father, w^honi he also as- sisted in the operation of the home farm up to the time of his marriage, when he settled upon another farm and in con- nection with its cultivation worked at his trade. He thus carried forward the business that his father had inaugurated, but upon a more extensive scale. Inter- ested in military afifairs, he became a captain of a militia company which was called to active duty in Phladelphia at the time of the riots there. In politics he was a Democrat. Purchasing his father's homestead at Bustleton he therein spent the evening of life, dying at the ripe old age of seventy-five years. He was a man of good physique, large and well 23^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. proportioned, of a social nature, enjoy- ing the companionship of his friends, ■while to the poor and necdj- he was charitable and benevolent. His integ- rity and honor were above reproach, and he was a consistent and worthy member of the Pennypack church for thirty or fort}^ years, regularlj' attending its serv- ices and contributing liberally to its sup- port. His wiie died about five or six years prior to his demise. She bore the maiden name of Ann Benner and was a daughter of John Benner, who died dur- ing her early girlhood, leaving two daughters, the sister of IMrs. Heritage being Mrs. Hannah Campbell. Her ma- ternal grandfather was Joseph Durman, who was a captain of a company in the war of the revolution, defending the cause of the colonies. When at home on a furlough he was taken from his bed by the English and sent to an English prison, but later was exchanged and re- joined the American forces, continuing to serve with the continental troops until independence was achieved. Following the establishment of the republic he set- tled in Philadelphia county, where he fol- lowed farming and spent his remaining days. His farm remained in possession of the family for many years. Seven children were born of the marriage of John F. Heritage and Ann Benner as follows: Anna, wife of George Brooks; Joseph, a carriage and coach manufac- turer; Samuel, who is connected with his brother Joseph in business; John B.; George, a farmer; Mary A., who died unmarried; and Emma C, who died at the age of thirty-five years. John B. Heritage was born near Bus- tleton' in Philadelphia county, Pennsyl- vania. July 23. ■ 1835. In the public schools he acquired his education, while upon the home farm he was reared, early becoming familiar with the duties and la- bors that fall to the lot of the agricul- turist. Thinking that he would find an industrial pursuit more congenial he learned the carriage painting trade, wliich he followed for a number of years, but his health prevented his continuance in that line of activity and he returned to agricultural life about three years after his marriage. He rented a farm and was engaged in its cultivation when he was drafted for service in the rebellion. but he hired a substitute and continued his farming operations in Montgomery county. In 1866 he purchased the farm in Bucks county upon which he now re- sides, its former owner having been Morris Jarrett. Here he carries on gen- eral agricultural pursuits, and also at- tends the city market. His business af- fairs are capably managed and are bring- ing to him a good financial return. He has never aspired to public ofiice, yet his fellow townsmen elected him to the position of supervisor. In politics he is a Democrat. In i860 Mr. Heritage mar- ried Miss Mary L. Harris, who was borir in Bustleton, January 13. 1836. and who has been to hmi a faithful and devoted wife. She is a daughter of Theophilus and Ellen (Merritt) Harris, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Bucks county. Her grandfather, Theo- philus Harris, was of Welsh descent and was a leading divine of the Primi- tive Baptist church. On leaving Vir- ginia he removed to Bustleton, Pennsyl- vania, where he engaged in church work and also farming. He was likewise con- nected with the cloth factory, and was prominent in local afifairs in his com- munity as well as in the church. His first wife bore the maiden name of Mary Long Harris and was of English descent. She died in Virginia, and after his re- moval to Pennsylvana he married a daughter of Dr. Jones, of a prominent Baptist family. By the first marriage there was one son, Theophilus Harris. By the second marriage the children were: Mrs. Sarah Griffith; Mrs. Martha Chilton; Mrs. j\Iary Bazier; and Mrs. Ann Willstack, whose husband was a wealthy resident of Philadelphia, and he and his wife donated millions of dol- lars to the city. To Mr. and Mrs. Her- itage have been born four children: Charles E., a farmer; Mrs. Mary E. Schlotzhaur; John, a farmer; William C, who is operating the old homestead and who married Sallie Fenton, by whom he has one child, Hannah May. Both Mr. and Mrs. Heritage are members of the Baptist church. Theophilus Harris. 'father of Mrs. Her- itage, was a highly educated man who as- sisted his father in business, acting as bookkeeper in the factory and supervis- ing other business enterprises. Later he engaged in farming, giving to the culti- vation of the soil his entire attention, and in the evening of life retired from active business pursuits, his children conducting the farm. In politics he was a Democrat, and he supported the Baptist church, although he was not a member. His wife died in 1858, and his death oc- curred in 1865. Their children were: Mary L.; Theophilus, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Christiana Clayton, who died leav- ing three children; Thomas, of Philadel- phia; and Ellen, wife of George W. Her- itage. PATRICK BREEN. who following the occupation of farming in Warwick town- ship, has also been active and influen- tial in political circles, was born in county Tipperary, Ireland. December 26. 1830, his parents being James and Mary (Haj-s) Breen, both of whom are natives of Ireland, where their marriage was celebrated. Mrs. Breen was of a distinguished family, one of her great uncles being a general in the English arnl}^ The paternal grandfather, John HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 337 Breen, was a resident of Ireland and spent his entire life there. His only child was James Breen, who followinjg his marriage settled upon a farm in Ire- land, and all of his children were born in that country. In 1849 he emigrated to America, and the following year was joined by his family. He went first to New Jersey, but soon afterward re- moved to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and located in Northampton township. He was there employed as a laborer and did some contracting on the turnpike. Later he purchased a small farm in Wrightstown township, and subse- quently sold that property and bought a tract of land in Northampton town- ship. His wife died in Northampton township in 1858, and he afterward mar- ried again. In his old age be and his second wife made their home with his son, Patrick, and he here died in 1881. He was a stanch Democrat in his politi- cal views, but never an aspirant for office. Both he and the mother of Pat- rick Breen w^ere Catholics in religious faith. They had five children: Patrick; Johanna, who since 1861 has been in the convent known as Mount Hope Retreat near Baltimore. Maryland; Margaret, the wife of Patrick McNanaman; Will- iam, a prominent farmer, who died at Spring House; and Elizabeth, who be- came the wife of A. Colligan, of Jersey City, New Jersey, but both have passed away. Patrick Breen pursued his education in subscription schools of his native land, and when nineteen years of age crossed the Atlantic to the new world. For four years he was employed as a laborer, and then rented a farm, remain- ing thereon for two years after his mar- riage, when in 1856 he purchased the farm upon which he now resides known as the Thomas Helm farm. It was then but partly improved, but he has erected a large commodious frame residence, a substantial barn and other necessary out- buildings for the shelter of grain and stock and has added all of the modern equipments, keeping his place in an ex- cellent state of cultivation. He follows general farming and markets his pro- ducts at Philadelphia. He also raises some stock, keeping a herd of good cows and selling the milk at the creamery. He has always been a practical and success- ful farmer, and is a stockholder in the Creamery Company. In January, 1853, Mr. Breen was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Maher. who was born in Ireland, a daughter of ]\Ir. and Mrs. Thomas Ma- her. who spent their entire lives in that country. Mrs. Breen was reared by an aunt, as was her brother, Timothy Maher. who came with her to America and who was later known as a leading agriculturist of his community. He died and was buried in Doylestown. In the 22-3 family of Mr. and Mrs. Breen were nine children, of whom six died in childhood, including Lizzie, who passed away at the age of thirteen. The others are: Will- iam, who followed the butchering busi- ness; Thomas, who was a painter by tarde and possessed considerable artistic skill; and James, a butcher. The last named is the only one now living. Mrs. Catherine Breen departed this life in July, 1879, in the faith of the Catholic church. On the 24th of November, 1881, Mr. Breen was married to Miss Annie Brahan, who was born in Ireland, July, 1846, a daughter of Michael and Mary Brahan, also natives of that country whence they came to America in 1849, settling in Bucks county. Her father was an industrious man and hard worker. He voted with the Democracy, and both he and his wife were of the Catholic faith. He died in 1903 at the age of eighty years, while his wife's death oc- curred in 1882, when she was seventy- five years of age. Their children were Annie; Kate, deceased; Maria, deceased, who was the wife of William J. Brennan; Bridget, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Breen had one son, John, who was born Janu- ary 15, 1892, and died April 14, 1892. Mr. Breen gave his early political sup- port to the Democracy, but at the open- ing of the rebellion, he became a champion of Republican principles. He is thor- oughly informed on all questions per- taining to the history of the world. He has always taken an active interest in politics, has been judge of elections, and in 1892 was chosen to fill the position of clerk of quarter sessions in Bucks county, serving for three years in a manner creditable to himself and satis- factory to his constituents. In 1879 he- was appointed by the legislature to the position of engineer for the capitol at Harrisburg, and acted in that capacity for two years. He has a wide and fav- orable acquaintance in the county in which he has lived from early manhood, to the present. O. JAMES JOHNSON, a well known resident of Haycock township, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, son of Charles and Esther (Strawn) Johnson, was born January 10. 1838, on the homestead farm now owned and occupied by his brother, H. Watson Johnson, in the northern part of Richland township, and which farm is part of the tract of land acquired by Casper Johnson (i), from Richard and Thomas Penn in the early part of the eighteenth century. Casper Johnson (2), son of Casper John- son, the immigrant, was the father of Charles Johnson, who in turn was the father of O. James Johnson. Charles Johnson (father) was born on the homestead farm. He attended the sub- scription schools of the neighborhood, and 338 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY his active career was devoted to farming. He was one of the public-spirited and in- fluential men of the community, and highly esteemed for his integrity and enterprise. He was an advocate of the principles of the Whig party, to which organization he gave his allegiance. He was united in marriage to Esther Strawn, daughter of Abel and Elizabeth Strawn, of Quakertown, and then- children were: H. Watson, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; Mary Ann, wife of Aaron Walp, of Quaker- town ; Oliver James, mentioned hereinafter ; and Anna Maria, wife of Louis N. Shelly, of Quakertown. After attending the public schools of Richland township until his seventeenth year, O. James Johnson assisted at farm- ing with his father until his marriage m the year 1S67. Shortly afterward he set- tled on a farm near California station, in Richland township, where he remained for one year, after which he removed to the farm of his father-in-law. Abram Stover, at Tohickon, in Haycock township, where he remained until the spring of 1883. when he moved to where he now resides. This farm which contains eighty-seven acres of arable land, he purchased in 1882 from Charles McCarthy, and he greatly improved the same by. erecting an entire new set of buildings which added greatly to its ao- pearance. He conducted this as a dairy and general farm until 1900, when he retired from active work and was succeeded by his eldest son, Elmer Johnson, to whom he rented the farm and stock. Since that -ear Mr. Johnson has led the quiet life of a country gentleman, enjoying to the full the consciousness of a life well snent. He takes little interest in public affairs. He is a Re- publican in politics, and while he ardently believes in the principles of that party has taken only nominal interest in its work, and beyond serving two terms as a school director has never aspired to or held any other office of a political nature. Mr. Johnson married January 19, 1867. Anna Maria Stover, daughter of Abram and Sarah (Fulmer) Stover, farmers, of Hay- cock township. Bucks county. Pennsylvania. Their children are as follows : Elmer, born April 16. 1868. married November 10, 1894. Emma Afflerbach, daughter of John and Abbie (Fulmer) Afflerbach, farmers of Haycock township. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson reside on a farm, and their chil- dren are: Abbie Laura, died in infancy; Anna Maria, and Clarence Wilmer. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson belong to the Reformed church at Kellers Church. Pennsvlvania. Laura, born August 12. 1869, married, De- cember 12, 1892. Stover Detweiler. son of John and Lavina Detweiler, of Haycock township ; he is a miller by trade, and re- sides in East Rnckhill township, near Thatcher Post Office, Pennsylvania, and their children are: Mabel, died in infancy; Laura Grace, Blanche, died in infancy: and Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Detweiler are members of Kellers Reformed church. Louis, born May 9, 1871, married, February 19, 1896, Annie Frankenfield, daughter of Abel and Cathrine (Hager) Frankenfield, farmers of Haycock township. They reside at Hay- cock Run, where Mr. Johnson is engaged at farming; their children are: Elsie, James Freeman and Ruth. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson belong to the Lutheran church at Kellers Church, Pennsylvania. Harry, born No- vember 12, 1872, died October 5, 1873. Minnie, born November 2, 1874, married February 20, 1897, Isaac Ruth, son of David and Mary (McElroy) Ruth, farmers of Springfield township. They reside at Pleas- ant Valley, Springfield township, where Mr. Ruth is engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Ruth are both members of the Lutheran church of Springfield township, Pennsyl- vania. Their children are : Florence Pearl, and Harry Watson, died in infancy. El- mira, born October 31. 1876, married, No- vember 28, 1898, Edwin Lewis, son of Tesse and Elizabeth (Lutz) Lewis, of Haycock township; they reside at Lansdale, Penn- sylvania, where Mr. Lewis is engaged in the livery business. Mr. Lewis is a member of the Lutheran church at Kellers Church, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Lewis is a member of the Reformed church of the same place. Their children are : Esther Elizabeth, Richard, died in infancy ; Evelyn Myrtle, died in infancy; and Edith Margaret. Freeman, born April 3. 1880, unmarried, is employed on the home farm with his brother, Elmer Johnson. He also is a mem- ber of the Reformed church at Kellers Church. Warren, born October 16, 1881, unmarried. resides at Fairview, near Quakertown ; he is a blacksmith by trade. Stover, born May 21, 1887. unmarried, re- sides on the homestead farm, and is a mem- ber of the Reformed church of Kellers Church. JOEL M. MASON has spent his en- tire life in Falls township, his birth oc- curring w'ithin its borders on May i, 1850. Several generations of the family have been represented here. His pa- ternal grandfather. Ernest ]\Iason. lived arid died in Bucks county and was iden- tified with its agricultural interests. He married Hannah Hart and they had five children: Daniel: Joel; Edmond; Ruth, wife of Walter Collas; and Ernest, who was drowned when a child. Joel Mason, son of Ernest Mason, was born in Falls township, in 188^. In early life he began farming and afterward in connection with the tilling of the soil took contracts to make excavations. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, active in the interest of the party and doing all in his power to promote its growth and insure its success, yet never seeking political preferment for himself. For some years he was the supervisor of the Delaware Navigation Company on its canal. He married Miss Anna Feir, of New Jersey, and they had five children : HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 339 Rebecca, wife of Samuel Biirk, of ]\Iont- goniery county, Pennsylvania; Annie, who became the wife of Charles Schaffer and after his death married Jacob Painter; Joel M.; Matilda, wife of George Harry; and Edmond, of Alorrisville, Pennsylvania. Joel AI. Mason, the elder son of Joel Mason, pursued his education in the Friends' school at Falsington and in the public schools at Morrisville, Pennsyl- vania. When he was about twenty-two years of age he began farming for him- self in Lower Makefield, where he re- .mained for two years. He then returned to the old homestead farm in Falls township, where he was born and con- tinued its cultivation until 1886, when he removed to Morrisville. There he en- gaged in the stock business and also con- tinued his farming operations, and he is now well known as a stockdealer of that town, making extensive purchases and shipments so that his annual sales reach a large figure. Mr. Mason has been prominent in public affairs, and is a stal- wart advocate of the Democracy. He has been elected three times as a mem- ber of the council of Morrisville. and was street commissioner for one year. He was also appointed fish and game war- den of Bucks county in 1899 for a term of three years, and the capable manner in which he has discharged his busi- ness duties has fully justified the con- fidence reposed in him by his fellow citizens. Mr. INIason married Miss Annie Crosslie. a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Crosslie. They are the pa- rents of five children: Edmond, who is engaged in the ice business; Annie, the wife of Henry Ort: Joel, who deals in coal and lumber: Charles, who is con- nected with the Wright Publishing Com- pany; and William, a motorman. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Mason wedded Mrs. Jennie T. Moorehouse, nee Tice, and there is one child by this mar- riage, Jennie L. Mason. MARTIN H. SMITH, an esteemed and honored citizen of Dovlestown township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born Octo- ber 16. 1838, a son of John D. and Mary M'. (Hevener) Smith, and grandson of George and Susanna (Deaterly) Smith. George Smith (grandfather) was a lifelong resident of Bucks county, where he fol- lowed farming and teaming, and, being a man of energy, industry and perseverance, achieved a fair degree of success. By his marriage to Susanna Deaterly, eleven chil- dren were born, as follows : Joseph : Mary, who became the wife of Philip Swartley : Sarah, who became the wife of Martin Loux ; Henry ; Catherine, who became the wife of Henry Treisbach ; Elizabeth, who became the wife of John Foix ; John D., mentioned hereinafter; Susanna, who be- came the wife of Peter Frick; Nancy, who became the wife of Eli Ruth; George'; and Lydia, who died in childhood. George Smith was buried in the Mennonite church- yard at Deep Run. John D. Smith (father) was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Septem- ber 29, 1812. In early life he learned the blacksmith trade, but after his marriage commenced farming, giving his entire at- tention to that pursuit until compelled to retire on account of infirmities due to old age. He was one of the first school direc- tors of Bedminster township, his incum- bency of the office being noted for integrity and efficiency. He was a member of the German Reformed church, and his political support was given to the Republican ^arty. He married Mary M. Hevener, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Hevener, and their family consisted of nine children, one of whom died in infancy. The surviving members of the family are: Martin H., whose name heads this review, born Octo- ber 16, 1838; Frances, born September 2' 1840. married Sarah Snyder, and their children are: Martha, Mary, Ellen, de- ceased; Amanda, wife of James High; Clara, wife of Jacob Beerley, and John. Mary Ann, born November 11, 1843, widow of Henry Kile. Ephraim and Oliver (twins), born September 25, 1845: Oliver married Mary Ann Myers, daughter of Christian B. and Sarah Landis Myers, and / they are the parents of one child, Emily, wife of Isaac Long. Susanna, born June 19, 1850. George, born October 22, 1853, married and has two children: Catherine and George, Jr., Reed, born February 16, 1856, now deceased. FRANCIS M. PHILLIPS, who was born in Warminster township, Bucks county, where he yet follows the occupation of farmer, is a son of Horace G. and Caro- line (Matlack) Phillips, the former of Bucks county and the latter of Philadel- phia county. The paternal grandfather. Horace Phillips, was a native of New Jer- sey and in early life settled in Bucks coun- ty, where he followed the occupation of farming. He also carried on shoemaking for some time, but stibsequently devoted his undivided attention to agricultural pursuits. In politics he was a Democrat, but never aspired to office, and he belonged to the Presbyterian church. He died in Harts- ville, Pennsylvania. In his family were the following named children : Hannah, the wife of B. T. Jamis9n ; Caroline; David S.. a business man of Philadelphia: and Horace G. Horace G. Phillips, father of Francis M. Phillips, always followed the occupation of farming and at the time of his marriage rented a tract of land. Later he became owner of a farm and continued to engage in general asricultural pursuits and in marketing until his demise. He voted with 340 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. the Democracy, served as school director and filled some minor township offices. In the Presbyterian church he held member- ship, served as one of its elders and took an active interests in its work. He mar- ried Caroline Matlack, a daughter of Francis E. and Mary (Titus) Matlack, the latter a native of Doylestown, Pennsyl- vania, while Mr. Matlack was born in Philadelphia and was a son of Abram and Elizabeth (Elliott) Matlack. Abram Mat- lack was a native of Petersburg, Pennsyl- vania, and when a young man removed to Philadelphia, where he fouowed the wheel- wright's trade for a number of years. Sub- sequently he returned to Petersburg, where his remaining days were passed. Francis E. Matlack was born in Philadelphia and spent his entire life in this state. He pur- sued his education in his native city, and later engaged in the conduct of a boot and shoe factory for many years. In 1866 he retired from that business and nurchased a farm in Warminster township, carrying on general agricultural pursuits until his demise, which occurred December i, 1890. In politics he was a Whig and afterward a Republican, but he never aspired to public office. He was a consistent and worthy member of the Presbyterian church, con- tributed generously to its support, aided actively in its work and served as one of its trustees. He died December i, 1890, while his wife passed away in 1881. She w'as the daughter of Joel and Hannah (Thompson) Titus, both natives of Bucks countv. and descended from old colonial families. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Titus were : Jo- seph ; John ; Samuel ; Elizabeth : Griffith ; Susan, who became the wife of J. Mana- hon : Lucy A. ; and Mary, the wife of F. Matlack. The children of Francis Matlack are: Mary E.. and Caroline, the latter the wife of Horace G. Phillips. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Phillips resided upon a farm in Bucks county and here his death occurred January 28, 1904, while his wife passed away July 25, 1902. They were the parents of seven children : Francis M. : Emily, the wife of H. Halde- man; Marv. the wife of C. Sprogell ; Eliza- beth, the wife of W. McDaniel ; Rachel, the wife of H. Barton, an architect in the em- ploy of the government at Washington. D. €.;' Caroline, the wife of W. Vanartsdalen ; and Ella G. Francis M. Phillips was born and reared in Warminster township, early becoming familiar with agricultural pursuits and throughout his entire life he has engaged in the tilling of the soil. He acquired his education in the common schools, and re- mained at home until after his marriage, bringing his bride to the old homestead farm, where he yet resides. He inherited the Matlack homestead and expects alwavs to make it his place of residence. On February i. T900. Mr. Phillips was married to Miss Florence E. Watson, who was born in Bucks county, January i. 1877. Her paternal grandfather. Howard Watson was born at Edgewood, Bucks count}^, March 10, 1822, and learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed througliout his active business career, but in his later years lived retired. After his marriage he settled at Horsham, where he conducted a smithy for a number of years, but is now living retired in Byberry. He married Catherine L. Doron, who was born in June, 1826, and was reared at Hatboro Mill. Thev re- sided for forty-nine years at the Horsham homestead, having there a small tract of land and a commodious home. They were members of the Horsham meeting, and Mr. Watson was a Republican in his ■ political' affiliation. Their children were: Elwood, a steamboat clerk and business man • B. Frank; Enos, a farmer of Horsham; Howard, engaged in the insurance business; and Adele. wife of H. Jenks. B. Frank Watson was born at Horsham and learnecf the blacksmith's trade with his father. He remained at home until his marriaee and then settled upon a rented farm, where he lived for a year. He afterward located upon the homestead now occupied by Francis M. Phillips, and here he carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his re- maining days, passing awa^' February 28. 1898. He followed general farming and also raised some stock, and was practical and successful in his business methods. In politics he was a Republican, and fratern- ally was connected with the Knights of Pythias. His wife died in 1897. :5he lost her parents during her early girlhood and was reared by her grandparents, who were prominent farming people and were highly respected throughout the community in which they lived. Mrs. Watson was an only child. By her marriage she became the mother of four children : Florence E., now Mrs. Phillips; Herbert: Claude L. ; and Leila H. Both Mr. and Mrs. Phillips hold membership in the Hartsville Presbyterian church. They are w'idely known in Bucks county, representing old families of Penn- sylvania, and Mr. Phillips is regarded as one of the progressive agriculturists of his community. ELMER E. ALTHOUSE. editor and proprietor of the "Sellersville Herald," was born in Sellersville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 12. 1874. a"ct is a son of Milton D. and Elizabeth (Nace) Althouse. The pioneer ancestor of the subject of this sketch was Arndt ^Andrew) Althouse. who emigrated from Germany in the ship "Fane" ar- riving in Philadelphia on October 17, 1749. He located on the Tohickon, near Church Hill, in Haycock township. He and his wife Anna IMaria were members of Tohickon Reformed church at Church Hill, and their son Daniel was baptised there March 4. 175.^. Daniel Althouse was a farmer in Hay- cock township until 1785. wiien he lo- cated in Redminster towmship. where he HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 341 died in 1795. He was twice married and left the following children: Maria, Frederick, Abraham, Conrad, Michael, Jacob and Rebecca by the first wife, and Isaac, Elizabeth, Daniel, ]\Iartin, and George by the second wife. Frederick Althouse, born in Haycock in 1783, on attaining manhood located in Rockhill township, where he purchased twenty-three acres of land in 1818. In 1824 he purchased of Andrew Schlichter a farm of eighty-seven acres on the Bethlehem road, near Sellersville, and lived there the remainder of his life, •dying January 26, 1852. He married Susanna Schlichter, of Rockhill town- ship, and had nine children who sur- vived him, viz: Thomas, Elias, Daniel, James, Andrew, Elizabeth, wife of Enos Sellers; Hannah, wife of Isaac Barndt; Mary, wife of Noah Weisel, and Abigail. Elias Althouse, second son of Fred- •erick and Susanna (Schlichter) Alt- house, was born and reared in Rockhill township. He was born August 5, 1814, and died in July, 1869. At the death of liis father he accepted a portion of the "homestead and it was adjudged to him by the orphans' court, and part of his allotment was a small lot included in the present limits of Sellersville borough. He was a tailor by trade, and probably lived on this lot and followed his cal ing. He moved back to Rockhill in 1856, and lived there until his death in 1869. He married Maria Dietz, daughter of Abra- ham Dietz, of Rockhill, and they were the parents of nine children, viz: Mil- ton D.; Susanna, wife of Thomas R. Leister: Elizabeth, wife of Peter R. Ziegenfuss: Henry; John; Thomas: Will- iam; Amos; and Emma, wife of Charles Himmelwright. Milton D. Althouse was born in Rock- liill township, January 6. 1841, and was reared and educated in Sellersville. He learned the trade- of a cigar maker when a boy, and worked at that trade for twenty-five years. He at one time owned and conducted a cigar factory in Sellersville. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the town, and has filled a number of local offices, serving as school director and mem- ber of borough council for several terms. In politics he is an ardent Republican, and for many years took an active part in the councils of the party. He was •elected to the office of recorder of deeds of Bucks county in 1884, and served one term of three years. He has also filled the position of transcribing clerk in the recorder's office. In 1889 he was appointed postmaster of Sellersville by President Harrison, and filled that posi- tion for four years. Since July, 1903, lie has had charge of the rural free delivery on the Sellersville mail route. He and his family are members of the lieformed chitrch at Schlichtersville, of which he has been an eider for twenty-two years, and deacon for eight years. He also filled the 'position of trustee and treasurer of the church. He is a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle and Patriotic Order Sons of America. He married, October 15, 1863, Elizabeth Nace, and they have been the parents of four children, of whom only Elmer E., the subject of this' sketch, survives. Elmer E. Althouse was born in 1874, and was reared in Sellersville. He graduated from the Sellersville high school in 1891. and from Pierce's Busi- ness College, Philadelphia, in 1892. He entered the law department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1896. He, however, had a taste for journalism, having been correspondent for Philadelphia and Doylestown papers for some years, and in 1897 started the "Sellersville Herald" in partnership with C. R. Addison. During the first year he purchased his partner's interest, and has since conducted the paper alone, which now has the largest subscription of any weekly paper in upper Bucks. He is also connected with the "Emaus Herald," published at Emaus, Lehigh county. Pennsylvania. The "Herald" is a popular weekly local paper and exer- cises a potent influence toward the im- provement and development of the town of Sellersville and vicinity. Mr. Alt- house is deeply interested in the affairs of his native town, and has filled a num- ber of local positions; he is now serving as borough auditor. He is a member of McCalla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., and Sellersville Lodge, No. 658, I. O. O. F. Mr. Alt- house married June 30, 1807, Margaret G. Leinbach. daughter of Rev. Samuel A., and Margaret (Everhart) Leinbach, and they are the parents of two chil- dren— Samuel L.. born October 12. 1899; and INIary Elizabeth, born March 23, 1905. The family are members of St. Paul's Reformed church, Sellersville. HENRY KEMMERER KLINE, re- siding at Quakertown, Bucks count3% Pennsylvania, is a representative of an old family of German extraction. His ancestor, Isaac Kline, came from Ger- many and settled in Bucks county prior to the Revolutionary war. By his wife Barbara, Isaac Kline was father of a son George, born August 17, 1788, who mar- ried Susanna Hembach, boirn November 16, 1803. George and Susanna (Hem- bach) Kline were the parents of the following named children: I. Solomon, born February 12, 1826; died July, 1904: he married Sarah Keppler, and resided in Easton. 2. Mary, inarried M. Erd- man. 3. Isaac, born 1828; married Eme- line Kneedler. of Kneedler's Corner, Gwynedd township, and lived in Beth- lehem. 4. Sarah, born April 12, 1834, 342 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. married Joseph Himevelt, ami lived in Philadelphia. 5. Susanna, born Septem- ber 3, 1835, married Louis Kehl, of Montgomery county. 6. George, to be further mentioned hereinafter. 7. An in- fant. The father of this family died February 3, 1838, and his wife survived him many years, dying January 14, 1875. George Hembach Kline, son of George and Susanna (Hembach) Kline, was born January 13, 1837, on a farm then owned and cultivated by his father, at Hembach, Lower Milford township, Lehigh county. He attended the sub- scription school of Samuel Crawford, at Swamp Church, and also for two years the public schools, which were then first opened. He then went to Plym- outh Meeting, Montgomery county, where he remained until his sixteenth year, working on a farm and attending the Friends' school. He was then ap- prenticed to Jacob Harley, a harness maker at Zion Hill, Lehigh county, and who was father of Jonas Harley, pro- prietor of a harness manufactory at Quakertown. Here George Kline re- mained one year, when he went to Quakertown. where he entered the em- ploy of Louis P. Jacoby. In the course of a few years he established a shop on his own account at Riegelsville, Dur- ham township. In 1859 he located in Quakertown, where he purchased the business of his former employer, Louis Jacoby. He conducted his establish- ment profitably until the second year of the civil war, when (October i. 1862) he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel William J. Palmer commanding. He was detailed for special duty as saddler, and in August, 1863, was promoted to sergeant, which rank he held until he was honorably discharged from the ser- vice of the United States after the col- lapse of the rebellion, in June, 1865. He participated in some of the most stirring campaigns of the great con- flict, and among the notable battles in which he bore a part was the sanguin- ary struggle at Chickamauga. Tennes- see. After returning from his army service, Mr. Kline resumed his business, which he has successfully conducted to the present time. He has alwa;\'s taken an active part in community afifairs, and enjoys the respect and confidence of his neighbors in high degree. During President Cleveland's first administra- tion he filled a full term of four years as postmaster, discharging the duties of the position with ability and integrity. In politics he is a stanch Democrat. With his family he holds membership in St. John's Lutheran Church, in which he has served as deacon, and has other- wise been active in church work. In 1857, while residing in Riegels- ville, Mr. Kline married Elmina, daugh- ter of Henry and Lydia (Bartholomew> Kemmerer, and of this union were borni the following children : i. Henry Kem- merer, to be further mentioned; 2. Emma B., who became the wife of Harry Y. Jacoby, son of Simon Jacoby,. of Sellersville, Bucks county ; 3. Susan B., who became the wife of Andrew Snovel, of Hatfield, Montgomery county; 4. William K. Henry Kemmerer Kline, eldest child of George H. Elmina (Kemmerer) Kline, was born June 4, 1862. He at- tended the common schools and the high school until reaching his sixteenth year, after which he worked for J. S. Harley. He became assistant post- master to his father, acting in that ca- pacit}' for four years. During the sec- ond Cleveland administration and that of President Harrison he was assistant postmaster to Edward Ochs, and after the death of Mr. Ochs. with Dr. Joseph Thomas. For two years and a half he was assistant to Mahlon Detweiler, after which he was employed for six months by Mrs. Clymer. Since October,. 1903, he has been engaged in stove- mounting. He has been active in public affairs, and for four years served as clerk of the council, and is now a mem- ber of the school board and clerk of the election board. In politics he is a Democrat. He and his wife are mem- bers of St. John's Lutheran Church, in which for many years he has served as deacon and secretary of the Sunday school. Mr. Kline married, December 26. 1891, Emma Matilda, daughter of Til and Amelia (Mint) Osnean, of Quakertown. formerly of Allentown, and they have three children: J. Robert,. Herman Otto and Lillian Naomi. All these children attend school and J. Robert is studying music. JOSHUA TOMLINSON, honored as the oldest living resident of Langhorne, of which city he is a native, and the onlv surviving charter member of the Lodge of Odd Fellows in that village, is a representative of ancestry v\ho set- tled in Pennsylvania in the colonial days, shortly before the Revolution. The founders of the American branch of the family came from England and settled in Philadelphia and Bucks counties. They were farmers by occupation, and Friends in religion. Mr. Tomlinson was born March 24, 1822. in Middletown township, son of Aaron and Jane (Headley) Tomlinson; grandson of William and Rachel (Ever- ett) Tomlinson; and great-grandson of Richard Tomlinson. He was educated at the Friends' school and the Belle- view school in Langhorne, that last named being then under the charge of William Mann, one of the most capable 1^ ULi, 'RAR/I HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 343 teachers of that day. Young Tomlin- son labored upon the paternal farm until he was seventeen, and at that early age entered upon an apprenticeship to the coachmaker's trade in a shop which his father conducted in connection with his farming labors. He was so em- ployed for four years, and at the expira- tion of that time, his father retiring, he succeeded to the management. He con- ducted the business with much success until 1849, when he sold it and went to Maryland, where he cultivated a plan- tation for a couple of years. In 1851 he returned to Middletown and resumed his coachmaking business, in which he successfully continued until 1875, when he retired to a finely improved and highly productive farm which he had previously purchased, and where he made his home for thirteen years. He then made a final removal to Lang- horne, where he has since resided, occu- pying a beautiful and comfortable home where he enjoys that well merited ease and contentment which should properly crown so active and well spent a life. He enjoys the esteem aYid confidence of the community, to whose prosperity and advancement he has materially con- tributed, and among whom he is held in peculiar regard as the oldest citizen. He is the oldest surviving member of and the only charter member now liv- ing of Orionto Lodge, No. 177, I. O. O. F., organized in May, 1846, and of which he has been an active and con- tributing member continuously down to the present time, a period of forty- eight years. He was for five years a justice of the peace, and for many years was a member and secretary of the old Attleboro Fire Company. In religion he is a Friend, and in politics a staunch Republican, having affiliated with the party when it organized in 1856 for its noble purpose of staying the aggres- sions of slaveholders and the prostitu- tion of free soil to human slavery, a crime against humanity and a sin against God. Mr. Tomlinson married, July 4, 1847. Miss Lydia Ann Noble, of Phila- delphia, daughter of Edward and Eliza- beth (Tiller) Noble. Of this union were born three children, all of whom were educated in the Friends' and public schools of Langhorne. They were: i. Edward Hicks, born May 11, 1848, he married Annie Reigan, and they became the parents of the following children — - Florence May, born 1874; Joshua Noble, who married in 1904, Elizabeth Griffith: Estelle, Clarence L., and one who died in infancy. Florence May was married to Ervin Fisher, of Philadelphia, and they became the parents of two chil- dren: Nevin and Oswald Fisher. Elizabeth Jane, born September 29, 1850. Frederick Noble, born June 17. 1855, never married. Mrs. Tomlinson. mother of this famih^ passed away January 28, 1902, leaving to her mourning hwsband and children the tender memories of a beautiful spirit which shed the light of love upon all who came into companion- ship with her. GEORGE TOMLINSON, son of Aaron and Jane (Headley) Tomlinson, and grand- son of William and Rachel (Everett) Tom- linson, mentioned in the preceding sketch, was born in Middletown, February 15, 1840, and was educated at the public and Friends' schools of Langhorne. He re- mained on the farm with his parents until twenty years of age. In 1861 he responded to the call of his country by enlisting in Company F, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers under Captain Alfred Marple, and that veteran of two wars. Colonel (now General) W. W. H. Davis, and participated with his regiment in the bloody battles of Fair Oaks, the Seven Days Fight, Malvern Hill, as well as in a number of other engage- ments and skirmishes. On account of ill health he was honorably discharged on October 3, 1862, after having been confined for some time to the military hosnital on David's Island, New York. He returned home, and after careful nursing regained to some extent his normal hea.th, though he never fully recovered from the results of the campaign of hardships in the Vir- ginia swamps. As soon as sufficientlv re- covered he resumed the vocation of a farmer, which he followed until 1883 when, having purchased a house on Green street, Langhorne, he retired to that borough, where he has since resided, having built his present residence in 1891. He has al- ways taken an active intere-t in the affairs of the town, and is a member of Sergeant Hugh A. Martindale Post, G. A. R., No. 366, and of Orionto Lodge,. No. 177, I. O. O. F. He was reared in the faith of the Society of Friends, of which his ancestors have been members for many generations. In politics he is a Republican, and has always taken an active interest in the suc- cess of his party. He married, December 21, 1865, Annie Strouse, daughter of Sam- uel and Susan (Lutz) Strouse, of Lang- horne. ■ ■' : r^. EDWARD A. IVINS, of Falls, township, a representative of one of the old and honored families of Bucks county, may be properly mentioned among the citizens who are contributing their quota toward the development of the agricultural interests of the community. He is a native of Penns Manor, the date of. his birth being Febru- ary II, 1858. Aaron Ivins. grandfather of Edward A. Ivins, resided at Penns Manor, Falls town- ship, where he successfully conducted agri- cultural pursuits for a number of years. He married Hope Aaronson, and they were the parents of three children : Edward A., 344 HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY. Aaron R., and Stephen Woolston. His second wile, wliose maiden name was Han- nah Eastburn, bore him two children, one of whom died in childhood, the other being Wihiam Henry Ivins, of Langhorne, Penn- sylvania. Edward A. Ivins, eldest son of Aaron and Hope (Aaronson) Ivins, was born in Penns Manor, July 30, 1828. The occupation to which he was reared he made his life work, being accounted one of the practical and progressive farmers of his locality. He enjoyed the confidence of the entire com- munity, and was thoroughly trustworthy in all the relations of life. He was united in marriage to Anna Brown, who was born in Penns Manor, May 23, 1830, a daughter of Moses and Ann (Harvey) Brown, life- long residents of Penns Manor. Moses Brown was born in 1792, was a farmer by occupation, and died May 16, 1874, aged eighty-eight years. His wife, Ann (Har- vey) Brown was born in 1794, and died January 10, 1852, at the age of fifty-ei4^^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. tioned at length hereinafter. The ckatli of Mr. Stout occurred in 184 1. Harrison C. Stout, son of Abraham Bar- nard and Lydia (Cressman) Stout, was born October 3, 1836, at Sellersville, Rock- hill township, and was the only child of his parents. While he was still an infant the family moved to Mil ford township and set- tled in what is now Rosedale. After the death of his father his mother moved to Sellersville, and it was there that Harrison C. spent his boyhood. At the end of eight years he went to live with his uncle, Jacob Stout, and in 1851 moved to Doylestown. where he was employed on the "Bucks County Express," a German newspaper. After a few months he was obliged to abandon this work on account of failing sight, and took a position with Dr. W. S. Hendrick, with whom he remained for one year. He then went to Hagersville in order to learn the carpenter's trade with Elias Rosenberg, and after applying himself to that calling for two years and a half mi- grated to Stirling, Illinois. Thence he pro- ceeded to Missouri, and extended his wan- derings as far south as Fort Scott, Kan- sas. In the spring of 1859 he returned to Pennsylvania and settled with his uncle Jacob at Bridgetown, where for some time he worked at his trade. In 1863 he moved to Philadelphia, where for a short time he was employed as railroad carpenter, after- ward applying himself to general carpentry. He then became foreman in the furniture factory of Ebert, Sleifer & Hall, a position which he held for eight years. In 1870 he moved to Sellersville, where he followed his trade until 1875, in which year he established himself as a manufacturer of cigar boxes. In 1890 he settled in Quakertown, building the plant which he now operates, and in which he employs a large number of hands. He is actively interested in local affairs, and durincr his residence in Sellersville served as chief burgess. Since coming to Quakertown he has been for three years a member of the council, and has also served as chairman of the electric light committee and of the fire department. He has been prominently identified with fire departments in various places for about fifty-three years. He was one of the or- ganizers of the fire department at Sellers- ville, Bucks county, and was its first chief. In 1892 he organized the Quakertown fire department, and has been chief ever since. He had a wide reputation as a fireman, and has in many instances risked his own life to save others from being consumed by the flames. Politically he is a Republican, and is active in the interests of the organiza- tion. He is a member of the First Re- formed • church, in which he has held the ofifice of trustee and since 1889 has served continuously as elder. Mr. Stout married, October :8. i86o, Mary Ann Nace. and they have one son. Edward Newton, born March 30. 1863. and lives in Pliiladelphia, where he is employed as an engineer in Cramp's shipyard. He married in 1882, Susan, daughter of Jesse and Eliza (Nace) Nace, of Sellersville, and their family consists of the following children : Minnie, died in 1891 ; Harrison Stephen, born September 20, 1885, and lives- with his grandfather in Quakertown; Will- iam, born June 30, 1891, and is at home with his parents in Philadelphia; and Charles, deceased. Mrs. Stout is a grand- daughter of Adolf and Annie (Weitzel) Nace, whose son Isaac was born July '>. 1810, and was a lifelong farmer. He lived at one time in Montgomery county, and later took up his abode in Haycock town- ship. He married in 1835, Anna, daughter of John and Mary (Zellers) Berger, and they were the parents of the following chil- dren: I. William, born January 21, 1837, married, January i, i860, Lisetta Seems, and lives at Siegfried, Lehigh county. 2. Mary Ann, born February 8, 1839, became the wife of Harrison C. Stout, as mentioned above. 3. Henry, born October 25, 1841, is unmarried and makes his home with his sister. 4. Eliza, born February 21, 1843^ resides in Philadelphia. 5. Isaac, born Feb- ruary, 1846, married Elizabeth Monroe, of Philadelphia, and died in 1889. 6. Sarah, married a Mr. Obiedenn, of Philadel- phia. 7. Isaac, born July 3, 1855, died irt 1899. Mr. Nace, the father, passed the greater part of his life in New Britain township, but at the time of his death was a resident of Silverdale, Hilltovvn town- ship. WILLIAM SCOTT is the owner of a. good farm about a mile distant from Yard- ley. It was in the vicinity of this borough that he was born, on the i6th of December. 1864. His father, Thomas Scott, emigrated from his native country, Ireland, to Amer- ica in 1857, when nineteen years of age, and settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania,^ where he worked on a farm for about three years. He then removed to Penns Manor, Bucks county, wjhere he entered the em- ploy of Arthur Collins, in whose service he remained for some time. He then began farming on his own account, and has since given his undivided attention to agricul- tural pursuits. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Morrisville. and a respected and worthy citizen of his com- munity. He married Miss Cecelia M'oran, a daughter of William and Margaret j\Ioran, of Chester county, Pennsylvania,, and they had four children, one of whom died in childhood, the others being William ; Robert, a resident farmer of Lower Make- field town.ship"; and Mary, at home. At the usual age. William Scott entered the public schools, his time being passed in a manner similar to that "of most farm lads of the period. He continued to assist his father in the cultivation of the home place until eighteen years of age. when he went to New York city, believing that he would prefer- commercial life. He there entered the employ of T. G. Patterson, a n-Ht' NEW YORK! ;iniACL13RARV! '-■■■-DATIONS. • O'Wl/LA , HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ZA7 manufacturer of packing boxes, with whom he continued for twelve years. On the ex- piration of that period he returned to v^hes- ter county, Pennsylvania, where he had charge of a farm for William J. Moran for two years, and then returned to Bucks coun- ty, where he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, about one mile dis- tant from Yardley, and has since given his entire attention to agricultural pursuits. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never sougliL or desired public office, preferring to devote his attention to his business af- fairs, in which he is now meeting with creditable and gratifying success. Mr. Scott married Miss Margaret Irwin, and they have two children : Edith G., born February 4, 1901 ; and Florence, born July 17, 1902. RICHARD M. JOHNSON, one of the most prosperous farmers of Bucks county, and a man who is held in high ,esteem by his foUow-townsmen as an upright, honest and useful citizen, was born in Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, No- vember 22, 1841, the son of Milton and Evaline (Edwards) Johnson. The pro- genitor of the Johnson family in America was Casper Johnson, great-grandfather of Richard M. Johnson, who emigrated to this country from Germany at an early day, settling in the province of Pennsylvania, in Upper Bucks county. He married and had a son, Casper Johnson. Casper Johnson, junior, grandfather of Richard M. Johnson, was born in Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He acquired what education the subscription schools of that day afforded, and followed the occupation of blacksmithing all his life. He married Mary Gibson and had a son, Milton. Milton Johnson, father of Richard M. Johnson, was born in 1823 in Richland township, on the farm now owned by Cor- nelius Loucks. He attended the subscrip- tion schools, and then turned his atten- tion to farming, which occupation he fol- lowed all his life. He was a Whig in politics, but at the formation of the Repub- lican party joined that organization. He married Evaline, daughter of Amos and Abigail (Evans) Edwards, of Quakertown, and the following children were born to them : Richard Moore, mentioned at length hereinafter ; Amos, born November 24, 1849, married Anna Shaw, daughter of William and Hannah (Morgan) Shaw; he is a farmer, living at the corner of Station road and Bethlehem pike, south of Quaker- town. Richard Moore Johnson was educated in the common schools of his native place, and also studied in a private school under the preceptorship of Rev. A. Home, at Quaker- town, until his twentieth year. He then lo- cated on his father's farm, which his father had purchased in April, 1842, and assisted with the farm work. In 1870 Richard, with his brother Amos and their father com- menced working the home farm on shares, and this arrangement existed until 1876. Milton Johnson (father) died in 1883, after which Richard purchased his brother's in- terest and continued to operate the farm for himself. The farm consists of one hun- dred and four acres of fertile, gently slop- ing land, with a southern exposure, and which Mr. Johnson operated as a dairy and general farm. Politically Mr. Johnson is a strong Republican, and, although living in a district that is strongly Democratic, has on several occasions been elected to local offices, thereby defeating the candi- date of the Democratic party and demon- strating the esteem and respect in which he is held by the community. Mr. Johnson is a member of the school board and has served as judge of elections. He is a mem- ber of the Society of Friends, Richland Monthly Meeting, at Quakertown. His mother was a birthright member of this organization. March 25, 1870, Richard M. Johnson was united in marriage to Mary P. Strawn, daughter of Eli- W. and Mar- garet (Penrose) Strawn of Richland township. She was born September 26, 1841, and died July 29, 1892. The follow- ing children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: Harry S., born February 13, 1872, married Melvina Penrose, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Morgan) Penrose, of Quakertown. Her parents are farmers living on Strawn farm on Bethlehem pike, one mile south of Quakertown ; Milton, born November ir, 1876, married Martha Penrose ; Walter E., born October 26, 1879, unmarried: Maurice, born September =;. 1886, unmarried ; Arthur R., born June id, 1891, attending school. THOMAS K. GUMPPER, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, is the son of John J. Gumpper, of Germany, who settled in Phil- adelphia when quite young. John J. Gump- per was a man of more than ordinarv abil- ity. He began his active career by learn- ing the barber trade, and in early manhood opened a shop in Philadelphia, and a few years afterwards by energy, perseverance and thrift was the owner of several barber shops in the city. For a number of yccirs prior to his retiring from business he was busily employed in looking after these shops, although he did not work at the chair himself. He was the Republican candidate for congress in the third Philadelnhia dis- trict, his Democratic opponent having been the Hon. Samuel Randel, who was elected from this district several terms. He was counsel at Ghent under President Grant. He was a member and one of the organizers of the Union League of Philadelphia. For several years prior to his death, which oc- curred in 1896, he was engaged in variou."? business enterprises and accumulated a handsome fortune. He married Su.^an W. 348 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Elton, and their children were: Joseph E., deceased; and Thomas K., mentioned here- inafter. Thomas Keyser, the maternal grandfather of Thomas K. Gumpper, was a Dunkard minister, and was among the ■early settlers of Germantown. He donated the ground occupied at Germantown by the Dunkard graveyard. Thomas K. Gumpper was born in Phila- -delphia, Pennsylvania, November i, 1843. He received his education at the common schools of his native city, and early in life mastered the trade of barber under his father's instruction. In 1873 he moved to Newtown and established himself in the barber business, which he successfully fol- lowed for twenty years, since which time he has lived a retired life. He served as mail carrier in Philadelphia from 1862 to 1874, and was also connected with the Phil- adelphia arsenal for two years. He is a member of the Episcopal church of New- town. He is also a member of the Mystic Chain, No. 121, of Newtown, in which •order he has passed all the chairs. Politically Mr. Gumpper is a Republican. He served as mayor two terms, as assessor nine j^ears, as tax collector for Newtown borough for about two years, and for quite an extended period was a member of the council. In each place of public and private trust he has proved himself capable and trustworthy. Mr. Gumpper married, February 24, 1862, Miss Emma Hill, daugh- ter of George M. and Anna Hill. Mr. Hill was a well-known Philadelphia politician ; he was city commissioner two terms, tax collector two terms, sergeant-at-arms at Harrisburg three or four years, and also United States detective, having worked on the case of President Lincoln when as- sassinated by Mr. Booth. The Hills were among the early settlers of Kensington and were large property holders and prominent people. The issue of this union was eleven children, as follows : John J., who died in infancy; Mirriam. born October 23, 1864. wife of James Gamble: Annie H., who died at four years of age : Sue W., born Januarv 13, 1868, wife of John R. Lenny, o. Phila- delphia; Thomas K., born May 25, 1871 : John T.. born June 26, 1873 ; William K., born December 23, 1875 ; Joseph E., born February 28, 1877; James P. H., deceased, born August 10, 1880: Ray E., born Sep- tember II, 1883: Charles N., born June 17, 1887. Their grandchildren to the date of February, 1905, are: Mirriam E., Clara, James Elton, Thomas .•\shton, Harry. Erben, Emma and Edna, children of James and Mirriam Gamble. Thomas K., Edward. William and Roy, children of John R. and Sue W. Lenny. Emma H., child of Thomas K. Gumpper. Thomas K., son of John J. Gumpper. Irene, James G. and Helen, children of William K. Gumoper. Ruth and Mirriam, children of Josenh E. Gumpper. All in all he of whom this notice is written may very well count life a success. He has by dint of industi^r built lip for himself a home surrounded with life's comforts, and he has the respect cf all with whom he mingles. His family, well reared, are an ornament to society and useful to the world. RICHARD LAFAYETTE DOLTON. Among the progressive and prosperous farmers of Southampton township, who make a specialty of dairy farming, may be mentioned the name of Richard L. Dol- ton, a native of Newtown, bucks county, Pennsylvania, the date of his birth being October 21, 1847. His parents were Charles and Emma (Poulterer) Dolton, and his grandparents were Charles and Tamar (Tomlinson) Dolton, whose family con- sisted of two children : Fanny, who became the wife of a Mr. Walker, who was a printer in the Ledger office, and they were the parents of two children ; and Charles, born October 28, 1811. Charles Dolton (father) aforementioned was a ship carpenter, and for many years followed a seafaring life. It was during one of his voyages that he met his wife, an English girl, whose name was Emma Poul- terer, born February 23, 1824. After his marriage he continued his seafaring life for some years, and in 1867 turned his atten- tion to farming at Newtown, Bucks county, but shortly afterward, however, retired from active occupation, spending his life in New- town until his death, seven years later, which was the result of an injury received from the kick of a horse. He served dur- ing the Mexican war as a carpenter, prob- ably in an engineer corps, and was severely hurt, having both legs broken by a falHng timber. He also served in the war against the Seminole Indians in Florida, and was one of the men who helped bury Major Dade and his men. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dolton are as follows : Eliza, born 1844, became the wife of Franklin Fenton, son of Benjamin Fenton; Richard Lafay- ette, born October 21, 1847, mentioned here- inafter; Charles T., born in April, 1850, married a lady in Chicago, and they have one son, Richard; they reside in Chicago; John ; Elwood, deceased ; Frank, died in in- fancy. Richard L. Dolton attended the schools of Newtown, Bucks county, until the age of ten years, after which he went to work on the farm owned by Isaac Chapman, at Wrightstown, where he remained for three years. He then went to Holland and worked for Joseph W. and James C. Cornell, and from Holland joined his father in New Britain, where they cultivated a farm leased from Richard Hamilton. In the sixties he went with his father to Illinois, w'here they only remained a short period, returning to Bucks county in September, 1865, -after hav- ing disposed of their property in the west. He then went to work for John K. Talbot in Upper Makefield. where he remained un- til the spring of 1866, when he went to farming for himself, renting the property HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 349 of David Twining. This land he farmed for about one year and then joined his father at Newtown, with whom he remained until his marriage, when he moved to the farm of Aaron Knight, his father-in-law, which farm he cultivated for twenty-five years, renting it until it was sold. In April, 1904, he removed to the farm on which he now resides in Southampton township and since then has made a specialty of dairy farming. Mr. Dolton was united in inarriage to Phoebe T. Knight, who was born in Southampton township, September 29, 1856, a daughter of Aaron and Hannah (Tomlinson) Knight. Seven children were the issue of this union, six of whom are : Aaron, born August 10, 1880, married Blanche Atkinson and they are the parents of two children : Aaron and Florence. Emma, born August 10, 1882, wife of George T. White. Bertha, born July 25, 1884, died August 9, 1885. Mary E., born December 26, 1885. }^Iabel, born January 28, 1887. Richard, born April 6, 1888. CHARLES E. COPE, the well known hotel proprietor of Atlantic City, and the Water Gap, was born at New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1852, and is descended on the paternal side from Yost Cope, one of the earliest German settlers in Bucks county. George B. Cope, father of Charles E., v/as born and reared in Plumstead town- ship, Bucks county. Soon after his mar- riage he engaged in business in New Hope, Bucks county, where he was a successful merchant and general business man, be- ing engaged for some years in boat build- ing and other local industries. He was a Democrat in politics, and for many years took an active part in the councils of his party. He was elected to the office of treasurer of Bucks county, and served for three years. He later removed to Burling- ton, New Jersey, and engaged extensively in cranberry growing. He died at the age of seventy years. His wife was Frances M. Crook, of an old New Hope familv, and they were the parents of ten children of whom eight survive : Ella, widow of Edgar Haas, of Solebury ; Charles E.. the subject of this sketch; G. Frank, of Sum- mit's Point. New Jersey ; Clara, widow of Sexton Woodward, of Philadelphia ; An- netta, wife of Blanchard White, an at- torney of Pemberton, New Jersey ; Cath- arine, wife of Dr. Seagraves, of Pember- ton ; Bertha, wife of William Watts, a hotel proprietor at Atlantic City ; J. Pardy, of Atlantic City. Charles E. Cope was reared at New Hope and acquired his education at the public schools and the State Normal School at Millersville. Pennsylvania. At the age of twenty years he left his father's cranberry farm and returned to Bucks county, where he took up the butchering business, first in Pineville, later at Forest Grove, and Buckingham, and finally in Doylestown, where he conducted a meat market for some years. Selling out his business he con- ducted the Upper Hotel at Buckingham for two years, and then removed to the Water Gap, where he conducted a summer resort for three years. His father dying about this time and leaving him his partially de- veloped cranberry farm, encumbered, Charles as the eldest son was called home to take matters in charge. Needing money to develop the property, Mr. Cope went to Atlantic City and engaged in the hotel business, and from his earnings there de- veloped the cranberrv bog, thus placing the property upon an earning basis, so that in three or four years cranberries were pro- duced by the carload, and a large income was provided for the widowed mother and her children. Mr. Cope then deeded the property over to his mother, and has since continued the hotel business at Atlantic City and the Water Gap. He assisted his brothers to start in business for themselves, and both of them have been successful, Frank, the elder having retired from active business. Mr. Cope has been the proprietor of the "Clifton," "San Marcus," "Alber- marle," "Kenilworth," the "Grand Atlantic," and the "Jackson" hotels at Atlantitc City, and still retains the latter, as well as the Kittatinning House at the Delaware Water Gap, both of which he conducts. In 1898 he purchased a tract of land at Wycombe, Bucks county, upon which he has erected several houses and business places. Mr. Cope married, in 1879, Emma Thompson, daughter of the late Abraham Thompson, of Wrightstown, for many years a prominent farmer of that townshio, and who filled the office of county commissioner several years ago. He belonged to an old family in that vicinity, of Scotch-Irish ex- traction. Mr. and Mrs. Cope have no chil- dren. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M.. Atlantic City Lodge, B. P. O. E.. Pequod Tribe, I. O. R. M., and Atlantic City Lodge, I. O. O. F. MRS. J. WARREN PAXSON, of Sole- bury township, is descended from the well known Beans family of Bucks county, be- ing a great-granddaughter of Nathan Beans, who at one time was the owner of a clock that is now in possession of Mrs. Phillips. It was made for him by Seneca Lukens, of Horsham, Pennsylvania, in 1787. Stephen Beans, son of Nathan Beans, was born March 8. 1776. in Warminster township, Bucks county, but after attaining his majority removed to Northampton township, where he was engaged in farm- ing for many years. He. however, returned to Warminster township and located in Johnsville, where he died on the 20th of August, 1866. He married Nancy Ramsey, and their son was Robert Beans, who was bcr-. in Norlhnmpton township, March 28, 350 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY. 1818. In early manhood he learned the wheelwright trade and opened a shop in New Hope about 1840. In 1842 he re- moved to Richboro, where he remained for a year or two and then established his home at Johnsville, where he owned and conducted an extensive .machine shon which became one of the leading industrial con- cerns of the locality, furnishing employment to twenty or more men. He was an ac- ■complished mechanic, and patented a mow- ing machine. He was very active in busi- life, a man of keen discernment and un- faltering enterprise as well as unblemished integrity, and through the capable manage- ment of his affairs acquired a handsome competency. He always voted with the Re- publican party, giving stalwart support to the cause, and was a recognized leader in its local councils, and, in fact, his influence extended ■ to political circles in the state. He was at one time a candidate for state senator, and although his district was strongly Democratic he was defeated by a very small vote, running far ahead of his ticket. He served for a number of years as justice of the peace, and was one of the liighly esteemed and influential men of his locality. He married Miss Ann Carver, who was born in Northampton township, December 9, 1818, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Smith) Carver. Her father was a prominent farmer of Northampton town- ship, and was a son of Joel and Ann (Smith) Carver. Robert and Ann (Carver) Beans became the parents of five children, of whom four are living: Mrs. Carrie R. B. Paxson; Annie E., the wife of Frank A. Phillips, assistant cashier of the Lam- bertville National Bank of Lambertville, New Jersey; Mary C, wife of Watson K. Reeder, of New Hope, Bucks county; and Alice, wife of Milton Wood. Mrs. Paxson spent her girlhood days in her parents' home, and her early education, acquired in the common schools, was sup- plemented bv study in the State normal school at Millersville, from which institu- tion she was graduated with the class of 1875. In 1863 she began teaching, and fol- lowed that profession with splendid suc- cess in the district schools for twelve years. In 1879 she gave her hand in marriage to J. Warren Paxson, a son of Abraham and Evelina (Walton) Paxson. His father was born July 17, 1802. in Solebury town- ship, where his entire life was passed. He was in ill health for a long time, and died when comparatively a young man. J. Warren Paxson was born in Solebury township on the farm where he now resides, his natal day being June 25, 1845. He was here reared, and the common schools af- forded him his educational privileges. In 1863 he enlisted for three months service in "the Union army, and returned to his home at the end of that time in very poor health, so that for three years he was under the doctor's care, and for a lonp- time little hone was entertained for his recovery. After regaining his health he worked on the farm of his father until 1876, when he and a brother purchased the old homestead, which they farmed together until 1879. In that year Harvey Paxson assumed the man- agement of the home place, and J. Warren Paxson removed to his late home, where he and his wife thereafter resided. For sev- eral years he was engaged in the under- taking business. He was a cabinet-maker and carpenter by trade, and followed these pursuits occasionally. Mr. Paxson was a Republican in his political views, and be- longed to the Friends' ijieeting. Botii Mr. and Mrs. Paxson represent old families of Bucks county, and have enjoyed the high ' regard of a large circle of friends. J. War- ren Paixson died suddenly of heart trouble on June 27, 1905. HARRY R. TREGO, of Pineville, Wrightstown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born March 2, 1866. on the farm upon which he still resides, and which had been the property of his ances- tors for several generations, having been , purchased by John Trego, the ancestor of the Bucks county branch of the famib- of George Newburn, October 10, 1743. The family of Trego is of French origin, the ancestors Peter and Judith Trego emigrat- ing from France about 1685, and settling in Middletown township, now Delaware county, where Peter purchased land in 1690. The children of Peter and Judith Trego were: Jacob, born 8 mo. 17, 1687; James, born 4 mo. 26, 1690; William, born 6 mo. 3, 1693 ; Ann, born 8 mo. 28, 1702, married Dr. James Rushton ; John, born 12 mo. 15, 1696; Peter, born about i /oo. Peter, the father, died in Middletown at the age of seventy-five years, in 1730. Jacob Trego, the eldest son of Peter and Judith, born in 1687, married at Darby Meeting of Friends in 1710, Mary Cart- ledge, daughter of Edmund and Mary Cart- ledge, who had come from Darby, Derby- shire, in 1683. Mary was born at Darby, Chester county, Pennsylvania, 8 mo. 25, 1685. Jacob resided in Merion, Chester county until 1717, when he moved to Darbv. where he died 4 mo. 10. 1720, his eldest daughter Hannah dying on the same day. He left two children : John, born ^ mo. 6, 1715; and Rachel, born 7 mo. 27. 1719. On October 5, 1722. his widow, Marv Trego, married John Laycock, who had emigrated from Lancashire, England, and settled in Wrightstown. Bucks county. Their only child. Mary Laycock, married Daniel White, of Buckingham, 9 mo. 12, 1751. James and William Trego, sons of Peter and Judith, married sisters bv the name of Moore, and remained in Chester county, the former rearing a family, and the latter dying soon after his marriage, childless. Peter, Jr. married Ann Whitaker, and reared a family. John, the youngest son. followed the sea for many years. Rachel, the surviving daughter of Jacob and Mary HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 351 Trego, married Joseph Johnson, of Wrightstown, and left four sons and a daughter. John Trego, only son of Jacob and Mary (Cartledge) Trego, born in Chester county, 5 mo. 6, 1715, was reared from the age of seven years in Wrightstown, Bucks county. He married Hannah Lester, of Richland, her ancester, Peter Lester, being one of the first settlers in the "Great Swamp." In 1736 his stepfather and mother, John and Mary Laycock, conveyed to him 140 acres in Upper Makefield, a part of which remained the property of his descendants until the present generation, the last owner of the name being Morris W. Trego, his great-grandson. This farm was near the line of Wrightstown, and its northeast line ■was that of Buckingham township. The children of John and Hannah (Lester) Trego were: Jacob, died in Wrightstown, on the old homestead, without issue ; Sarah, married Joseph Wiggins, of Wrightstown, and removed to Harford county, Maryland, in 1771 ; Joyce, died young; Rachel, married a Skelton: Mary, married Meshach Mich- ener, of Plumstead ; Hannah, married David Stockdale, and removed to Harford coun- ty, Maryland; and William. William Trego, second son of John and Hannah (Lester) Trego, was born on the Upper Makefield homestead, March 16, 1744, married 9 mo. 19, 1768, Rebecca Hibbs, and on June 18, 1770, his father conveyed to him aout sixty acres of the liomestead farm, the balance of which reverted to him and his six sons at the death of his brother Jacob, in accordance with his father's will, probated in 1791. William Trego died in 1827. He and his wife Rebecca were the parents of eleven children, as follows : i. Thomas, born 8 mo. 15, 1769, married Sarah Duffield, and removed with his family to Harford county, Maryland, in 1812, dying there 8 mo. 7, 1837; 2. Mahlon, born 11 mo. 25, 1770, married Rachel Briggs, and died 3 mo. 22, 1849; 3. Joseph, born 11 mo. 10, 1772; 4. William, born 9 mo. 29, 1774, mar- ried Rachel Taylor, and died 7 mo. 14. 1850; 5. John, born 2 mo. 20, 1776, died 10 mo. 16, 1832 ; 6. Mary, born 10 mo. i. 1778, died 10 mo. 6, 1784 ; 7. Jacob, born 10 mo. 28, 1780, married Letitia Smith, and lived in Wrightstown until 1846, when li€ removed to Illinois, where he died, 10 mo. 3. 1870; 8. Jesse, born 1783, died 1784; 9. Hannah, born 10 mo. 23, 1784, married Isaac Beans, and settled in Harford coun- ty. Maryland, in 1812; 10. Rebecca, born 8 mo. 21, 1786, married John Beans, and (second) Thomas Briggs; 11. Marv, born 10 mo. 3, 1788, married her cousin, Mahlon Hibbs West, in Harford county, Maryland, his mother and hers being sisters. John Trego, fifth child of William and Rebecca (Hibbs) Trego, born 12 mo. 20, 1776, on the LTpper Makefield homestead, inherited sixty-five acres thereof and spent his whole life there. He also inherited the Wrightstown farm now occupied by his great-grandson, the subject of this sketch. He died 10 mo. 16, 1832, and the Upper Makefield homestead was adjudged to his - second son, Morris W., his eldest son, John K. Trego, the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, electing to take the Wrightstown farm, where he then resided. The other children of John Trego, were Seth and Lydia. John K. Trego was born on the Upper Makefield homestead, but on his marriage or soon after settled on the Wrightstown farm, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying March 23, 1886. He was an active and prominent man in the commun- ity. Like all his American ancestors, he was a member of the Society of Friends. He was one of the trustees of the Pinevilie school, established for the use of the neigh- borhood long before the time of the com- mon school, and filled other positions of trust. He married Wilhelmina Kirk, daughter of Amos and Chanty (Doan) Kirk, of Buckingham, the tormer of whom was born in Buckingham 2 mo. 10, 1782, and died 9 mo. 24, 1863. He was a son of Thomas and Ocea (Kinsey) Kirk, grand- son of Isaac and Rachel (Fell) Kirk, great- grandson of John and Joan (ElHot) Kirk, the former of whom came from Alderton. Derbyshire, England, in 1687, and settled near Darby, from whence his son John re- moved to Buckingham in 1729. The chil- dren of John K. and Wilhelmina (Kirk) Trego, were Angelina, now widow of S. Smith Kirk, still living in Wrightstown, and Amos K Amos Kirk Trego, only son of John K. and Wilhelmina, was born on the Wrights- town homestead, March 27. 1838, and still resides on a portion of it, having resigned the management of the farm to his son, the subject of this sketch, several years ago. He married Emily A. McKinstry, daughter of Henry and Hannah (Hillborn) Mc- Kinstry, who was born in Montgomery county, July 21, 1840. Henry McKinstry died in 1845. and his widow, Hannah (Hill- born) McKinstry, survived him fifty-nine years, dying in Wrightstown in April, 1904, at the age of eighty-six years. Amos K. and Emily A. (McKinstry) Trego are the parents of two children: Harry R., the sub- ject of this sketch; and Miriam, wife of Jonathan A. Warner, of Edison, Bucks county. Harry R. Trego was born and reared on the Wrightstown homestead, which he now occupies, arid was educated at the pub- lic schools. He was reared to the life of a farmer, and on his marriage in 1889 took charge of the farm. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or held other than local offices. He is a member of Northern Star Lodge. No. 54, I. O. O. F. of Richboro ; Penns Park Council, No. 973. Jr. O. U. A. M., and of Northern Star Castle, No. 121. A. O. K. of the M. C. of Newtown. On January 10, 1889. he mar- ried Anna D. Twining, daughter of Elias 352 I'll STORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Twining, of Wrightstown. and a descend- ant of the oldest and most prominent fam- ilies of that section. They have no chil- dren. AMOS S. WORTHINGTON. Lewis Worthington, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, in 1820, and is a descendant of the family of that name who have been residents of Buckingham for sev- eral generations, their earliest ancestors having originally settled in Byberry, Phil.i- delphia county, from whence the immedi- ate progenitors of the Buckingham fam- ily removed to Buckingham about the middle of the eighteenth century._ Lewis Worthington was reared to the life of a farmer, and always followed that vocation. In the year 1854 he purchased of a rela- tive, Israel Worthington, the farm m Doylestown township where the subject of this sketch now resides, and contammg eighty-two acres, and resided thereon until his death in 1895. He married Tacy Dud- bridge, daughter of William Dudbridge, of Warwick township, and they were the par- ents of two children: Theresa, wife of Frank Keller, of Doylestown; and Amos S. Amos S. Worthington was born in Doylestown township, August 19, 1855. He was reared on the farm where he still re- sides, and acquired his education at the public schools. At the death of his father he continued to manage the farm, and a year later purchased his sister's interest therein, and takes great pride in making it one of the most productive and attrac- tive farms in the neighborhood. STACY BROWN, of Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born at Browns- burg, Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1864, and is a son of the late William B. and Hannah (Hough) Brown. Mr. Brown is descended on both mater- nal and paternal sides from the oldest and most distinguished families of Bucks county. George Browne and Mercy his wife, the pioneer ancestors of the family, came from Lancashire, England, in 1679, and were married on their arrival at New Castle. They located in Falls township on land surveyed to them under warrant from Edmund Andros, governor-general under the Duke of York. This land fronted on the Delaware, above the Manor of Pennsbury, and a part of it has remained in the tenure of the de.scendents of George and Mercy Browne to the present time. He and his wife Mercy were said to have been members of the Established church, but most of their descendants of the third gen- eration became members of the Society of Friends. They had fourteen children. Joseph Brown, the great-great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was a grandson of George and Mercy Browne and supposed to be a son of Joseph and Ann (Higgs) Brown. He was born in l^'alls township, Bucks county, and residea there all his life, dying in 1777. He mar- ried, May 27, 1760, Mary Hutchinson, eld- est child of Joseph and Esther (Stanaland) " Hutchinson, and granddaughter of John and Phebe (Kirkbride) Hutchinson, and great-granddaughter of Joseph and Pheot (Blackshaw) Kirkbride. Many of the de- scendents of George and Mercy Browne became prominent in the affairs of the in- fant province, and later in that of the state and nation. His son, Samuel, was prominent member of the colonial assem- bly, as were George and John, sons of Sam- uel. The former was the grandfather 01 General Jacob Brown, of the United States army. Of Joseph Kirkbride, the distin- guished ancestor of the subject of this sketch, it is hardly necessary to state that he was one of the most pi in the colonial history of Bucks county. Joseph and Mary (Hutchinson) Brown were the parents of six children : Joseph and Jesse, who died young; Levi, Stacy, Phebe and Letitia. Mary, the mother, died in 1783. Levi Brown, eldest surviving son of Jo- seph and Mary (Hutchinson) Brown, was born in Falls township in the year 17O5. On arriving at manhood he located in Buckingham and married Sarah Bennett, daughter of William Bennett, of Holland and English ancestry. In 1791, while a resident of Buckingham, he purchased in partnership with Joseph Harrold 150 acres of land in Plumstead township, but prob- ably never lived on it, as he was a resi- dent of Warwick township, when he joined in its conveyance in 1793. Little is known of his subsequent history. Stacy Brown, son of Levi and Sarah (Bennett) Brown, was born in Bucks county, November 11, 1796. On Decembei 17, 1826, he married Lenah Beans, born August 5, 1896, daughter of Thomas and- Christiana (J,fl]i»son) Beans, of Warmin- ster, and located at the present site of the village of Brownsburg, Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, of which village he was the founder. He first purchased five acres of land there, but eventually be- came the owner of over 299 acres in that locality, and was a prominent and succes- ful business man, establishing a store, ho- tel, sash and blind factory and coal and limiber yard, and doing an extensive and thriving business. He died September 20, 1879, and his wife Lenah on May 3, 1872. They were the parents of five children: Mary, the wife of Albert Agin ; Thomas B. ; William B. ; Sara, the first wife of the late Dr. J. P. Agnew; and Harriet S., who never married. William B. Brown, second son of Stacy and Lenah (Beans) Brown, died, 1875, married Hannah Hough, daughter of Sam- uel Moore Hough, of Newtown, and granddaughter of Benjamin and Hannah HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 353 (Simpson) Hough, of Warrington, and a descendant of Richard Hough, provin- cial councillor, an extended account of whose descendants is given in this vol- ume. The children of William B. and Hannah (Hough) Brown were: Stacy, the subject of this sketch; Nellie, the wife of William Hicks, of Newtown; and Lizzie, who died in infancy. Stacy Brown was educated at the State Normal School at Trenton, New Jersey, and the First Pennsylvania State Normal School, Millersville, Pennsylvania. After a few years employment as clerk in a mer- cantile establishment he purchased the Thomas Betts farm in Upper Makefield, near Brownsburg, on which he resided for about five years, and then removed to New- town, where he has been engaged in the undertaking business with his brother-in- law, William Hicks, under the firm name of Brown & Hicks. He married Lavinia, daughter of Dr. Howard and Kate (Smith) Trego, of Newtown, and they are the par- ents of two children — Ellen and Catha- rine. EMANUEL N. SHELLY. Abraham, Christian and Johannes Shelly, supposed to be natives of Switzerland, were land- owners in ISIilford township prior to 1750, and from them are descended the numer- ous family now scattered over upper Bucks and Montgomery counties. Christian Shel- ly died in 2^Iilford township in 1793, leav- ing a widow Susanna, and nine children : Henry, who died in 1814, leaving six chil- dren; Elizabeth, wife of Peter Moyer; Mary, wife of Rev. Jacob Funck, of Ches- ter county ; Abraham ; Samuel ; Catharine ; Fronica, wife of Jacob Allebach; Ann, wife of John Beam; and Susanna, wife of Philip Doreworth. Samuel Shelly was a miller and tanner. In 1830 he purchased a small farm near Schhcters, in Rockhill township, where he lived until his death in March, 1847. He married Sarah Driesbach, and had seven children: Henry: Tobias, Samuel D., So- phia; Lena, married John Gayman; Caro- line, married Elijah Dennis; and Amanda, married Peter Brown. Samuel D. Shelly, second son of Sam- uel and Sarah (Driesbach) Shelly, was born in Rockhill township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1827. Early in life he learned the carpenter trade, and followed it in Rockhill, where he lived until 1900, when he removed to Sellersville, where he died in the spring of 1903. He and his family were members of Jerusalem Luther- an church at Ridge Road, where he of- ficiated as sexton for twenty-five years. He was an honored and respected citizen, of industrious habits and strict integrity. He married Hannah Nace, daughter of Henry Nace, of Rockhill. She died at Sellersville in 1901. Samuel D. and Han- nah (Nace) Shelly were the parents of seven children : Clayton, who married 23-3 Anna Nuss ; Emanuel N. ; Augustus N., of Sellersville, who married Malinda Rouden- bush, and has nine children ; Malinda ; Pierson; Matilda; and Ida, wife of Mon- roe Cuffel. Emanuel N. Shelly, second son of Sam- uel D. and Hannah (Nace) Shelly, was born in Rockhill township, November 21, 1854, and was educated at the public schools. He learned the trade of a ci- gar maker when a young man, and fol- lowed that vocation until 1905, having been in the employ of Allen R. Cressman & Sons for thirty-five years, for fifteen ot which he was foreman of their factory. In June, 1905, he purchased the general merchandise store of F. F. Kilmer, at Sellersville, which he now conducts. He has always been actively interested in the aft'airs of the town, and has served as town councilman for six years, and treasurer for one year, as well as filling other local offices. He is a director and president of the Sellersville Building and Loan Asso- ciation, and has been chief of Sellersville Fire Company No. i, for three years. He and his family are members of the Luth- eran church, of which he is a deacon. He is a member of McCalla Lodge, No. 596, F. & A. M., of Sellersville; of Sellers- ville Lodge, No. 658, I. O. O. F., of which he has been the representative in the grand lodge of Pennsylvania several years; of Sellersville Encampment, No. 252, I. O. O. F., and of Sellersville Council, No. 482, P. O. S. of A. Politically he is a Repub- lican. Mr. Shelly married, January 16, 1875, Lizzie Ann Gearhart, daughter of Levinus Gearhart, and this union was blessed with eight children, viz : Harry, who married Lizzie Cope, and has two chil- dren ; Charles, married Amelia Rosenber- ger; William, married Lizzie' Nace; Emmtt, wife of Harry J. Buck ; Alfred Rob- ert, married Bertha Lewis; Elmer, de- ceased; and Luther. SAMUEL B. LANDIS, of Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 4, 1849, and is a son of Rev. George M. and Mary (Bechtel) Landis. John Landis, the pioneer ancestor of the subject of this sketch, came to Pennsyl- vania from the borders of Switzerland in or about the year 1700, and located for a time in the neighborhood of Germantown. He was accompanied to America by Ben- jamin Landis, supposed to be a brother who was a minister among the Mennon- ites, to which sect John Landis also be- longed. Rev. Benjamin Landis later lo- cated in Lancaster county, where he has numerous descendants. John Landis, fol- lowing the trend of German migration up the Schuylkill and its tributaries, eventu- ally located in Milford township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased land in 1743. He died in 1750, leaving a widow Anne, and several sons, .only two of whom, Jacob and Samuel, are mentioned 354 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY. by name in his will. Jacob was made ex- ecutor with a brother-in-law, Jacob Mus- selman, and the plantation was devised to Samuel, he to have possession wlipn the youngest son should be nineteen years of age, "which will be in January, 1759." Samuel Landis, the son, died in 1771, leav- ing a widow iVlargaret, who married Mich- ael jMusselman, and children : John, Ja- cob, George, Anna; Barbara, wife of Ja- cob Shelly ; Abraham, Eve and Samuel. Jacob Landis, the second son of Samuel and Margaret, born about 1745, purchased a large tract of land in Richland, near California, and lived thereon until about 1800, having previous to that date con- veyed the greater part to his sons, John George and Jacob. He probably located later m life in Lehigh or Montgomery coun- ty, as there is no further record of him in Bucks. George Landis, son of Jacob and Bar- bara, was a turner by trade, and located prior to 1788 in Springfield township, where he purchased a farm of fifty acres in that year. In 1794. he located at Cali- fornia, Richland township, where he fol- lowed his trade in connection with farm- ing. In 1806 he purchased a farm of 137 acres in Haycock, and lived there until his death in 1842, at an advanced age. He married Anna Meyers, and they were the parents of eight children ; two sons, George and John; and six daughters — Barbara, Catharine, Anna, Sarah, Maria and Eliza- beth. George M. Landis, eldest son of George and Anna (Meyers) Landis, was born at California, Richland township, December 20, 1796. He learned the trade of a turn- er with his father, and followed it in Hay- cock, in connection with the con'duct of fifty acres of the old homestead conveyed to him by his father in 1822, until 1857, when he sold his farm and .removed to Hilltown, where he purchased the farm and mill belonging to the estate of Peter Loux, where he resided the remainder of his life. He was a preacher in the Men- nonite church, being the first preacher at the Flatland church in Richland, which he helped to build, contributing both money and labor. On the Hilltown homestead, purchased in 1859, was a mill known as the old Fretz Mill, erected by Martin Fretz, which George Moyer operated after settling in Hilltown. He died August 28, 1881. He was twice married, first on March 28, 1820, to Barbara Rosenberger, daughter of Ja- cob and Catharine (Rickert) Rosenber- ger, of Rockhill, who died November 30, 1842, and their children were; Jacob, born July 7, 1822; Ephraim, born December 13, 1824; George R., born November 2, 1828; John L., born March 25, 1832. George M. Landis married (second) August 22, 1843, Mary Bechtel, born August 12, 1804, and they were the parents of one child, Samuel . Landis. the subject of this sketch. Sanniei B. Landis, born on the old home- stead in , Haycock, October 4, 1849, re- moved with his parents -to Hilltown when a lad, and was educated in the public schools of Haycock and Hilltown. He re- mained on the farm with his parents as- sisting in the operation of the farm and mill, and at the death of his father pur- chased the farm and still resides there. He has attended the Philadelphia markets for eighteen years, doing a large commission business in the marketing of his neigh- bor's produce. Like his ancestors for many generations, he is a member of the Mennonite church. In politics he is a Re- publican. Mr. Landis married, January 2^, 1869, Mary Ann Hockman, born June 3, 1848, daughter of Ulrich and Margaret (Myers) Hockman, of Bedminster, and they were the parents of twelve children, as follows: John, died in infancy; George, born June 8, 1870, married Ida Kachline, and has three children, — Charles, Sam- uel and Mary; Mary, born September 8, 1872, wife of Jonas Hockman,; Catharine, born September 22, 1874, wife of John Musselman ; Ella, born September 9, 1876, wife of Samuel Moyer; Sallie, born No- vember 24, 1878, wife of William Keller; Daniel, born July 31, 1881, died August 28, 1882; Emma, born May 10, 1883, mar- ried William Dunlap ; William and Ida, twins, died in infancy ; Anna, born Decem- ber 27, 1890; Lettie, born March 28, 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Landis have twelve grandchildren : Charles, Samuel and Mary Landis, children of their son George ; Samuel, Mabel, George and Walter Hock- man, children of Jonas and Ida ; Samuel Musselman, son of John and Catharine; Samuel and Mathias Moyer, children of John and Ella ; and IMamie and Evelyn Gertrude Keller, daughters of William and Sallie. JOHN WYNKOOP, proprietor of the Buck Tavern, in Southampton township, Bucks county, was born in Moreland town- ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, July 22, 1837. His paternal grandfather, Philip Wynkoop, married a Miss Norcross and they had six children, namely : Henry, who wedded Mary Hogeland. and had three children, William H., Kate and Lucy ; John, who married Sarah Yerkes, and had one son, Franklin; Mary, who be- came the w'ife of Enos Boutcher, and had two children, George and Albert ; Garrett, who was born October 6, 1802, and wed- ded Mary Carr; Ann, who became the wife Amos Yerkes, and had two children, Albert and Katherine ; and Margaret, who became Mrs. Boutcher, and had six chil- dren : Charles, Wynkoop, Catherine, Lucy, William and John. Garrett and Mary (Carr) Wynkoop had three children: John ; Charles, who married Amy Yerkes, and has a daughter, Rebecca ; and Theo- dore, wlin married Miss Morrison. John Wykoop. eldest son of Garrett and Mary (Carr) Wynkoop, was reared in his native township and acquired a public HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 355 school education, after which he learned ihe miller's trade and for forty years con- ducted Ridge's Mills, in Southampton, to ■which place he removed two years previous to his marriage. Following his long and successful connection with the milling busi- ness, Mr. Wynkoop rented the famous Buck Tavern, which he has managed since 1897. Prominent and active in community affairs, Mr. Wynkoop has filled' several township and county offices. He was elected auditor in. 1867, and held that office for three years. From 1870 until 1881 he was school director, and was then elected coun- ty commissioner, remaining in the office for three years, after which he was again elected school director. He built the coun- ty jail at Doylestown, and in all his re- lations to the public interests he has been progressive and enterprising, fostering many measures for the general good. Mr. Wynkoop was married to Miss Mercy Riley, a daughter of William Riley, of Yardleyville, and their children are : Mamie, who married Frank Eastburn ; and Gairett, who married Emma Fulmer, and has two children, Dorothy and Helen. LOUIS AUGUSTUS RIDGE, late of Philadelphia, was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1832, son of Jesse and Hannah (Noland) Ridge, and grandson of Henry Ridge, of Bensalem township. On the maternal side he is the grandson of Dr. William and Hannah (Noble) Noland. He was educated in the public schools of Bristol township, and at the Whitehall boarding school, then in charge of Dr. Eoen D. Buckman and brother. The year after leaving school he aided his father on the farm, and in 1852 began school-teach- ing in the country, first in Newportville and later at Eddington, Bristol and various places until 1865. He was engaged to teach in the select school of William Fewsmith at Tenth and Chestnut streets, Philadel- phia, where he remained five years, and was then elected to the principalship of the first section grammar school, remaining there for five years, when he was trans- ferred to the Lincoln grammar school. Twentieth street and Fairmount avenue. In 1886 he was made supervising princi- pal of the Thaddeus Stephens Combined school, where he was engaged in excellent work for many years. His record is ex- ceptional, for he has taught school con- tinuously for over fifty years, each year gaining to a greater degree the confidence of the school patrons and students. The supreme delight of his life was to re- ceive letters from all parts of the coun- try from his old pupils, many now holding important positions of trust in the busy world. August 25. 1857, Mr. Ridge mar- ried Rosannah Kirk, of Bensalem, the daughter of Simpson and Anna (Grim) Xirk, the granddaughter of Benjamin and Rosanna (Carr) Kirk. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Ridge were John and Alica (Culin) Grim. From this union y eight children were born: Edwin Buck- man, born September 28, 185S; Susannah, born December 4, i860; Eleanor, born Feb- ruary 15, 1862; Augusta, born September 29, 1864; William Crichton, born April 4, 1867; George Edgar, born May i, 1870; Kirk, born April 10, 1874; Rachel John- son, born May 16, 1876. Only two of these children are now living, Augusta and George E., who were educated in the pub- lic schools and Friends' Central school of Philadelphia. Augusta was married April II, 1888, to Henry William Pyle, son of William and Angelina (Darlington) Pyle; he died, without children, January 21, 1890, and his' widow Augusta then made her home with her father.' George Edgar is a jeweler in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. He-, married, March 18, 1899, Winifred Kil- bride, of England,! daughter of Joseph and Catherine Kilbride. William Crichton mar- ried Elizabeth Kitchenman, and they had one son John, born November 5, 1891. William Crichton died November 22, 1902. Mr. Ridge was a member of the Masonic fraternity and associated with Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. F. and A. M. He was ex-president of the teacher's institute; a member of the educational club; School INlen's Club and the Teacher's Association. In religion he was of the Episcopal faith. JOHN M. GRAY, deceased, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, August 16, 1836. He was a son of Samuel and Julia Ann (Robinson) Gray. John Gray, the grandfather of John M. Gray, was a native of Ireland, and came to this country soon after 1800. In 1813 he pur- chased a farm of sixty-five acres near the southern base of Buckingham mountain, and followed farming until his death in 1845. He had five sons : John, who died in 1875; William; Joseph; Samuel and George, the latter of whom is still living in Buckingham ; and two daughters, Mar- tha Heyde and Rachel Blaker. Samuel Gray, the father of John M. Gray, was a blacksmith in early life, but later followed farneing. He died in 1882, aged about seventy-five years. His wife was Julia Ann Robinson, a native of New Jersey. She survived him, and died Janu- ary 10, 1894. Samuel and Julia Ann Gray were the parents of three children : John 'M., Ellis, and Sarah Ann, all of whom are deceased. John M. Gray was reared on his father's farm and attended the schools of the neigh- borhood. He was married in 1861 to Ka- chel Fell, daughter of Jesse and Priscilla (Sands) Fell, an account of whose ances- try is given on another page of this work. On his marriage, Mr. Fell settled on the farm devised to him by his uncle John Gray in 1875, and followed farming until 356 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY . 1876, when, having purchased a lot in the village of Forest Grove, he erected sub- stantial buildings thereon and made 11 his home for the remainder of his days. He died August 30, 1900. Mr. Gray was a prosperous and successful man, and left his family in comfortable circumstances. In politics he was a Republican, but never held other than township othces ; he was for many years a member of the school board, and was one of the best known men in his neighborhood. He was a member of Warrington Lodge, I. O. O. F., and for many years was treasurer of that organi- zation. At his death he devised to the lodge $5,000 to enable them to erect a building for lodge purposes. Mr. and x\irs. Gray were the parents of two children : George Henry, deceased ; and Samuel Scott Gray, a sketch of whom follows. Mrs. Gray resides at Forest Grove. Samuel Scott Gray, son of John M. and Rachel Fell Gray, was born in Bucking- ham township, Bucks county, November 14, 1867. He was reared on his father's farm and attended the public schools, after which he took a full course at Pierce's Business College. Arriving at manhood he engaged in the butchering business a: Forest Grove, and continued there for four years. He then removed to Newtown and opened a meat store and conducted it for two years. In 1898 he returned to his ninety-acre farm near Forest Grove and has since made his home thereon, and is recognized as one of the best farmers of the neighborhood. He married, June 14, 1898, Elizabeth M. Kirk, daughter of Charles Johnson and Lydia (Scarborough; Kirk. In politics Ivlr. Gray is a Republi- can. He IS a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M., Doylestown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M., a Philadelphia Commandery, Knights Templar, and of the Philadelphia Consistory. He is also a mem- ber of Warrington Lodge, No. 447, I. O. O. F. and Newtown Lodge, K. of P. Mr. and Mrs. Gray have no children. FRIEDRICH STEEB. Throughout the length and breadth of the county there can be found no more loyal foreign-born citizen than Friedrich Steeb, of Levin. Mr. Steeb is a son of Friedrich and Magdaline (.Magley) Steeb, natives of Germany, whose family consisted of the following children : Friedrich, mentioned at length hereinafter ; John ; Christopher ; and Caro- line, who is the wife of Carl Colmer, of Trenton, New Jersey. The three sons are also residents of the United States. Friedrich Steeb, son of Friedrich and Magdaline (Magley) Steeb, was born No- vember 21, 1844. in Germany, and in 1870 emigrated to the United States. He set- tled in Gardenville, Pennsylvania, where he was employed by Nathan Fretz, and about twenty years ago purchased the old Kratz farm in New Britain township. Since that time he has been an enterpris- ing and successful agriculturist, his pros- perity being the result of the industry and thrift which he has exercised all his life. As a citizen he possesses the highest es- teen of all his neighbors. Politically he is a member of the Democratic party. In matters of religion he is identified with the German Lutheran church of Hilltown. Mr> Steeb married in Germany, Louise Haff- ner, a native of that country, and they are the parents of the following children : Charley, born November 6, 1866, in Ger- many, and died in Bucks county at the age of seven years; Annie, born August 17, 1870; Sophia, born August 9, 1872; and Friedrich D., born November i, 1880, mar- ried Ellen Cassel, of Montgomery county^ and has one child Laura. Ihe Steeb fam- ily, it will be seen, is largely represented in the United States, where it has recruit- ed the ranks of our useful and loyal citi- zens. ALFRED H. FAUST, proprietor of the Chalfont Creamery, one of the leading in- dustrial industries of the town of Chalfont^ Pennsylvania, was born in Frederick town- ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1857, a son of Samuel and Mary Faust. During his boyhood he obtained liberal educational advantages, attending the pub- lic schools of his native township and Norristown, also Washington Hall Semi- nary and Sumneytown Academy. The knowledge thus acquired thoroughly quali- fied him for the vocation of teaching, which he followed for two years. He then ac- cepted a position as superintendent ot a. creamery in his native township, retain- ing the same for six years, and also served in a similar capacity at Franklin for two years, and in the Union Creamery in Plumstead township, Bucks county. On April I, 1894, Mr. Paust, in company with Mr. H. W. Gross, purchased the Chalfont Creamery, and they conducted business un- der the firm name of A. H. Faust & Co.,. Mr. Faust taking upon himself the active management of the same. Two year* later Mr. Faust purchased his partner's in- terest in the business, and from then to the present time (1905) has successfully conducted the same on his own account. He is honorable and straightforward in all his transactions, and therefore well merits- the prosperity which has crowned his ef- forts. In 1900 he was elected justice o£ the peace, of which office he is still the in- cumbent, and he also served in the capacity of borough treasurer and school director. He adheres to the doctrines of the Lutheran church, in which body he holds membership- and serves as trustee. His political alle- giance is given to the Republican party, and lie is an honored member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and the Protective Order of Sons of America. Mr. F'aust was married March 20, 1880, in. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 357 Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Clarissa Trumbower, a daughter of Elias and Rachel (Jones) Trumbower. Their children are: Olivia, wife of Charles Pier- son, Jr.,. and they are the parents of one child, Elizabeth Pierson ; Laura, Irene, and Alfred H., Jr. CHARLES MURRAY, following farm- ing in Warrington township, was born at Doylestown, April 6, 1862. His paternal grandfather, a tanner by trade, followed that pursuit throughout his entire life. He was of Irish lineage, but of Protestant faith, and he became one of the pioneer settlers of Bucks county, where he was well known as a man of industrious habits and straightforward dealing. Mahlon Murray (2j, his only child, was born and reared in Bucks county, spendmg the greater part of his life in Bucking- ham and in Doylestown. He worked m his father's tannery and also engaged in farm labor. After arriving at years of niaturity he was married and carried on agricultural pursuits in Buckingham town- ship until the civil war was maugurated. His patriotic spirit was aroused ana prompted his enlistment in the Union army, and he became a soldier in the south, where it is supposed he was killed in bat- tle or died from wounds. No news was af- terward received from him and he un- doubtedly lies in an unmarked grave in southern soil. He had married Martha Beal, also a native of Bucks county, and after the death of her husband she care- fully reared her children, doing the best she could for them with her limited means. She afterward married Elias Slusher, a liative of Germany, and a tailor by trade, ■which pursuit he followed through the _years of his active business career. He died in Bucks county, leaving three children : Lizzie, Ann, and William, but the last named died in childhood. The mother of Charles Murray was married a third time, becoming the wife of Abram Barndt, a tanner by trade, who also owned a farm at Quakertown and carried on agricultural pursuits in connection with the preparation of leather. There was one daughter by this marriage, Sarah Barndt. Mrs. Mar- tha Barndt is yet living at the age of sixty-four years. She is a daughter 01 John Beal, who was a farmer and laborer of Buckingham township. His children ■were : Martha, mother of Charles Murray ; Eleazer and Charles, who served in the •civil war and are yet living; Mary, and Josephine. By her first marriage Mrs. Martha Barndt had two children, Charles Murray, and Maria, the wife of J. Ker- nechel, a moulder, living in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. Charles Murray is an excellent type of the self-made man, for all that he has en- joyed and gained in life has come to him "through his well-directed efiforts and un- :faltering perseverance. He began to earn his living when only eight years of ao^e in the employ of James M. Lacy, a promi- nent farmer, with whom he remained for six years, receiving in compensation for his services his board, clothing and limited educational privileges. He was afterward employed as a farm hand in Buckingham township, where he remained for a year, and subsequently entered the employ of H. Acre in Warrington township. He has since resided in Warrington township, . employed in various capacities with the ex- ception of a period of two years. He con- tinued to work as a farm hand until the time of his marriage in 1883. Subse- quently he and his wife entered the serv- ices of Abraham Clymer, with whom they remained for three years, and then rented the Lacy farm, which he conducted for three years. He afterward cultivated the George Garner farm for a year, and for seven years rented and operated the Scott farm, on the expiration of which period he purchased the old Grier homestead upon which he now resides. This com- , prises one hundred and twenty-three acres of well improved land and has been in his possession since 1898. The house is a commodious stone structure, and there are large barns and many substantial out- buildings. Thre is a spring of constantly flowing water, which is piped to the house and barns, and there are many modern conveniences on the place which is pleas- antly located four miles from Doylestown on the pike and trolley line. Mr. Murray has made splendid improvements on his place, including the building of an addition to the barn and the erection of a large silo tank. The work of repair is continu- ally being carried forward and the farm has been placed under a high state of cul- tivation, so that the property is now at- tractive in appearance and valuable. He carries on general agricultural pursuits and in connection with the tilling of the soil keeps a herd of cows. Labor is the keynote of his success, and his untiring effort guided by strong and honorable pur- pose has been the foundation upon which he has builded his prosperity. Questions affecting the general welfare awaken the attention of Mr. Murray, who gives politi- cal support to the Republican party and has filled some township offices. He has served altogether as supervisor for seven years, his first incumbency covering two years, while later service has covered seven years. At length he retired from the office, re- fusing another nomination. Every public duty devolving upon him has been promptly and efficiently discharged, and he is known as a valued citizen of his com- munity. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum, and he and his wife are devoted members of the Baptist church. Mr. Murray has found a most faithful companion and assistant in his wife, who bore the maiden name of Miss Elizabeth Kraft, and who was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1861. Her parents were 358 HI ST OR]' OF BUCKS COUNTY. Gotlip and Mary (Doll) Kraft, tlie lor- mer a native of Germany and the latter of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, hut hoth are now deceased. Gotlip Kraft was an honest farmer, hut died hefore he had ac- quired much properly. His wife soon af- terward passed away. She was a daughter of Christian Doll, a farmer of Pennsyl- vania, of Dutch descent, and a soldier of the war of 1812. In early life he learned the shoemaker's trade, hut subsequently carried on agricultural pursuits. The gov- ernment granted him a pension in recog- nition of his patriotic service in the sec- ond war with England. His children were: Washington, a weaver and farmer; Charles, a cigar manufacturer; Jesse, a plasterer; Mrs. Elizabeth Diehl and Mrs. Mary Kraft. After the death of her pat- ents Mrs. Elizabeth Murray had to make her own way in the world, and she was employed in different households up to the time of her marriage. She became the able assistant- of her husband, and their united efforts have resulted in the acquire- ment of a good home and a fine farm, and now they are enabled to enjoy many of the comforts and luxuries of life. They have two children, Mabel, born May 29, 1887; and C. LeRoy, November 17, 1894. OLIVER J. DEEMER. The Deemer family of Bucks county are descendants of Johannes Deimer, who emigrated from Germany in the ship Davy, arriving in Philadelphia, October 25, 1738, and soon after settled on a large tract of land m Nockamixon township, on the river, just below the Durham Ime. Whether he was the same John Deimer, who was a captam of a company in the expedition agamst Quebec in 1746-7, is problematical. Tra- ditions in the family seem to bear out the theory that he was. Tradition further re- lates that he was reared in the Roman Catholic faith and educated for the min- istry, but becoming enamored of a i-Totest- ant maid, he married her and emigrated to America to escape the wrath of his family and church. The name of Diemer appears in different parts of Pennsylvania at about the time of his arrival. A John Deimer, practitioner in Physic and Chirur- gery was a land owner in New Providence township, now Montgomery county, as early as 1734, and died there in 1759. He purchased land in Bucks county in 1753, which was sold by the sheriff after his death on suit against his administrator, James Deimer. A Michael Deimer set- tled in Limerick township in 1769 and died there in 1795, leaving sons George and Daniel and a daughter Eve, who married Jacob Painter. The eldest son George removed to Vincent township, Chester county, and is the ancestor of a family of the name located later in the Cumber- land valley. Johannes Deimer was the father of Michael Deijner, mentioned . at lengtli hereinafter and probably of George 13eenicr, "House Carpenter," who purchas- ed land in Rockhill m 1773, which he and wife Dorothea conveyed in 1777, as well as of Joseph Deimer who located in New Jersey at about the same date, alter having resided some years in Durham, Bucks county. Michael Deemer, son of Johannes, the immigrant of 1738, and ancestor of ail the present Bucks county family, was born in or near Durham, Bucks county, about the year 1750. On the division of the Dur- ham tract in 1773, he purchased one hun- dred and sixty-three acres on the Nock- amixon line, and in 1789 purchased a tract adjoining in Nockamixon. He died in 1797, and his widow Elizabeth, some years later. They were the parents of thirteen children, John, Jacob, Mereles, Catharine^ Solomon, Madlena, Sarah, Michael, George, Henry, Frederick, Barnet, and Margaret. Michael and Elizabeth Deemer were among the original members of Nockamixon Re- formed church at its organization in 1773,. and the baptism of several of the above children appear of record there, the ear- liest one to be baptised there, however, be- ing Sarah, born October 2, 1774, and the last one Margaret, on March 17, 1782. John Deemer, the eldest son, died a year before his father, leaving eight small chil- dren, Benjamin, John, Mary, Margaret, Sa- rah, Hannah, Michael, and Catherine. The eldest, Benjamin, born April 17, 1784, is the paternal ancestor of Newberry Deemer, of Bridgeton, through the marriage of hu> daughter Sarah to William Deemer, son of Frederick, above mentioned. Michael Deemer, another son of Michael and Eliza- beth, born December 20, 1776, died March 8, 1850, was the grandfather of Edward Deemer, a soldier in the civil war and late- ly a resident of Doylestown ; and Elias Deemer, the prominent lumber merchant and business man of Williamsport, Penn- sylvania. Barnet Deemer, j^oungest son ot Michael, Sr., settled in Rockhill and was the father of Mrs. Michael Lehman, of Doylestown. Johan George Deemer, fifth son ot ]\lichael Deemer, Sr., and great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Nockamixon, February 2, 1779, and baptized in Nockamixon church, March 13,. 1779, though the latter date is given on his tombstone as the date of his birth. He was a farmer and considerable land owner in Nockamixon and Haycock, being appar- ently a large dealer in timber and timber land. He married Elizabeth Unangst, bom September 17, 1783, died March 19, 1862. He died April 27, 1858, and they are buried side by side in Nockamixon burying ground. They were the parents of six chil- dren, as follows : Margaret, born Septem- ber I, 1811, married David Argart ; Cathe- rine, who married Samuel Wagener ; Mary, who married Henry Sassaman ; Samuel, who married Catharine Ruth ; Charles, who married Mary Bergy ; and Rose Anna, who- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 359 married Thomas Atherholt. All of the above children left descendants except the eldest. Henry and Mary Deemer Sassa- man had eight children, Margaret, who married Oliver H. Myers; Sarah, who married James McNamee; Elizabeth, who married James Smith, and is the mother of W. Harry Smith, present sheriff of Bucks county; Mary, who married Harry Strycker ; William, who married Amanda Reaser ; Lavinia, who married George B. Deemer; Lydia, who married Thomas Mos- er, and Annie, who married Augustus Feas- ter. Samuel, the eldest son of Georgo Deemer, born December 4, 1803, died Jan- uary 12, 1874, married Catharine Ruth, and had four children; George R., who died in Nockamixon, April 2, 1904; Samuel W. ; Savilla, who married James Y. Zeigenfuss, and is the mother of Mrs. Elmer Funk, of Doylestown; and Rosanna, who married Aaron Zeigenfuss. Thomas and Rose Anna (.Deemer) Atherholt were the parents of four children: Eliza, wife of Reden Mey- ers ; Mary, Sarah, and David. Charles Deemer, second son of George and Elizabeth (Unangast) Deemer, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was Born in Nockamixon, , Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 2;^, 1808, and died there February 13, 1882. He was a far- mer and followed that vocation in dif- ferent parts of the county, prior to the death of his father, living at one time in Doylestown township. After the death of his father, he succeeded to a portion of the old homestead in Nockamixon and spent his remaining days there. He mar- ried Mary Bergy, who was born January 6, 1798, and died April 3, i860, and they were the parents of two children, Anna Margaret, born December 11, 1828, died June 13, 1895; married Charles Zuck ; and George B., born January 23, 1830, died March i, 1898. George B. Deemer was born and reared in Nockamixon, and in early life learned the trade of a stone mason and plasterer which he followed during the active years of his life, He removed to Doylestown in 1866, and resided there until his death. In politics he was a Democrat, and took an active part in the councils of his party. He served one term as jury commissioner of Bucks county. He and his family were members of Nockamixon Reformed church. He married Lavina Sassaman, daughter of Henry and Mary (Deemer) Sassaman, born October 15, 1834, died February i::^, 1898, and they are the parents of five chil- dren : Arabella, Margaret M., Sarah E., Oliver J., and Viola, all of whom except Oliver J., reside in the homestead on Court street, Doylestown. Oliver James Deemer was born in Springfield township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, August 17, 1861, and came witn his parents to Doylestown, at the age of five years. His education was acquired at the Doylestown school. When a young man he entered the employ of Allen H. Heist, distiller, wholesale liquor dealer and cider manufacturer at Doylestown, and in i88» was placed in charge of a branch estab- lishment at Gallitzin, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, which he conducted for sev- eral years for Mr. Heist, and in April, 1900, purchased it of Mr. Heist, and has since conducted it on his own account with success. Mr. Deemer is a man of excel- lent business ability, and irreproachable character, and has many friends both in his native town and in Gallitzin. In the latter place he has- been actively identified with many of the local enterprises and pub- lic improvements, and has served for many years as a member of the town council. He is a member of Aquetong Lodge, No. 19^, and Doylestown Encampment, No. 35, 1. O. O. F., and is also a member of the Or- der of Elks, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, No. 175, and kindred organizations in Gallatzin. He is unmarried. He is a strong Democrat in politics. AARON F. MYERS. One of the highly esteemed citizens of Bedminster is Aaron F. Myers. Mr. Myers is a grandson or Henry Myers, who was a brick and stone mason ot Plumstead township, and married Elizabeth Fretz. Their children were: Henry F., John F., Reuben F., Joseph F., mentioned at length hereinafter; William F., Barbara, Catharine, and Annie. Mr. and Mrs. Myers both died in Plumstead township, where they had passed their lives. Joseph ¥. Myers, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Fretz) Myers, was born March 12, 1812, in Plumstead township, where he learned the trade of a mason which he followed for some years. In 1844 he pur- chased the Myers homestead in Bedmin- ster township, whither he removed, and thenceforth devoted himself to agricul- tural pursuits. In politics he was a Repub- can, but while taking an active interest in the affairs of the organization, was never an office seeker. He was a member of the Deep Run Mennonite church, of which he was a trustee for many years. He married Barbara, daughter of Abraham Fretz, of Bedminster, and of the eight children born to them three are now living : Henry F., who lives in Tinicum township; Abraham F., who is a resident of Bedminster town- ship; and Aaron F., mentioned at length hereinafter. Mrs. Myers died January 8, 1884, in the seventy-second year of her age, and her husband passed away May 12, 1882. Aaron F. Myers, son of Joseph F. and Barbara (Fretz) Myers, was born July ID, 1846, on the farm which is now his home. He was educated in the common schools, and at the Carversville Normal School, which he attended for three terms. At the age of eighteen he began to teacli and continued to do so for five years. In the spring of 1870 he bought a farm near New Galena, New Britain township, and engaged in agriculture. At the end of ten 36o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. years he sold the estate and returned to the home farm, which he purchased after the death of his father, which occurred the following year. He has served as school director, is a Republican in politics, and a member and trustee of the New JMennon- ite church. JNlr. Myers married, May i, 1869, Lydia, born February 7, 1845, daugh- ter of Henry Aloyer, of Lehigh county. Of the eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mjers, Barbara, Susanna and Henry are deceased, and the following survive : Os- car, who lives in Milford township ; Jo- seph, who is a resident of the same place, Titus, who resides in Dublin, Bedminster township; Pierson, Isaiah, Levinus, Abra- ham, and Menno, all of whom reside at home. OWEN L. UNDERWOOD. One of Pennsylvania's old families is represented by Professor Owen L. Underwood, of New Hope. The founders of the Underwood family in America were three brothers, Zephaniah, Alexander, and John, wiio came over from Wales not less than two centu- ries since. Alexander settled in Virginia and John in jNIassachusetts, where his de- scendants are numerous. Zephaniah made his home in York county, Pennsylvania. One branch of Alexander's family came to Pennsylvania (Owen L. Underwood is a descendant of this branch). Zephaniah, a descendant of Alexander, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, where his son Charles was also born. All the Under- woods of this branch were farmers and members of the Society of Friends. Reuben L. Underwood, son of Charles Underwood, mentioned above as the de- scendant of the emigrant ancestor, Alexan- cer Underwood, was born in 1842, in Uni- onvi'le. Center county, Pennsylvania, i'ud received his education in the common schools. He was a farmer ar.le position he has discharged with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned since his first election to the office in March, 1899, is a native of Bristol township, born August 3, 1856. The progenitor of the family in America was Nicholas Minster, who came from Germany, settling in Chester county, Pennsylvania. His son,. John Minster, a resident of Bristol township, married a Miss Burton, and they reared a family of four children, namely: John, An- thony, Mary and William. Anthony Burton Minster, second son, was born in Bristol township, December 14, 1794. He was educated in the private schools of that vicinity, and his active career w^s devoted to agricultural 'pursuits. He served as supervisor of his town- ship several years. He enlisted in the war of 1812, serving with credit and distinction. On April i, 1824, he mar- ried Ann Starkey, who was born in Solesbury, Bucks county, August 14, 1802, and nine children were the issue of this union: Margaret and- Martha (twins), born December 3, 1825; Will- iam S., born July 10, 1827; Anthony D., born March 3, 1829; Sarah Ann, born April 9, 1830; Eliza B., born November I, 1832; Pemberton, born January 13, 1835; Mary Jane, born May 26, 1837; and Edward, born July 8, 1840. The parents of these children died respec- tively June 16, 1874. and April 30, 1874. William S. Minster, eldest son of An- thony Burton and Ann (Starkey) Min- ster, was born July 10, 1827. He at- tended the schools of Bucks county and by close application to his studies be- came thoroughly proficient and well qualified to accept the position of teacher, in which capacity he served for many years. He received an appoint- ment in the Custom House in Phila- delphia, served faithfully and efficiently for an extended period of time, and was the incumbent of the office at his de- cease, in 1881. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith, and a Republican in politics. His wife, Clarissa (Parsons) Minster, born in Bucks county and educated in public schools thereof, bore him seven children, as follows: B. Frank, Ellwood Williamson, Ann Starkey, Kate, Harry, Maria Louisa, who died in infancy, and Sarah Boyd. Ellwood Williamson Minster, second son of William S. and Clarissa (Parsons) Minster, obtained a practical education in the public schools of Falls township and Pierce's Boarding School in Bristol township. He then engaged in the milk business, which he followed for ten years with more or less success, and in 1886 was elected prothonotary for Bucks county, serving three years. Later he received the appointment of factory m- spector and after four years of faithful service in that capacity, in A 'rcn. 1899, was appointed postmastei ^- the borough of Bristol, was rea d in April, 1903, and is still servir ,rm thus far extending over a . of almost six years. Mr. Minster , been prominent in the political affairs of the Republican party, both state and na- tional, and particularly active in those of Bristol borough and the towns of Bucks county, he always being found in the front ranks of those who are strenuous in the service of his party. He is connected with the Presbyterian church of Bristol borough, contributing freely to the support of the same. He is also actively connected with many of the business enterprises of Bristol, and is president of the Bristol Company, or- ganized for the manufacture of ice from distilled water, their plant for the pur- pose being one of the finest in that vicinity. Mr. Minster is a member of Lodge No. 25, Ancient York, F. & A. M. of Bristol; Mohegan Tribe of Red Men; and Ancient Order of Mystic Chain, Beneficial Society. He is a great lover of horseflesh, and at various times has been the proud owner of many fine specimens of the same. Mr. Minster married, October 20, 1892,. Olivia Goslin Highland, of Bristol, Bucks county, daughter of Eugene and Louisa (Goslin) Highland, and their children arc : Ellwood Gilkeson, born August II, 1893; and Clarissa High- land Minster, born March 22, 1901. Eugene Highland, father of Mrs. Min- ster, was a butcher by trade. He served as clerk of quarter sessions court of Bucks county, for many years. He was very popular in politics, also in social life, and was respected and esteemed by all with whom he was brought in con- tact. In 1861 he enlisted in Captain Beatty's company and served until the close of the war. At the end of his service he was presented with a Henry Rifle by the government for his valiant and courageous conduct as a soldier. This token of esteem is retained and highly prized by his widow. His death occurred May 24, 1894. JOHN A. GROSS. The Gross family has figured in connection with the material and moral development of Bucks county for four generations. Jacob Gross, the founder of the family in America, was a native of Germany, whence he emigrated to this country, about 1761. He first settled at Skip- pack, Montgomery county, subsequently resided in Germantown and thence re- moved to Bedminster township, Bucks county, where he spent his remaining days. He was a shoemaker bj- trade and followed that ])ursuil in connection A Fl ■NO' r-. . IONS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 36: with general farming up to the time of his demise. While in Bedminster he was ordained a minister of the old Deep Run IMennonite church and was afterward elected a bishop of that de- nomination. His death occurred Decem- ber 12, 1810, when he was sixty-seven years of age and his remains were interred in the church cemeter3^ He gave his services without financial com- pensation to the cause of the ministry, and his influence was marked as a potent element for good in the neighbor- hood where he resided. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Krall, died February 10, 1816, at the age of sixty-three years. They were the par- ents of six children: Christian, Isaac, Mary, who became the wife of Abram Nash ; Daniel, John and Jacob. John Gross, son of Jacob and Mary (Krall) Gross, spent his entire life in Bucks county, and during the greater part of his business career carried on agricultural pursuits in Fountainville, Pennsylvania. He. too, was an ordained minister of the Old Mennonite church and officiated for years as pastor of the congregation of that denomination at Doylestown. He was married twice, his first union being with a Miss Leatherman, by whom he had the fol- lowing children: John L., Jacob, Joseph, Anna, the wife of Henry Godshalk; and Mary, the wife of John Godshalk. For his second wife John Gross married Mrs. Myers, a widow, and their chil- dren were: William and Samuel, twins, and Sarah, the wife of Samuel \\\ Lapp. John L. Gross, the eldest son of John Gross, was born in Fountainville, Penn- sylvania. August 25, 1824. and in early life he engaged in farming. He was employed by Christian Leatherman and others until he found opportunity to engage in business on his own account. In connection with general agricultural pursuits he carried on the commission business, carrying his products to the Philadelphia market. About 1853 he en- tered mercantile circles in partnership with Henry H. Rosenberger, his brother- in-law, establishing a commission busi- ness at Dublin. About four years later he purchased two acres of ground from his father, constituting a part of the old family homestead, and he erected there- on a store building in Fountainville that is still occupied by his son, John A. Gross. There he carried on merchandis- ing for about thirteen years, after which he sold his business to John L. Kramer and resumed farming, conducting agri- cultural pursuits with good success for ten years. At the end of that time he purchased the stock that was in his store building and resumed merchandis- ing, in which he continued until 1891, when he retired from business life and sold his stock of goods to his two sons, Daniel G. and John A. Gross. Starting out empty handed to make his own liv- ing he continually progressed and as the result of his capable management, keen discernment and executive force he won a full measure of prosperity. He also took a deep interest in the moral development of his community, and for a long period served as an elder in the Old Mennonite church, occupying that position up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 5th of December,. 1901. In early manhood he married Miss . Esther Gotwals, and they become the parents of four children: Daniel G., Mary Ann, the wife of Henry Johnson; John A., and Emma, wife of John F. Mood. John A. Gross was born in the house where he now lives and in which he conducts his mercantile interests, his natal day being October 28, 1865. He acquired his education in the common schools and early became familar with commercial methods by acting as clerk in his father's establishment. He was thus employed until 1891, when he and his brother Daniel purchased the busi- ness of their father and for four years conducted the store under the style of Gross Brothers. On the expiration of that period John A. Gross bought his brother Daniel's interest and has since continued as sole proprietor, conducting one of the best general stores in this part of Bucks county, his reliable busi- ness methods and earnest desire to please his patrons being among the salient features of his successful career. On the 6th of December, 1888, John A. Gross was married to Miss Anna E. Leather- man, daughter of Isaac and Lydia Leatherman, and they had one child, Clarence L.. who was born November 5. 1890, and died June 27, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Gross hold membership in the Salem Reformed church of Doylestown. In politics he is a Republican and was auditor of his township for three years. In 1891 he was appointed postmaster by John W^anamaker, then postmaster general of the United States, and has since occupied that position. CHARLES THOMAS IREDELL. The name of Charles Thomas Iredell, for more than a half a century an hon- ored citizen -of Bristol, will ever be in- separably associated with the financial interests and institutions of Bucks county. The name of Iredell is a very ancient one and the following origin has been ascribed to it: "In an old Norman manuscript, mention is made of this familj\ Sir Pierre d'Ancoma follow'ed W^illiam the Conqueror and was pres- ent at the battle of Hastings. The king, being very pressed, and in danger of his life. Sir Pierre is stated to have rescued him by slaying those around 364 HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY him, to whom the king said, 'Sir Pierre, thou hast given me air (Eyre) to breathe,' from hence the crest. On a wreath of colours, a dexter arm em- bossed in armour proper garnished and charged, in the hand a sword." The Conqueror subsequently gave Sir Pierre large tracts of land about Dale, and by royal license the family name was changed to that of Eyre-Dale, moder- nized about the fifteenth century to Ire- dell. The founder of the family in this country was Thomas Iredell, who came here in 1700. He belonged to the branch of the family living near Carlisle, Eng- land, and brought with him to the Monthly Meeting of Friends in Phila- delphia the following certificate: Certificate of Removal On behalf of Thomas Iredell, taken from the Records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. "From our. Monthly Meeting upon Pardshaw Cragg, Cumberland, ye 27th of ye 6th month, 1700, to Friends in Pennsylvania and other parts of Amer- ica: Dear friends and brethren, ye tender salutation of our dearest love in ye truth always continues and reaches forth to you. Ye account we have to give to you is on behalf of a young man, the bearer hereof, Thos. Iredell, who this day layd before us ye transporting of Tiimself into Pennsylvania, requesting our certificate along with him. "We therefore certifie to all where he may come, that he hath of late years come frequently amongst Friends. His carriage appears to be sober and truth- like. Those that know him ye best give no other account but well. He comes with consent of his Mother, though no Friend, and enquiry hath been made of his clearness in relation to marriage, but nothing appears to ye contrary. "We need not to further inlarge, but subscribe ourselves. Your friends and brethren on behalf of ye aforesayd Meeting. Thos. Griffin, John Burngeat & others." Thomas Iredell settled at first in Philadelphia, and afterward bought of Samuel Carpenter two hundred acres of land, in Horsham township, adjoining Friends' Meeting property atthat place, on which he erected a dwelling. In an iron knocker on the door was drilled. "T. I., 1720," supposedly the date of building. Before leaving Philadelphia lie married. Third month, gth. 1705. at Friends' Meeting-house, corner of Sec- ond and Market streets. Rebecca Will- iams, also of Philadelphia. Robert Iredell, presumably the son of Thomas and Rebecca (Williams) Ire- -dell, married Hannah Lukens. who was descended in the third generation from Jan (or John) Lucken (or Lukens), who came from Holland in 1683, and was one of the thirteen original settlers of Germantown, who took up the land from Francis Daniel Pastorius. Jan Lucken was one of the overseers of Friends' Meeting established in that neighbor- hood, the members of which were a pro- gressive and far-seeing people, inas- much as they made at that early day — 1688 — the first protest against slavery and presented it to the Yearly Meeting, which, however, did not act in the mat- ter. This action on the part of the Ger- mantown Friends antedated bj^ many years the agitation which finally cleared the Society of any complicity in the evil. Charles Iredell, son of Robert and Hannah (Lukens) Iredell, married Phoebe Cadwallader, and they were the parents of a son, Joseph, who was a merchant in Philadelphia. Joseph Ire- dell married eleventh month, gth, 1804, Hannah, daughter of Mordecai and Eliza- beth (Jarrett) Thomas. The Thomas family was of Welsh origin. Charles Thomas Iredell, son of Joseph and Hannah (Thomas) Iredell, was born 9 mo. II, 1805, in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, and in his early boyhood his parents moved to Philadelphia, where he at- tended school, later becoming a pupil at the Westtown Boarding School. Until 1827 he was employed in a drug-store, and in that year entered the Farmers' Bank of Bucks county, afterward the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county. He was connected with the institution first as clerk and subsequently as cash- ier. For more than fifty years he was at his post, faithful to his trust, with in- tegrity as the key-note of his character. This trait, together with his clear pene- tration in regard to business matters and his indefatigable energy, were fully ap- preciated throughout the wide circuit having dealings with the bank. He was treasurer of several building associa- tions. In politics he affiliated with the Whigs and later with the Republicans, having a warm feeling for the principles through which the party appealed for its support to the country, but he kept aloof from the vortex of politics and never sought or held an office. He and his wife were both birthright members of the Society of Friends, as had been their an- cestors for many generations, and both were -standard-bearers of its principles. Mr. Iredell held many positions of trust and usefulness in the Bristol Meet- ing, in which he served as trustee, treas- urer, elder and clerk, while Mrs. Iredell was for many years an acknowledged minister of the Society. Mr. Iredell married, 10 mo. 8. 1829, Rebecca Newbold. and they were the parents of the following children, all of whom were born in Bristol: i. Hannah Ann. who became the wife of Nathan Spencer Thomas, of Philadelphia, later of Elmira. New York. Their children are : Rebecca Iredell, who married George Pickering and has three children. Dor- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 365 othy Iredell, Ruth Thomas, and Hannah Rowlette ; Anna Abbott, who died in her fourteenth year; and Charles Iredell. Mr. Thomas, the father, died in 1890. 2. Louisa. 3. Joseph, who died in infancy. 4. Samuel Newbold, who resided many years in Titusville, and married Margaret Monier Spangler, of Philadelphia. Their children were: George Spangler, who married Orinda Corson Fausette, of Trenton, New Jersey, and has one son, Leslie Newbold; Harriet Louisa; Will- iam Miller, who died on the eve of man- hood; Charles Francis, who married Elizabeth Hyde, of Titusville, and has four children, Francis Raymond, Henry Hyde, Helen Margaret, and Elizabeth Mae; Marian Oakford; Henry Volkmar, who married Margaret Valeria Mahoney, of New York city; Rebecca Catharine, and Florence Newbold. Mrs. Iredell died in 1899, and her husband passed away in 1902. 5. Abbie Newbold. 6. Rachel, who died in infancy. 7. Mary Howell. 8. Charles, who married Annie Maria Er- win, of Painted Post, New York, where they resided for some time, and then moved to Elmira. New York.. They had one son, Arthur Erwin, who married Isa- bella Paxson Rogers, of Bristol, and has two children, Charles Vernon and Frances Barrett. Mrs. Iredell died in 1898. g. Susan Trump. 10. Elizabeth Newbold. Mr. Iredell was actively engaged in his duties at the bank until within six weeks of his death, which occurred Sixth month, i6th. 1882. The officers of the bank unanimously passed resolutions ex- pressive of their high appreciation of his services; of their sorrow at his decease; and of their sympathy with his bereaved family. One of the directors of the bank thus wrote of him in the columns of a local paper: "Above all was his devotion to rectitude as an inward principle to which all other things were made to yield. During the long period of his connection with the bank his integrity of conduct and friendly attention _ to those dealing with the bank were im- pressed upon all and contributed to exalt the character and credit of that excellent and popular institution. And amidst the numerous instances of recreancy to their trust which have occurred amongst of- ficers of moneyed institutions, that fidel- ity which never faltered in the worst, or wearied in the best of times, has made his example more distinctly marked and highly appreciated. At his post of duty, in the fullness of his years and the ma- turity of his character, he has passed away, leaving behind him a name and an example to be respected and followed by generations of his countrymen." Mrs. Iredell was descended from Mi- chael Newbold. who came from Ycrl<- shire. England, in 1679, and settl.d on the Assiscunk creek, just above Burling- ton, New Jersey. He had numerous de- scendants and among them Joshua New- bold, who married Rebecca Atkinson. Their son, Samuel Newbold, married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Han- son) Howell. The former was de- scended from John Howell, who came- from Wales with his three children in 1690. The eldest of these children, Jacob Howell, married Sarah, daughter of Randal Vernon, who, with his two brother, Robert and Thomas, had allied himself with the Friends' cause in this country a short time before the arrival of William Penn. They belonged to a family of note in England, being sons of James Vernon, who was secretary of state for Great Britain from 1697 to 1700, and brothers of Admiral Vernon, in honor of whom the Washington estate received its name. Thus it will be seen that the marriage of Samuel Newbold_ and Abigail Howell united two old fam-' ilies. Mr. and Mrs. Newbold were the parents of a daughter, Rebecca, who was married at Friends Meeting, Byberry, Pennsylvania, to Charles Thomas Ire- dell, as mentioned above. The death of Mrs. Iredell occurred 4 mo. 23, 1893. JOSEPH RIDGWAY GRUNDY, proprietor of the Bristol Worsted Mills and one of the most prominent manu- facturers and business men of Bucks county, was born in Camden, New Jer- sey, January 13, 1863, and is a son of the late William Hulme and Mary (Ridgway) Grundy, and a grandson of Edmund and Rebecca (Hulme) Grundy, and is a descendant on the maternal side from the earliest English settlers on the Delaware. Edmund Grundy, grandfather of Joseph R. was a native of England, came to this country when a young man and located in Philadelphia, where he became a prominent merchant. He retired from business in 1856, at same time moving to Walnut Grove Farm, Bristol township, where he resided until his death in 1878. He married Rebecca Hulme, daughter of William and Rachel (Knight) Hulme, of Hulmeville, Bucks county, and they were the parents of five children. William Hulme Grundy, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the 'second child of Edmund and Rebecca (Hulme) Grundy, and was born in Phila- delphia, in December. 1836. He was educated at a select school in that city and at an early age became a clerk in a mercantile establishment. Later he entered into the mercantile trade for himself in the city. In 1870 he began the manufacture of worsted yarns, mov- ing his plant to Bristol. Bucks county, in 1876, establishing the Bristol Worsted Mills, so long and successfully conducted by the firm of William H. Grundy & Co., 366 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY of which firm he was the senior member. It proved to be one of the important industries of the county and gave em- ployment to several hundred hands. William H. Grundy was a public-spirited and broad minded business man and did much to advance the interests of his town. He was president of the Bristol Improvement Company, and filled ihe office of chief burgess of the town for two terms. He was always active in all that pertained to the best interests of the town and won and held the respect and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. He was one of the first members of the Union League in Phila- delphia, and a prominent member of the Manufacturers Club of that city. He was also a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. His career of ex- traordinary business activity and use- fulness was terminated by his sudden death on October 26, 1893, of heart disease. Mr. Grundy married, in 1861, Mary Ridgway, of New Jersey, a lineal descendant of Richard Ridgway, of Wel- ford, county of Bucks. England, who arrived in the River Delaware, in the ship, "Jacob and Mary," of London, in September, 1679, and settled near the Falls of the Delaware in what is now Falls township, Bucks county, where he was a considerable landholder. The first court house of Bucks county was erected on land belonging to Richard Ridgway. Mr. Ridgway was accompanied to Amer- ica by his wife Elizabeth and son Thomas, and another son Richard was born a few months after their arrival. His wife died in Bucks county, and in 1699 he married Abigal Stockton, of New Jersey, and thereafter made his residence in Burlington county. New Jersey, where he became a very promi- nent man, and has left numerous de- scendants. The maternal ancestors of William Hulme Grundy, were also among the earliest English settlers in Bucks county. George Hulme and his son George Hulme, Jr. came from England prior to 1700 and settled in Middletown town- ship. George, Jr. married, in 1708, Naomi Palmer, daughter of John and Christain Palmer, who came to Bucks county from Cleveland, Yorkshire, ar- riving in the Delaware, 9 mo. 10. 1683. Naomi only survived her marriage a short time. George Jr., married (sec- ond) her sister, Ruth Palmer, contrary to the rules of Middletown Friends' Meeting, which forbid marriage with' a deceased wife's sister, and he was dis- owned by the Meeting. John Hulme. son of George and Ruth, married Mary Pearson, daughter of Enoch and Mar- garet (Smith) Pearson, of Buckingham, and their son, John, was the founder of Hulmeville. which still bears his name. He married Rebecca Milnor, daughter of William Milnor, of Penn's Manor, and lived for a number of years in the Manor. In 1796 he exchanged his Manor farm with Joshua Woolston for the "Milford iMiUs," as Hulmeville was at that time known, and subse- quently purchased several hundred acres of land adjoining, and with his sons: William, John, Joseph, George, and Samuel established several new indus- tries there and laid out and developed the town. The family were the origi- nators of the Farmers Bank of Bucks county, now located at Bristol, which had Its mception at Hulmeville. John Hulme was one of the most prominent business men of Bucks county and a pioneer in the rapid development that began in the first quarter of a century after the Revo- lution. His eldest son William was a carpenter and cabinet maker and was associated with his father in the varied industries of the town and assisted materially in its development. He mar- ried, 4 mo. 17, 1794, Rachel Knight, and died m 1809, leaving one son Joseph K. and two daughters, Susanna, and Re- becca. The later was born in 1803, aad became the wife of Edmund Grundy. She outlived all of her generation, dying at her country residence in Bristol township, October 26, 1895, at the ad- vanced age of ninety-two years. Of her five children only one survived her, Mrs. Susan G. Harrison. William Hulme and Mary (Ridgway) Grundy were the parents of two children, Joseph R. and Margaret R. Mrs. Grundy is still living in Bristol, though much of her time is spent in traveling in Europe and elsewhere. ALBERT C. ALTHOUSE, M. D. One of the active practicing physicians of Bucks county is Dr. Albert C. Althouse, of Bed- minster township. Dr. Althouse is a de- scendant of Daniel Althouse, who came from Germany and settled in Bedminster, where he owned a large tract of land. Martin Althouse, son of Daniel Althouse, mentioned above, had a farm near Keller's Church and also worked as a mason. His wife was Catherine Sigafoos, and they were the parents of a large family, many of whom died young. Those who reached maturity were: Martin, Levi, Tobias, men- tioned at length hereinafter; Mathias. and Silas. The parents of these children are both buried at the Tohickon church. Mpr- tin Althouse was accidentally killed while coming home with his team from Pliiladel- phia. Tobias Althouse, son of Martin and Cath- erine (Singafoos) Althouse, was born in 1808. and was a blacksmith by trade. For thirty-eight years he was absent from the township, but returned four years before his death. He served in the army during the Mexican war and also in the Civil war. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Kramer, of Bedminster, and their children HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 367 were : Catharine, Samuel K., mentioned at length hereinafter, and Reulxn. The mother of these children died in 1843, and the father expired January 13, 1885, in the home of the oldest son. Samuel K. Althouse, son of Tobias and Elizabeth (Kramer) Althouse, was born June II, 1837, in Nockamixon township, and was about six years of age when his parents moved to Bedminster. From 1855 to i860 he was engaged in teaching, and in 1865 purchased the farm on which he lived for the remainder of his life. Three years ago he retired from active labor. He has held the township offices of assessor, auditor and clerk, and has also served one term as county auditor. He is a member of the Tohicicon Reformed church. He married, November 25, i860, Sarah Ann, born July 26, 1837, daughter of Enos Crouthamel, and they were the parents of the following children : Sarah, who died in childhood; Albert C, mentioned at length hereinafter ; Mary, who is the wife of Ed- win J. Rumer, of Bedminster township ; Emma, who resides at home ; Edwin, who lives in Bedminster township : and Reuben, who is a resident of Washington, District of Columbia. Albert C. Althouse, son of Samuel K. and Sarah Ann (Crouthamel) Althouse, was born April 7, 1863, in Bedminster town- ship, and received his primary education in the common schools, afterward attending the Sellersville high school and the West Chester State Normal School. At nine- teen years of age he took up the profession of teaching, which he practiced for six years, and during this time began reading medicine under Dr. Daniel P. Mover, of Dublin. In the autumn of 1889 he entered Jefiferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which institution he received in the spring of 1892 the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He immediately opened an office in Pineville, where he practiced for eight years, and in 1900 moved to Dublin, where he has built up a large practice. He is a member of the Bucks County Medical So- ciety and the State Medical Association. He also belongs to the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a member of the Reformed church at Dublin. Dr. Althouse married, October 10, 1894, Ida, daughter •of Jonas H. Lear, of Tinicum township, and they have three children; Harold Lear, Georgie Neta and Jessie Beulah. BURROUGHS MICHENER. Among the active and successful business men of Buckingham is Borroughs Michener, of Mechanicsville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was born in Buckingham. May 7 1855. and is a son of Samuel and Beulah T. (White) Michener. The ancestor of the Michener family of Bucks county was John Michener. who with his wife Sarah came from England to Pennsylvania, and settled in Philadelphia about 1685. He later re- moved to Moreland township, where he died. He had several daughters and two sons: John and William. The latter, born 10 mo. 14, 1696, married at Abington Meet- ing of Friends in 1720, Mary Kuster, grand- daughter of Paulus Kuster, who came to Germantown from Crefeldt, on the Rhine, in 1687. William Michener settled in Plum- stead township, Bucks county, in 1722, and became an extensive landowner there and a prominent citizen. He was for many years an elder of Friends Meeting. He died in 1782, leaving six sons and four daughters, whose descendants are now widely scattered over the United States, many of them achieving distinction in the various walks of life. Meschach, fifth son of William and Mary (Kuster) Michener, was born in Plum- stead township, Bucks county, 4 mo. 22, 1737, and died i mo. 9, 1826. He was a farmer in Plumstead and Buckingham townships and a considerable landowner in both townships. He married, 11 mo. 24, 1761, Mary Trego, of Wrightstown, Bucks county, and they were the parents of eleven children. Marmaduke Michener, tenth child of Meschach and Mary (Trego) Michener, was born 12 mo. 28, 1780, and died 3 mo. 25, 1864. He was a farmer and lived the greater part of his life in Plumstead town- ship. He married Hannah Stradling, of Plumstead, born 1784, died December 26, 1866. Samuel Michener, son of Marmaduke and Hannah (Stradling) Michener, was born in Plumstead township December 15, 1805, and died March 24, 1885. He was a miller by trade, and in early life worked at that trade at Spring Valley and else- where, but later turned his attention to farming. He married Beulah T. White, born in Buckingham. July 26, 1815, died September 25, 1899, and their children were : Preston J., born August 18, 1839, now liv- ing at Oak Lane. Philadelphia county ; James S., born October 22, 1842, now living at Lahaska, Bucks county ; Eli C, born Oc- tober 13, 184s ; Hannah A., born Oc- tober I, 1849, now the wife of Henry Livezey, of Hatboro, Pennsylvania ; and Burroughs, the subject of this sketch. Burroughs Michener, was reared in Buckingham and Solebury townships, Bucks county. He was thrown upon his own re- sources at an early age. His .first employ- ment was at the age of eight years when he engaged with a blind man, to lead him about, and he continued with him for eight years. At the close of his engagement with the blind man he found employment on a farm in Solebury, where he remained for one year. On April i, 1871, he apprenticed himself to John B. Davis, at Lahaska. to learn the blacksmith trade. After finishing his apprenticeship, he worked as a journey- man blacksmith for Patrick Barrett, at Me- chanics Valley, for one year, one at Pine- ville, and then removed to Jenkintown, where he remained for one year. In Au- 368 HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY. gust, 1878, he purchased ihc blacksmith shop at Mechanicsville, Bucks county, and started into business for hnnself, which he continued until 1883, when, his health lull- ing, he purchased a small farm near >\ic- chanicsville, and sold out the blacksmith stand and business. One year later he purchased the stage route between Doyles- town and Carversville, which he conducted for seven years. He then purchased the livery business at the Fountain House, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, but after con- ducting it for fifteen months sold out and returned to Mechanicsville. In 1898 he pur- chased a lot there and conducted a plant of green houses, raising flowers for the Philadelphia markets, which he conducted for several years. In 1899 he was elected recorder of deeds of Bucks county, and served a term of three years, part of which time he resided in Doylebtown. In 1902 he was elected one of the board of directors of Doylestown National Ba-nk, a position which he still fills. He was largely instru- mental in effecting a reorganization of the bank, after its close in 1903. He was president of a company organized to build a trolley line from Doylestown to New Hope, via Mechanicsville, and was active in se- curing a right of way for the road. He is one of the trustees and directors of the Hughesian Free School, president of the Mechanicsville Cemetery Company and holds other positions of trust. He is a member of Black Eddy Lodge, No. 191, I. O. O. F.; St. Tammany Castle, No. 173, K. G. E., Lenape Council, No. 11 17, Royal Arcanum, of Doylestown, and of a lodge of the I. O. R. M., of Lambert- ville. Mr. Michener married, in December, 1877, Miss Arabella Collins. They have no children. NOAH G. TRAUGER. One of the good citizens of Bedminster is Noah G. Trauger. Mr. Trauger is a son of Elias Trauger, who was born January i, 1820, in Nock- amixon township, son of Christian and Susanna (Long) Trauger. About 1854 Elias Trauger purchased a farm in Bed- minster township, but about twelve years ago retired from active labor. He now re- sides with his son Noah. He is a Demo- crat in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church. He married Susanna George, and their children were : Mary Jane, who married William H. Trauch, of Bedminster township; Reuben G., who re- sides in Luzerne county; Titus, who lives in Bedminster ; Louise, who is the wife of John Chittick, of Gardenville; Ellen, who married Jonas Gruver, of Bedminster ; Noah G., mentioned at length hereinafter; and Emma, who married Noah Gruver, of Pipersville. Mr. Trauger, the father, who in early life worked at the carpenter's trade, is still living at the age of eighty-five. He has two brothers. Christian, eighty-one years old. and Aaron, who is eighty. Aho a sister, Mary, who is ninety-five. These arc the survivors of a family of ten chil- dren. Noah G. Trauger, son of Elias and Susanna (George) Trauger, was born No- vember 9, 1858, on the tarm which is now his home, and received his education in the common schools. In 1882 he purchased the farm of his deceas< 1 father-in-law, where he lived three years. He then suld it and in connection with his brother Titus bought the Trauger homestead of his father. For two years he cultivated the land in partnership with his brother, whose right he then purchased and has since been the sole owner. He is now serving his third year as school director and at different times has held the office of judge of elec- tion. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and his family are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Trauger married, in 1881,. Emeline, daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Tettemer) Mood, of Tinicum township and their children are: Ida M., Nora M. and Claude M. The last-named is the only grandson in the family, and is thus the one on whom rests the responsibility of transmittin"- the family name. ASHER K. ANDERS, Esq., one of the younger members of the Bucks county bar, and for the past three years chairman of the Democratic County Committee, was born in Nockamixon township, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1869, and is a son of William W. and Matilda (Kohl) Anders. The paternal ancestors of the An- ders family of Bucks county were residents of New Jersej', near Mil ford, for several generations, the name being variously spelled, Anders, Anderse, Andries, Andress,. Andriesen, Anderson, and Enderse. They were probably descendants of Andries An- driesse, from Westerover, Sweden, who was among the Swedes on the Delaware from 1659 to 1670. Paul Anderse or Enders and Gertruyd Delse were married June 5, 1754, at the "Dutch and English Presbyterian Church of Alexandria" in Alexandria township, Hunterdon county. New Jersey, near the present site of Milford. At least nine chil- dren were born to them as shown by the records of this old church, viz. : Jacob, Hubert, Margaret, Gertruvd, Abraham, Paulus. Wilhelm, Anna, and Adam. Jacob Andress. probably the eldest son of Paul and Gertruyd, obtained patents for land in Northampton county near the Bucks county line, in 1786 and 1789, respectively, and about 1800 located in Nockamixon township. Bucks county, where he died in 1810, leaving a widow. Mary Magdalena Andress, and children : John. Jacob. George, Hannah, Elizabeth and William,' and possibly others. George and William re- mained in Nockamixon and reared families there. William Anders, son of Jacob and Mary Magdalena Andress, married Rebecca t: PUu.. W YORK '^RARY T •X ANJ> \TijMS. /^c^^^^ nDnr{^ri4}^iZ^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 369 — , and had at least four sons : Jacob, born in 181S; Charles, born 1820; Solomon, born ^larch 7, 1822, and William, born 1826, died July i, 1896. The date of death of William Anders, Sr. has not been as- certained; his wife Rebecca died March 25, 1875, at the age of seventy-six years. Solomon Anders, son of William and Rebecca, was the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. He was a farmer and a lifelong resident of Nockamixon, and was a landowner there almost from his arrival at his majority, purchasing his first home in 1847. He later purchased the farm owned by the subject of this sketch near Bucksville, where he died October 25, 1897. His wife, Elizabeth Fabian, born February 9, 1825, died December 18, 1897, belonged to a well-known family of that vicinity, and was of German ancestry, who had been residents of Upper Bucks for several generations. William W. Andres, only son of Solomon and Elizabeth (Fabian) Anders, was born in Nockamixon, April 13, 1844. and died there September 11, 1902. Hewas a farmer and resided on the old homestead near Bucksville. He married Matilda Kohl, born August 14, 1851, died at the residence of her son, Asther K. Anders, in Doyles- town, October 22, 1903. Matilda (Kohl) Anders was a daughter of Thomas and Maria (Lightcap) Kohl, both natives of Nockamixon, the former born October 21, 1821, died October 24, 1898, and the latter born April 15, 1820, died September 16, 1890. Thomas S. Kohl was a son of Conrad Kohl, who died in Nockamixon in 1843, grandson of ^lichael Kohl, of the same place, who died in 1828. and great-grandson of Conrad Kohl, a native of Germany, who came to America in the ship "Lydia," arriving in Philadelphia. September 20. 1743. He was twenty-four j-ears of age at the time of his emigration, and died in Nockamixon township, Bucks county, in 1807. His descendants have been large landowners and prominent citi- zens of Upper Bucks for five generations, and are now very numerous. William W. and Matilda (Kohl) Anders were the pa- rents of two children, viz. : Lewellyn, born July 24, 1867. died, unmarried, April 3, 1901 ; and Asher K. Asher K. Anders was born and reared on the old homestead in Nockamixon and was educated at the public schools and at Kutztown Normal School, graduating from the latter in 1892. He taught for five years in the public schools of Nockamixon and Durham township, in the meantime en- tering himself as a student at law under Samuel Z. Freed. Esq.. of Doylestown. He was admitted to the Bucks county bar, Au- gust 23, 1897. and opening an office at Doylestown began the practice of his chosen profession. In politics Mr. Anders is an ardent Democrat and has always taken an active part in the councils of his party. He was elected chairman of the Democratic County Committee in March, 24-3 1902, and filled that position with ability for three years. He has also represented his party in district, congressional and state conventions, and has also served his party "on the stump" in several campaigns. Mr. Anders married, July 12, 1899, Nora E. Grim, daughter of the late Dr. George W. and Elizabeth (Koons) Grim, of Nock- amixon, and a sister to Hon. Webster Grim, of Doylestown. Their daughter Elizabeth Marion was born May 15, 1904. Mr. An- ders is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 24s, F. & A. M., of Doylestown R. A. C. No. 270, of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., of Doylestown, of Revere Castle, K. G. E. No. 230, of Revere, and of Sciota Tribe No. 214, L O. of R. M. of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. B. FRANK HOBENSACK. When Pennsylvania was numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain the Hobehsack family was founded within its borders and representatives of the name since that time have been loyal to the in- terests of the colony and have taken an active and helpful part in its material de- velopment. The progenitor of the family in America came from Germany in pioneer times, and was the great-great-grandfather of B. Frank Hobensack. He was one of the early promoters of the development and progress of Bucks county along many beneficial lines. Isaac Hobensack, grandfather of B. Frank Hobensack, was born in Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, and became well known as a successful and enterprising farmer. In choosing this walk of life he followed in the footsteps of his ancestors. He was content to devote his time and energies to agricultural pursuits, having no aspirations for political office, although he ever kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He gave his early support to the Whig party, and he served as township supervisor and in other minor positions. He was a devoted and consistent member of the Primitive Baptist church, and was %vell known in the locality where he re- sided, commanding the good will and trust of all because of his own reliability and integrity in all life's relations. He wedded Emily Fetter, also a native of Bucks county, and their children were : Margaret. Rachel, Isaac C. John, William, Marv^E. and Eliza- beth. I-aac C. Hobensack. whose birth occurred in Warminster township. Bucks county, was reared upon the home farm and there re- mained until his marriage, when he rented a tract of land, which he continued to cultivate until his efforts had brought him capital sufficient to enable him to purchase land. He then bought a farm in Southamp- ton township. UDOn which he spent his re- maining davi. successfully carrying on gen- eral agricultural nnrsuits and also attend- ing the Philadelphia market. In his busi- 370 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY ness career he was progressive and practi- cal, carrying forward to successful com- pletion whatever he undertook. His in- terest in the political questions and issues of the day led him to give earnest support to the Republican party. He served as county commissioner lor one term and held some minor township positions, including that of school director. He was reared m the faith of the Primitive Baptist church and never united with any other religious denomination. He possessed a genial man- ner, was kindly and charitable in disposi- tion and the poor and needy found in him a warm friend. He died January g, 1903, respected by all who knew him. His wife, whose maiden name was Joanna Hogeland, was born June 29, 1832, in Southampton tonship, Bucks county, and died April 17, 1905, at the age of seventy-three years. Her father, Abraham Hogeland, was a farmer who settled in Bucks county at an early period in its development. He be- came prominent in community affairs and as a representative of agricultural interests. His daughter, Mrs. Hobensack, became a member of the Presbyterian church. She was the youngest in a family of nine chil- dren, the others being: Elias, a farmer, who at one time served as sheriff of Bucks coun- ty; John, Joseph, Theodore, William, Mor- ris, and Charles, all of whom follow farm- ing; and Susan, the wife of H. D. Leffert. Unto Isaac C. and Joanna (Hogeland) Hobensack were born eight children : Mary A., the wife of H. B. Krewsen, deceased; Isaac M., a western man; William, who is engaged in business at Ivyland; B. Frank; Albert C, ,also in business in Ivyland; Emily, the wife of W. C. Yerkes; Wilkins, of Norristown ; and Joanna. B. Frank Hobensack was born in South- ampton township, Bucks county, Septem- ber 30, 1864, and at the usual age entered the common schools, where he acquired a. good practical English education. In his youth he became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the_ agri- culturist, and he continued to assist in the operation of the home farm until he had attained his majority. He afterward spent some time in %vorking at the printer's trade, but following his marriage he resumed farming, renting a tract of land for four years. H^ then went to Ivyland, where he joined his brother, William Hobensack, in an industrial enterprise under the firm style of Hobensack Brothers, the partners being William and B. Frank Hobensack. They operated a mill for grinding, also handled feed, and dealt extensively in lumber to- gether with agricultural implements and fertilizers. Mr. Hobensack of this review continued successfully in that line of trade imtil 1899, when he was elected high sheriflf of Bucks county, serving for a full term with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned. He discharged his duties without fear of favor, and his course awakened the confidence of all law-abiding citizens. On the expiration of his term he retired from office as he had entered it— with the contidence and good will of all concerned. He then engaged in the stone crushing business at Quakertown, also dealt in real estate and bought a large trad- ing business. He is still following those pursuits, and is regarded in his locality as a broadminded, intelligent and successful business man, meriting the respect of his fellow citizens. 'His efforts have likewise extended to other lines of activity, for he is a stockholder and director in the Jenkins- town Trust Company. He is enterprising and public-spirited, well know^n and highly respected. His political views are in ac- cordance with the principles of the Re- publican party, and he is deeply interested in its success, believing that it contains .the best elements of good government. He attends various party conventions, has been judge of elections and has often served on the election board. He has also filled town- ship positions, has been school director, was auditor for three terms and was chosen for the position of justice of the peace. With a full recognition of the duties that devolve upon him as an officer, he has ever been true to the trust reposed in him by his fellow townsmen and in performing his public service has displayed marked fidelity and capability. In 1886 Mr. Hobensack was married to Miss Catherine Cornell, who was born in Warwick township, Bucks county, August II, 1863, her parents being Hiram and Jen- nie (McKinstry) Cornell, the latter of War- rington township and a member of one of the early families of Bucks county, of Scotch-Irish lineage. Hiram Cornell's an- cestors also located in this county at an early day. He became a leading farmer, well known for his activity and reliability in business. He voted with the Democracy, and was a loyal adherent of the Presbv- terian church in which he held membership. His death occurred March 29, 189.;. and his widow, who still survives him. finds a good home with Mr. and Mrs. Hobensack. She is a daughter of James and Agnes Mc- Kinstry, natives of this county. Jner father was a carpenter by trade and later in life followed farming, and was both a success- ful and practical mechanic and agricul- turist. He served as school director and also held some minor positions, and was deeply concerned in the welfare and progress of his community, although he did not seem to figure prominently in public life. He held membership in the Neshaminy Presbyterian church, and nearly all of the members of the McKinstry family became identified with the same denomination. These were Robert, Jessie, Mary, William, Catherine, John, Sarah and Jane. Unto Mr. and ]\Irs. Hiram Cornell were born two children : James, who is married and re- sides in Ivyland: he is a popular salesman in a clothing house in Philadelphia; and Catherine, wife of Mr. Hobensack. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hobensack has been blessed with one son. Wilkin C, born HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 37i October s, 1896. The parents are consistent members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Hobensack is a worthy Mason, belonging to the lodee, chapter and consistory, so that he has attained high rank in the fraternity, the leading elements and teachings of which he exemplifies in his life. EDWARD D. WORSTALL, a popular merchant and postmaster at Jamison, is of English lineage, the early members of the family in America coming to Pennsyl- vania from England in colonial days. Jo- seph Worstall, Sr., grandfather of Edward D. Worstall, was born in Bucks county, •and was a tanner by trade. After mastering that pursuit he carried on an extensive busi- ness at Newtown for a number of years, but subsequently purchased a farm upon which he established his home and there spent the evening of life. He was a con- sistent member of the Friends meeting and died in that faith. He married Jane Hes- ton, a native of Hestonville, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Edward and Sarah Heston. Her father was born in Chester county, March 16, 1745, and died February 14, 1824, while his wite, who was born April 16, 1763, died August 15, 1856, at the age of ninety-three years. The Hes- tons were directly connected with the Rev. Hicks, the author of the Hicksite faith of the Friends meeting. The Hestons were widely known in eastern Pennsylvania, and were prominent and popular people, highly respected by all. Unto Joseph and Jane (Heston) Worstall were born five children: Sarah A., the wife of Jacob Hibbs ; Han- nah, who married P. Scarbro ; Edward H., a tanner ; Isaac H., a farmer and ex-county treasurer of Bucks county ; and Joseph. Joseph Worstall, Jr., was born in Bucks county and was reared in .Newtown, where he learned the tanner's trade under the direction of his father, whom he assisted until after his marriage. He then purchased a farm in Doylestown township, where he established his home, there spending his remaining days in the quiet pursuits of agriculture. He affiliated with the Friends meeting, and politically was Whig, but had no aspirations for onice, although he kept well informed on the issues and questions of the day. It was his ambition to provide well for his family and to this end he labored earnestly and persistently, making for himself an honorable name by reason of his fidelity to all life's relations. He died in July, 1853, while his wife passed away in March. 1894, at the age of seventy- four years. Mrs. Worstall bore the maiden name of Mary Van Buskirk, and, like her hus- band, \vas a native of Bucks county. Her parents were Isaac and Susan (Van Horn) Van Buskirk, representatives of early fam- ilies of Bucks county. Both were members of the Neshaminy Presbyterian church. In their family were seven children : Andrew. John George and Isaac, all of whom fol- low farming; Mary, who became Mrs. Worstall; Susan, wife of S. Rake; and Elizabeth, wife of R. Eddus. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Worstall, Jr., had but two chil- dren, the daughter, Susan, living at home with her brother, Edward D. In the usual manner of farmer lads Ed- ward D. Worstall spent the days of his boyhood and youth, being reared upon the old family homestead by his mother, for his father died during the infancy of the son. He continued to assist his mother dur- ing the period of his minority, and when fie had attained adult age he purchased the old homestead, which he conducted for a number of years. In 1880 he was married, ■ and the following year he purchased a store in Jaminson, which he is yet conducting. He has been very successful in his mer- cantile ventures, -enjoying a constantly in- creasing patronage. In 1877 he tore away all of the old buildings and erected a com- modious frame block, three stories high, including both his residence and business property. In 1898 he built a fine barn and he has two acres of lan9 and manv out- buildings. His is a finely improved home and business place, and he is a practical and prosperous merchant. He drew the plans for the block which was erected, and in his store he carries a well selected line of general merchandise. He is also one of the large stockholders in the Doylestown National Bank, assisted in its re-organiza- tion and has since been one of its directors. He also holds stock in the Warwick Cream- ery (Company, a successful business enter- prise, and for two years he was secretary and treasurer of the company. The third story of his building is occupied by the Odd Fellows lodge, and it was largely through Mr. Worstall's instrumentality that the lodge was instituted here. He also secured the establishment of the postoffice through the influence of I. N. Evans, con- gressman from this district. Mr. Worstall was appointed postmaster January 21,. 1884, and has since managed the affairs of the office. In his political affiliations Mr. Wor- stall has always been a stanch Republican, and in addition to serving as postmaster he has held the office of school director in Warwick township for thirteen years. He likewise filled a similar position in Doyles- town township for six years, and has been treasurer of the Warwick school board for the entire period of his connection there- with. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled all of the chairs, has taken the blue lodge and chapter degrees in Masonry, holding mem- bership with the Doylestown lodge, is af- filiated with the Knights of Pythias at Hat- boro. with the Knights of the Golden Eagle and with the American Mechanics. He is in good standing in all of these organizations and has filled many positions in the different lodges. He and his family are members of the Neshaminy Presbyter- ian church. Mr. Worstall was married to Miss Clarissa Fell, who was born in Doylestown 3/2 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. township, in 1855, a daughter of James C. and Mary E. (,Gargus; i'ell, boUi na- tives of Bucks county. Her father was a prominent farmer, whose active and hon- orable business career was in harmony with his professions as a member of the Friends meeting. He died in February, 1897, at the age of seventy-four years, while his wife survived until June, 1904- Her death occurred while she was visiting in South Carolina, but her remains were in- terred in Doylestown cemetery.- Their chil- dren were: Abram, a farmer; Caroline, wife of Joseph Ellis; Ella, the wife of Hugh Carroll; Fanny, the wife of E. Bodine; and Clarissa, the wife of Edward D. Wor^tall. Mr. and Mrs. Worstall have but one child, Joseph F., born May i, 1884, who is now assisting his father in the store and postoffice. ADAM MARTIN, who is engaged in farming near Chalfont, was born in New Britain township, March 20, 1853, and is of German parentage. He is a son oi George and Harriet (Bailmyer) Alartin, bofh of whom were natives of Wittenberg, Germany, where they were reared and mar- ried. Following the birth of two of their children they came to America, crossing the Atlantic about 1850. George iNlartin estab- lished his home in Bucks county, where he worked as a day laborer for some time. Subsequently he purchased a small tract of land at New Galena, built a house and afcer a few years sold that property and bought again at Eden, where he also erected a dwelling. After residing there for many years he retired from business life and now makes his home in AUentown, Pennsyl- vania. He was employed by the Reading Railroad Company for many years in dif- ferent capacities, and now with a com- fortable competence saved from his earn- ings is enjoying a well merited rest. He proved his loyalty to his adopted country when in 1863 he offered his services to the government, becoming a member of the One Hundred and P"ourteenth Pennsylvania Regiment of Infantry. The command was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and he served until the close of the war, en- during deprivations and exposures such as are meted out to the soldier. He did his full duty as a defender of the stars and stripes, and after the close of the war he returned home and resumed work with the Reading Railroad Company. In politics n Cad- wallader, who was of Welsh descent. His parents came from Wales to this country when it was still a part of the colonial possessions of Great Britain and established a home in Montgomery county, assisting in the permanent development and improve- ment of that part of the state, and giving their influence for its moral growth, being consistent members of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends. John Cadwallader (i) was a resident farmer of Horsham township, Montgomery county. Benjamin Cadwallader (2) was born in Horsham township and was reared amid the refining influence of a good Christian home in ac- cordance with the tenets of the Friends meeting and remained to his last days a faithful follower of its teachings. After his marriage he located on a farm in Hor- sham township, where he resided for many years and then removed to Bucks county, purchasing a large tract of land in Buck- 3/6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ingham township. Here he made many improvemcnls, developing one of the best farms of the locality, equiped with all im- provements known in agricultural circles of that day. He was never known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellow men in any trade transaction and his busi- ness integrity stood as an unquestioned fact in his career. In his later years he made disposition of the homestead prop- erty by dividing it among his sons and re- moving to Byberry, Pennsylvania, spending the evening of life in the enjoyment of a well earned rest. At his death, however, his remains were taken back to Horsham township, Montgomery county, for inter- ment. His wife bore the maiden name of Hannah Bradfield, and she, too, was a na- tive of Horsham. She passed away prior to her husband's demise. In their family were seven sons and two daughters : Eli, who became well known as a successful farmer of Bucks county; Yardly; Ben- jamin, who carried on agricultural pursuits; Peter, who won sucess as a physician and surgeon; John, a farmer; David, a tailor by trade; Cyrus, a wheelwright; TJree, who became the wife of James Bonner; and Elizabeth, who married John Rich. Yardly Cadwallader (3), born on his fa- ther's farm in Horsham township, Mont- gomery county, but reared to manhood in Bucks county, remained on the old fjimily homestead subsequent to his marriage and operated it for two years. He then re- turned to -Horsham township, where he rented a farm and subsequently lived in Abington township. His next place of resi- dence was Byberry, where he continued for many years, devoting his energies to agri- cultural pursuits, but in 1S64 he sold tnat farm, and he and his wife afterward found a good home with their son, Charles M., remaining with him until their death. Throughout his active business career Yardly Cadwallader carried on farming, managing his affairs with capability and conducting his business interests with keen discn'mination and business insight. For many years he attended the Philadelphia market. Caring nothing for public office or official preferment of any character his undividel attention was devoted to the work of tilling the soil, and he was known as an honest, upright farmer. His study of po- litical questions in early life led him to give his support to the Whig party, and he en- dorsed the abolition principles so that when the Republican party was tormed to prevent the further extension of slavery he espoused its cause and remained one of its consistent adherents until his death. Interested in the welfare of his community, he labored for the election of competent men and never failed to cast his ballot for the candidates whom he thought best qualified for office. He belonged to the Friends meeting and his religious faith permeated his entire life, moulding his character and shaping his des- tiny. Yardly Cadwallader married Christi- ana Moore, a native of Plainlield. New Jer- sey, whose ancestors had through several generations resided in that state, and they, too, were members of the Friends meeting. In her father's family were four children: John, a successful agriculturist, whose pro- gressive spirit was in keeping with modern advancement, figured prominently in politi- cal circles in his community and state. He held many township and county offices and twice represented Trenton district in the New Jersey legislature. He was also as- sociate judge of the Belvidere court, and was elected to these various positions on the Democratic ticket. His influence in New Jersey politics was marked, his thorough understanding of the issues of the day and his devotion to the general good well fitting him to become a leader in public thought and action. Joseph Moore prospered in his farming operations, but did not seek political prominence. Susan Moore became the wife of E. Price, of New York, and Christiana, of Yardly Cadwallader. The members of the Moore family all lived to the advanced age of eighty years. The children of Yardly and Christiana (.Moore) Cadwallader, were : Mary, wife of Thomas Lightfoot ; Peter, a school teacher, who died at the age of twenty-eight years ; How- ard, a farmer, who died in 190D at the age of seventy-seven years; Elizabeth, wife of F. Diamond; Charles M. (4); Anna, who died at the age of five years ; and Sarah A., wife of S. Ely, of Kansas. Charles M. Cadwallader (4), born in Byberry, Philadelphia county, Pennsyl- vania, November 6, 1830, accompanied his parents on their various removals, living with them in Horsham and in Upper Dub- lin, during which time he gained practical and comprehensive knowledge of farming methods. When eighteen years of age he went to Southampton, where he was ap- prenticed to the miller's trade for a term of three years. On the expiration of that pe- riod he worked for one year as a journey- man and then went to Wrightstown town- ship, Bucks county, where he assumed charge of the Rich flour mills, which he operated for five years. He was married during that period and subsequently re- moved to Horsham, where he conducted a milling business for two years. Then re- suming the occupation to which he had been reared he rented a farm near Jarret- town, continuing its cultivation for seven years, after which he rented land near Three Tons for three years. In the spring of 1867 he purchased the farm in Warring- ton township, on which he has since re- sided, it being a well-improved tract of land pleasantly located about a mile north of the Warrington postoffice. A commodious residence, large barn and substantial out- buildings are among the leading features of the place, while the productive soil under his careful cultivation brings forth rich crops. He carries on general fanning and for many years sold his products 10 the Philadelphia markets, but in recent years on account of advanced age and the failure HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Z77 •of his eyesight he has largely left the man- agement of his farm to his son, who is <:arrying forward the work along progres- sive lines that his father inaugurated. Charles Cadwallader concentrated his ener- gies and efforts exclusively upon his agri- cultural labors and a splendidly improved property is now the visible evidence of his life of thrift and industry. Charles M. Cadwallader endorses Republican pnn- ■ciples by his ballot, and manifests in the questions of the day the interest which every American citizen should display in the measure which effect the general wel- fare of county, state and nation. His In- fluence is ever on the side of progress, re- form and improvement, and he is a faith- ful member of the Friends meeting, to which his wife also belonged. On the i6th of February, 1855, ]\Ir. Cad- wallader married Miss Anna Conard, who was born in Warwick township, Bucks •county, Pennsylvania, in 1830, a daughter of Charles and JNlary (Patterson) Conard, also natives" of this county and representa- tives of early pioneer families. She was one of four children, the others being : John, a farmer; Robert, a carpenter and engineer ; and James, a farmer and funeral director. In September, 1890, after more than thirty-five years of happy wedded life, Mrs. Cadwallader died. She is survived by her husband and two children, while their second daughter, Julia Elma, died in 1865 at the age of three and a half years. The eldest daughter, Elizabeth D., became the wife of George Corson, of Plymouth, Penn- sylvania, and died July 21, 1903, leaving two sons. The living children are Martha A. and Howard, both on the old homestead, the son continuing the conduct of the farm since his father's practical retirement from its active management. FREDERICK F. BUEHRLE. The Buehrle family of which Frederick F. Buehrle is a representative had its or- igin in Germany. His grandfather, Jo- seph Buehrle, was a native of Baden, and entertained strong Republican prin- ciples as opposed to monarchical ideas. He served as revenue and tax collector for the duchy of Baden for a long period, but on account of his connection with the Republican movement which cul- minated in the rebellion begun at Baden in 1848 he was deprived of his office and of most of his property, and in 1846 he sought a home beyond the Atlantic in the "land of the free." Bucks county was his destination and he established his home near Easton, where he began boat- ing on the Lehigh and Delaware canal. Later he purchased a farm in Tinicum township, Bucks county, where he spent his remaining days, devoting his atten- tion to agricultural pursuits. The con- ditions of his life were very greatly changed from those of his German home, but he made the best of the cir- cumstances and became a loyal and val- ued citizen of the Keystone state. His children were: Robert, who is now su- perintendent of schools in Lancaster city ; Wilemine, who married Jacob Stee- ley, a resident of Nockamixon township; Emma, who married Titus Applebach, of Bethlehem; Josephine of Bethlehem, who was married twice; first to Jacob Krouse, and two years after his death to James Williams, both of Tinicum. William Buehrle, son of Joseph Buehrle, was born in Germany in 1834, and when a lad of twelve years left his native province of Baden in company with his mother and crossed the water to the new world. His educational privi- leges were somewhat limited, for it was necessary that he earn his own living at an early age, his father's property having been confiscated in Germany, so that it forced him to begin business life anew in the United States. When quite a young boy William Buehrle crossed the mountain with a pack on his back and he was still quite young when he secured a position on the Delaware canal, follow- ing that business continuously for twen- • ty-one years. The careful husbanding of his resources enabled him in that time to save enough money to purchase a small farm in Tinicum first and later he bought one belonging to Dietrich Knop- pel in Bedminster township. He resided thereon for five years, devoting his en- ergies to general agricultural pursuits and to dealing in cattle. He then sold the property to its former owner and bought another farm, where he contin- ued to engage in the tilling of the soil until twenty years of his life had been given to agricultural pursuits. At that time he turned his attention to mer- chandising at Quakertown, but when two years had passed sold out to his son William. Since that time he has been engaged in canvassing for books of vari- ous kinds. A Republican in his political views, he has ever been deeply inter- ested in the issues and questions of the day, keeping well informed on political conditions of the country. He served as school director in Tinicum township for two years and in Bedminster town- ship for six years. William Buehrle was married on the i6th of September, 1856. to Miss Mary Ann Fryling. a daughter of Samuel Fryling, a resident of War- rington township. She was born in 1842 and by her marriage became the mother of nineteen children: William; Hannah, wife of Nathan Beer, of Perkasie, Rnck- hill township; Charlotta, who married A. O. Myers, of' Portland; Frederick F. ; William F. : Rosanna, who became the wife of John Edwin Scheetz, and after his death married Joseph Hager; Samuel, Joseph, Robert. Lawrence, Harry, de- ceased; John Edward, deceased; Benja- min Franklin; Annie, the wife of Charles 378 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Bowman; Lillie, Mary Ann. deceased; and three who died in infancy. Frederick F. Buehrle was born in Tin- icuni township, Bucks conntj', November 14, i86r, and pursued a common school education, entering upon his business career in the capacity of a clerk in the store of D. B. Crouthenear, of Ridge. On leaving that employ he turned his at- tention to farming, which he has since followed in connection with the butcher- ing business and fence building. His life has been characterized by unfalter- ing industry and has been crowned with a fair measure of success. In politics he is a stanch Republican, active in the work of the party, recognized as one of its local leaders and at the present writing in 1904 is spoken of as a candi- date for sheriff. He belongs to the Lu- theran church at Kellers, Pennsylvania, and is the champion of all measures that have for their object the upbuilding and substantial improvement of his county. Frederick F. Buehrle was married to Miss Annie Bewighouse, the only daugh- ter of Isaac Bewighouse, and they now have two children: Sarah B. and Mary Ann. JOSEPH HARRISON WILSON, for nearly twenty years a prominent mem- ber of the town council of Doylestown, Bucks county, and one of the active bus- iness men of the county town, was born at Jenkintown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, February i, 1854, and is a son of Ebenezer C. and Sarah T. (Fell 1 Wilson. On both the paternal and ma- ternal sides he is descended from early English pioneers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His paternal ancestor. Captain Ebenezer Wilson, son of Samuel Wilson, a merchant of London, England, came to America prior to 1677, and set- tled in New Jersey, from whence his de- scendants later migrated to the Manor of Moorland, now Moreland township, Montgomery county. Joshua Wilson, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was an early resident of Moreland township. He mar- ried Rachel Harding, daughter of Isaac and Phebe Harding, of Southampton. Bucks county, and a descendant of Thomas Harding, one of the earliest English settlers in Southampton. Isaac Wilson, son of Joshua and Rachel (Harding) Wilson, was born 1801. He was a farmer in Moreland, and married Sarah Conrad, a descendant of Thones Kunders. one of the founders of Germantown. and they were the parents of six children: Emeline, Ebenezer C Thomas, Joseph, Alfred and Charles. Of these Thomas married Mary Fell, daugh- ter of Thomas and Sarah (Michener) Fell, and was a farmer for many years near Lahaska, Bucks county. Ebenezer C. Wilson, eldest son of Isaac and Sarah (Conrad) Wilson, was- born in Moreland township, Montgom- ery county, Pennsylvania, November 17,. 1828. His early education was acquired at Jenkintown, and at the age of sixteen years he went to learn the shoemaker's trade with James K. Miller, later of Doylestown, and followed that trade for some years. He later engaged in farm- ing near Jenkintown, where he followed that vocation for two years. He then removed to a farm near Dublin, Bucks county, where he resided for two years. In 1870 he removed to Doylestown, where he spent his remaining days. He was street commissioner of the town at the time of his death in 1892. He was a soldier in the rebellion, a member of Company C, Eighth Pennsylvania Cav- alry. He was wounded at Dinwiddy Court House, and was helped from the battle field by General Custin, who saved him from being captured. Mr. Wilson was in the hospital in Washington when President Lincoln was assassinated. He married in 1853, Sarah T. Fell, born May I, 1832, who survives him and is living in Doylestown. She is a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Michener) Fell, of Moreland, Montgomery county, Penn- sjdvania, the former born in 1802, died June I, 1841 ; and the latter a daughter of Isaac and Mary (Dehaven) Michener, and a descendant of John Michener, who- came from England prior to 1690, and later settled in Moreland township; she was born January 4, 1803, and died in Bucks county, March 5, 1876. Thomas Fell, above mentioned, was a son of Phineas and Rachel (Coates) Fell, of Buckingham, the former born December 18, 1778, died 1818, was a son of Thomas Fell, born January 11, 1746, married' April 18, 1770, Grace Parry, daughter of Philip and Rachel (Harker) Parry, of Buckingham, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas and Elinor Parry, who came from Wales in 1693. Thomas Fell was a son of Benjamin Fell, born in Cumber- land, England. November i, 1703, by his- second wife Hannah Iredell, of Hor- sham. Ebenezer C. and Sarah T. (Fell) Wilson were the parents of four chil-^ dren: Emma, born April 14, 1856. wife of Morris Cloud, of Doylestown; Joseph Harrison, the subject of this sketch; Isaac Thomas, born July 2, 1858, married Priscilla Thompson, and resides in Phil- adelphia; and Elw^ood Conrad, born July 10. i860, died 1882. leaving one son, El- wood, of Philadelphia. Joseph Harrison Wilson was reared on the farm in Montgomery and Buck* counties and acquired his education in the public schools. He came to Doyles- town with his parents in 1870. at the age of sixteen years, and two years later learned the trade of a plasterer, which he has since follo\ved in Doylestown and vicinity, filling many large contracts, and HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 379- employing a number of men. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs, and has served continuously in the borough council for nineteen years, being re-elected in February, 1905, for the seventh term of three years each. During nearly the whole of this period he has been one of the most active mem- bers of the board, serving continuously on the street and water committees. He married, in 1876, Anna Shive, daughter of Levi Shive, of Doylestown, and they are the parents of two children: Carrie, wife of A. Harry Clayton, local editor of the "Daily Republican," and George Lorah. Mr. Wilson and his fam- il}^ are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge No. 94, L O. O. F., of Dovlestown Council No. 166, A. O. U. A. M. and No. 214, L O. R. M., of Doylestown. He is a Son of Veterans of Doylestown, a charter member of the Roj-al Arcanum. THE CHAPMAN FAMILY. The pioneer ancestor of the Chapman family was John Chapman, whp was born at Stanhope, or Stanehaugh, in the county of Durham, England, about the year 1635. He was a son of John Chapman, of Froslerty, Durham, and the Parish records show that the family had been residents in that locality for several generations and that some of their de- scendants continue to reside there. John Chapman was an earlj' convert to the principles of George Fox, and as early as 1656, suffered imprisonment and other persecutions for his religious principles. In 1660 he was confined in York Castle for eight weeks for refusing to take a prescribed oath, together with other Friends, and at several periods there- after had goods seized for the payment of fines imposed for attending non-con- formist meetings. He was twice mar- ried, first on 10 mo. 14, 1665, by which marriage he had one daughter, Ann, born 4 mo. 21, 1667, but who died g mo. 15, 1668. His wife died 8 mo. 2, 1668, and he was married a second time 4 mo. 12, 1670. to Jane Sadler, of Lagenby. To this marriage was born seven children, five at Stanhope and two in Bucks county- On June 2T. 1684, John Chapman and Jane his wife and their five children set out from Stanhaugh, in Durham, tak- ing wnth them a certificate from the Friends Meeting at that place to Friends in America, and took passage on the ship "Shield" at New Castle, on the river Tyne, for Penn's colony in America. On the I2th of September they encountered a storm off the capes of Virginia, which almost entirely dismantled their ship, and they were for two days at the mercy of the waves, but on the 15th of Septem- ber effected a landing on the shores of Maryland. After a few weeks stay in Maryland they proceeded up the Dela- ware to Bucks county, arriving at the house of Phineas Pemberton, near tht Falls, in the latter part of October. Prev- ious to leaving England, John Chapman had purchased 500 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and it was laid out to him in the present township of Wrightstown, then the frontier of the little Quaker settlement on the Dela- ware, and still an absolute wilderness. Here the family removed in 10 mo., 1684, and erected the first house that far north in the county of Bucks. John Chapman died in 5 mo. (July), 1694, and Jane, his- wife, in 9 mo., 1699, and both were buried in an old burying ground near Penns Park. Friends Meeting was held at the house of John Chapman for some time- prior to the erection of the first IMeet- ing House on his land. The children of John and Jane (Sadler) Chapman were: I. Mara, born at Stanhope, 2 mo. 12,. 1671, married 2 mo. 28, 1697, John Croas- dale, who died 10 mo. 14, 1706, leaving three children: Ruth, Agnes and Thomas. She married (second) John Wildman and had two daughters: Mercy and Elizabeth, and has left numerous de- scendants. 2. Jane Chapman, born lo mo. 19, 1672. 3. Ann Chapman, born 3 mo. 19, 1676, married John Parsons, of Wrightstown, in 1717, and died 10 mo. 9^ 1732, without children. She was an eminent preacher among Friends and travelled extensively in this country and abroad. 4. John Chapman, born 11 mo. II, 1678, was surveyor for Bucks county for many years, making nearly all the early surveys, and was also a justice. He married, November 10, 1739,. Ruth, daughter of John and Mary Wilkinson, and had one son, John, who was for many years a justice and a member of assembly. 5. Ruth Chapman, born 5 mo. 9. 1682. 6 and 7. Abraham and Joseph Chapman, twins, were the only children born to John and Jane Chapman in Bucks county. They were born at Wrightstown, 12 mo. 12, 1685. Joseph married ]\Iary Worth, of Stony Brook, NeWjersey, who died 5 mo. 24, 1727. Of her six children only three lived to ma- turity, and her only surviving son Isaac died in 1779 without issue. Joseph mar- ried again in 1730, Mary Wilkinson, daughter of John, who died in 1744, leav- ing no surviving issue. Abraham Chap- man, son of John and Jane, born 12 mo. 12, 1685, died 2 mo. 2^, 1755. He was a member of Colonial Assembly from' 1723 to 1752, and a justice from 1738 until 1752. His son, Benjamin, was a member of Assembly in 1758-9, and was succeeded by his brother Abraham, who served for five years, when Benjamin' was again returned and served until the breaking out of the Revolution. Abra- ham Chapman. Sr., was married in 1715- to Susan Olden, daughter of Williami 38o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Olden, of Bound Brook, New Jersey, and they were the parents of eiglit children, viz.: John, born August, 17T6; Abraham, born June, 1718; John, born February, 1720; Jane, born May 21, 1723; Thomas, born June 8, 1725; Benjamin, born No- vember 10, 1727: Elizabeth, born May 20, 1730; and Joseph, born October 20, 1733. Joseph Chapman, j^oungest child of Abraham and Susan (Olden) Chapman, was born in Wrightstown in 1733, and died of yellow fever in 1790. He mar- ried, 5 mo. 17, 1758. Ann, daughter of John Fell, who was born 10 mo. 6, 1739, and died 3 mo. 20, 1828. They were the parents of fourteen children, nine of whom lived to mature age. Abraham Chapman, sixth child of Jo- seph and Ann (Fell) Chapman, was born 8 mo. 18, 1767, at Wrightstown, and died at Doylestown, 2 mo. 24, 1856. He was an eminent lawyer, being admitted to the Bucks county bar in 1790. He prac- ticed at Newtown until the removal of the county seat to Doylestown in 1812. when he removed to Doylestown and spent the balance of his days in that towm. He was knowm for vears as the "Father of the Bucks County Bar." He was the first president of the Doylestown National Bank. Fie married 12 mo. 15. 1795, Elizabeth Meredith, daughter of Dr. Hugh and Mary (Todd) Meredith, the former a native of Warwick town- ship, of Welsh descent, and was for many years a practicing attorney at Dojdestowm, and the latter was a daugh- ter of Joseph Todd, of Warminster, and of English descent. Abraham and Eliza- beth (Meredith) Chapman were the pa- rents of eight children, only two of whom lived to grow up: Wilhelmina, born I mo. 27, 1801. married Mathias Morris, and Henry, born 4 mo. 2, 1804. died 4 mo. Ii, 1891. Hon. Henry Chapman was born at Wrightstown. but was reared in Doyles- town, where he spent his entire life. He studied law in the office of his father and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one, April 25, 1825. Inheriting the fine intellectual ability of his illus- trious sire, he had made the most of ex- cellent opportunities for acquiring a fine classical education, and possessed of a truly well-balanced mind and a faculty of concentration, his classical acquire- ments and fine literary taste lent a gloss to his oratory, and made him a strong advocate. In politics he was a Demo- crat of the old school, and exercised a potent influence in his wing of the party. He w-as elected to the state sen- ate in 1843 and served one term of three years. In 1847 he was appointed to fill an unexpired term of four years as pres- ident judge of the Chester-Delaware District, and at its termination in i8;i declined a rcnomination. He was the nominee of his party in Bucks for the position of president judge of the Bucks Montgomery District, and though he carried his home county by a handsome majority, internal dissensions in the party in Montgomery lost him the elec- tion. In 1856 he was elected to congress from his home district, and at the ter- mination of his term declined a re-nom- ination. In 1861 he was elected presi- dent judge of the Bucks-Montgomery District, and at the termination of the term in 1871 retired to private life. He died April 11, 1891. He was twice mar- ried, his first w^ife being Rebecca Stew- art, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Re- becca Stewart, of New Britain township. She died 10 mo., 1837, and he married, in 1845, Nancy Findlay Shunk, daughter of Governor Francis R. and Jane (Findlay) Shunk. By his first marriage he had four children: Elizabeth, who married T. Bigelow Lawrence, of Boston, Massa- chusetts, and has been many years a wndow. residing at Doylestown; Mary Rebecca, who married William R. Mer- cer, born at Washington, D. C, now liv- ing at Doylestown. Mrs. Mercer died October 27. 1903. They were the pa- rents of three children: Henry C, Eliza- beth, wife of Captain Fidler Von Tsar- born, of Austria, and William R.. who married in 1904. Martha Dana, of Bos- ton. Massachusetts. The other children of Henry and Rebecca Chapman were Henry A., who died in 1834. and Thomas, who died 10 mo. 18, 1862. The children of Henr3^ and Nancy Findlay (Shunk) Chapman are: Fanny, residing at the old homestead near Doylestown. and Arthur. Nancy (Shunk) Chapman died 2 mo. 27, 1900. Arthur Chapman was born at Doyles- town. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, November 2. 1871. and prac- ticed for a few years, but preferring an outdoor life to the practice of the legal profession, he purchased the two hun- dred acre farm in New Britain, that was the property, of the ancestors of his father's first wife for two centuries, and conducted it for several years. He has lived a retired life in Do^-lestown town- ship for the last fifteen years. ALBERT G. B. HINKLE, M. D.. of 1.300 Spring Garden street, Philadelphia. Pennsvlvania, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, November 6. 1831. and is a son of Will- iam and Elizabeth (Walter) Hinkle, late of Plumstead. Casper Hinckle. the pioneer ancestor of the subject of this sketch, came from Germanv in the shin, "Neptune," arriv- ing at the port of Philadelphia, Septem- ber 24, 1754. and settled at or near Ger- man town. Philip Hinckle, born in Germany, re- moved from "Cresham. alias German- town," to Plumstead township, Bucks 9^ nM'Ut^^Aj^ 1 ^, c f HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 381 county, Pennsylvania, in 1766, purchas- ing on December 16, 1766, of Robert MacFarland, 153 acres near the present site of Hinkletown, on the Durham Road, between Gardenville and Pipers- ville. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that vocation there for a number of years. He later purchased considerable other land in Plumstead, owning at the time of his death, in 1814, over 200 acres of land, and had conveyed to his sons, Casper and Charles, each a farm prior to his death. During the later years of his life he was the proprietor of an inn or tavern, at Hinkletown. He was a member of Captain William Mc- Calla's company of Associators in Plum- stead in 1775, and later served in the Con- tinental Line. Philip and Mary Hinckle were the parents of five sons: Joseph; Casper, who died in Plumstead in 1850; Charles, who died in 1819; Anthony, who died in 1815; and Philip. He had also six daughters: Catharine, wife of Joshua Richards; ^lary, wife of Jacob Hol- bush ; Elizabeth ; Margaret, wife of Samuel Beakes ; Barbara, wife of William Grove ^ and Ann. Joseph Hinkle, eldest son of Philip, was the grandfather of Dr. Hinkle. He married Ann Marshall, one of the nine daughters of Edward Marshall, who made the one and a half days walk in 1737, that defined the purchase of the land known as the "Walking Purchase." Edward Marshall died in Tinicum town- ship, November 6. 1789, aged seventy- nine years. A full account of him and his exploits with the Indians is given in this work in the chapter entitled "The Walking Purchase." Ann Hinkle was a daughter of the second marriage to Eliz- abeth Mease, who died October 12, 1807, aged eighty years. Joseph Hinkle died in Plumstead township June 24, 1821, aged fifty-six years. William Hinkle. son of Joseph and Ann (Marshall) Hinkle, was born in Plumstead township, and spent his whole life there as a farmer. He died in July, i860. His wife was Elizabeth Walter, daughter of Michael W^alter. Esq., for many years a prominent farmer and jus- tice of the peace of Plumstead township. Dr. Albert G. B. Hinkle was reared on the farm in Plumstead township. Bucks county, attended the public schools of that neighborhood and finished his ele- mentary education' at Point Pleasant Seminary, under the Rev. Dr. Hyde. He studied medicine under his relative. Dr. James M. Ridge, then of Tinicum town- ship, later of Camden. New Jersey, now deceased, who was also a descendant of Edward Marshall. Dr. Hinkle entered the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1857. and practiced his pro- fession in Philadelphia, until the sum- mer of 1862. when he was appointed as- sistant surgeon in charge of the trans- port, Daniel Webster No. 2, and served until taken sick with typhoid fever, when he was relieved from service. On his recovery he resumed the practice of medicine in Philadelphia, where he has since been in active practice. Dr. Hinkle married in i860, Emma Sevelenge Downie, of Philadelphia, and they are the parents of two children: Sallie, wife of William R. Warner, Jr., a prominent wholesale druggist and chemist of Philadelphia; and William ]\Iarshall Hinkle, M. D., also a graduate of the University of Peryisylvania. VALMORE M. HELLYER, of the mer- cantile firm of A. S. Hellyer's Sons, was born at Mechanics Valley, Buckingham township, Bucks county, September 15, 1857, and is a son of Amos S. and Annie (Penrose) Hellyer. His paternal great- grandfather, Bernard Hellyer, is said to have been the .son of an English baronet, and came to this country about the middle of the eighteenth century, when a lad. He spent his life in central Bucks county, and reared a large family of children. He was twice married, the second time somewhat late in life, on December 24, 1795, to Sarah Walton, by whom he had four children — Hettie, who married Aaron Crooks ; Mary, who married Aaron Bradshaw ; Benjamin; and Anderson. Anderson Hellyer the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bucking- ham township, Bucks county, and spent the greater part of his life there. He married Mary Cress, daughter of Michael ' Cress, and they were the parents of nine children — George, who lived and died at Newtown, Bucks county ; Amos, of Doylestown ; Cress, of Crawford county, Pennsylvania ; William who died young ; Myrom B., of Bucks county : Mahlon, of Crawford coun- ty, Pennsylvania ; Joseph, of Ohio ; Jenks, of lower Bucks county; and Catharine, who married John Griffith, and is deceased. Amos S. Hellyer was born in Buckino^- ham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1828. His younger days were spent upon farms in Buckingham and Solebury town- ships. On his marriage in 1854 he located at Mechanics Valley, where he was the pro- prietor of the hotel for several years. He later removed to Mechanicsville and was employed as a lightning rod salesman. In 1872 he took charge of the farm belonging to the Hughesian Free School, at Buck- ingham, which he conducted for fourteen vears. In 1886 he sold out and removed to Doylestown and entered into the mercantile business with his son, Samuel A. Hellyer. under the firm name of A. S. Hellyer & Son, which continued until 1898. when he retired from the firm, his elder son Val- more M. becoming a partner with Samuel A. under the firm name of A. S. Hellyer's Sons. Mr. Hellyer is distinctly a self-made m:.n. Left at an early age to his own re- 382 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. sources, he has by industry and careful business methods acquired a cunipeience. Always a man of strict integrity and high moral character, he has the respect and es- teem of all who know him. Amos S. Hcll- yer married Annie Penrose, a daughter of Samuel and Catharine (Cressmau; Pen- rose, of Plumstead, formerly of Richland, the former of English and the latter of German descent. Jonathan Penrose, the grandfather of the above named Samuel i^enrose, was the eldest son of Robert and Mary CHeacock) Roberts, an account of whose arrival in America and subsequent settlement in Rich- land, Bucks county, is given elsewhere m this work. Jonathan w^as born March i, 1736 ( N. S.; in Richland township, and lived his whole life there, dying in I797- He married. May 10, I759> Martha Pen- rose, and in 1761 purchased a farm partly in Rockhill and partly in Richland, where he died. He had three sons, Isaiah, David and Robert, and four daughters, Mary, Phebe, Martha, and Sarah. David Penrose, son of Jonathan and Martha, was born and reared in Richland. He was a carpenter and farmer in Rockhill township, owning a portion of the old homestead on the Rich- land line. He married Mary Hartzell of Rockhill. Samuel Penrose, son of David and IMary (Hartzell) Penrose, was born m Rockhill township about the year 1800, and resided there and in Richland until 1842, when he purchased a farm of fifty acres in Plumstead, near Carversville, and re- moved thereon. He lived in Plumstead un- til 1848, when he sold his farm and removed soon after to Philadelphia, where he died about i860. He was a man of consider- able prominence in local affairs, and was a member of legislature from Bucks county in 1839-40. He married Catharine Cress- man, of Rockhill, and they were the pa- rents of nine children, five of whom grew to maturitv: Annie, the wife of Amos S. Hellyer ; Franklin C, of Doylestown ; Sam- uel C., of Wilmington, Delaware; Joseph, who- enlisted in the army during the civil -war, and was among the missing after the battle of Petersburg, and was never after- wards heard of; Maria, widow of Kinsey Reeder., of Makefield, now livin- in Phila- ■delphia ; Jonathan, of Trenton, New Jersey. Amos S. and Annie f Penrose) Hellyer were the parents of three children, one of whom, a daughter, died in childhood. The two who survive are Valmore M., the sub- ject of this sketch, and his partner in the firm of A. S. Hellyer's Sons, Samuel A.. Hellyer, born July 14, 1859. The latter remained on the farm with his father until 1876, when he became a clerk in the store of Joseph K. Beans, at Holicong, where "he was engaged for less than two years. Returning home in 1878 he attended Dovles- town Seminary for one year, and in 1879 went to Yardieyville, where he was clerk in the general merchandise store of Thomas Pursell for four years. He then accented a position with S. P. Dunham & Co., of Trenton, where he was employed until February, 188O. On March lO, 1886, he opened the store in the Armstrong building, Doylestown, and conducted business there for twelve years in partnership w4th his father, under the firm name of A. S. Hell- yer & Son. In 1897 he purchased the site of the present store and erected the present handsome store building, and, greatly en- larging the business, took his brother V. M. Hellyer into the firm under the title of A. S. Hellyer's Sons, opening business in the new store April 10, 1898. Fie mar- ried, June 20, 1885, Martie D. White, ot Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and they are the parents of two daughters, Grace and Carrie. Valmore M. Hellyer was born and reared in Buckingham, and acquired his education at the Hughesian School and Doylestown Seminary. In 1880 he accepted a position in Buckingham Valley Creamery, and soon after became its superintendent and general manager, retaining that position with emi- nent satisfaction to the corporation for thir- teen years. In August, 1894, he purchased the creamery and operated it on his own account until April, 1895, when he sold out. Prior to leaving the creamery he had erected a stone crusher on Buckingham mountain, which he operated for several years. In 1898 he purchased his father's interest in the firm of A. S. Hellyer & Son, and in 1900 removed to Doylestown, where he has since resided. He has always taken an active interest in local affairs and enter- prises. He has been secretary and treas- urer of the Centreville and Pineville Turn- pike Company since 1887, and is also secre- tary and treasurer of the Buckingham and Doylestown Turnpike Company. He was a trustee of the Hughesian Free School un- til his removal to Doylestown. He is a member of the Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. ]\I., and Chapter. No. 270, R. A. M. ; Aquetong Lodge. No. 193, I. O. O. P., and Castle No. 208. A. O. K. of the M. C. He married, March 16, 1881, Lettie Fell, daughter of Charles K. and Letitia (Lar.ge) Fell, and they are the parents of two chil- dren— Alma and A. Newlin. STACY L. WEAVER, who for the past thirty years has been engaged in the ice business at Doylestown, was born in Tinicum township. Bucks county. Sep- tember 27. 1846. He is a son of Isaac and Cypra Ann (Laubenstein) Weaver, the former deceased and the latter still residing with her son at Doylestown. The Weaver family have been residents of Tinicum township since its organi- zation. Brice and Anna TTrollinger) Weaver, the grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were engaged in farming all their lives in Tinicum township, and reared a family of nine children — Isaac, the father of Stacy L.. who died about 1892; Mrs. Martha McClain, residing HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 3S3 -svitli her son-in-law, George \V. Ott, in Doj'lestown; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Scott, who lived and died at Passaic. New Jersey; Williain, who lived and died near Frenchtown, New Jersey; Christian, now residing in Doylestown; Clara, wife of Edward Lovett, of Penns Manor, Bucks countj'; Mrs. Ellen Jen- kins, who died in Trenton, New Jersey; and Samuel, who lived and died in Tin- icum. John Weaver, the father of Brice, was also a resident of Tinicum township -and of English parentage, and his wife, Elizabeth McCauley, was of Scotch Irish parentage. Stacy L. Weaver married ^Marietta Worman. of another old Tinicum fam- ily, a descendant of Johannes and Bar- bara Woerman, who came from Ger- many in 1735 and settled in Rockhill township. Bucks countj^ removing to • Bedminster in 1754. and to Tinicum in 1761. where Hohn Worman died in 1768. Stacy L. and Marietta (Worman) Weaver are the parents of four children: Burton, Estella, Anna, and Clarence. THE SCHEETZ FAMILY is an ex- tensive one in Bucks county, as well as in other parts of Pennsvlvania and in many other states of the Union, south and we=t. They are the representatives of probably no less 'than thirty pioneer emigrants of the name who emic^ated from Germanv to Pennsylvania between the years 1700 and 1760. All these pioneer emigrants probably trace to a common ancestor at or near Prankfort-on-the-Main. Germany, in the seventeenth century or earlier. The earliest record of the family in con- nection with Pennsvlvania was in 1683. when Johan Jacob Scheetz. a minister of ■Crefeldt, on the Rhine, purchased of Will- iam Penn four thousand acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania. He was one of about a score of Palatines who purchased large tracts of land of Penn with the pur- pose of establishing a German colonv in Pennsylvania, and later organized them- selves into a company known as the Frank- fort Company, and named the eminent scholar and teacher Francis Daniel Pas- torious and others to come to Pennsylvania and take up the land for them. In accord- ance with this plan the thirteen families, principally from Crefeldt. came to Penn- svlvania in 1683 and founded Germantown. Not nearly all the purchasers were includ'- ' in these thirteen families. Johan Jacob Scheetz never came to America, but died in Crefeldt prior to 1701, when William Penn patented to his widow Cntharine the land originally purchased bv him. Cath- anne sold the greater part of the land to Daniel Falkner, Arnold Stork and George Miller. Later, however, representatives of the family began to make their appearance at Germantown. Conrad Scheetz, said to have been a son of Johan Jacob, arrived at Philadelphia in the ship "Samuel," August 30, ^7Z7, aged thirty years, and George Scheetz followed him in October of the same year. Conrad Scheetz died in 1771, leaving a widow Catharine and several chil- dren. He is supposed to be the father of Henry Scheetz. who married Catharine Rubinkam, daughter of Justus and Susanna (Rittehuissen) Rubinkam, and was the father of General Henry Scheetz, of Mont- gomery county, who commanded a brigade in the Fries rebellion, and later in the war of 1812-14. Conrad Scheetz was a "paper maker" in Lower Merion in 1763, as shown by the Philadelphia records, and Henry, the father of the General, ivas later the pro- prietor of a paper mill at Sandy Run, White Marsh township, where the General was born in 1761. Conrad Scheetz, of Germantown, "hatter" and later a "storekeeper," doubtless a son of Conrad, the "paper maker," though possibly the *Johan Conrad Scheetz who emigrated from Germany in the "Loyal Judith" in 1743.) was the ancestor of the Scheetz family of Kellers' Church, Haycock, and Doylestown, Bucks county. He died at Germantown in 1812. and his widow Christianna survived him many years. He was associated in the ownership of land at Germantown and Chestnut Hill with Philip Scheetz, probably a son. who was an "inn- keeper" in Haycock township, Bucks coun- ty, 1798 to 1802. when he purchased of Conrad the real estate at Chestnut Hill and removed there. Philip had come to Bucks county in 1788. and followed the trade of a hatter at or near Sellersville for ten years prior to his removal to Haycock, where he purchased a farm of 114 acres in 1798. Conrad and Christianna were the parents of three sons and three daughters, who died unmarried. George Scheetz, son of Conrad and Chris- tianna. was born at Germantown. December 12. 1785. and was also a hatter by trade. He came to Bucks county when a young man. and lived at Keller's Church, Bed- minster township, for forty-five years, dving there September 17. 1863. He was a school teacher for many years, and many old resi- dents of that locality acquired their early education at his school at Keller's Church. For twenty years prior to his death he was a member of Keller's Reformed Church, and served several years as a *This Conrad Scheetz settled in Upoer Hanover Montgomery county. Pennsylvania, in 17.55. Note— There is another branch of the Sheetz family in Bucks county, the descendants of George Ludwig Scheetz who arrived in the " Dragon." September 30 l, 1877, Mr. Broadhurst married Miss Fannie Lovett, a daughter of David H. and iNIercy A. (Janney) Lovett, of Lower Makefield township. There was one child of this marriage, Anna M., now de- ceased, and the mother passed away August 9, 1879. January 15, 1884, Mr. Broadhurst wedded Miss Fanny J. Smith, a daughter of Benjamin W. and Sarah J. (Atkinson) Smith, who were former owners of the farm upon which Air. and :^Irs. Broadhurst reside, and whereon they remained until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Broadhurst are the parents of five children: Sarah J.; Jo- seph P.; Edgar S. ; Ellen D. ; and Miriam G. The first named is a graduate of the West Chester State Normal School, and the other children are being provided with liberal educational privileges. ;Mr. Broad- hurst is a Democrat in his political affilia- tion, and has been honored with some local offices. He served as a numerator of the census in 1880, and in 1890 became justice of the peace under appointment of Gover- nor Patteson. G. W. RUBINKAM. At a time when early settlements were being made in Bucks county, the Rubinkam family was established within its borders. It was the great-grandfather of our subject who was the progenitor of the family in Pennsylvania, coming to this country from Wales in colo- nial days. The religious faith of the family was that of the Presbyterian church. Jesse Rubinkam, grandfather of G. W. Rubin- kam, was born September 16, 1777, in Bucks county. He followed the occupation of farming, and became a successful agricul- turist, widely and favorably known in his community. His political views were in accord with the principles of Democracy, but he never aspired to office. He wedded Mary Mullen, who was born in Bucks coun- ty, May 12, 1775. Her people were mem- bers of the Society of Friends, but Mrs. Mary Rubinkam worshiped with her hus- band in the Presbyterian church, and through her devotion to the cause of Chris- tianity she at one time held the old Ne- shaminy church together. This worthy couple were the parents of five children: Sarah, William, Agnes, Nathaniel and Mar- garet. Nathaniel Rubinkam was born in an old historic house near the Neshaminy post- office. In his youth he early became familiar with farming, and devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits until the time of his marriage. He afterward engaged in the flour and feed business in Philadelphia, and subsequently returned to Bucks county, where he purchased the farm upon which his son G. W. Rubinkam now resides. He did not seek to figure prominently in public life, being content to do his duty as a pri- vate citizen, and so honorable and straight- forward was his career that he had not an enemy in the world. His early political allegiance was given to the Democracy, but in 1862 he became an advocate of Repub- lican principles, and took an active inter- est in the growth and success of that party from that time on. He was very patriotic and loyal to the Union cause, and upheld the war policy of the president and gave generous assistance to many soldiers' fam- ilies in this locality. The cause of education found in him a warm friend, and for twen- ty-five years he did effective service as a school director. He possessed a social na- ture and kindly disposition, and the poor and needy ever found in him a friend. A bright and intelligent man, reliable in busi- ness, trustworthy in all relations, he was regarded as one of the faithful followers of the Neshmainy Presbyterian church, in which he served as trustee and treasurer for many years. He died December 6, 1872, and was survived by his wife until 1887. She bore the maiden name of Anna Maria Winkoop, and was also a native of Bucks county. Her father, William Winkoop, was born in this county and descended from an old colonial family of Holland origin. The name figures prominently in connection witli the history of Bucks county, for through various generations members of the family have been prominent in promoting the ma- terial, social and moral upbuilding of the community. To William Winkoop and his wife were born seven children : Thomas, Gerardus, Christopher, Margaret, Mary, Catherine and Anna M. To Nathaniel E. and Anna ]\I. Rubin- kam were born seven children: Mary F.; Jesse, who served for three years in the First New Jersey Cavalry, was taken pris- oner and sent to Richmond, where he con- tracted a disease from which he never re- covered; William, who also served in the war of the rebellion, but lived to return home ; Henry, a graduate of Princeton College, for which he prepared at the old Tennent School, after which he went to Allegheny Seminary at Allegheny, Pennsyl- vania, but died of hasty consumption before completing the course ; Elizabeth, who be- came the wife of Silas Yerkes and died in Plainfield, New Jersey ; G. W. ; Nathaniel I., who attended the Tennent school and was afterward graduated with honors from 394 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Princeton College and from the Princeton Theological Seniinai-y. He resides at Chi- cago, and the degree of Doctor of Philos- ophy has been conferred upon him by Basle University, Switzerland. G. W. Rubinkam was born on the old family homestead where he now resides, August 12, 1849, and pursued his education in the common schools and in Tennent's school. Liberal mental training well equipped him for life's practical duties, and in early manhood he successfully engaged in teaching school. Later he occupied a position in a railroad office at Mauch Chunk, but upon the sudden death of his father he returned home and purchased the old home- stead property, after which he cared for his mother. He paid a large price for the farm, incurring considerable indebtedness in order to do this, but he possessed strong determination and unremitting energy, and in course of time was enabled to discharge his financial obligation. As his moneyed resources increased he also bought another farm, and he has continuously carried on general agricultural pursuits. He has been well known as a market man for twenty- six years, only missing six market days in all that time, and doing a regular commis- sion business. He is the architect of his own fortunes, and has builded wisely and well. When the old homestead came into his possession the buildings thereon were of a poor character and of primitive con- striction. These he has torn away, and erected in their stead fine modern buildings, including a substantial residence, a large barn, and all the necessary outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. Indeed, he has made splendid improvements upon his place, and his home stands upon a nat- ural building site, commanding a tine view of the surrounding country. There are forest and fruit groves, and the various features of the place constitute it one of the best improved farm properties of the local- ity. Mr. Rubinkam is a good financier, having marked enterprise and capability, and certainly deserves great credit for what he has accomplished. In his political views Mr. Rubinkam is a Republican, stanch and unfaltering in his advocacy of the prin- ciples of the party. He is regarded as one of the leaders in his township, and always attends its conventions and never fails to cast his ballot at the elections. He has filled most of the township positions, has long been school director, and has also been president of the School Directors' Associa- tion. He is likewise a director of the Farm- ers' and Mechanics' Fire Insurance Com- pany, acting as one of its five managers. This company was organized in 1843 and has had a prosperous existence. Mr. Rub- inkam is also very active in church work, and has been the valued superintendent of the Sunday-school at Neshaminy for several years. He has also been elder of the church, its secretary and clerk of the session, and is a very regular attendant upon its serv- ices. He has been secretary and treasurer of the Bucks County Sabbath School Asso- ciation, and is now filling the office of jus- tice of the peace, in which capacity he has served for ten years. December 18, 1873, Mr. Ribinkam was married by Dr. Greenough, of Philadel- phia, to Rachel C. Buckman, who was born in Bucks county, and is a daughter of Will- iam and Sarah Buckman, of a leading Quaker family of this part of the state. Her father has lived the quiet life of a farmer, but his genuine worth has made him highly respected. There was one child born of this marriage, Mary, who is now acting as secretary for her uncle, A. Buckman, the president of the Windstorm Insurance Company of Iowa. I\Ir. Rubinkam was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife in 1876, her death occurring March 18, of that year, when she was twenty-two years of age. March 7, 1878, he wedded Sarah C. Shoemaker, who was to him a faithful and devoted wife and helpmate. Her father, Nathan Shoemaker, belonged to an honored and prominent colonial fam- ily of eastern Pennsylvania. He carried on agricultural pursuits ■ quite successfully in his younger years, and later turned his attention to the real estate business and to building operations in Philadelphia, where he yet resides. He is a member of the Friends' meeting. By her marriage she be- came the mother of seven children : Nathan I., a farmer and market man living on the old homestead ; Jesse, who is a book- keeper of Philadelphia ; Edna M., a grad- uate of the Doylestown high school and of Pierce's Business College of Philadelphia, and now occupying a position as sten- ographer in that city; Carrie, died at the age of two years ; Lillian Geraldine, at home; Samuel S., died in infancy; and Elizabeth Y., at home. February 4, 1900, ]\Irs. Sarah C. Rubinkam passed away. She worshipped with her husband in the Neshaminy church, was a devoted Chris- tian woman and a devoted wife and loving mother. February 6, 1902, Mr. Rubinkam was again married. Miss Elizabeth Shoe- maker McCarter becoming his wife. She was born in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, a daughter of James and Rebecca S. (Shoemaker) McCarter. The Shoemaker family was established in Pennsylvania in colonial days, and its representatives have been prominent in community and state af- fairs. The McCarter family is of Scotch- Irish lineage. James McCarter was a son of Joseph McCarter, and was connected with a distinguished old Presbyterian fam- ily. He became a leading agriculturist of his community, was a Republican in poli- tics, served as school director, and held other minor positions. Both he and his wife reside in Ivyland and they are affiliated with the Presbyterian church. Their chil- dren are: Sarah R. Magee ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Rubinkam ; and Mary, the wife of E. P. Carroll. Mr. Rubinkam is a member of the Historical Society of Bucks county, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 395 and both he and his wife are favorably- known here, enjoying the warm regard of manv friends. THE HOGELAND FAMILY. The first American ancestor of the Hoge- lands^ of Bucks county was Dirck Janse Hoogelandt, who emigrated from Maer- senoven, in the province of Utrecht, Hol- land, in 1657, and settled at Flatbush, Long Island. He married October 8, 1662, Anneken Hanse Bergen, widow of Jan Clerq, and daughter of Hans Han- sen, a native of Bergen, Norway, a ship carpenter, who had migrated to Holland and thence to New Netherlands in 1633. Many of his descendants eventually found their way to Bucks county later, as three of his granddaughters married Kroesens, one married Johannes Sleght, and a fifth Gysbert Bogart, an early set- tler in Bucks. Dirck Janse Hoogelanat, married second Elizabeth . His children were: Annetje, baptized 1663; Joris (or George); Lysbeth; William Dirckse; Jan Dirckse; Sara and Necltje. Of these William Dirckse took the oath of allegiance at Flatbush in 1687 as a native, and conveyed land there in 1702. He is said to have settled later on Staten Island. He had children, Dirck, Eliza- beth and Marytje. Dirck Hogelandt, born at Flatbush, Long Island, November 14, 1698, married October 15, 1720, Maria Slodt,- born in New York, November 25, 1700, and re- moved to Southampton township, Bucks county, where he purchased land in 1722. He became a large land owner and a prominent and influential man in. the Dutch colony of Bucks, and was a mem- ber of colonial assembly for the years 1752, 1753, 1754, and '1755. He died February 6, 1778, and his wnfe Mary died July 6, 1777. They were the parents of eleven children, and have left numer- ous descendants in Bucks. The children were: 1. Jane, born in Bucks county, August 24, 1721, married Rev. P. H. Dorsius, pastor of the Dutch Reformed church of Northampton and Southampton; she died December 17, 1793. 2. George, born August 24, 1723, died February 17, 1778, married (first) Oc- tober 4, 1760, Maria Schenck, and had one child, Euphemia; and (second) July 30, 1767, Mary Wynkoop, and had Derick, 1 Christopher Hooglandt emigrated from Haer- lem, and married, June 28, 1661, Catharine Cregiers, and had children, Dirck, Lysbeth, Martyn, Christo- pher, Franz, Denys, Jacob and Harman, some of whom settled in Ulster county. New York, and others in New Jersey. It is possible that Jacob Hogelandt, who mar- ried Joanna Vandegrift and had children baptized at Southampton as early as 1744, was of this family. 3 The Slodt family of New York are probably distinct from the Sleght or Slecht family of Long Is- land, who are the ancesters of the Slacks of Makeiield and Sleghts who were early settlers in North and Southampton. born July 25, 1769, and George, born June 22, 1771. 3. John, born 1725, married Cornelia Stoothoof and had several children. 4. Maria, born June 16, 1728, married January 20, 1757, Giles Craven, died in 1777. 5. Catharine, born October 26, 1730, married October 22, 1766, Harman Van- sant. 6. Sarah, born February 16, I733> died unmarried July 3, i777- 7. Elizabeth, born August 16, 1735, died in Wrightstown, February 27, 1786, unmarried. 8. Daniel, born April 14, 1738; see for- ward. 9. Derick, born May 26, 1740, married 1769, Idah Bennett, died February 5, 1811. 10. Benjamin, born December 21, 1742, a merchant at Philadelphia, died No- vember 19, 1792. 11. Anna, born April 20, 1748, married Jacob Bennett. DANIEL HOGELAND, son of Dirck and Mary (Sleght) Hogeland, was bap- tized at the Southampton church, April 3, 1738. In 1760 his father had pur- chased, 297 acres of land on the county line in Southampton, and upon this tract Daniel took up his residence at about the time of its purchase, his father con- veying it to him in I774- He was a blacksmith by trade, but probably de- voted himself to the vocation of a farmer on taking possession of this large tract. He was a captain of militia during the revolution, and saw active service under Captain John Keller. He married Elsie Kroesen, May 23, 1761. He died in De- cember, 1813, and his widow in 1823. They had four children: Derrick K., bap- tized April 26, 1762; Elshie (Alice) mar- ried Harman Vansant; Hendrick, bap- tized May 5, 1766, married, August 2, 1787. Rebecca Wynkoop, and died before his father, leaving one son, John Wyn- koop Hogeland, (his widow married George Fetters in 1796); and M"aria, who married Abraham Stevens, September 27, 1789. The old homestead was par- titioned among the two daughters and Derrick K. in 1815. It extended from the counfcy line to the Street road, just above Feasterville, and the greater part of it remained in the tenure of their re- spective heirs until the present genera- tion. DERRICK KROESEN HOGE- LAND, son of Daniel and Alice Kroe- sen Hogeland was born on the old home- stead April 26, 1762, and was iDaptized at Southampton church on May 23, 1762., He was a justice of the peace in South- ampton for nearly fifty years. He died December 10, i837- His wife was Jo- hannah Stevens whom he married May IS, 1783; she w-as born July i, 1764; they 396 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. were the parents of twelve children, viz.: 1. Daniel, born November i, 1783, died November 28, 1817. He married Cor- nelia and had children: Charlotte; Ann Eliza, married Samuel Winder; William, Charles, John, Daniel and Henry Hogeland. 2. John, born March 5, 1785, died Feb- ruary 3, 1847, was twice married. 3. Sarah, born June 10, 1787, died Sep- tember 26, 1863, married John Kroesen. 4. Henry, born January 22, 1789, died June 16, 1855. 5. Benjamin, born February 25, 1791, died September 9, 1816, children, Jacob L. and Mary Hogeland. 6. Abraham, born September 16, 1792^ died December 25, 1863. 7. Isaac, twin brother of Abraham7 born September 16, 1792, died September 7, 1874- 8. William, born 1795, died 1796. 9. William, born May 3, 1797, died March 21, 1870. 10. Elcie, born April i, 1800, died De- cember 28, 1866, married Lefferts. 11. Maria, born July 22, 1802, died Sep- tember 12, 1836, married Wyn- koop. 12. Elias, born August 7, 1805, died August 22, 1828. ABRAHAM HOGELAND, sixth child of Derrick K. and Johanna Stevens Hogeland, born September 16, 1792, married March 10, 1824. Mary Ann Fen- ton, and had twelve children: 1. Joseph Hogeland, married Evelina Banes, who died July, 1885. They had children: Mary Louisa; Sarah; Gusta- vus; Adella; Jane; and Anna Elizabeth, wife of John Vandegrift. 2. William, married Louisa Hogeland and had children: William, Mary, Jose- phine and Jane. 3. Elias, see forward. 4. Susannah, married Henry Lefferts. 5. Joanna, widow of Isaac Cornell Hobensack. 6. John, died August, 1886, married Keziah D. Willard, and had: Albert; Mary, died young; Horace B., Newlin F. and John. 7. Morris, died May, 1866, married Mary Jane Willard, and had: Ella, Mar- garet and Abraham. Latter di»d young. 8. Theodore, died January, 1869, mar- ried Rachel White, daughter of George, and had, Elizabeth and Emily and George, deceased. 9. Frank Hogeland, Esq., of South- ampton. 10. Charles, died June 12. 1879, mar- ried Katharine Cornell, died June i, 1883, and had: Elias, H. Voorhees, and Maria. 11. Abner, died young. 12. Anna, died young. Abraham, the father of the above chil- dren, was a soldier in the war of 1812-14. He was a harness maker by trade, a prominent man in the community, and served ten years as justice. ELIAS HOGELAND, third son of Abraham and Mary (Fenton) Hogeland, was born in Southampton township, Feb- ruary 22, 1829, and still resides there. He received his education at the public and private schools of that vicinity. Arriv- ing at manhood he married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Mary Van- artsdalen, and lived for a time on his father's farm. In the early '60s he purchased his present farm of fifty acres on which he has since resided, being one of the enterprising and successful farmers of that vicinity. He was sheriff of Bucks county for the term of 1869-72. His chil- dren are: Howard, married Rachel Woodington; Abraham, married Mary Walton; Anna; Mary; Carrie, married William Yerkes, and has had ten chil- dren ; Theodore, now living in Montana ; Isaac, married Luella Wright; Morris, deceased; Elizabeth; Elias, deceased; Frank, married Isabel Risler and they have two children, Anna F. and Newlin. FRANK HOGELAND, of Southamp- ton, seventh son of Abraham and Mary Ann (Fenton) Hogeland, was born in Southampton township, on the old home- stead, May 15, 1841, and received his ed- ucation at the public schools of that vi- cinity. He has been a farmer nearly all his life, purchasing his first farm in 1865 and conducting it for over thirty years. In the spring of 1904 he purchased a property in the village of Southampton- ville and removed there, leaving the farm to the management of his son George. He was first elected justice of the peace in 1872, and has served continuously since, and is now serving his seventh consecutive term. He was twice mar- ried, his first wife being Alice, daugh- ter of Charles and Elizabeth Rhoads, by whom he had one child, Charles R., born May 27, 1866. He married second March 4, 1875, Emma, daughter of George and Anna Saurman, who was born April 15, 1850. By her he has had the following children: Carrie S., born December 14, 1875, married R. Monroe Stout, of South- ampton; George, born October 30, 1878, married Emily Barber; Mildred born De- cember 22, 1891. ISAAC HOGELAND. seventh child and sixth son of Derrick K. and Jo- hanna (Stevens) Hogeland, born in Southampton, September 16, 1792, mar- ried, December 23, 1819, Phebe, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary States, who was born January 18, 1795. and died January II, 1873. Their children were six in number, viz: i. William States, see for- ward: 2. Julia Ann, born June 13, 1823, married Charles Tillyer; 3. Louisa, born Februarv 2, 1826, married William Hoge- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 397 land; 4. Alfred, born March 12, 1828; 5. Abraham, born November 16, 1831; 6. Harriet, born July 5, 1834, married Alfred Johnson. WILLIAM S. HOGELAND, eldest son of Isaac and Phebe (States) Hoge- land, was born in Southampton town- ship, near Feasterville, October 7, 1820. Until ten years of age he resided with his grandmother, from which time he has resided on the farm where he was born, inheriting it at his father's decease; he conducted it until 1874, when he retired from active work. He has served as town- ship assessor at different periods for about eighteen years, and has also filled the posi- tion of auditor for the county. He has been the owner for many years of the his- toric "Buck Ta-«*ern" near Feasterville. He has never married. JOHN HOGELAND, son of Abraham and Mary Ann (Fenton) Hogeland, was born on the old Hogeland homestead in Southampton, January 19, 1834, and died there August 10, 1886. He was reared on the old homestead and acquired his edu- cation at the local schools. On his mar- riage to Keziah D. Willard, January 24, 1856, he took charge of one of his fathers farms and conducted it until the death of his father in 1865, when he acquired seventy-two acres of the old homestead and took up his residence thereon, and con- tinued to reside there until his death, and it is still the residence of his widow and his son John. In addition to conducting the home farm he carried on an extensive butchering business. He was a conscient- ious and upright man. and was much re- spected in the community in which he lived. In 1866 he united himself with the Old School Baptist church of Southampton and was a deacon and trustee of the church for many years prior to his death. He mar- ried, January 24, 1856, Keziah D. Willard, born in Northampton township, July 23, 1837, daughter of James V. and Mary (Delaney) Willard. of Northampton town- ship, and a granddaughter of Jesse and Margaret (Van Artsdalen) Willard of Ab- ington. The children of John and Keziah D. Hogeland were: i. James Willard, born January .24, 1857, died ^larch 5. 1857 : 2. Al- bert H., born January 10. 1858, graduated at Lafayette College in 1877 as a civil en- gineer, and secured a position in 1879 in Minnesota on a local railroad, and later accepted a position with the Great North- ern Railroad Company, and has risen to the position of chief engineer of the road. He was married in Januar}-. 1889. to Eliza- beth Trego, and has one daughter, Anna T., born September 15, 1892; 3. Horace B., born March 2, 1862, see forward : 4. Charles M., born November 2, 1864, died young; 5. Mary W.,born 1867, died 1870; 6. John, born December 7, 1868, and was educated at the local schools and at Millersville State Nor- mal School, and has charge now of the homestead farm, which he has conducted for the last fourteen years ; he married December 31, 1890, Flora Krewsen, their children are: Blanche, born July 26, 1891 ; Horace W., born August 4, 1893; John B., born May 30, 1897; and Paul P., born February 15, 1902. 7. Justus M., born Jan- uary 30, 1872, was educated at the Univer- sity of Minnesota, and died in Minnesota, July 27, 1894; 8 I. Blance, born March 5, 1876, died Dec. 3, 1878; 9. Newlin F., born September 5, 1878, died November 24, 1898, was educated at the Newtown high school, supplemented by a course at Pierce's Busi- ness College, Philadelphia, accepted a posi- tion in a Philadelphia bank, and was paying teller in the Fourth Street National Bank at time of his death. HORACE B. HOGELAND, cashier of the First National Bank of Newtown, is a son of John and Keziah D. (Willard) Hogeland, and was born on the homestead farm in Southampton that had been the home of his ancestors for three generations, on March 23, 1862. He acquired his educa- tion at the public schools, supplemented by a term at a Philadelphia school. He en- tered the Newtown bank as clerk on June 23, 1878, and after filling the positions of bookkeeper and teller respectively was ad- vanced to the position of cashier on Janu- ary 19, 1904. He was married February 6, 1884, to Mary Lena Trego, daughter of W. Wallace and Sarah (Bennett) Trego, of Newtown, and they are the parents of two chil'lren: Alice Fitch, born June 13, 1886, and Albert Wallace, born April 20, 188S. The ancestors of Mrs. Hogeland were French Huguenots, she being a descendant in the eighth generation from Peter and Judith Trego, the former of whom was born in France in 1655, and about 1685 emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled in Miidleto.vn township, Chester, (now Dela- ware) county, where their oldest son Jacob Trego was born in 1687. Jacob Trego married Mary Cartledge, daughter of Edmund and Mary Cartledge, of Darby, Chester county, in 1710 and set- tled in Merion, Chester county, from whence he removed to Darby in 1717 and died there in 1720. His widow married John Laycock, of Wrightstown, Bucks county, who had come from Lancashire, England, in 1717, and purchased land in the neighborhood of Wrightstown. John Trego, only son of Jacob and Mary (Cartledge) Trego, was born in Merion, Chester county, Pennsylvania, July 6. 1715, and came with his mother and stepfather to Wrightstown in 1722. In 1736 they con- veyed to him a farm in Upper Makefield, near the lines of Buckingham and Wrights- town, where he lived until his death in 1791, leaving sons Jacob and William, and four daughters. William Trego, born in Upper Make- field. March 16, 1744, was the second son of John and Hannah (Lester) Trego, and lived all his life there, dying in 1827. He 398 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. married Rebecca Hibbs, September 19, 1768, and had eleven children. Mahlon Trego, second son of WilHam and Rebecca, was born November 25, 1770, and married Rachel Briggs, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, who bore him thir- teen children: Charles B., the famous scholar, state geologist, surveyor, professor in the University of Pennsylvania, etc., born II mo. 25, 1794, died ii mo. 10, 1874, married Martha Smith, of Buckingham. 2. Albert, born 1796, died 1797. 3. Phineas, born I mo. 12, 1796, died 5 mo. 21, 1875. 4. Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 26, 1798, died 6 mo. II, 1881, married John Merrick; 5. Louis, born 11 mo. i, 1801. 6. Robert S., born 9 mo. 24, 1803, died 3 mo. 29, 1886. 7. Mary, born 9 mo. 14, 1805, died in Illi- nois, unmarried. 8. James, born 8 mo. i, 1807, removed to Illinois in 1858. 9. Jo- seph B., born 5 mo. 19, 1809, removed to Il- linois in 1839. 10. Cyrus, born 9 mo. 15, 1810, died 12 mo. 11, 1866. 11. Edward, born II mo. 3, 1812, died December 12, 1886. 12. Mahlon, born 9 mo. 8, 1815, died unmarried in 1839. 13. Morris, born I mo. 18, 1819, died 10 mo. 14, 1843. Mahlon, the father, died in 1849, and his wife in 1840. Edward Trego, eleventh child of Mahlon and Rachel (Briggs) Trego, born 11 mo. 3, 1812, married Sarah Fenton, born 1817, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth, on 4 mo. 21, 1836 and had seven children, the eldest of whom, "William Wallace Trego, of Newtown, born March 20, 1837, is the father of Mrs. Hogeland. Her mother, Sarah Bennett, born August 9, 1841, is a daughter of John and Abi Bennett, of Up- per Makefield. MORRIS HOGELAND, seventh child of Abraham and Mary Ann (Fenton) Hogeland, was born on the old family homestead in Southampton in 1835, and died May 6, 1866. He was reared on the old homestead and received his education in the local schools. On arriving at man- hood he took up the vocation of a farmer, and after his marriage took charge of one of his father's farms in Southampton, which he conducted until his death. Lie was affiliated with the Baptist church of South- ampton, and was a consistant Christian and highly respected in t^ie community. His wife was Mary Jane Willard, born near Rocksville, April 6, 1839, a daughter of James V. and Mary (Delaney) Willard. and a granddaughter of Jesse and Mar- garet (Van Artsdalen) Willard. Mrs. Hogeland is still living in Southampton. The children of Morris and Mary Jane (Willard) Hogeland are as follows: i. Ella, born February 25, 1861, married Holmes DeCoursey. of Warminster, and has two children, — Etta L., born September 3, 1884; and Morris H., born August 9, T890. 2. Margaret W.. married Albert C. Twining, and has two children, — Jessie W., born November 28, 188S, and A. Chester, born July 18, 1892. 3. Abraham, born May 8, 1865, died in infancy. James V. Willard, the father of Mrs. Mary Jane Hogeland, and also of Keziah D. Hogeland, widow of John Hogeland, of Southampton, was a son of Jesse Willard, and was born in Abington, Montgomery county, April 23, 1806. His father, Jesse Willard, was twice married ; by his first wife, who was Wynkoop, he had two sons, David and Wynkoop. He married (sec- ond) Margaret Van Artsdalen, and had by her seven children, as follows: Jesse; Esther; James; Charles, married (first) Rachel Stockdale and (second) Phebe Lee; Jackson, never married ; William, married and had two children, Geary, and Esther; and Jane, married Harmon Marshall, and had four children, all of whom are de- cea'sed. James V. Willard, a third child of Jesse and Margaret (Van Artsdalen) Willard, married Mary Delaney and settled near Rocksville, Northampton township, Bucks county. _ They were the parents of thir- teen children : 1. Jesse, born December 19, 1830, married Emma C. Streeper and had two children, xA.ry W. and Harold E. 2. Eliza Ann, born May 2, 1832, mar- ried James T. Blair in 1852, and has five children, Frank P., Mary W., Orvilla, Ida Belle, and William James. 3. Matilda, born September 18, 1833, mar- ried Samuel Stillwell, of Doylestown ; chil- dren: Willard, Irene, John W. and Sarah. 4. John, born December 9, 1835, died March 7, 1866. 5. Keziah D., widow of John Hogeland, born July 23, 1837 (see sketch). 6. Mary Jane, see above. 7. Emily, born June 22, 1840. married Martin V. Dager, and has children; Char- les O., Jesse, and Martin V. B. 8. Julia, born August 30, 1842, married John Fenton, and has children ; James M., Simon, Anna, Morris, Mary W., J. Pur- ington, John, and Blanche. 9. Loisa, born June 30, 1844, married Samuel D. Cornell, and has children; David, Harold, Horace, and Mary W. 10. Esther, born August 14, 1846, died in infancy. 11. J. Monroe, born February 13, 1848, married Sarah Stout, and has one daugh- ter, Florence G. 12. Josephine, born November 4, 1849, married Morris H. Trego, and 'has one daughter, Marian. 13. Margaret, born December 16, 1851, died at the age of ten years. (For ancestry of Mary Jane Hogeland and Keziah D. Hogeland, see Willard family.) THE WILLARD FAMILY have been residents of lower Bucks county and ad- joining parts of Montgomery county for the pilst two hundred years. George Wil- lard, of Marple township. Chester county, on Januarj' 24. 1696, purchased 100 acres of land in Northampton township. Bucks HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 399 county, and on August 23, 1697, purchased two hundred and forty-six acres in South- ampton township, same county, on which he then settled. February 17, 1699, he purchased one hundred acres adjoining his last purchase and lived thereon until his death prior to 1718, when his executors conveyed his land, reciting his will as dated January 24, 1706. He left one son George, who was named as executor, with John Shaw, a neighbor. George Willard, Jr., died in Northamp- ton prior to 1739, at which date letters of administration were granted on his estate. It is not known by the present generation of the family what children he left or how they are descended from George Willard who settled in Bucks county in 1697. Jon- athan and George Willard were residents of Northampton township in 1775, and were members of Captain Henry Lott's company of Northampton Associators, and as such participated in the Jersey cam- paign of 1776-7, being stationed at Billings- port. New Jersey, November 16, 1777. As tradition relates that the father of Jesse Willard (an account of whom and his de- scendants follows) served in the revolu- tionary war in a Bucks county company, he was doubtless a son of either Jonathan or George above mentioned. Jonathan Willard died early in the century, leaving a widow Elizabeth, who died in 1825, at the age of ninety-three years, and a large familv of children. JESSE WILLARD, the grandfather of Dr. J. Monroe Willard. principal of the Philadelphia Normal School !or Girls, and of Mrs. Keziah D. Hogeland, and Mary Jane Hogeland, of Southampton, Bucks county, born about 1765 or earlier, resided in early life in the township of Moreland, now Montgomery county. On January 7, 1786, he purchased three tracts of land" in Southampton, Bucks county, and settled thereon, but in 1799 sold his Bucks county real estate and is said to have re- turned to Moreland.- Jesse Willard was married twice, his first wife being a Wyn- koop, his second Margaret Van Artsdalen whom he married December 20, 1800. He had two sons, David and Wynkoop, by his first marriage, and by his second marriage seven children : Jesse, Esther, James V.. Charles, Jackson, William and Jane. Charles married, first, Rachel Stockdale. and second Phebe Lee. William married Christiana ■ • and left two children, William and Esther. Jane married Har- mon Marshall, and had four children, two of whom are deceased. James V. Willard, third child of Jesse and Margaret Van Artsdalen Willard, was born in Moreland, ^Montgomery county, April 23, 1806, and married Mary Delany (born April 30, 1812), daughter of William and Mary Delaney. of Southampton, Bucks county, on February 25, 1830. He settled near Rocksville. Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. They were the parents of thirteen children : 1. Jesse, born December 19, 1830, mar- ried Emma C. Streeper, and had two chil- dren, Mary W. and Harold Ethelbert. Jesse was a teacher and was drowned at Flat Rock Dam, Schuylkill river, August 15, 1859- 2. Eliza Ann, born May 2, 1832, married James T. Blair in 1852 and had five chil- dren : Frank P., Mary W., Orilla, Ida Belle and William James. 3. Matilda, born September 18, 1833, married Samuel Stilwell, of Doylestown, and had four children : James Willard, Irene, John Willard and Sarah. Matilda died May li, 1901. 4. John v., born December 9, 1835, died March 7. 1866, unmarried. 5. Keziah D., born July 23, 1837, married John Hogeland. 6. Mary Jane, born April 6, 1839, married Morris Hogeland. 7. Emily M., born June 22, 1840, married Martin V. B. Dager, and had three chil- dren: Charles O. Dager, D. D. S. ; Jesse, and Martin V. B. Jesse died in infancj'. 8. Julia, born August 30, 1842, married John C. Fenton and had eight children: James Monroe W., Simon, Anna, Morris, Mary W., J. Purington, John and Blanche. 9. Louisa, born June 30, 1844, married Samuel D. Cornell, and had four children: David, Harold, Horace and Mary W.' Louisa died September 23, 1904. 10. Esther, born August 14, 1846, died in infancy. ir. James Monroe, born February 13, 1848. married Sarah A. Stout, and had one daughter, Florence Gillingham. 12. Josephine Delany, born November 4, 1849, married Morris H. Trego, and had one daughter, Marian W. 13. Margaret, born December 16, 1851, died October 8, 1862. On the death of his father, J. Monroe Willard accepted a position as teacher in a little school near Willow Grove, at a place known as Kirk's Corner, and taught there for a short time. Finding that it was pos- sible for him to return to finish his course at the Philadelphia High School, he re- signed this position. After finishing his course at the high school, he taught for three months in Springfield school, Spring- field township, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. He began his career as a teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia in January, 1866, as principal of the Washing- ton Consolidated School, Twentj^'-third Sec- tion : January I, 1868, he was made prin- cipal of the Randolph School, Twenty-fifth Section ; November, 1869, elected to the principalship of the Forest School, Twen- ty-eighth Section ; in March, 1880, to the principalship of the Germantown School, Twenty-second Section, which he resigned July 7. 1896, upon his election to the prin- cipalship of the Northeast Manual Train- ing School, which position he relinquished in September, 1898, to become principal of the Philadelphia Normal School for Girls. In April, 1903, the honorary degree of D. 400 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Lit. (Doctor of Letters) was conferred upon him by the Board of Public Educa- tion in recognition of the "long service and eminent ability of James INIonroe Willard and the fact that he stands at the head of the educational corps in the tram- ing of young ladies in the public schools of this district, conferring upon him an honorary degree worthy of his literary and scholastic attainments, and for the honor- able distinction he has attained in his years of service in the public schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania." Dr. Willard has always, been actively in- terested in educational matters. He was a charter member of the Teachers' Institute of Philadelphia, and president of the same for two years, 1887-88. He was also one of the organizers of the Educational Club of Philadelphia, and its president for the first five years, 1892-96. He was vice-pres- ident of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland for one year, 1903. He was also instrumental in forming the Philadel- phia Teachers' Association, and was corre- sponding secretary of that body for two years. He is also a member of the Publig Education Association of Philadelphia, and maintains his interest in Bucks county, as shown by his membership in its Historical Society. THE PARSONS FAMILY. The Par- sons family of Falls township, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, is descended from Isaac Parsons, born November 12, 1748, in Penn- sylvania, and supposed to be the son of Abraham and Johanna Parsons, of Lowei Dublin, Philadelphia county, and mentioned in the will of the latter in 1779. He set- tled in Penns Manor, Bucks county, prior to the revolutionary war and later sold his Manor farm and purchased one in the upper part of Falls township between Morrisville and Fallsington. He was a member of St. James Episcopal Church of Bristol, Bucks county, and is buried in the old graveyard connected with that church beside his sec- ond wife, Elizabeth. His tombstone re- cords the fact that he was born November 12, 1748, and died September 26, 1818. His first wife was a Stillwell and his second Elizabeth Brodnax, born May 20, 1755, died June IS, 1827. His children by his two wives were : Abraham, who died at about the same time as his father in Falls town- ship ; Rachel, born June 3, 1773, died De- cember 22, 1831, married Israel Bailey; Mary, died- November 26, 1871, married John Martin ; John ; Amos ; Sarah, who married Lemuel Crozer ; and Isaac. The last two were children of the second mar- riage. Elizabeth (Brodnax) Parsons is supposed to have been a daughter of Robert Brodnax, an early settler in Ben- salem township. The land purchased by Isaac Parsons in Upper Falls about 1790 is still occupied by his grandson, Alfred M. Parsons. Isaac Parsons, son of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Brodnax) Parsons, was born in Falls township, July 3, 1794, and died there Au- gust 21, 1851. lie inherited the homestead of his father and lived there the greater part of his life, but was for a time en- gaged in mercantile pursuits. He married, April 5, 1821, Lydia Ann Anderson, born in New Jersey, July 18, 1801, died July 19, 1901, one day over one hundred years old. She belonged to one of the oldest families in New Jersey, whose pioneer an- cestor is supposed to be Alexander Ander- son, who came from East Lothian, Scot- land, and settled in Monmouth county. New Jersey, about 1674, but her first known ancestor of whom we have any authentic record was Enoch Anderson, who was one of the early settlers on the site of Trenton, and one of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church of that city. He took an active part in the affairs of the colony and held a number of positions of trust. He died in 1741, leaving children: John; Enoch, born 1697, died 1756; Elia- kim; Jeremiah; Joshua; Catharme ; Sa- rah; Rachel; Elizabeth and Mary. His son Eliakim became a large landowner in Hope- w^ell township, now Mercer county, and died there in 1782, at a very advanced age. He married Rebecca Ely, daughter of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely, and had children: Rebecca, Catherine, Sarah, Ely and George. Of these Sarah married her lirst cousin, Josiah Anderson, son of Jere- miah Anderson, above mentioned, and had children: Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Skirm; George ; Joseph ; Joshua ; Achsah ; Samuel ; Catharine ; Dagworthy ; Rebecca. Joseph Anderson, son of Josiah and Sarah, mar- ried Sarah Norton, daughter of Joshua Norton, of New Jersey, and lived for a time in Bucks county, where his daughter, Lydia Ann, married Isaac Parsons, Jr. The children of Isaac and Lydia Ann (Ander- son) Parsons were: i. Elwood, born April 5, 1822, died October 13, 1891 ; mar- ried, March 26, 1851, Mercy Ann Taylor, of Morrisville, and had children : Anna K^., >\Iary T., Lydia A. and Ella. He was a farmer in Falls, later near Bordentown, New Jersey, and for several years engaged in the lumber business with his brothers Joseph C. and David Taylor at Morris- ville. He was one of the prominent busi- ness men of that community, a director of First National Bank of Trenton, the Bucks County Contributionship and the Trenton Bridge Company. 2. Charles A., born June 30, 1831, a more particular account of whom is given below. 3. Alfred M., born February 25, 1834, still living on the old homestead in Falls; married in 1856, Josephine Harnian and has children : Ed- ward B., Caroline, Anna H., and Gertrude. 4. Sarah A., married Joseph Robbins. 5. Hilary A., marriejj William S. Mull. 6. Elizabeth. 7. Emma, married James New- bold. 8. Rose P., widow of John E. Case. Charles A. Parsons, son of Isaac and Lydia Ann (Anderson) Parsons, born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvan- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 401 ia, June 30, 1831, was reared in that town- ship and acquired his education in Samuel Aaron's Academy at Norristown, Mont- gomery county, and at the Bellevue Acad- emy, at Langhorne, Bucks county. He was a successful farmer and a fine type of Amer- ican citizenship, taking a lively interest in the affairs of his township, county, state and nation, but neither seeking nor hold- ing public office. He died January 9, 1885, in his hfty-fourth year. He married jNIary Buckman, daughter of Spencer W. and Sarah Ann (Williamson) Buckman, of Falls township, an account of whose an- cestry is given later in this narrative, and they were the parents of the following named children : Lucy, married Elwood Tyson, and resides in Chester, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Alice, married Charles E. Hayes, and resides in Penn Val- ley, Pennsylvania. Sarah B., married M. Harvey Ivins, and resides in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Mary, married Henry Pal- mer, and resides in Langhorne, Pennsyl- vania. Elizabeth, married W. Coates Fores- man, and resides in Chicago, Illinois. Mar- garet, married Edmund D. Cook, and re- sides in Trenton, New Jersey. Charles A., married Elsie Fox, and resides in ^Morris Heights, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. REV. ABRAHAM J. FRETZ, of ^lil- ton. New Jersey, to whom we are indebted for much of the information contained in these pages in reference to the early Ger- man settlers of Bucks county, was born in that county, February 7, 1849, a descend- ant on several lines from early immigrants to Upper Bucks, mostly of the Mennonite faith, who had fled from Germany and Switzerland in search of religious free- dom. John Fretz, with brothers Christian and Mark, (the last of whom died on the voy- age) emigrated from near the city of Man- heim, grand duchy of Baden, about 1725, and settled in Bucks. John settled on the "old Fretz Homestead," in Bedminster township, still occupied by his descendant, Mahlon M. Fretz, where he died in 1772. He married Barbara i\Ieyer, daughter of Hans Meyer, who came to America abour 1720, and they were the parents of five children : John, Jacob, Christian, Abraham and Elizabeth. He married, second, Maria , and had children Alark, Henry and Barbara. n. Christian Fretz, born in Bucks coun- ty, 1734, died there May i, 1803, inherited the Bedminster homestead, added to it la- ter by purchase, making it two hundred and sixty acres. He became a prominent man of his time in church and local af- fairs, adhering, like his ancestors, to the Mennonite faith and worshipping at the old Deep Run Meeting House. He mar- ried Barbara Oberholtzer, born in Bucks county, in 1737, daughter of Martin Ober- holtzer, a native of Germany, born 1709, died April 5, 1744, in Bedminster. Chris- 26-3 tian and Barbara were the parents of twelve children : John, Agnes, Joseph, Hen- ry, Martin, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Barba- ra, Christian, Mary and Elizabeth. III. Abraham Fretz, born March 30, 1769, died March 7, 1844, Hved and died on tn 1874. Eli Fretz, son of Christian and Mary (Leatherman) Fretz, was born Septem- ber 9, 1825, in Bedminster township, and has passed his life on the homestead, combining the miller's trade with the pursuit of agriculture. He is a director of the Sellersville National Bank, and, like all his ancestors, is a Mennonite, a member of the board of trustees of the Second Mennonite church at Deep Run, and treasurer of the board. He married, in 1850, Mary Myers, born in 1830, daugh- ter of William ;Myers, of Bedminster, and their children are: Allen M., pas- tor of the New Mennonite church at Soudertop; Lucinda, wife of Edward Yost, of Plumstead township; Emeline F., wife of Henrv D. Detweiler, of Sou- derton; Mahlon M., mentioned at length hereinafter; Francis, who lives in Bed- minster township; Barbara, wife of Ir- win Wasser, of Bedminster; Susan and Mary Etta (twins), the former of whom married Abraham S. Moyer, of Chalfont, while the latter is the wife of Jacob M. Landis, of Richlandtown. Mahlon M. Fretz, son of Eli and Mary (Myers) Fretz, w^as born August 20, 1859. in Bedminster township, and re- ceived his education in the public schools and at the Sellersville high school. In the spring of 1882 he moved to his pres- ent home farm, which was then owned by his father, and where he has since led the life of a successful farmer. The es- tate consists of seventy-two acres. He is a director of the Bedminster branch of the Philadelphia & Easton Electric Railway Company. He rnanifests an ac- tive interest in community affairs, has served as school director, and is the present town clerk of Bedminster. His 28-3 political advocacy and support are given to the Republican party. He is a mem- ber of the New Mennonite church at Deep Run. Mr. Fretz married, Decem- ber 22, 1883, Amanda, daughter of John and Hannah (Cassel) Fretz, of Richland township. Mr. and Mrs. Fretz are with- out children. THEODORE L. CASE, proprietor of the Gardenville Hotel, also one of the prominent and influential citizens of the township of Plumstead, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born No- vember 10, i860, belongs to one of the old families of the county. Peter Case (grandfather) was a native of Bucks county; was educated in the common schools thereof, followed the trade o£ tailor throughout his active ca- reer, and his death cccurred in the vicin- ity of his birthplace. Among his chil- dren was a son, Alexander Johnson Case (father), who was a native of Bucks county and resided there during the greater portion of his life. He served an apprenticeship at the trade of shoe- maker, followed the same for a number of years, abandoning it in order to en- gage in the hotel business, becoming proprietor of the hotels at Ottsville, Raven Rock and Quakertown. He also engaged in the restaurant business in Doylestown for several years, later turned his attention to agricultural pur- suits in Plumstead township, and subse- quently was proprietor of a shoe busi- ness in Lumberville, continuing as such for three years. At the expiration of this period of time he removed to Car- verville and established a cigar and to- bacco store, and later conducted the same line of trade at Germantown and Philadelphia, his death occurring in the latter named city in February, 1899. By his marriage to I\Iary Morris, daughter of Theodore Morris, of Plumstead town- ship, the following named children were born: Leonard L., deceased; Laura, widow of Oliver Jacoby; Theodore L., mentioned hereinafter; Howard Will- son. Charles and Emma Case. Theodore L. Case is indebted to the common school system of Bucks county for his educational advantages. He gained his first experience in business life by establishing a shoe store in Doylestown, on the site of the present Hotel Pollock, which he successfully conducted for several years, and prior to his purchase of the Gardenville Hotel was engaged in a number of enterprises which yielded him a goodly return for his labors. Since becoming proprietor of the Gardenville Hotel. Mr. Case has made many improvements which add greatly to its attractiveness and also to the comfort of its numerous patrons and the traveling public, and at the present time (1904) it is one of the most popular 434 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. resorts in this section of the county. Mr. Case was united in marriage to Miss Ida Geyer, and their children arc Dorothea, Minnie, and Emma Case. FRANK PERCY, one of the representa- tive farmers and public-spirited citizens of Doylestown township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, was born in Buckingham town- ship, same county, September 24, 1855. The first of the family to settle in this country was Thomas Percy, great-grand- father of Frank Percy, who emigrated from Ireland about the year 1780, settling in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he followed the occupation of weaving. In 1796 he was united in marriage to Miss Tacy Demgan, and their children were as follows : Sarah, died unmarried ; Gilbert, mentioned hereinafter ; Jane, who became the wife of Isaac Feaster; Garret; Nancy, who became the wife of Samuel Watson ; William; Eliza, died unmarried. Gilbert Percy, grandfather of Frank Percy, was born in Wrightstown, Bucks county, Octo- ber 16, 1799. His entire active career was devoted to farming, which proved a most profitable occupation. By his marriage to Catherine Vansant he became the father of. three children : Thomas, mentioned here- inafter; Mary, born September 28, 1S34; and William, born January 14, 1837. Thomas Percy, father of Frank Percy, was born in Northampton township, Bucks county, November 30, 1824. He followed the same occupation as his forefathers, that of farming, conducting his operations for about half a century in Buckingham town- ship, achieving a large degree of financial gain by his reliable methods of business. He was a stanch adherent of the principles of Democracy, but never sought or held office, preferring to attend strictly to his farm and' its management. He married Miss Mary Morris, daughter of Daniel and Cynthia (White) Morris, and the issue of this union was eight children: Frank, men- tioned at length hereinafter ; Catherine, born June 28, 1857, wife of Reuben Kratz ; Gil- bert, born March 18, 1859, a resident of Philadelphia ; Lydia, born February 5, 1862, died March 15, 1886; Alice, born January 13, 1866, died September 4, 1866; William, born June 27, 1867, died April 24, 1872; Watson, born November 23, 1869; Evaline, born July 3, 1S72, wife of Harry Good. Frank Percy attended the common schools of Bucks county, thereby acquiring a prac- tical English education. He remained at home assisting his father with the duties of the farm until he was twenty-three years of age, after which he commenced farming on his own account on his grandfather's farm, where he remained six years. He then moved to Newtown, locating on the Buckman farm, and after a residence there of three years removed to Northampton township, locating on his father-in-law's farm. At the expiration of three years he sold this properly and moved to Roxbor- ough, Philadelphia, remaining two years, during which time he was employed as fore- man by the Horse Car Company. He then returned to Doylestown township, and for live years thereafter conducted farmhig operations on the Esther Fell farm. In 1898 he located on the old Clemmens farm, where he now resides, and since then his entire attention has been devoted to its cul- tivation and improvement. In 1900 he was elected school director of the township, and his incumbency being noted for faith- fulness and efficiency, he was re-elected to the same office in 1903. His political affilia- tions are with the Democratic party. Mr. Percy married Miss Sallie Hageman, daughter of John and Ellen Hageman, and four children were born to them, one of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are : Atlee L., born November 24, 1880, a professor of commercial law, teaching at Reading, Pennsylvania; Lewis H., born June 8, 1883; and M. May, born January 18, 1886. The family are respected in the community, and enjoy the acquaintance of a large circle of friends. WILLIAM H. TRAUCH, who holds an honorable place among the farmers of Bedminster township, is a grandson of Peter Trauch, who was a native of New Jersey and a miller by trade. In middle life he became a resident of Bucks county. Peter Trauch, son of Peter Trauch mentioned above, was born about 1823 or 1824, near Easton, New Jersey, and was still a child when his parents re- moved to Bucks county. His boyhood was spent in Durham township, and sub- sequently he removed to Nockamixon township, where he purchased a farm on which he lived thirteen or fourteen years. He then sold the property, and after some years spent at farm work settled in New I^ritain township, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a Democrat in politics, and a mem- ber of the Lutheran church. He married Diana Ruth, and seven of their eight children are still living: Christiana, wife of Edwin Rice, of Williams township; Saul, living in Durham township; Will- iam H.. mentioned at length hereinafter; Edward, a resident of Easton: Titus, living in Durham township; Philip, re- siding in Easton; and Sarah Catherine, wife of George Fackenthal, of Riegels- ville. New Jersey. After the death of his wife, Mr. Trauch married the widow of Dr. Clymer. His death occurred in 1870. William H. Trauch, son of Peter and Diana (Ruth) was born September 18, 1848. in Durham township, and at the age of ten years was employed by Jona- than S. Kohl, a neighboring farmer, with HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 43-5 ■whom he lived three years. -At the end of that time his mother died, and he re- turned home and remained two years. He was then placed with the family of -George M. Swope, in Tinicum township, -and after living there five years entered the family of Tobias M. Swope, of the same township. At the end of a year he was given his time by his father, and on application obtained a teacher's cer- tificate. He had charge of a school for three terms, and then for two years worked on the farm of Reed Wildonger, ■of Tinicum township. After his mar- riage he worked four years for his father-in-law, and then began farming for himself as a tenant. Two years later, in the autumn of 1876, he bought the farm which is now his home, taking up his abode there in the spring of 1877. He has served eleven years as super- visor of Bedminster, and in politics ad- heres to the Democratic party. He is a member of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, in which since 1895 he has served as deacon. Mr. Trauch married, Decem- ber 23. 1870, Mary Jane, daughter of Elias Trauger, of Bedminster township. CORNELIUS W. LEIDY, who since 1883 has occupied his present farm in Hill- town township, was born in this township, October 30, 1862, his parents being Levi and Catharine (Weisel) Leidy. The father was born in Line Lexington, Bucks county, and when a young man learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for fifteen years. He then purchased the Line Lexington Hotel, which he successfully conducted un- til his death, which occurred ten years later. To Levi and Catherine Leidy were born the following named : Frank, married Ange- line Brey; Levi, married Lizzie Meyers; Cornelius W. ; Kate, wife of William Knause; Lydia, wife of Daniel Bilger; Susan, who married Jacob Groman ; and Anna Mary, deceased. Cornelius W. Leidy was a student in the Hilltown public schools in his boyhood and youth, and his educational training was sup- plemented by the practical work of the farm, as he assisted his father in the cul- tivation of the fields. He has always carried on the tilling of the soil since reaching man's estate, and in 1883 purchased the farm in Hilltown township which has since been his place of residence, and to which he has since devoted his energies until it is now a well improved and highly culti- vated place. He manifests a public-spirited interest-in community affairs, and gives his political support to the Democracy, while his religious faith is indicated by his mem- bership in the German Reformed church. Mr. Leidy was married March i, 1882, to Miss Annie Preisendance, a daughter of Jacob and Hanna Preisendance. They now have one child, Jacob, born June 18, 1884. JAMES D. MOLL, born in Sellersville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1865, is a representative of one of the old families of the state. Authentic records make mention of Michael Moll, who was a resident of Montgomery county. John Moll, son of Michael, was born in Pennsburg, Montgomery county, and in early life learned the tailor's trade, which he followed for some time, but his later years were devoted to farming. He mar- ried Eva Graber, and they became the pa- rents of eleven children : Edward, mar- ried Dena Weiand ; Reuben, married Cor- delia Underkofifler ; Ezra, wedded Mary Mack ; Ephriam, married Henrietta Vieg- ner ; John G. ; Andrew, married Amanda Gowkler; Leanna ; Sophia; Maria; and two that died in infancy. John G. Moll, son of John and Eva Moll, was born in Pennsburg, Montgomery coun- ty, September 25, 1833, pursued a common school education, and afterward worked for Abraham Cressman for fifteen years, during which time he saved from his earnings the capital which enabled him to become a landowner. In 1874 he purchased a farm in Rockhill township, Montgomery county, and at once began its further development and improvement, continuing its cultiva- tion with success for fifteen years, or until 1889, when, retiring from business life, he removed to Perkasie, where he has since resided, making his home with his soii, Jacob D. He married Miss Lydia Det- wiler, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Clymer) Detwiler. She was born March ^3, 1836, and they were married October 12, 1861. Mr. Moll is a member of the Re- formed church, while his wife holds mem- bership with the Mennonite church. They were the parents of four children : Jacob D., born August i, 1863; James D. ; John D., born' June 15, 1870, and is deceased; and Harry D., born December 12, 1876. The eldest son was married, September 19, 1885, to Miss Lizzie Hedrick, daughter of Oliver Hedrick, and they have three chil- dren : Howard, born January 7, 1887 ; Ray- mond, December 3, 1891 ; and Warren, May 7, 1893. Harry D. Moll, the youngest son, was married March 26, 1898, to Miss Ida Shellenberger, born May 16, 1875, a daugh- ter of Henry Shellenberger, and they have one son, Ralph, born December 18, 1902. James D. Moll began his education in the schools of Sellersville, and continued his studies in the high school of Perkasie. He has always followed farming from the time, as a boy, he assisted his father in the de- velopment and cultivation of the fields on the old home place. In 1892 he purchased a farm in Hilltown township, where he still lives and carries on general farming, fol- lowing progressive methods and using the latest improved machinery in the develop- ment of his farm. His political interest centers in the Republican party and he en- dorses its principles by his ballot. He be- longs to the IMennonite church. James D. Moll was married, January 9, 1886, to Miss 436 HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY. Lizzie G. Moyer, a daughter of Isaac H. and Annie (George) Moyer. They had two children, both of whom died in infancy. JOHN S. BOYER, of Chalfont, is the worthy bearer of a name which has long been an honored one in Pennsylvania. Mr. Boyer is a grandson of John S. Boyer, of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, who was engaged in the flour and feed business, and aiso took large contracts in grading and build- ing railroads. He was twice elected to the legislature from Schuylkill county. Among his children was a son, Daniel M., men- tioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Boyer during the latter part of his life withdrew from politics and from active business, his death occurring at the age of seventy-three. Daniel M. Boyer, son of John S. Boyer, when a young man held the position of bookkeeper with the Catawissa Railroad Company. In 1862 he was the proprietor of the Summit Hotel, and afterward en- gaged in the produce business m Tamaqua. In 1866 he moved to Shenandoah, Schuyl- kill county, where he again became the pro- prietor of a hotel. He married Sarah Moyer, both of whose parents were drowned in a freshet which in 1850 inundated the banks of the Schuylkill. Mr. and Mrs. Boyer were the parents of the following children: George W., deceased; John :d., mentioned at length hereinafter ; William F. ; Howard, deceased ; Sarah Kate ; Thomas, deceased ; Charles ; Daniel ; Annie ; and Ida. The death of Mr. Boyer, the father of this numerous family, occurred in June, 1902. John S. Boyer, son of Daniel M. and Sarah (Moyer) Boyer, was born Novem- ber 6, 1855, in Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where he was educated in the public schools. For five years he was engaged in the drug business with J. W. Deitric at Shenandoah, and in 1888 moved to Bucks county, making his home in Chal- font, where he conducted a general mer- chandise store. In 1891 he disposed of the business to the firm of Kulp Brothers, and moved to the farm on which he has since resided. The estate consists of forty acres and is cultivated by a tenant, Mr. Boyer preferring to lead a retired life. His political affiliations are with the Republi- can party. He and his family are members of St. James' Lutheran church at Chalfont. Mr. Boyer married, March 18, 1876, at Mahoney Plains, Charlotte Johns, and the following children have been born to them : I. Anna M., born September 29, 1877. and in June, 1892, became the wife of James M., son of Daniel McCann, who now holds the position of general inspector of ma- chinery for the Montgomery Steel Works : they have one child, Howard J. 2. Howard J., born December 9. 1879. graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and is now chief clerk at Leedom's pharmacy, situated at Broad and Filbert streets, Phil- adelphia. 3. Charles G., born June 28, 1882, studied medicine with Dr. Walters,, of Philadelphia, and graduated in that city^ where he is now a practiAng physician, hav- ing an office in the Odd Fellows' Temple at Broad and Cleary streets. 4. Elizabeth, born March 24, 1891, and is now receiving, her education in the public schools. Mrs. Boyer is a daughter of George W. and Anna (Evans) Johns, whose family- consisted of the following children: Annie; Elizabeth, born October 7, 1855 ; Charlotte,, born October 8, 1859, and became the wife of John S. Boyer, as mentioned above ;_ Carrie; George, born February 22, 1869; and Marril, born February 23, 1873. MICHAEL A. LANDIS, who is en- gaged in general farming and gardening at Silverdale, was born at Collegeville, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1846, and belongs to a family that have been prominently identified with the affairs of Bucks county for many generations. Three brothers of the name of Landis came from Germany to America, one settling in Chester county, one in Montgomery county,, and one in Bucks county. Henry Landis,.- father of Michael A. Landis, was born in Springfield township, Bucks county, in 1799. He was a cabinet-maker and undertaker,, and followed business along those lines at Collegeville for many years. He also de- voted a part of his time and attention to farming. His father died when he was a j'oung lad, and, thus thrown upon his own resources, Henry Landis made his way in the world unaided, deserving mucVi credit for the success he achieved. He was a member of the Mennonite church, and he gave his political allegiance to the Repub- lican party. His death occurred in 1885. In early manhood he married Magdaline Alderfer, and they became the parents of thirteen children, as follows : Elizabeth, the wife of Martin Anglemoyer ; Barbara, mar- ried Martin Swartley ; Mary, died in in- fancy ; Joseph, married Rachel Robinson ; Reuben, married Sophia Zorns f Anna, the wife of Christian F. Riley; Rachel, the wife of Jacob P. David ; Henry, married Mary Kauffman ; Abraham, married Matilda Cliarles ; Catharine, the wife of Harry Bradford; Michael A.; Maggie, the wife of Fred K. Fisher ; and Sallie, . married An- drew Trucksess. Michael A. Landis pursued his educa- tion in the public schools of Collegeville, Montgomery county, and then learned the carpenter's .trade imder the direction of his brother Joseph, after which he followed that pursuit for fourteen years. . He pur- chased a farm at Silverdale in 1894, and has since carried on general agricultural pur- suits and gardening, raising products for the city market. His business career is characterized by unflagging diligence and resolute purpose. Mr. Landis was married" at Sellersville, Pennsylvania, October 13^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 437 3870, to Miss Sybilla Hangey, a daughter of Allen and Elizabeth (Heffner) Hangey. They now have two children, having lost their eldest child, Elizabeth, who was born March 9, 1872, and died June 9, 1877. The living children are: Allen, born July 4, 1877; and Maggie born December 30, 1882. The daughter, possessing considerable musi- cal talent, has served for four years as •OTganist of the Reformed church of Silver- dale, of which Mr. Landis is a member. His political support is given the Renubli- ■can party. THOMAS CURLEY, of New Britain township, Bucks county, is a representa- tive of the best type of Irish-American ■citizenship. He is a son of John and Anna (Connors) Curley, whose family consisted •of the following children: Patrick; Michael ; John ; Thomas, mentioned at length hereinafter; Margaret, who lived in New York ; Winona, who married a Regan, and died at Turk, in Doylestown township ; Julia, who died in Philadelphia ; Mary, who •died in Ireland ; Delia, who died in Cam- 'den. New Jersey; and Minnie, who died in Ireland. Thomas Curley, son of John and Anna (Connors) Curley, was born January 26, 184s, in Ireland, and in 1862 emigrated to the United States. He settled in Philadel- phia, where he was employed as an errand "boy by David Hayes, at Ninth and Elbert streets. His brother Patrick, who worked in the same place, enlisted in the army dur- ing the civil war. Mr. Curley moved to Hilltown, where for five years he was cm- ployed by his cousin Francis Curley and in 1879 purchased a farm in New Britain town- ship of Louis Weinrebe, of Doylestown. This farm under his skillful management lias proved very productive, supplying the market with large quantities of fruit and vegetables. Politically Mr. Curley is identi- fied with the Democratic party. He is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic ■church at Doylestown. Mr. Curley mar- ried, in November, 1882, Delia Rasby. a native of Ireland, who landed in this coun- try at the age of ten years. OLIVER P. TITUS. The pioneer an- cestor of the Titus family was Titus Syrachs de Vries, who emigrated from Vries, a village of Drenthe, Holland, about 1650, and settled on Long Island, living at different periods at Brooklyn, Flatlands and New Utrecht, and owning considerable land. He was lieutenant of a company of foot at Midwout in 1673, and died about 1688. He married Jan- -netje Tennis, daughter of Tennis Janse Converts, who emigrated from Heem- -stede. North Holland, in 1651, and their ■children (all of -whom, and their de- scendants adopted and kept the surname -of Titus), were: Tryntje, baptized De- cember 23, 1663; Tennis Titus; Syrach Titus, baptized December 28, 1679; Jan- netje, March, 1682; Titus Titus; Francis Titus. Tennis Titus, son of Titus Syrachs and Jannetje Couverts, joined his mother in the conveyance of 'his father's land at Flatlands, May 14, 1695, and removed to Newtown, Long Island, where he re- sided until 1703, and at about that date removed to Mansfield, Burlington county. New Jersey, from whence two of his sons, Francis and Jacob, migrated to Bucks county about 1730. The former married, June 19, 1734, Mary Clark of Bucks county and settled in Middletown township, where he died in 1784, leav- ing seven children, viz.: Francis, Jr., who married, August 17, 1763, Jane Fa- gen, and died at Bristol in 1800, leaving a son, Francis, and three daughters; Martha, married Abraham Slack; Eliza- beth married John Hcllings; John; Tim- othy, married Martha Wright in 1764, and lived and died at Bristol; Samuel; and Tunis, who died before his father, leaving five children. Jacob, the other son of Tennis, of New Jersey, married Gazina Vande- grift, daughter of Harnian Vandcgrift, of Bensalem, and had ten children, viz.: Elizabeth, who married Ephraim Phillips of Burlington county. New Jersey; Olchia, married Joseph Severns; Harman; Catharine, married John Baker, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey; Jacob, of Bensalem, who married Elizabeth Moon; Sarah, married Jacob Vandegrift; William; Charity, who married Samuel Sutton, of Byberry; and Seruch, married Deborah Featherbe. and settled in Buckingham, where he died in 1792, leaving sons Will- iam, Seruch and David. Francis Titus, Jr., son of Francis and Mary (Clark) Titus, owned land in Plum- stead and Tinicum townships, and lived for a time in Plumstead township, though he removed to Bristol township prior to his death in 1800. The descent of the subject of this sketch from the earlier generations of the family as above noted is not entirely clear, but he is thought to be a son of the third Fran- cis of Bristol. "William Titus, said to be a son of Francis Titus, Jr., married Fronica Keeler, daughter of George and Mary Keeler, of Tinicum township, and had two sons, Lewellyn and Jacob. The former went to California during the gold fever in 1852, and still resides there. He was at first engaged in mining, but later purchased large tracts of timber land, and operated a saw and grist mill. He married and reared a family in Cali- fornia. Jacob Titus was reared in Tinicum township, and married there Elizabeth George, daughter of Jacob and Hannah George, the latter of whom died in 1831. Hannah George was a granddaughter of Edward Marshall, the famous walker 438 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and Indian fighter, who was born near Bustleton, Pennsylvania, in 1710, and died in Tinicnm. Bucks county, Novem- ber 6, 1789. He made the famous "day and a half walk back in the woods" from Wrightstown to the Blue mountains in ^737- which defined the boundaries of the "Walking Purchase," and thereby incurred the enmity of the Indians, who several times attacked his cabin and killed his first wife. He married (sec- ond) Elizabeth Mease, and left a family of fifteen children. A full account of him is given in the first volume of this history, in the chapter entitled "The Walking Purchase." Jacob Titus purchased in 1852 a large farm in Warrington. Bucks county, one hundred and thirty-seven acres of which he retained and greatly improved, erecting in 1855 the present large and commod- ious stone dwelling now occupied by his son, Oliver P. Titus. He also erected the barn and other outbuildings. He was an enterprising and successful farmer, and held a high place in the community. Starting out in life with little or none of this world's goods, by dint of prese- verance and hard work he achieved financial success, while his strict integ- rity and unblemished character won the esteem of his neighbors and a large circle of friends. Jacob George, the father of Elizabeth (George) Titus, was a son of Jacob and Eve George, of Tinicum, Bucks county. the former of whom died in 1815, and the latter in 1829. They were the par- ents of one son, Jacob, and four daug- ters: Elizabeth, wife of George Hillpot; Catharine, wife of Jacob Fulmer; Mary, wife of George Wycker; and Susanna, wife of Frederick Solliday. Hannah, the wife of Jacob George, Jr., is thought to have been a daughter of William and Naomi (Marshall) McCalla. Jacob George, Jr. inherited from his father a farm of 199 acres in Tinicum, where he died December 18, 1831. He and his wife Hannah were the parents of the following children: Hugh, a civil engineer who died in 1866, unmarried; Susanna, married George Raike; Hiram, died in 1879; Eve. married William Royce; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Titus; Naomi, wife of Michael Worman; and Jacob W. George. Mrs. Titus died in 1898. The children of Jacob and Elizabeth (George) Titus were: Elwood. died at the age of twenty-two years; George, also deceased; Hugh, of Richboro, Bucks county; and Oliver P. The mother was a member of Neshaminy Presbyterian Church, which her husband also at- tended but was not a member. Oliver P. Titus, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born on the farm upon w'hich he now resides. May 8, 1864. and began his education at the public schools, and finished at Doylestown English and Classical Seminary. He re- mained on the farm with his father un- til his marriage, and two years later removed to New Jersey, where he was- for si.x years superintendent of a stock farm of 350 acres. He then returned home, and at the death of his mother purchased the homestead in 1899, and has since made it his home. The farm is pleasantly located in the valley of the Little Neshaminy, and is a very productive one. Mr. Titus takes great pride in keeping up its ornamental and attractive features as well as the fertility of the soil. Politically Mr. Titus is a Republican, and religiously he and his. wife are members of Neshaminy Pres- byterian Church. Mr. Titus married Florence B. Dobbins, who was born in- Bucks county, October 19, 1865, and is- a daughter of the late J. K. and Sarah A. (Jenkins) Dobbins, of Warrington^ Her father, J. K. Dobbins, was born irr Pemberton, New Jersey, November 27, 1838, and was a son of Joseph R. and Mary A. (Hilliard) Dobbins, the former a native of New Jersey, and a prom- inent merchant and well known citizen of Mont Holly, New Jersey. He served in the war of 1812. Mary A. (Hilliard) Dobbins was a daughter of Eben Hil- liard, a prominent contractor of Phil- adelphia, who married a daughter of Richard Summers, a captain in the Revo- lutionary war. The children of Joseph R. and Mary A. (Hilliard) Dobbins were, Eber H., John J., Richard, Susan K., Sarah, Edward. Joseph K.. and Merrill. Joseph K. Dobbins, the father of Mrs. Titus, was reared on the farm near Pemberton, New Jersey. After leaving: home he was employed at various voca- tions, and in i860 entered the employ of the United States government as a member of an engineering corps. He was afterwards promoted to the posi- tion of superintendent of a corps of structural engineers, and had charge of the erection of forts and bridges during, the civil war. He resigned his position in the winter of 1864-5 and settled in Bucks county, but later removed to- Philadelphia. In 1878 he purchased the the farm on which he lately lived in Warrington, Bucks county, which he conducted until his death in 1905. He was one of the well known and popular men of central Bucks county, and an active member of the Bucks County Historical Society, in whose meetings he took a lively interest. His wife,. Sarah A. Jenkins, was born in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and is a daugter of Thomas Jenkins of that place. Their children are: Joseph T.. of California; Florence R.. wife of the subject of this sketch; Clara, wife of McKinstry; Sarah L., wife of Charles Horner; Mary^ wife of H. Shaffer; Gertrude V., Ed- ward, a well known inventor, now iix Europe; and Merrill, of Philadelphia. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 439 Mr. Oliver P. and Florence R. (Dob- bins) Titus are the parents of four chil- dren; Paul M., Malvina E., Helen and Joseph B. jM. MATHIAS J. LOUX. Andrew Loux, who emigrated from Germany, became the founder of the family in the United States to which Mathias Loux belonged. Andrew Loux, son of Andrew Loux, Sr., was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and troughout his active business career followed farming here. He married Katie Hartman. Mathias Loux, son of Andrew and Katie (Hartman) Loux, was a native of Bucks county and throughout his entire life carried on agricultural pursuits. He belonged to the state militia under Col- onel Hager, of Hagersville, Bucks county. His political support was given to the Democracy and he was a mem- ber of the German Reformed church. He married Catherine Yost, a daughter of Daniel Yost, who was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvama, in 1809 and died in 1874, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a weaver by trade, and followed that pursuit in connection with farm- ing near Dublin. His family numbered fourteen children; Andrew, Isaac. Dan- iel and Hannah, all deceased; Catherine; Mary, who has also passed away ; Math- ias J.; Elizabeth; Noah; Aaron, Anna and Eli, also deceased; Israel; and David, deceased. Mathias J. Loux, son of Mathias and Catherine (Yost) Loux, was born in Hilltown township near Dublin, Bucks county, July 13, 1841. He was educated in the public schools of his native town- ship and, when he had completed his course, learned the mason's trade, serv- ing a regular apprenticeship. In re- sponse to President Lincoln's call for volunteers he was the sixth man to join Colonel Davis's 104th Regiment at Captain Harvey's recruiting office in Doy- lestown. He belonged to Company E of the One Hundred and Fourth Regi- ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and went from Doylestown to Washington, and thence to Fortress Monroe. He participated in several skirmishes in the vicinity of Chickamauga, and his first battle was at Fair Oaks. He partici- pated in every engagement with Com- pany E throughout the war. and was in the hospital for three days, but would not stay there. Slipping away he re- joined his company, so anxious was he to be at the front. After the war he settled at Nace's Corner, in Bucks county, where he is now living retired. He was for many years identified with farming interests, but his son is now managing the farm, while Mr. Loux is enjoying a well merited rest. He is a member of the German Reformed church and politically is an advocate of Republican principals. Mathias J. Loux was married to Anna Elizabeth Bryan, a daughter of William and Lou- isa (Leidy) Bryan, August 12, 1865. They have one son, Harvey Monroe Loux, born in New Britain township, October 23, 1874. He married Anna Elizabeth Halderman, a daughter of Cornelius Halderman, and they have three children: Grace Marcella; Marian Louisa and Howard Pierson. GEORGE SWARTLEY for many years a representative farmer of New Britain township, was born in that township July 12, 1820, and is of German ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Philip Swartley, was born in Baden in 1764 and emigrated to America in 1782. He married Sarah Rosen- berger, and died September 2, 1840, at the age of seventy-five years, while his wife passed away in April, 1847, at the age of eighty-four years. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Philip Swartley, son of Philip and Sarah (Rosenberger) Swartley, was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, February 28, 1799, and throughout his business career followed the occupation of farming. He wedded Mary Smith and they had nine chil- dren : George, born July 12, 1820 ; Henry, born March 24, 1822 ; Levi, who was born April 7, 1824 and married Catherine Halder- man ; Philip, born November 12, 1825 ; Susanna, who was born March 23, 1827, and married Jacob Alderfer ; Sarah, who was born November 11, 1830. and became the wife of John Alderfer, her death oc- curring the day following her husband's demise from grief for his loss, their re- mains being interred in the same grave ; Mary, who was born December 9, 1833, and is the wife of David Rosenberger ; Eliza- beth, who was born August 15. 1838, and is the wife of Louis Schleifer ; and Aaron, who was born February 7, 1841, and wedded Maria Leidy. George Swartley, son of Philip and Mary (Smith) Swartley, was reared to the oc- cupation of farming and in his youth ac- quired his education in the public schools. Throughout his business career he fol- lowed agricultural pursuits, selling his products in the Philadelphia market. He lived for forty-five years on what is called the Levi Schutz farm and was accounted one of the progressive agriculturists of his community. In his political views he is a stanch Republican and religiously is con- nected with the Mennonite church. George Swartley was married November 8. 1842, to Catherine, a daughter of Jacob and Mar- garet (Halderman) Funk. They had three children, of whom Oliver P., born July 4. 1845. died at the age of seven years. The others are Mary M. and Jacob F. The daughter, born February 24, 1852, is the wife 440 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. of Francis P. Sheip, a son of John and Hannah (Schneider) Sheip. They have two children: Alma E., born March 29, 1870; and Arthur B., who was born December 22, 1876, and married Hannah Sherm, a daugh- ter of William H. and Lizzie (Barndt) Sherm. Jacob F. Swartley married Sarah Geil, a daughter of Enos and Mary (Means) Geil, at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1888, and they have one child, Catherine Swartley. MRS. MARY ELIZABETH RICK- ERT, of Chalfont, is the widow of John S. Rickert, who was born in Hilltown, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1844. He acquired his education in the schools of Plumsteadville. He entered the general merchandise store at Dublin, Pennsyl- A'ania, when twenty years of age, and later Jaecame one of the proprietors as a member of the firm of Jones D. Moyer & Company, and following the death of Mr. Moyer, ]\Ir. Rickert became the senior member of the firm of John S. Rickert & Company. He continued in business at Dublin with good sucess until 1882, when he removed to Chal- font and entered into partnership with Preston W. Hagerty, under the firm style of Rickert & Hagerty, dealers in general merchandise. They carried a well selected stock of goods and by reason of their honorable dealing secured a de- sirable patronage, Mr. Rickert continuing actively in the business up to the time of his demise. On the 5th of February, 1870, in Lam- bertville, New Jersey, Mr. Rickert had married Miss Mary Elizabeth Leather- man, a daughter of Eli and Sara (Got- wals) Leatherman. Mrs. Rickert is a granddaughter of Jacob Leatherman, and is a representative of one of the oldest German families of Bedminster, tracing her ancestry back to another Jacob Leatherman, who was the founder of the family in the new world. He emigrated from his native country, Ger- many, on the ship "Lydia,' arriving at Philadelphia, September 28, 1741. He was then thirtj'-two years of age. He secured a tract of land of three hundred acres near the present Men- nonite meeting house, in Bedminster, and throughout his remaining days de- voted his energies to agricultural pur- suits, passing away on February 17, 1769, at tlie age of sixty years. He was accompanied on his emigration to Amer- ica by his wife Magdalena and their sons Jacob and Abraham, the latter then but two years of age. Six other chil- dren were born to them in this country: Michael ; Henrv ; John ; Magdalene, who became the wife of Jacob High; Cather- ine; and Ann. Jacob Leatherman, grandfather of Mrs. Rickert, was horn in 1793 and died September 4, 1833. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Walters, was born in 1788 and died September 30, 1859. Their children were: Mary G., who was born in 1820, and died September 17, 1874; Catherine, who was born in 1823, and died June 5, 1842; Eli, who was born November 14, 1824, and died September 28, 1897; and Tobias, who was born in 1829 and died March 20, 18.34. Eli Leatherman, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Walters) Leatherman, was born in Plumstead township, November 14, 1824, and throughout his business career carried on agricultural pursuits. He wedded Sarah Gotwals, and his death occurred September 28, 1897. Their children were four in number: Mary Elizabeth, who was born January 22, 1846, and became the wife of John S. Rickert; Catherine, who was born July 26, 1848, and married Isaac G. Moyer; Henry R., who was born Decem- ber 4, 1850, and married Almina Ger- hart; and Emma, who was born Novem- ber 16, 185s, and is the wife of Preston W. Haggerty, a merchant of Chalfont. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Rickert are Sarah C, who was born November 29, 1874, and is the wife of A. F. Book, a son of Henry and Hannah (Krupp) Book; Mary E., who was born December 30, 1875, and is the wife of Robert Mathias, by whom she has one daughter, Margaret Elizabeth; George, who was born August 18, 1877; and Florence, who completes the family. JOHN H. MEYERS. The Meyers family, to which John H. Meyers be- longs, was founded in America about 1708 by Hans Meyer,* who came from Germany or Switzerland and settled in Salford township, Montgomery county about two miles east of Salfordville. There he purchased land in 1720 and his property became known as the ancestral home and is yet occupied by his great- great-grandson. Hans Mej'er was a farmer by occupation and always fol- lowed that pursuit. He held member- ship in the Mennonite church and died in that faith in 1741. His children w^ere Henry, John. Barbara, Jacob. Elizabeth, Anne and Hester. (II) Henry Meyer, son of Hans Meyer, was brought to America by his parents when only a year old. He married Barbara Miller, who came from Germany to the new world when eigh- teen years of age. He, too, followed the oc- cupation of farming, living upon a tract of land inherited from his father. He was a Mennonite in religious belief and died in 1800. Unto him and his wiie were born the following named, Henry, *The name was originally spelled Meyer, and was later corrupted into Myers, Meyers and Moyer. CO O W k; w 5 w o o 2; W CO c« O w 00 o CO HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 441 Alary, Jacob, John, Isaac, Annie, Bar- bara, Elizabeth, Christian, Abraham and Samuel. ' (III) Isaac Meyers, son of Henry and Barbara (Miller) Meyer, was born De- cember 31, 1759, in Salford township, Montgomery county and became a farmer of Bedminster township, Bucks county. Like his ancestors he was an ad- herent of the Mennonite faith. He married Magdalina Overholt, who was born August 14, 1762, and his death occurred December 31, 1832, while his wife passed away Janu- ary 27, 1846. They were the parents of six children: Jacob; Henry; Isaac; John O.; Esther, the wife of William Swope; and Barbara, the wife of Jacob Yoder. (IV) John O. Meyers, son of Isaac Meyers, was born in Bedminster town- ship, Bucks county, in 1800 and died on the 2ist of May, 1843. He was married October 10, 1824, to Miss Elizabeth Halderman and they had seven children: 1. Hannah, born May 17, 1826, became the wife of Daniel K. Rickert, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Kulp) Rickert, 2. Tobias, deceased. 3. Isaac H., born October 22, 1830, married Cecelia Funk, a daughter of Ralph and Barbara (Kauf- man) Funk, and their children are Isadora, born August .2, 1857; William Clyde, born January 28, 1861: Laura F., born March 8, 1867. 4. Sophia died in 1832. 5. Eliza, born September 3. 1833, ily re- side at home. BENJAMIN LARZELERE, of Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of Jacob La Resaleur, who came to Long Island about 1675, sup- posedly from Antwerp, where a French inerchant of that name had settled some years earlier and was probably of the same lineage as Nicholas Largilliere, the distin- guished portrait painter of the age of Louis XIV (.born in Paris, 1656, removed witli his father to Antwerp, 1659). Jacob Larzelere (La Keseleur) was a member of Flatbush church in 1677. He owned considerable land in the New Lotts of Flatbush at the time of his death, about 1687. He married Maria Granger, and had issue: Claes Jacobse (Nicholas) ; Mag- dalen, born January 5, 1679 ; Maria, bap- tized January 12, 1681 ; and Catharine, who married Daniel Stillwell. Nicholas Lar- zelere, removed to Staten Island and be- came a land owner there in 1693, and was sheriff of Richmond county. Nicholas Larzelere, son of above, born in Richmond county, Staten Island, pur- chased May 16, 1740, two tracts of land ag- gregating 264 acres in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, and settled there- on, his residerxe as given in the deed of the above date being "of the County 01 Richmond, Stratton Island, in the Province of New York." He later purchased several other tracts of land in Lower Makefield, ■where he died in 1799. The name of his first wife and mother of his children has not been ascertained. He married about 1766 Sarah DePuy, a widow with several children, who died in 1791. The children of Nicholas Larzelere were: Nicholas; John, who married Margaret Van Horn in 1768; Catharine, who married Moses La- Rue in 1767 ; Esther, who married Rich- ard Mitchell in 1771 ; Anne, married Cor- nelius Vansant ; Mary, who married George Appleton ; Elizabeth, who married John Cape ; and Margaret married John- son. Nicholas Larzelere. eldest .son of the above named Nicholas, married Hannah Brittain, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Johnson) Brittain, of Philadelphia, and settled on land devised to Hannah by her father in Bensalem township, opposite Hulmeville. Benjamin Brittain was a grand- son of Nathaniel Brittian, an early Eng- lish settler on Long Island, who married Anna, daughter of Nicholas Stillwell in 1660, and settled on Staten Island in 1664. The children of Nicholas and Hannah (Brittain) Larzelere were: Benjamin (see forward) ; Nicholas; John; Abraham; Brit- ton ; Mary, married Nicholas Vansandt ; Elizabeth, married Asa Sutton ; ,§arah, mar- ried Andrew Gilkeson; Hannah, married Thomas Rue; Ann, married John Thomp- son, and Margaret. Nicholas and Hannah Larzelere both died prior to 1818. Benjamin Larzelere married Sarah Brown, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Higgs) Brown, of Bristol township. Jo- seph Brown was a son of Thomas Brown, and a grandson of George and Mercy Brown, who emigrated from England, land- ing at New Castle in 1679, and settling in Falls township, Bucks county. Joseph Brown died in Bristol township in April, 1796, and his land, a farm of 117 acres, was conveyed to Benjamin and Sarah Lar- zelere in 1802, through proceedings in par- tition. Here Benjamin Larzelere and his wife lived and died. Their children were: Joseph; Nicholas; Benjamin; William, (see forward); Ann, died unmarried; Mary, died unmarried January 18, 1879 ^ Hannah, married James Harrison; Eliza- beth, married Richardson. Sarah (Brown) Larzelere died March i, 1839, and her husband, Benjamin Larzelere, died September 7, 1850. William Larzelere, fifth son of Benja- min and Sarah (Brown) Larzelere, born January 24, 1809, married January 22, 1852, Anna Maria Antrim, daughter of Thomas Antrim, and settled in Bristol township, Bucks county, wliere he died January 18, 1889, leaving two sons, Benjamin and Frederick, and a daughter Sarah, wife of John Tomlinson. Mrs. Lazelere died in 1885. Benjamin Larzelere, the subject of this sketch, is the eldest son of William and Anna Maria (Antrim) Larzelere, and was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1854. He re- ceived his education at the private school of Hannah Coleman, Pierce's Boarding School at Bristol, and Bryant and Strat- ton's Business College. On arriving at manhood he engaged in farming on his father's farm, in Bristol township, where he has since resided. He married, December 22, 1875, Sarah Jane Subers, of Emilie, Bucks county, daughter of William LaFay- ette and Elizabeth LaRue (Vansant) Su- btrs. Htr paternal grandparents were_ John and (Booz) Subers, and her maternal Garret and Sarah (Stevens) Vansant. Mr. and Mrs. Larzelere are the parents of two children : Harry Shippy, born April 5, 1880. and Lily Subers, born May 3, 1882. Both these children are graduates of Bristol high school. Harry S. resides on the homestead with his parents, and assists in the management of the farm. Lily S. was HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 447 married August i, 1901, to Dr. John M. J. Raunick, of Harrisburg, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1900, who now has an extensive practice !at Harrisburg. AMOS TAYLOR PRAUL. Among tue highly cultivated and therefore productive farms in Southampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, noted for their gen- eral appearance of good management and thrift, is the one owned and operated by Amos T. Praul, who was born in that town- ship, September 4, 1849. Isaac Praul, his earliest ancestor of whom there is any au- thentic record, had children : Grace, be- came the wife of Charles Biles ; Rebecca ; and John. John Praul, only son of Isaac Praul, married Alartha Tomlinson, and they reared a family of children to manhood and wo- manhood, namely: i. Isaac. 2. Thomas, married Sarah Tomlinson and by her had children : Amanda, deceased, who was the wife of Charles Eddows ; Sarah, Martha, and Watson. 3. William, married Lydia Worthington, who bore him six children: Theodore, who married Jennie Jamison; Edward; William, who married Jennie Lough; Ida, who married (first) Harry Patterson, and (second) Thomas Poinsett; Lucinda, who married Stephen Carter; and Thomas Wrigfield, who married Ella Biles. 4. Francis, mentioned in the following par- agraph. 5. Charles, married Arnetta Tom- linson, and they were the parents of eight children : Emnor, who married Annie Stradling; William, who married Martha Barton ; Augustus, who married Susan Hilliard; Albert; Mary, who became the wife of Isaac Stradling ; Annie, who be- came the wife of Amos Barton ; Ada, who became the wife of David Beaton, and Emma. 6. Philadelphia, who became the wife of Cornelius Bowden. Francis Praul, son of John Praul, was born in 1819. He married Caroline Tom- linson, daughter of Amos, (born in 1786), and Sarah (Doan) Tomlinson. Caroline (Tomlinson) Praul was born May 6. 1826. Their children were: i. John Edmund, married Anna , and two chil- dren were born to them : Alice and Caro- line. 2. Amos Taylor, born September 4, 1849, mentioned in the following para- graph. 3. Albert, married Rachel Con- nell, who bore him two children : Walter and Alabel. 4. Charles Morris, married Clara Pierce and had two sons : Harold and Morris. 5. Clinton S., married Clem- entine Smack, and one child was the issue of this union, Francis. 6. Anna M., be- came the wife of Samuel Ford and their chiklcen are : Martha and Chester. 7. Mar- tha J., became the wife of David Hart ana their family consists of two children, Stan- ley and Marian. 8. Emma, became the wife of Andrew Hibbs and six children were born to them. Amos Taylor Praul, second son of Fran- cis Praul, when one year old was taken by his parents to Bensalem township and was there reared and received his early educa- tional advantages. Later he attendea Friends' School at Langhorne and there completed his studies. He turned his at- tention to farming as a means of livelihood and worked on his father's farm until his marriage, after which he moved to South- ampton township, near Trevose, where he has since resided. In 1882 he purchased a tract of land consisting of ninety-five acres of arable land, on which he has since con- ducted extensive operations, producing a general line of farm products which find a ready market. Mr. Praul is a Republi- can in politics. He married Emily A. Paxson, a native of Southampton town- ship, born April 12, 185 1, a daughter of Phineas and Rebecca (Tomlinson) Pax- son. One son has been the issue of this marriage, Clarance T., born December 31, 1876. He married Cora Wagner, daugh- ter of Harry Wagner, of Bethayres, Penn- sylvania, and one child was born to them, Helen E., now deceased. GEORGE MORLEY MARSHALL, phy- sician, residing at New Hope, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, was born in Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, March 13, 1858, son of Seth and Esther Philena (Morley) Mar- shall. Seth Marshall was one of the early abolitionists. Like some others of strong principle and fearless at this period, he did not hesitate to imperil large business in- terests that he might protect the fugitive slaves in their flight to Canada, although it was in defiance of the law and the pro-slav- ery sentiment. His home was regarded as one of the stations on "the underground railro.ad." There still stands at the Marshall homestead the old barn with its massive frame of hewn timber, where many of these unfortunates were given food and shelter. The ancestor of this family who first came to America was Thomas Marshall, one time mayor of Boston, in Lincolnshire, England. He emigrated in 1634 to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was for many years a deacon of the First Church and dean of the board of selectmen. His son. Captain Samuel Marshall, went to the de- fense of the colonies, commanding a regi- ment against the Indian conspirator King Philip, and in December, 1675, was killed while at the head of his force storming Philip's Fort, in the Great Swamp fight. For his exceptional bravery he is mentioned in Bancroft's history, Hollister's Connecti- cut, Hutchinson's Massachusetts, Drake's Indian, and other histories of that period. Thomas Marshall, next in line, married Mary Drake, of the family of Sir Fran- cis Drake. Thomas Marshall, grandson of the latter, and great-grandfather of George Morley Marshall, fought in the war of the revolution. Esther Philena (Mor- 448 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ley) Marshall, the mother of George Mor- ley Marshall, was descended on her pater- nal side from Abel Morley, who emigraud from England in 1650. On her maternal side she was descended from William Healy, who came with the Pilgrims and set- tled in Roxbury (afterwards Cambridge) Massachusetts. George Morley Marshall attended the public schools of his native village and graduated from the Painesville high school in 1877. In 1877-78 he taught school while preparing for college, completing this pre- paration the following year at the Univer- sity preparatory school in Hudson. He then entered the Western Reserve University, receiving in 1883 the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Adelbert College. In the au- tumn of 1883 he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which in 1886 he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Taking the competitive examination at St. Joseph's Hospital, he became the first resident phy- sician of that institution. In 1887 and 1888 he continued his medical studies at Vienna and Berlin, returning to Philadel- phia to active practice in January, 1889. In this year he was appointed attending phy- sician and laryngologist to St. Joseph's Hospital. Two years later he was also appointed laryngologist to the Philadelphia Hospital. Dr. Marshall is a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, tiie American Academy of Medicine, the Amer- ican Medical Association, the Philadelphia College of Physicians and other medical organizations. He was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Western Reserve University. While independent in politics, he has in general voted with the Republi- can party. He married, June 7, 1893, at Elyria, Ohio, Harriet Putnam Elj-, daugh- ter of Heman and Mary (Day) Ely, of Ely- ria, Ohio. Their children are as follows : George Morley, Jr., born in Philadelphia, March 19, 1894, died March 7, 1895; Esth- er Philena, born in Philadelphia, June 8, 1895 ; Harriet Ely, born in Solebury, Bucks county, September 7, 1896 ; Margaret Ely, born in Philadelphia, April 24, 1898; Edith Williamson, born in Solebury, August 3, 1899, died August 17, 1900; Celia Belden, born in Solebury, January 29, 1902. While residing in Philadelphia Dr. Marshall and his wife attended Calvary Presbyterian church on Locust street, but when in Bucks county they attend with interest the Friends' Meeting at Solebury. Harriet Putnam (Ely) Marshall, born in Elyria, Ohio, October 9, 1864, traces her ancestry to Nathaniel Ely, Puritan, born in Tenterden, in the county of Kent, Eng- land, in 1605, and emigrated to America in April, 1634, to escape persecution under Charles I. He settled first in Newtown (now Cambridge) Massachusetts. In June, 1636, he went with the Rev. Thomas Plook- er and about one hundred others who made the first settlement of the city of Hartford, Connecticut. In 1649 he was instrumental in the first settlement of Norwalk, Connec- ticut. In 1659 he sold his property in Nor- walk and removed to Springheld, Massachu- setts, where the remainder of his life was spent. Springlield has since been the home of the family from generation to genera- tion. Here, as in Norwalk and Hartford^ Nathaniel was called to serve the public shortly after his arrival. He was selectman in Springfield in 1661-66-68-71 and 72,. He died December 25, 1675, and Martha, his- wife, died in Springfield, October 23, 1688. They left two children, a son and a daugh- ter. The son Samuel married Mary, young- est daughter of Robert Day. Justin Ely, fifth generation, was born In West Springfield, Massachusetts, August 10, 1739, and died there June 26, 1817. He graduated at Harvard College in 1759, rep- resented his town in general court of Mas- sachusetts in 1777, from 1780 to 1785, in- clusive, and from 1790 to 1797, inclusive^ and was otherwise prominent in public af- fairs. During the war of the revolution, he was active in aiding his country, es- pecially in the collection of men who were drafted into the service and providing for the comfort of the same and those who enlisted. He was largely interested in real estate in the states of Massachusetts, Ver- mont, and New York and the district of Maine, and was one of the original pro- prietors of the Connecticut Western Re- serve in Ohio under the Connecticut Land Company. Heman Ely, son of Justin Ely, was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, April 24, 1775, and died in Elyria, Ohio, February 2, 1852. He married Celia, daugh- ter of Colonel Ezekial Polter Belden. Ear- ly in the last century he became interested in the purchase of lands in central and wes- tern New York, and under his direction considerable tracts were surveyed and sold to settlers. Nearly coincident with these enterprises he entered into partnership with his brother Theodore in New York city, and was for ten years engaged in commerce with European countries and the East In- dies, and during this time he made several voyages. He was in Paris, France, from. July, 1809, until April, 1810, a period when history was rapidly made. He saw in Aug- ust, 1809, the grand fete of Napoleon, with Josephine as empress, and in the evening attended a ball at the Hotel de Ville, where a cotillion was danced by a set composed of kings and queens ; the following April (Josephine divorced and dethroned) he witnessed the formal entrance into Paris of the Emperor Napoleon with the Empress Maria Louise of Austria, and the religious ceremony of marriage at the chapel of the Tuilleries. In 1810 he returned to America and the following year visited Ohio, going as far as Cleveland, twenty-five miljc* east of his future home. The war with Eng- land made it inadvisable to open new ter- ritory in Ohio, and it was not until 1816 that he visited the land owned by his fath- er, and then known as No. 6, range 17, r A^TOH, LIT'ICX AND TILDew FOU'JDATICNS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 449 Connecticut Western Reserve. At that time he made arrangements for future settle- ment, contracting for a grist and saw mill and a log cabin. In February, 1817, ac- companied by his step-brother, Ebenezer Lane, late chief-justice of Ohio, and attend- ed by a company of skilled workmen and laborers, he left West Springfield for his future home. He called the new town Ely- ria, and from that time gave his life to the development of its resources. Hk ei- forts were not confined to' his own town. He served on the state board of equaliza- tion, and from 1835 to 1845 was one of the associate judges under the old constitu- tion. Heman Ely, son of Heman and Celia (Belden) Ely, was born in Elyria, Ohio, October 30, 1820, and died July 8, 1894, in the house where he was born. He married May 2j, 1850, jNlary F. Day, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Coit) Day, of Hart- ford, Connecticut. He was educated at schools in Westfield, JNIassachusetts, ana F^armington, Connecticut. Owing to his father's failing health he gave up his con- templated college course at Yale and re- turned to Elyria. In his father's office he received a business training, particularly in the care and conveyancing of real es- tate, and soon assumed the charge of all his father's business. He assisted in the organization of the first bank in Elyria, and was chosen a director at the first elec- tion in 1847. He was successively direc- tor, vice-president and president to the time of his death. In 1852, with Judge Ebenezer Lane and others, he secured the building of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, then known as the "Junction Railroad," from Cleveland to To- ledo. PTom 1870 to 1873 he was a mem- ber of the state legislature, particularly interesting himself in insurance legisla- tion, and in formation of the state insurance department. His connection with the F"'irst Congregational church in Elyria was formed in 1838; he was for many years one of its officers, and for ten years served as superintendent of the Sabbath school. He was deeply interested in the advance- ment of his native town. MOORE FA^HLY. The Moores of Richland were descended from Mordecai Moore, a physician, by his first wife, his second wife being a daughter of Thomas Lloyd, well known in the early history of Pennsylvania. The son Richard married 5 mo. 27, 1709, ^Margaret Preston, born 1689, daughter of Samuel Preston, who was born in Patuxent, Maryland, in 1665, and became mayor of Philadelphia in 171 1. Margaret Preston's mother was Rachel, daughter of the same Thomas Lloyd men- tioned above. Richard Mcore was a physi- cian and merchant, and resided most of his life in Maryland. Richard had five children. 293 Mordeci Moore, son of Richard, mar- ried Elizabeth Coleman and had eight chil- dren: Margaret, Mary, Richard, Samuel Preston, Rachel, Deborah, Henry and Han- nah. Mary married Jonathan Dickinson, and Hannah became the second wife ot Charles Willson Peale, the famous artist. Henry, 5 mo. 29, 1753, married Priscilla Hill Jackson. Fiis father, Mordecai, died at Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, 7 mo. 31, 1800. Henry Moore, son of Mordecai and Eli- zabeth, resided in Montgomery county, and afterwards in Lancaster county. They had seven children : Mordecai, Mary, Samuel Preston, Elizabeth, Milcah IMartha, Rich- ard and Charles. Henry died in 1829, ana his wife in 1821. Richard Moore, of Richland, was promi- nent in the Society of Friends, as was his son, John Jackson Moore. He was active in the anti-slavery movement, sheltering and feeding many fugitives from bondage. He married, i mo. 7, 1819, Sarah Foulke, daugh- ter of Theophilus and Hannah Foulke, as we have seen. Their children : i. John Jackson, 11 mo. 17, 1819, married Jane, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Warner, they having three children, — Alfred, El- len, Arthur; 2. Hannah, 7 mo. 27. 1821, married 10 mo. 5, 1843, William M. Levick, of the Philadelphia bar, a brother of Samuel J. Levick. William died 6 mo. 10, 1874. iheir children : Anna F"., Elizabeth J. EDWARD W. MAGILL, a prominent member of the Philadelphia bar, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, January 27, 1858, and is descend- ed from early settlers in Bucks county, who have been prominent in the affairs of the count}', province and state from tlic time of William Penn. William Magill, his pioneer paternal an- cestor, was born in the north of L'eland, where his ancestors had been resident for several centuries, several of the name from Armagh, Antrim and Downs having held commissions in the army of Cromwell, ana long prior to that time had held large es- tates with baronial rights. The family is said to have originated with GioUa, a grand- son of the one hundred and twenty-fourth monarch of Ireland, the name becoming anglicized into Gill, and his children be- coming known as jNIacGill. The name cen- turies ago came to be spelled in its present form. William Magill emigrated to Amer- ica about 1725, and about 1730 located in Solebury township, in what was then known as the Manor of Highlands, in the lower part of the township. In 1735 he became a member of Buckingham Friends' meet- ing, and married at Falls Meeting, Mary Sinicock, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Wain) Simcock, of Ridley, Chester coun- ty. Mrs. Magill's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all successively members of provincial assembly, and the 450 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. latter, as well as her maternal great-grand- father, was a provincial councillor. Will- iam and Sarah Simcock Magill were the parents of eight children, of whom John, the second son, born September 27, 1740, was the great-great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. He was a farmer m Solebury and died there March il, 1814- He married in 1765, Amy Whitson, daugn- ter of David and Clcmence (Powell) Whitson, both natives of Long Island, and they were the parents of six children, of whom Jacob, born November 2, 1766, died January 14, 1847, was the great-grandfath- er of Edward W. Magill. He was also a farmer in Solebury, .-ind a member of the Society of Friends. He married Rebecca Paxson, of Solebury, and they were the parents of Jonathan P. iNIagill, a promi- nent Friend and Abolitionist, whose house was for many years a station of the under- ground railroad, through which many slaves found their way to freedom. Jonathan P. Magill married Mary Watson, daughter of David and Rachel (Twining) Watson, granddaughter of Joseph and Rachel (Croasdale) Watson, great-granddaughter of Mark and Ann (Sotcher) Watson, and great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Wat- son and John Sotcher, both of whom, as well as Mark Watson, were for many years members of colonial assembly and other- wise closely associated with colonial af- fairs in' the time of Penn. The children 01 Jonathan P. and IMary (Watson) Magill were: Sarah T. ; Edward H., the distin- guished ex-president of Swarthmore Col- lege; Watson P.; Rebecca; Catharine M. ; Rachel, the late wife of John S. Williams of Solebury, and Matilda R., wife of Charles S. Atkinson, of Solebury. Watson P. :Magill, son of Jonathan and Mary; was born in Solebury and spent the greater pai-t of his life there. He took an active part in politics, was a pioneer in the organization of the Rtpublican party, being president of the fir-t association of that party in Solebury ami New Hope, anJ continued to fill that pos-tion for a numbd of years. In 1854 he was elected to the state legislature and served one term. In 1862 he raised a company of one hundred and three men, of ^vhich he was commis- sioned captain, and which was musters! into the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Militia at Harrisburg, and during the battle of Antietam, in September, 1862, was stationed at Hagerstown, Maryland. Again in 1863, just prior to the battle of Gettys- burg, he responded to his country's call with his company, which was incorporated in the Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, as Company D. In 1868 Mr. Magill was a presidential elector on the Grant ticket. In 1875 he was appointed United States assistant internal revenue as- sessor for the fifth district, which he held for four years. In July, 1879 he was ap- pointed United States ganger and inspec- tor for the first district of Pennsylvania and held that position until December, 1885. The later years of his life were main- ly spent in Philadelphia. He married Sep- tember, 185 1, Mary W Harvey, daughter of Eli and Rachel (Hollingsworth) Har- vey of Deleware county, Pennsylvania, and they were the parents of two children — Chalkley H., a prominent veterinarian and business man of Philadelphia, and Edward W. Magill, Esq., the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Magill died and Watson P. Magill married (second) in 1882, Elizabeth H. Moore, daughter of Francis W. and Mary (Kelley) Moore, of Philadelphia, but for- merly of Bucks county. Edward W. Magill took up the study of law with Orlando Harvey, of Chester, Pennsylvania, in September, 1877, and in September, 1880, was admitted to the Dela- ware county bar. He entered the law department of the University of Penn- sylvania in the fall of 1879, graduating in June, 1881, and the same year was ad- mitted to the Philadelphia bar. In 1880, after being admitted to the Delaware county bar, he took up his residence in Philadelphia, and became connected with Carroll R. Will- iams, a son of John S. Williams, of Solebury township, Bucks county, and formed the firm of jMagill & Williams, which continued until January i, 1891. Mr. Magill then formed a partnership with Robert Alexander, Esq., who at an early age was a teacher in the Carversville Academy, Bucks county, and had become one of the leading members of the Philadelphia bar. This partnership under the firm name of Alexander & Magill, con- tinued until the death of JMr. Alexander in December, 1903, since which time Air. Magill, who is an eminently successful law- yer, has continued in the practice of his profession alone. Mr: Magill married, June 14, 1888, Carrie Altemus, daughter of Francis and IMartha Altemus, and a member of Phil- adelphia P>iends' Meeting. To them has been born one son, Watson H. Magill. Mr. Magill resides with his family at Oak Lane, in the Forty-second ward, Philadelphia, and has a summer residence in Solebury township, near New Hope, Bucks county, the homestead of his grandfather, Jonathan Magill, and his father, Watson P, IMagill. PHILIP FACKENTHAL, founder of this family in Bucks county, was born in the Palatinate and immigrated to Amer- ica, landing at Philadelphia from the ship "Robert and Alice," September 24. 1742. He settled in Springfield. The name of his wife was Elizabeth, but whether married when he arrived we do not know. On May I9> 1753; he purchased one hundred and twenty-three acres of James Galbraith, near the Haycock line, where he settled down to farming, and died there 1765. He was the father of five children: Michael, the eldest son, born May 22,, 1756; Henry, Mary, Catharine and Elizabeth. Michael, WATSON P. MAGILL 1 ~J HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 451 the most prominent member of the family was brought up on his father's farm. When the revolution broke out he espoused the cause of the colonies and shortly enrolled himself. It is related of Michael Facken- thal that when called upon to enroll he was in the harvest field, but, cutting his sickel into a post, signed his name at the head of the Springfield Association. His military record is highly creditable. On June 4, 1776, the continental congress resolved to establish a "flying camp" of ten thousand men in the middle colonies, of which Bucks •county was to furnish a battalion of four hundred. Joseph Hart, of Warminster, was appointed colonel, and Valentine Opp, Springfield, one of the captains. In this company young Fackenthal enlisted, was appointed a' sergeant, and served with his company in a six months campaign, return- ing home in December. On the night of No- vember 16, he was with his company and battalion in the attack on a force of Hes- sians on Staten Island, capturing part oi them. He was subsequently attacked with camp fever, and prevented taking part in the defense of Fort Washington. He re- ceived an honorable discharge at the end of his enlistment and six months pay. Mi- chael Fackenthal re-entered the service in 1781 as second lieutenant of Captain Chris- topher Wagners company, and performed a two months' tour in New Jersey. Among the officers he is mentioned as serving un- der on this occasion were Governor Reed, of New Jersey, and Brigadier General John Lacey, of this county. In 1807 Michael Fackenthal removed to Durham township, with w'hich he was sub- sequently identified and where he spent his life. He purchased plat 12 of the Durham lands, on which he removed, and occupied himself as a farmer and general business man. He built a saw mill at the lower end of Wyker's island in the Delaware, where he carried on a large lumber trade. He took an active part in politics, was many years justice of the peace, elected county commissioner, member of the assembly 1812-15; and died January 21, 1846, in his ninetieth year. Michael Fackenthal mar- ried Christina Derr, Springfield, born Sep- tember 24, 1754, and died 1S28, at tne age of seventy-four. ]Michael and Christina Fackenthal were the parents of five chil- dren: Catharine, born June 18, 1779, mar- ried Younkin, and died March, 1859. Anna IMai-ia, born February 22, 1785, died January 23, 1864. John, born February n. 1790, married Elizabeth Adams (born Jan- uary 25, 1791, died May 4, 1878, leaving six children). John Fackenthal held sev- eral public trusts, was a member of assem- bly 1825-27, register of wills, 1836, brigade inspector of militia, and died November 21, 1865. Peter Fackenthal, fourth child of Mich- ael and Christina, born June 12, 1792, mar- ried Elizabeth Long, of Durham, born De- cember 4, 1796, died June 12, 1877. They -were the parents of twelve children. Two of the sons served in the civil war, one in the 174th Pennsylvania militia, subse- quently in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and died in the hospital at Mem- phis, Tennessee, December 5, 1864; the oth- er in the Thirty-fourth New Jersey In- fantry. Michael, born May 13, 1795, a land surveyor and convej^ancer by profession, was also a farmer and in the lumber busi- ness with his father. He died February 15, 1872, leaving one son, Benjamin F. Fackenthal, a graduate of Lafayette Col- lege, and for many years a prominent mem- ber of the Northampton county bar. EDWARD NICKLESON ELY, de- ceased, for many years one of the well known and popular residents of Yard- ley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, October 3, 1832, and is a de- scendant of Joshua and Mary (Senior) Ely, who came from Nottinghamshire, England, in 1684, and settled at Tren- ton. New Jersey. An account of the earlier generations of their descendants is given in this volume under the head of The Ely Family. Joseph Ely, the grandfather of Ed- ward N., as shown in. the above quoted article, w.is the eldest son of George and Sarah (Magill) Ely, and was born in Solebury, August 13, 1761, and mar- ried ^lary Whitspn, daughter of Thomas Whitson, Jr., starch 12, 1783. Their children were: Anna, who married John Magill; Charles, Thomas, Sarah, Tacy, Joseph, Mary Jane' Elizabeth and Oliver. Joseph Ely settled near New Hope on a farm purchased by his father and died there. Joseph Ely, son of Joseph and Mary, born -November 16, 1794, on th« Sole- bury homestead, which he subsequently inherited at the death of his eldest brother, Charles, and lived thereon until eighty years of age, when, his children all having married and settled elsewhere, he sold his farm and lived the re- mainder of his life in retirement: He died at the home of his daughter in Somerville, New Jersey, jNIarch 2, 1885, in his ninety-first year. He married, March 19. 1823, Ann Nickleson, daugh- ter of Charles McCormick and Mercy (Bailev') Nickleson, of Makefield, the former a native of Ireland and the latter a daughter of Edward Bailey, and a de- scendant of early English Quaker settlers on the Delaware. Joseph and Ann (Nickle- son) Ely were the parents of the fol- lowing children : Anna Maria, born June 27, 1824, died October 9. 1867; married Will- iam Van ^larter, November 27, 1844; Mercy A., born January 26, 1826, mar- ried, October 7, 1846, Jacob C. Phillips, now a retired grain dealer of Somer- ville, New Jersejs Susanna D.. born March iS, 1828, married, Januarj- 30, 452 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1857, David Wilson Small, a judge and prominent citizen ' t' Oconomowoc, Wisconsin; Mary II.. born September 13, 1830, died November 16, 1873, mar- ried, January 16, 1855, Nathan R. Worth ington, of Solebury; Edward N., above mentioned; Elias E., born Aug- ust 5, 1837, died October 26, 1888, mar- ried, October 27^ 1869, Eleanor Bab- cock, removed early in life to Ocono- mowoc, Wisconsin,. where his family are all buried; Franklin,, born . August 10, 1840, married, . October 8, 1873, Flora A. Bradbury, also reriioved to Wiscon- sin, and is living at" Pewaukee, in that state. Edward Nickleson Ely, eldest son of Joseph and Ann; was born on. the old family homestead in Solebury^ where his boyhood . days were spent. He ac- quired, his early education at the public schools and later 'took a course at an academy at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. At the age of seventeen years he went to Somerville, New Jersey," to assist his brother-in-law, Jacob C. Phillips, in the grain business. In 1857 he went to Wis- consin, and was employed for two years as purchasing agent for Rockwell, Luck & Company, large grain dealers and millers . there. He then returned ■ to Bucks county and engaged in the lum- ber business with . Samuel Solliday, at New Hope, until the spring ,of 1862, when, 'ha-ving married, he removed to a farm of one "hundred and thij-t3^-seven acres at Yardley, which had .been in the Howell family since 1812, and spent the remainder of his . days there, dying June 13, .1899.' • He was active :in local affairs, and .gave his political allegiance to the Democratic party, .\n whose coun- cils he took an active part. He was a member of .Doylestown -Lodge, No. 245, F. and ' A. . M., and of - the Ancient Order United Americail, Workmen. Religi- ously he was ,a regular attendant of the Episcopal cliurch, .of which his wife was a -member. He. married, February 26, i862,,'Mai-y. E. Howell, daughter of David and .Harriet L (Sandoz.) .Howellj of Makefield, Bucks couijity, and a de- scendant of one of the oldest families about tlix; Falls of- the Delaware, the earliest generations of which have re- sided on the New Jersey side of the river. The Howell family is mentioned at length hereinafter. The children of Edward N. and Mary E. (HowelJ) Ely were: Howell, born December 4, 1862, died July 29, 1865; Carrie Howell, born April 9, 1868, married, June i, 1899, Will- iam Stanley Mac Lewee and they have one child, Dorothy, born December 3, 1900. Harriet Sandoz, born February S, 1870. married, April 6. 1904, George Kinnear Robinson and they have one son, Donald Henry, born April 30. 1905. It is believed on good family tradition that the first American ancestor of the Howell familjr, Daniel Howell, came from Kent county, England. He came to Ewing, New Jersey, from Long Is- land, and there purchased and lived on the land which has continued in the family up to the present time and was last inherited by a great-great-granddaugh- ter, who married Alfred Muirheid. The deeds for the land were from Samuel Coxe and John Hutchinson dated 1702, and from William Worrell dated 1705. Daniel HQ"well married Mary, a sister of Ebenezer Front's wife, and they were the parents of eleven children." Daniel Howell, died April 25, 1732, aged fifty- two, and his wife died September 26, 1760, aged ..seventy-six. David Howell, sqn of Daniel and Mary Howell, mar- ried Mary Baker, who: bore, him seven children. He died October 24,- 1775, aged seventy, and she -passed aw-ay January 15, 1786, aged seyent3^7nine. Joseph Howell, the fifth son of David and Mary (Baker) Howell, purchased five hundred acres of land .'near, Taylorsvilfe, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. .He married Jemima Burroughs, who lived to be one hundred years old. Here- they enter- tained, the officers .and . soldiers of the revolutionary war, giyirjg-.up.. their beds for the comfort of the soldiers. The log house is still standing and is in fairly good repair; it is owned by Edgar Titus. Timothy Howell, son of Joseph and Jemima (Burroughs) Howell, re- moved from Taylorsville farm to Yard- ley, near the Delaware , river, in 1810, and in the spring of 1812 purchased a farm, of pne hundred' .and forty acres i-n Makefield. He and his wife Rebecca were the parents 9f the' following chil- dren: Sarah, married (first) a !Mr. Fenton, .and . (second)-. Lewis Moore. Susan, married ;( first) John Hogeland, and (second) John Temple. Marj'-, died unmarried.. Martha, married Samuel Slack. Johji. married Elizabeth Rich- ardson. David,, the ; father .pf*Mrs. Ely, who was- a. farmer in Makefield and died liiere- August .2, -1364, leaving a .widow and the following children: ]\lary E., wife of. Edward N. .Ely. .Martha A., widow o£ Joshua Maris, residujg in Tren- ton, New Jersey. -Emrna. -Carrie, wife of Samuel W. 'Throp. of- Tcenton. H. Amelia. Two other children, Ella and Wilhelmina, died young. SAMUEL K. RADCLIFF was born Feb- ruary 14, 1855, upon the old homestead farm where he yet resides, in Warwick township, Bucks county. His ancestry can be traced back to John and Jane (Tor- rence) Radcliff. the former a well known and highly respected farmer of Bucks coun- ty, where he continued his residence up to the time of his death. His children were: Mary, Elizabeth, Isaliella, Jane, James. Will- iam, John and Charles. ycW^c/ ^ /cLc6c£ married Ann Potts in 1727, and died in 1776. Thomas himself was born in 1737, married in 1764, and died in 1813. During the revolution he was a private in the Moreland company of which his brother John was captain. Thomas Fol- well's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Arthur Watts, who was a descendant of John Watts, pastor of the Pennypack Baptist church as early as 1699. John Watts was a descendant of the John Watts who was lord mayor of London, 1592-1603. William Purdy, like all his family, was a Presbyterian, but after he married and settled in Southampton he became a Baptist. In politics he was. like all the Pennsylvania Purdys at that time and since, a Democrat. He was a man of good abilities and excellent charac- ter, one of the most public-spirited men of his time, and stood high in the esteem of his fellows. In 1794, when Washing- ton called for troops to quell the "whiskey insurrection," he was one of the first to volunteer and went to Pitts- burgh, where he remained until the trou- ble was over. In 1805 he was elected captain of the rifle company attached to the Bucks and Montgomery counties Forty-eighth regiment, which position he held for several years. During the second war with Great Britain, after the capture and burning of the capitol at Washington by the British, although beyond the military service age, he was chiefly instrumental in forming a com- pany of independent riflemen. By unanimous vote he was made captain, and he remained in that position for the sake of his men, although solicited to ac- cept command of the regiment. After the war he resumed farming in South- ampton until elected to the state legis- lature, where he continued four years. Shortly after his retirement from his seat in that body the governor appointed him prothonotary of the courts of Bucks county, in which office he continued un- til his death. May 30, 1834. He was buried in the graveyard of the Baptist church at Southampton, and upon his tombstone is the inscription, "An honest man. the noblest work of God." He was survived by his widow, who died June 9, 1846, in the sixty-seventh year of her age. Their children were: i. John, born 180T, died May 29, 1838; he was a wheel- wright, and resided first at Davisville, Bucks county, and then in Philadelphia; he married Amy H., daughter of William and Sarah Shelmire. who was born in 1806 and died in 1878; they had two children. 2. Thomas, (see forward). 3. William W^atts, born 1805, died Sep- tember 5, 1827. 4. Elizabeth Anne, born 1809, died May 5, 1832. 5. Joseph Hart, born August 6, 1813, died June 12. 1842. All these, with one exception, are buried near their parents in Southampton. Joseph is buried in Ewing, New Jersey. Thomas (4) second son of William (3) and Mary (Folwell) Purdy, was born in 1802 and died October 10, 1844. He was educated in the common schools, and began life as a farmer. Later he engaged in the hotel business, purchas- ing the Green Tree Hotel at Doyles- town, about 1832. He next embarked in the mercantile business at Richboro, Pennsylvania, but soon took up farming again, having purchased about 1836 the old Folwell homestead at Southampton, the house upon which was built by his maternal ancestors in 1719. He was a staunch Democrat, and took an active interest in politics. He was elected sherifif in 1842. Like his father he was prominent in military affairs; in 1828 he was elected captain of the Liberty Guards, and in 1835 and again in 1842 he was elected colonel of the First Regiment of Bucks County Volunteers. He was a member of the Baptist Church at Southampton, and a trustee for many years. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John S. and Mary (Krusen) Cornell, the former of English and the latter of Dutch origin. She was born March 18, 181 1, and died May 29, 1884. Of this marriage were born six children: 1. Mary Jane, born July 7, 1830; un-, married, and residing in Germantown. 2. John Mann, to be further men- tioned below. 3. Elizabeth Ann, born July 7, 1835; married Peter Rittenhouse; four chil- dren; resides in Willow Grove, Penn- sylvania. 4. Matilda, born February 12, 1838;: married Charles (brother of Peter) Rit- tenhouse; six children; resides in Ger- mantown. 5. Amanda, born June 8. 1841; married William B. Weiss, of Philadelphia; six children. 6. Katherine Hart, born 1843. Oied :May 8, 1867: married James Lingerman^ of Somerton; no issue. John Mann Purdy (s), only son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cornell) Purdy, but for whom this particular branch of the Purdy family would have become ex- tinct, w-as born in Dojdestown, Bucks county, January 17, 1833. He was reared in Davisville, in the same county, and attended the common schools of that vicinity, and spent one year in the China Hall Military School in Bristol township. Upon the death of his father in 1844 he went to live with Mercy Warner, of Warminster, same county, with whom he remained until 1849, whert he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade and followed the same at Somerton, Philadelphia county for about ten years. He then began farming on the old Van- sant farm at Somerton, remaining there until 1867, when he bought the Delaware 460 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. House at New Hope, and conducted the same until 1873. In that year he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the sheriffalty of Bucks county — the only instance in the history of the county where father and son held the same office. At the expiration of his term in 1876 he engaged in the coal and lumber business at Doylestown. In 1878 he bought the old Cowell House in that place, which he sold five j-ears later, and took pos- session of the Fountain House, where he remained ten years. In 1893 he was appointed by President Cleveland to the postmastership of Doj-lestown, the county seat. At the expiration of his term in 1897 he took possession of the historic Red Lion Inn in Bensalem, Bucks county, where he remained until May I, 1904, when he became proprietor of the General Wayne Hotel in Holmes- burg, Philadelphia. Nature endowed him with a genial disposition which fitted him in a remarkable degree for a suc- cessful hotel man, and it can be truth- fully said that he has always kept an or- derly and highly respectable house, against which there has never been a breath of suspicion, and by so doing has gained for himself hosts of friends among all classes of society. Mr. Purdy is a member of the Masonic order, affil- iated with Frankford Lodge, No. 292, and he is a member of the Improved Or- der of Red Men at Doylestown. November 16, 1854, Mr. Purdy mar- ried Sarah koberts, of Somerton, Penn- sylvania. She was born November 16, 1833, a daughter of John and Rebecca Roberts, the former of Welsh and the latter of Dutch descent, being the daugh- ter of James Vansant, whose ancestors came from the Netherlands in 1660. James Vansant's father, also named James, was a soldier of the American revolution. To John Mann and Sarah (Roberts) Purdy were born five chil- dren: 1. Rebecca, born at Somerton, Sep- tember s, 1855. She was educated in the public schools and Doylestown Sem- inary. In 1883 she married Levi L. James, a prominent lawyer and former district attorney, of Doylestown, by whom she had two children: Samuel Polk James, born October 6, 1883, and Grace Vansant James, born May 30, 1887, both now living with their mother in Doylestown. May 4, 1890, Mr. James died, and in 1892 his widow married an- other prominent lawyer of Doylestown, and former congressman, Robert M. Yardley. No children resulted from this union. Mr. Yardley died December 9. 1902. 2. Thomas Purdy, born in Somerton, May 29, 1857. He was educated in the public schools, at Doylestown Seminary and the West Chester Normal School. He taught school in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania; Steuben ville, Ohio; and Cape May Court House, New Jersey, covering a period of about ten years. In 1887 he gave up school teaching and entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as ticket agent in Philadel- phia, and after several promotions be- came passenger agent of the Long Branch division of that road, with head- quarters at Newark, New Jersey, and is now (1904) occupying that respon- sible position. In the railroad world, as elsewhere, he enjoys an enviable repu- tation. In politics he is a Gold Dem- ocrat. He is connected with the Ma- sonic and Royal Arcanum orders. June 2, 1877, he married Ella Virginia, born in 1857, daughter of Edward and Lydia Yost, of Doylestown, both of German extraction. Of this marriage were born six children: i. Edward Yost, born in Steubenville, Ohio, 1878; 2. Jay Victor, born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1880; 3. Cora May, born at Cape May Court House, New Jersey, 1882; 4. Florence Coney, born in Philadelphia, 1886; 5. Harry Roberts, born in Philadelphia, 1889; 6. Russell Wray, born in Phila- delphia, 1892. None of the children are married, and all live at home with their parents in Metuchen, New Jersey. Ed- ward and Jay Victor both volunteered in the United States army during the war with Spain, and at the conclusion thereof were honorably discharged. This action on their part affords evidence that patriotism and military ardor yet mark the Purdy blood. The former named is employed by the^Pennsylvania Railroad Company as ticket agent in New York city. West Twenty-third street; the lat- ter is in the art department of the New- ark (New Jersey) "Daily Advertiser." 3. Harry Roberts Purdy, born in Somerton, February 13, 1859. He at- tended the public schools of Somerton and New Hope, and the Doylestown Seminar^^ until 1876. when he entered Dr. George T. Harvey's drug store at Doylestown, in which he worked for three years. He then went to New York city and was graduated from the New York College of Pharmacj^ in 1882. From 1882 to 1887 he was apothecary to the Bloomingdale Asylum, New York city, and gave up pharmacy for medi- cine. He entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1890, since which time he has been en- gaged in medical practice. From 1892 to 1899 he was assistant to the chair of diseases of children in his alma mater, and at the same time was visiting phy- sician to the out-door department of Bellevue Hospital, as well as to the out- door department of St. Mary's Free Hospital for Children. He is a mem- ber of the New York County. New York State and American Medical Associa- tions, of the New York Count}'- Med- ical Societv. is fellow of the New York HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 461 Academy of Medicine, and is a member of the Society of Medical Jurispru- dence. In religion he is an Episcopalian, being a member of the Church of the Transfiguration. In politics, although by inheritance and conviction a Demo- crat, he has, since the free-silver craze took possession of the Democratic party, been an independent. His mili- tary record, briefly, is as follows: Dur- ing the great railroad strike in Pennsyl- vania in 1877 he with others^ organized in Doylestown Company G of the Six- teenth Pennsylvania Regiment, in which he was made corporal. When the strike was over the company was made per- manent as part of the Sixth Regiment, and he was a corporal in that company until 1S80, when he took up his residence in New York city for the practice of his profession. He has never married. 4. Cora May Purdy, born in Somer- ton, October 16, 1861. She was edu- cated in the public schools and Eden Hall. Convent, Torresdale, Pennsylvania, although she was then, as she is now, like all her family, an Episcopalian. She was married, November 15, 1884, to former Mayor Edward S. McElroy, of Beverly, New Jersey, whose ancestors emigrated from the north of Ireland in 1717 and settled in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania. Their children are: Sarah Purdy, born August 19, 1885 Cora Purdy, and Rebecca James, twins, born July 21, 1887; Richard Dale, born June 25, 1890; Mary Trotter, born January 3, 1897. These children are all living with their parents in Beverly, New Jeirsey. 5. Frank Vansant Purdy, born in Som- erton, October 20, 1865. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Doyles- town, and was for a time a druggist, serving for three years in Dr. George T. Harvey's drug store in Doylestown, after which he assisted his father in the hotel business until the latter was ap- pointed postmaster, when Frank became his chief clerk. After his term expired he was appointed conductor on the Penn- sylvania Railroad dining cars, which position he held until he died, April 16, 1904, the cause of his untimely death be- ing pneumonia. He was very popular, both as an official and as a man. He never married. Sarah, wife of John Mann Purdy, died of smallpox, at New Hope, Pennsyl- vania, February 12, 1872. About two years later (October 13, 1874) Mr. Purdy married Caroline Pearson, born October 23, 1848, daughter of Chrispin and Cor- delia Worthington Pearson, of New Hope, Pennsylvania, the former of Scotch and the latter of Welsh descent. Of this marriage were born five chil- dren: I. George Smith Purdy, born in Doylestown. July 27, 1875. while his father was sheriff. He was educated in the Doylestown high school, and is (1904) a superintendent in Jacob Reed's Sons' large clothing establishment in Philadelphia. He is noted for his busi- ness energy and integrity. He is un- married. 2. Charles Cox Purdy, born in Doyles- town, May 26, 1879. He was educated at the Doylestown High School and Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia, and is an artist. He lives in Holmes- burg, and is unmarried. He has seem- ingly inherited the religious fervjDr of his ancestors to a greater degree than any other member of the family now alive. He is a teacher in the Episcopal Church Sunday school. 3. Anna Van Hart Purdy, born in Doylestown May 28, 1880. She was educated in the Doylestown high school. She lives with her parents in Holmes- burg, and is unmarried. She is a very active member of the Episcopal Church. 4. John Mann Purdy, Jr., born in Doylestown, January 22, 1885. He at- tended the public schools, the School of Industrial Arts of Philadelphia, and is now attending the Drexel Institute in that city. At the annual exhibition of- students' work at this school in June, 1904, he received the first prize for ele- mentary drawing. He gives proinise of becoming an excellent artist. 5. William Clossen Purdy, born De- cember 29, 1888. He attended the pub- lic schools of Bucks and Philadelphia counties and is now attending the Northeast Manual Training School of Philadelphia. That he will prove as useful, honorable and patriotic as were his ancestors who bore the same chris- tian name, is the confident expectation of the familJ^ WILLIAM STEWART WALLACE, of Philadelphia, though not a native of Bucks county, takes more pride in his Bucks county ancestry, who were resi- dents of that county for six generations, than many who still reside in that his- toric county. He is a son of John Bower and Maria Louisa (Le Page) Wallace, and was born in Philadelphia, May 30, 1862. The Wallaces are of Scotch origin and w-ere among the many sons of Scotia who in the last half of the seven- teenth century settled in the province of Ulster, Ireland, where .they found a tem- porary asylum from religious persecu- tion and the internecine struggles inci- dent to the restoration of the Stuarts; from thence a number of them migrated to Pennsylvania a generation later. Robert and John Wallace were landhold- ers in Tinicum township in 1739. and were probably the ancestors of all of the name who appear in that township, and in Warwick and Warrington town- ships a few years later., but no records 462 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. have been found to clearly demonstrate that fact. James Wallace, the direct ancestor of the subject of this sketch, and who from various indications was likely a son of John also named, was born about the year 1725, and from his first appearance of record in the township of Warwick, Bucks county twenty-live years later, was one of the prominent men of that community, frequently appearing as a member of commissions to lay out roads, as an auditor to settle decedents' es- tates, and in various other positions of public trust. He was commissioned coroner of Bucks county in 1768, and filled that position for five years. He was one of the trustees of Neshaminy Presbyterian church in 1767. From the time when the relations between the col- onies and the mother country became strained, he was one of the foremost pa- triots in Bucks county. He was one of the deputies appointed at the meeting •of the inhabitants of the county at New- town, July 9, 1774, to represent the county in the meeting of provincial deputies held in Carpenter's Hall, Phil- adelphia, July 15, 1774. His name heads the list of the Warwick Associators, or- ganized August 21, 1775. He was one •of the most prominent members of the committee of safety of the county from its organization, a member of its sub- committee of correspondence, and many other important committees. He was again appointed to represent the county in provincial convention. May 8, 1775, and again in June, 1776, in the provin- cial conference at Carpenter's Hall, that resulted in calling the convention that drafted the first constitution of the state, and was a member of the committee to report regulations governing the elec- tion of delegates to the constitutional convention, held on July 15, 1776, and was one of the judges of that election in Bucks. He was appointed in the same year to ascertain the process of making saltpetre, explain it to the in- Tiabitants of the county, and to receive and pay for it when manufactured. In this connection he is spoken of in a let- ter from Judge Henry Wvnkoop to the committee of safety of Philadelphia, as "a gentleman of property, strict hon- esty and firm attachment to the cause." Unon the state constitution going into effect, he was commissioned one of the judges of the civil and criminal courts of Bucks county, March 31, 1777. He was undoubtedly a leading poirit in the Scotch-Trish community at Neshaminy, as well as in the county at large, and en- joyed the confidence of his neighbors and the community, as is evidenced by liis always appearing as their representa- tive in all the stirring events of that eventful period, but his career of use- fnlness was suddenly cut short by his rleath in the autumn of 1777. He mar- ried, in 1754, Isabel Miller, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Graham) Miller of Warring:ton, and granddaughter of William Miller, one of the earliest set- tlers of Warwick, and who donated the land upon which the original Neshaminy church was built in 1727. William Miller " was one of the patriarchs of the Scotch- Irish settlement on the Neshaminy. He died February 27, 1758, at the age of eighty-seven years, and his wife Isabel died December 26, 1757, at about thf same age. They were the parents of six children: William, who married a Jam- ison: Robert, surnamed Hugh (single); Isabel, the wife of Andrew Long; Mar- garet, wife of John Earle; and Mary, wife of James Curry. Robert, second son of William and Isabel Miller, was a large land owner in Warrington, and died before his father, and his wife Margaret Graham also died while their children were yet minors. They were the parents of four children: William, Hugh, Robert and Isabel, who married James Wallace above men- tioned. James and Isabel (Miller) Wal- lace were the parents of six children: John and William, who both died un- married: Jean, married John Carr, and died February 8, 1844, at the age of eighty-nine years: Margaret, married Samuel Polk; Robert, married Mary Long, and Isabel who died unmarried. Isabel (Miller) Wallace survived her husband many years, living to an ad- vanced age. Her husband had purchased in 1763 a large portion of the homestead tract of_ William Miller. Sr., adjoining Neshaminy church, where she resided with her sons Robert and William as late as 1810. Robert Wallace, third son of James and Isabel, was born in Warwick, and spent his whole life there, dying in 1850. The Wallace farm, where he was born and lived for so many years, was the site of the .encampment of General Washington's army during his two weeks stay at Neshaminy in the summer of 1777. Tradition relates that Robert and' his sister carried some choice pears to the General's headquarters and pre- sented them to him. Robert was cap- tain of a company of militia during the Whiskey insurrection and was out again in i8t2. He married, November 23. 1792. his cousin. Mar}- Long, daughter of Hugh and Mary (Corbit) Long, of War- wick, and granddaughter of Andrew and Isabel (Miller) Long. Hugh Long was first lieutenant of Captain William Hart's company in the Bucks county battalion of the Flying Camp, under Colonel Joseph Hart, in 1776. and died of camp fever during service in 1778. He had married Mary Corbet. October 31. i76t. and they were the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters. Robert and Marv (Lone:'* Wallace were the parents of eight children, viz.: Pris- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 4^3 cilia, born June 30, 1793, married Will- iam Hart; Eliza, born May 7, 1796, mar- ried James Polk; Isabel, born May 15, 1794, married Joseph Ford; Mary, born August 14, 1803, married Mark Evans; James, born December 29, 1800, see for- ward; Jane, born April 30, 1806, married Charles Shewell; Margaret, born 1807, died in infancy; and Rebecca, born Sep- tember 7, 1814, married William Ward. James Wallace, only son of Robert and Mary, was born on the old home- stead in Warwick, December 29. 1800, and lived thereon until 1850, when he sold the old farm that had been the property of his ancestors for one hun- dred and twenty-five years, and removed to Montgomery county, where he lived for several years, and then removed to Philadelphia, where he died January 27, 1866. He married, February 14, 1833, Mary Ford, daughter of James and Sarah (Bower) Ford, of Monmouth county, New Jersey. James Ford be- longed to the old family of Ford or Foord, of Hamilton Square, Mercer county. New Jersey, where he lies burfed in the Presbyterian churchyard. He is supposed to have been a descendant of John Foord, who with other Scotch cov- enanters came over in the "Henry and Frances" in an expedition organized by George Scot, Laird of Pitlochie, landing after great hardships at Perth x-Vmljoy in 1685. James and Mary (Ford) Wallace were the parents of six children, viz.: Mar}'; Jane, born December 5, 1833, died in 1891. married John Temple; John Bower, born March 23, 1836, see forward: William, born 1838, died 1840; Charles Irvin, born December 15, 1840, died 1903, married July 22, i86r, Anna H. Curtis ; Re- becca, born 1844, died 1862; and James, born 1849, died in infancy. Mary (Ford) Wallace, the mother, was born April 4, 1805. and died in Philadelphia, Decem- ber 14, 1864. John Bower Wallace, eldest son of James and Mary, was born in Warwick, Bucks county, March 23, 1836. and was educated at the Hilltop Academy of Samuel Aaron, at Norristown, and re- moved with the family to Philadelphia. He became one of the real estate asses- sors of that city, and filled that position for many years until his death March 9, 1877, being at that time president of the assessors' association. At a meeting of the board of revision of taxes and as- sessors of Philadelphia, held March 10. 1877. the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, that in the death of John B. Wallace the public lose an of- ficer of rare ability, integrity and useful- ness, and his colleagues and friends an associate and companion whose deport- ment and character as a Christian gen- tleman leaves abiding traces on their memories, and commanded their respect and love." He married Maria Le Page, torn July 25, 1834, .died August 23, 1870, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Su- sannah (Gill) Le Page. The former was a son of Peter and Mary Le Page, of the Isle of Guernsey, and the latter a daugh- ter of Philip and Mary (Baker) Gill, of the Island of Sark. Both families were French Protestants, and came to Amer- ica together in 1818, landing at Balti- more, Maryland. Peter Le Page, Jr., married Elizabeth Gill in Philadelphia, November 24. 1824, and died in 1839. His wife survived him many years dying in 1892 at the age of ninety years. They had five children: Peter, Sophia, Selina, Mary and Maria. Peter, the only son, went south when young, married there and was an officer in the Confederate army, and after the war resided until his death in Savannah, Georgia. John Bower and Maria Louisa (Le Page) Wallace were the parents of four chil- dren: William Stewart, the subject of this sketch; John Le Page, who died at the age of eight years; Mary Jane, born March 18, 1866; and James, born Decem- ber 14, 1869. both living. William Stewart Wallace, eldest child of John B. and Maria L. Wallace, was born in Philadelphia, May 30. 1862, and acquired his education in that city. He read law in the office of Hon. James W. M. Newlin, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in April, 1883, and has since practiced his profession in that city. He is a member of the Law Acad- emy, of which he was 'secretary in 1886; of the Society of the Sons of the Revo- lution, of the National and Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Societies, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Bucks County Historical Society; of the* City Relic Society of Germantown. and a member and secretary of the board of trustees of Summit Presbyterian church of Germantown. He married, June 8. 1888, Mollie Comfort Brand, daughter of Jacob S. and Mary (Flack) Brand, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. DR. EDWARD MORWITZ. physi- cian, publisher and scientist, now de- ceased, was held in honor during a long and active life, principally for the val- uable aid he rendered to the farmers and florists of the region tributary to the city of Philadelphia in affording to them the advantages which he gained through a long experience and costly but intelligent experimentation. Dr. Morwitz was a native of Prussia, born in Danzig in 1815. Ini85i he came to the United States, locating in Phila- delphia, where he busied himself in his profession until 1872. In the latter year he removed to Bucks county, where he purchased the Cold Spring Farm, to which he added by the purchase of ad- joining tracts until it comprised about two hundred and eighty acres. From the 464 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. first he gave full play to his passion fnr rural pursuits, laboring industriously in field and garden and hotbed, introduc- ing innovations in processes of cultiva- tion, and engaging in all manner of ex- periments which had their fruit in the creation of new types of vegetable life and development and improvement of many which were old. In the year of his coming to the county (1872) he took out letters patent on the earliest incu- bator, the invention of himself and Mr. Fred Meyer. The two manufactured their device and placed it on exhibition at agricultural exhibitions at Philadel- phia and Washington, at the last named in 1880, .when it was awarded the gold medal. It was, however, too bulky and costly for general use, and did not come into vogue, but did prove the foundation of all that has since been accomplished in the line of extra-natural incubation. In 1883 and the following year Dr. Mor- witz grew upon his Cold Spring Farm, at the expense of infinite patience, tube- rose bulbs in the open air. These found a market in London, England, but the more salubrious climate of Algiers made the product of that region a competitor not to be overcome. In the same year Dr. Morwitz grew winter vetches and barley mixture for use as green fodder for domestic animals. This was changed in the following spring (1885) to oats- vetches, and in 1886 to oats-peas mixture, which has since that time been grown extensively and profitably in the neigh- borhood of the Morwitz estate. In the fall of 1885 Dr. Morwitz built the first silo in the group of townships surround- ing that of Bristol, and his' success em- boldened many of the neighboring farm- ers to adopt the apparatus and> to con- tinue its use as one of their most val- uable adjuncts. In .the same year Dr. Morwitz imported a quantity of crimson clover. He made a number of costly failures before he secured a proper method of planting and cultivating, but finally succeeded, and this culture has became a standing feature of the most profitable and best conducted farms, not only in Pennsylvania, but through- out the country, wherever the plant is at all growable. The low wet meadow patches of the farm were planted with ozier willows, which came to a satis- factory growth, the product being profit- able for a number of years, when the competition of European willow wares necessitated the abandonment of this industry. Many tests were made by Dr. Morwitz which resulted negatively. Thus, he endeavored to introduce the German plants, lupine, scradella and the much vaunted sachaline, but soil _ or cli- matic conditions were uncongenial, and his experiments failed. He succeeded, however, in his prosecution of the Ger- man method of getting catch crops on wheat and rye stubble, and practiced the process mntil the system found general adoption in that part of Pennsylvania, where it has been carried to unsurpassa- ble perfection. These crops were prin- cipally late cabbages, especially the Lan- dreth, late fiat Dutch and Boomsdale, rutabagas, spinach and kale. Dr. Mor- witz was also greatly interested in arti- ficial • pisciculture, and heartily second- ed the efi'orts of the general and state governments in that direction. As early as 1878 he constructed a small plant for trout hatching on the Cold Spring Farm, and succeeded in breeding quite a quan- tity of fine fish, but the often recur- rent floods of the Delaware river oblig- ed him to abandon the experiment. Dr. Morwitz continued in his varied and busy labors until his death, which occur- red in 1893. He found a worthy succes- sor in his son. Dr. Joseph Morwitz, who has encouraged those- about him to per- sist in various lines of agricultural in- dustry in which his sire was a pioneer. He was himself instrumental (in 1903) in the formation of the Cooperative Can- ning Factory at Tullytown, which, it is hoped and expected, will greatly increase the value to farmers of the principal truck crops of the district — tomatoes, sugar corn, pumpkins, etc. The Cold Spring Farm is famous for the "Queen of Edgely" rose, a pink rose which has been awarded the gold and silver medals at the greatest ex- hibitions which have been held since that time. This was produced by Mr. David Fuerstenberg, who in 1897 rented the hothouses first installed by the elder Dr. Morwitz as early as 1881, and which had been in constant growth and devel- opment. Mr. Fuerstenberg had directed the work in the hothouses from the first, and he has made it one of the best and most extensive plants for rose cul- ture in the United States. He discov- ered a sprout from the American Beauty rose in the hothouse, and propogated from it, thus producing the now noted "Queen of Edgely." CHARLES R. NIGHTINGALE, of Doylestown, justice of the peace, was born in Doylestown township, Bucks county, December 5, 1856, son of Dr. Henry B. and Albina C. (Price) Night- ingale. Rev. Samuel Nightingale, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Columbus, Burlington county, New Jersey, December 11, 1792, being a son of Isaac and Ann Nightingale. Early in life he removed to Philadelphia, where he was engaged in the wholesale hard- ware business, and removed to Balti- more, Maryland, about 1818, where he followed the same line of business for some years. He was a man of more than ordinary mental caliber, and of I HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 465 deep religious feeling, and finally entered the ministry of the Baptist church. In 1838 he was elected pastor of the Bap- tist church at New Britain, Bucks coun- ty, and located at Doylestown. He was an earnest and forceful extempore speak- er, and an energetic worker for the ad- vancement of his church. He continued as pastor of the New Britain congrega- tion until January i, 1845, meanwhile preaching occasionally at Doylestowni and other points. From 1845 until i860 he conducted a store at his residence at the corner of State and Main streets, Doylestown, where he sold books, drugs, and general merchandise, and preached occasionally at Doylestown and other places. In 1846 he started a subscription to build a Baptist church in Doylestown, and several hundred dollars were col- lected for that purpose, and a lot pur- chased on State street where Mrs. Frank Mann now lives, and work begun on the proposed building in 1850. By reason of inability to collect sufficient funds, how- ever, the building was never finished, and the lot was finally sold, and the proceeds went towards the erection of the present Baptist church of Doylestown. One of Mr. Nightingale's admirers recently spoke of him as the "Zachary Taylor of the Baptist Ministry," on account of his "rough and ready" methods; selecting his text he proceeded to expound the doctrine of Christianity, clearly and for- cibly, regardless of the foibles of his congregation, and his discourse lacked the suavity and persuasive eloquence that later characterized pulpit oratory. Most of the later years of Mr. Nightingale's life were spent in Philadelphia, though he was a frequent visitor in Doylestown, where members of his family continued to reside. He died in Philadelphia, March 3, 1881. He married in Phila- delphia, June 8, 18I4, Emma, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Billington of that city, who was born February 25, 1798. The children of Rev. Samuel and Emma Billington Nightingale were: Thomas West, born in Philadelphia, February 27, 1815, died in Baltimore, July 20, i8ig; Samuel, born in Baltimore, November 2, 1818, died in infancy; Matilda, born July 21, 1820, died at Doylestown in 1840. and was buried at New Britain; William B., born 1822, died 1825; Henry B., born at Baltimore, June 21, 1825,- died at Rose- mont. New Jersey, September 10, 1873; Ann Eliza, born November 22, 1827, died at Peekskill, New York, in 1890, married (first) Judge Richard Jones, of Phila- delphia (who was consul at Cairo, Egypt, during Buchanan's administration), and (second) Charles B. Tatham (of the firm of Tatham Brothers, New York, Phila- delphia and London); and Mary Delia, born October 3, 1829, died March 30, 1903, married in 1875, Richard Keen Kuhn, of Doylestown. 30-3 Dr. Henry B. Nightingale, son of Rev. Samuel Nightingale, born in Baltimore, June 21, 1825, was liberally educated in the public schools and at private schools in Doylestown, where his parents located when he was thirteen years of age, being for some time a pupil of Dr. W. S. Hen- drici He entered Jefferson Medical Col- lege at Philadelphia in 1848, and grad- uated in 1850. In the following year he located at Rosemont, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, and commenced the practice of his profession. In the autumn of 1853, his health failing, he went to Flor- ida for the winter, and on his return lo- cated at Houghville, later known as "The Turk," one mile south of Doylestown, where he practiced his profession until the spring of 1858, when he returned to Rosemont and resumed his practice there. Becoming interested in politics, he purchased the "Hunterdon County Democrat," a paper published at Flem- ington, in 1866, and conducted it for one year, when he sold it and took up the practice of his profession at Flemington. In 1870 he removed to Croton, New Jer- sey, but returned to Flemington the fol- lowing year. In the spring of 1873 he again removed to Rosemont, where he was stricken with paralysis on Septem- ber 8, 1873, while hitching his horse pre- paratory to visiting a patient, and died two days later, without regaining con- sciousness. Dr. Nightingale became prominent in the practice of his profes- sion in New Jersey. He was for many years a member of the District Medical Society, its president in 1862, and its secretary from 1862 to 1867, and was re- porter to the State Medical Society for many years. He held many positions of trust, and enjoyed the esteem and con- fidence of a large circle of friends. At the organization of the militia of Hunter- don county in 1861-2, he was commis- sioned by Governor Olden as an aide to Brigadier-General Sergeant. Dr. Nightingale was a past master Mason, a member of Amwell Lodge, No. 12, and on his removal to Flemington he became associated with Darcy Lodge, No. 37, and was honorably dismissed to organ- ize Orpheus Lodge at Stockton, New Jersey. He was also a member of Lam- bertville Chapter, R. A. M., and was dis- missed to Flemington Chapter. In 1868 he became a member of the Baptist church of Flemington, and was one of its most active and earnest members. He was a man of fine social qualities and generous impulses, and was highly es- teemed in the community in which he lived. Both Amwell and Darcy Lodges, F. and A. M., adopted resolutions ex- pressive of their loss in the death of Dr. Nightingale; from those adopted by the latter Lodge we quote the following as indicative of the esteem in which the Doctor was held: "Past Master Night- 466 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ingale was a true hearted Mason; a pub- lic spirited citizen; a most congenial friend; a kind husband apd indulgent fa- ther; a considerate, sympathizing, and skillful physician; a man endowed with superior mental powers, and a heart as unselfish as ever beat in human breast." Dr. Nightingale was married at Doyles- town, February 19, 1851, to Albina C, daughter of Samuel G. and Sarah (Betts) Price, of Buckingham, who still survives him, living in Doylestown. The children of this marriage were: 1. George T., born at Rosemont, Jan- uary 3, 1852, died July 4. 1856. 2. Henry B., born at Houghville, May 7, 1855, is a prominent physician in Phila- delphia, where he has a wife and family. 3. Charles R., the subject of this sketch. 4. Samuel W., born April 19, 1859, was a brass worker in Bellfield's brass works for twenty years, has been a farmer and a traveling salesman for school supplies, and is now (1904) living in Doylestown. 5. Randolph P., born December 12, i860, spent most of his life in a book- store at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; in 1888 he entered Jefferson Medical_ College, but was forced to relinquish his studies on account of ill health in 1890. and was taken to Colorado for his health by his younger brother, John Billington, and died there of phthisis, September, 1890. 6. John Billington, born at Rosemont, New Jersey, September 25, 1862. At the death of his father, being but eleven years of age, he went to live with his uncle George C. Worstall on a farm near Newtown, where he remained until the spring of 1881, when he went into the office of the "Newtown Enterprise" to learn the printer's trade, and was there until 1884, when he went to Kansas with J. Herman Barnsley to look after the lat- ter's real estate interests there. In 1885 he traveled extensively in California and along the Pacific coast, and returned to Kansas City, Missouri, where he entered the employ of Steins Brothers, contract- ors, and was with them in Missouri and Denver, Colorado, until 1891. when with two companions he started for the Crip- ple Creek gold fields and spent three years prospecting for gold, for nearly the whole period in hard luck, finally striking a pocket from which they ex- tracted $23,000 in two hours. In 1896 he was appointed water commissioner by the government, and had charge of the distribution of water for irrigation, and was also under sherilif for Rio Grande county, Colorado, for three years. The high altitude finally affected his health, and he returned east in 1900 and settled in Doylestown, where he still resides and has been the representative and district manager of the International Corres- pondence School for nearly two years. He married at Del Norte, Colorado, De- cember 27, 1894, May Sumner; three chil- dren born to them died in infancy. 7. Edward W. Nightingale was born at Rosemont, February 22, 1864; married Mary R. Donaldson, of Doylestown; is now a printer in Philadelphia. 8. Florence Nightingale, born at Rosemont, New Jersey, October 5, 1868, married L. Dorr Barbiere; is now living in Doylestown with one daughter, Mar- gery. The maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were early settlers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. David Price was born in Maidenhead (now Law- renceville) New Jersey, about 1700, and is supposed to have been the grandson of John Price, who came to Philadelphia from Worcester, England, in 1683. James Price was a landholder at Maidenhead as early as 1698. David Price in 1756 purchased two hundred acres of land in Middletown township, Bucks county, and died there in 1765, leaving sons Nathan and James, and daughters; Rebecca, who married Daniel Price, of Kingwood, New Jersey; Eleanor, who married Ben- jamin Stackhouse; Sarah, who died single in Merion in 1767; and Susannah, who married Joseph Mahr, of Northampton county, in 1773. Nathan Price, eldest son of David, resided for some years in Bucks county, and then removed to Hunter- don county. New Jersey, where the remain- ing years of his life were spent. He was sheriff of Hunterdon county in 1807-9. His wife is suppoed to have been a daughter of Timothy Smith of Bucks county. He had sons John, Smith, James and David, and daughters Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sarah and Phebe. Three of his sons (John, Smith and James) became residents of Bucks county, though John eventually returned to New Jersey, from whence his son George removed to Upper Makefield, Bucks county, where descendants of his still reside. Smith Price, second son of Nathan, born Septem- ber II, 1748, settled in Plumstead township, Bucks county, on attaining manhood, and spent the remainder of his life there, dying October 16, 1816. He was a storekeeper at Fardenville for many years, and was a large landholder in Plumstead township. He married, September i, 1776, Martha, daughter of Joseph Carver, of Bucking- ham, and had by her one son, John, who married Elizabeth Kirk, and has left numerous descendants in middle Bucks. Martha Price died April 11, 1793, and Smith married (second) two years later Hannah (Burroughs?), by whom he had six children : Jonathan, born January 25, 1796. died November 21, 1817; Joseph; Samuel G., born March i, 1799; Dr. Smith M. ; Burroughs ; and Marv, who married William Rich. Samuel G. Price, born March i, 1799, married Sarah, daughter of John and Han- nah (Kirk) Betts, born 11 mo 16. 1803, and had seven children, viz. : Clementina D., HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 407 torn 1823, died 1904, at Doylestown, un- married. Albina C, born 8 mo. 14, 1825, the mother of the subject of this sketch, still living with him in Doylestown ; married February 19, 1851, Dr. Henry B. Night- ingale; J. Randolph, born 1827, died 1876; married Sarah T. Ward, has one son, George W. Price, living at Salem, New Jersey; Mary R., born 1829, living in Doylestown, single. Charlotte T., born 1830, died 1884; married Townsend Speak- man. Huldah Ann, born 1832, died Jan- uary I, 1899; married George C. Worstall, of Newtown. Emma Elizabeth, born 1835, died 1882; married Jonathan T. Schofield. CHARLES R. NIGHTINGALE, born in Doylestown township, December 5, 1856, removed with his parents to Rosemont, New Jersey, when two years of age. He was educated at the public schools of that vicin- ity, supplemented by a course at a semi- nary at Ringoes, and a term at a private school at Clinton, New Jersey. He taught -school at Ringoes, Croton and other points in Hunterdon county for ten years, and then accepted a position as agent for a wholesale dye house, traveling over Pennsylvania and Maryland. During the nineties he was a salesman for Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., and the American Book Company, most of the time acting as their general agent for school supplies, and traveling over the states east of the Mississippi river. In 1900 he was elected a justice of the peace of Doylestown borough, and is located in the Hart Building, where he combines with his official duties a real estate and general business agency. In politics he is a Demo- crat, and religiously is a member of the Baptist church. He is a member of Doyles- town Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M.; Doyles- town Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M., of which he is a past high priest ; and a member of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F. He is unmarried. DR. WILLOUGHBY H. REED was "born in Norristown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1856, and was educated in the public schools of Norriton township. He learned the trade of printing; graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1879, and from Jefiferson Medical Col- lege in 1882. He practiced medicne for several years at Cape May Point, New Jersey, and at his home at Jefifersonville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. After his marriage to Annie R. Jarrett, November 8. 1884. he engaged in the drug business at Norristown, Pennsyl- vania. Dr. Reed's ancestors were among the prominent and early settlers of„the province of Pennsvlvania. His ancestor, Johann Philip Ried CRieth, Riedt. Reed), was born in Germany, January 26, 1698, and emigrated from Mannheim, Pala- tinate, on the Rhine, Germany, and landed at Philadelphia, in the province of Pennsylvania, in the ship "Friend- ship." October 17, 1727. He settled on a tract of land in Marlborough township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county. He was a farmer and one of the orig- inal (1730) enrolled members of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed church located in Upper Hanover township. He mar- ried Feronica Bergy, who was born in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, on February 13, 1702. Her folks fled in the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury into Germany on account of relig- ious persecution, and afterwards Philip Reed and his wife fled Germany to this countr)' for the same cause. Philip Reed died in Marlborough township, Philadelphia, September 3, 1783. His wife died at the same place December 13, 1792, and both are in- terred side by side in the New Goshen- hoppen Reformed church burial ground. They had children: Jacob, married to Magdalena Leidy; Michael, married Anna Maria Mowery; Andrew, married Anna Maria Leidy; Catherine, married Abraham Arndt; Eve, married (first) Valentine Dickenscheid and (second) Joseph Kochen; Margretha, married Theobold Wink; Anna Maria, married Michael Welker; Elizabeth, married John Eberhard. Jacob, eldest son of Philip and Fer- onica (Bergy) Reed, was the great- grandfather of Dr. Reed. Jacob Reed's active part for the American cause in the Revolution made him conspicuous and prominent in his day. He served as an officer in the Philadelphia county mi- litia as lieutenant-colonel and major of a battalion of troops. In the "Pennsyl- vania Correspondent and Farmer's Ad- vertiser." published in Doyleslown, under date of November 21, 1820, ap- pears the following: "Died, In New Britain township, on the 2d instant, Colonel Jacob Reed, in the 91st year of his age. He served his country faith- fully during the whole of that eventful period of the Revolution, and before the close of the w^ar he was honored with a colonel's commission." Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Reed, in his youthful days received a liberal educa- tion in German and English, and was reared a farmer. Early in manhood he located on a farm in Hatfield township, Philadelphia county, and about 1755 married Magdalena Leidy, daughter of Jacob Leidy, an immigrant, and one of the founders of the Indian Creek Re- formed church, of Franconia township, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. This Jacob Leidv. the elder, is also the an- cestor in this country of the late emi- nent naturalist and physician. Professor Joseph Leidv, of the University of Penn- sylvania. In 1793 Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Reed removed with his family to a farm he already owned in New Bri- tain township, Bucks county, where he 468 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. died November 2, 1820, in the ninety- tirst year of his age; and. his wife having died previously at the same place, Au- gust 5, 1804, both are interred side by side in the old Leidy's burial ground in Franconia township, Montgomery county, nearby the present borough of Souderton. Jacob and Magdalena (Leidy) Reed had nine children: Philip, Jacob, Andrew, Margaret, Elizabeth, Catherine, Magdalena, Eve and John. Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Reed was a man of prominence in his day. He was active and influential as a citizen, and filled a number of positions of public trust. He was a member of the Re- formed church in which he took a deep and active 'interest. He was instru- mental in founding the Reformed church at Hilltown. He was a prominent and active defender of his country during the Revolutionary struggle, and served during the whole war as an officer in the militia service. He was lieutenant-col- onel and major of the first battalion of the Philadelphia county militia. He ac- tively participated in the battles of Tren- ton, Brandywine, Germantown, etc. He escaped unhurt on the field of battle, but on one occasion, when at home vis- iting his family, he was waylaid by Tor- ies, who first shot him through the leg. then tied him to a tree, tarred and feathered him, and commenced digging his grave in which they purposed bury- ing him. Before completing this last act they were discovered and fled, and he was released from his perilous situa- tion. The parties engaged in this trans- action fled the country, and their prop- erty was subsequently confiscated. On another occasion, while passing along the highway, he was shot at by a Hes- sian who lay concealed in a fence cor- ner, the bullet grazing his head. As a token of esteem and respect for their honored ancestor Lieutenant-Col- onel Jacob Reed. Franklin P. Reed and Dr. W. H. Reed (brothers), had erected over his grave a handsome granite sar- cophagus, bearing the following inscrip- tion:— In Memory of Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Reed, Hatfield Twp.. Phila. Co.. Pa.. A Patriot and Soldier of the Revolution. An Officer of the Philadelphia County Militia. Served his country actively during the whole war. Participated in the battles of Trenton. Brandywine. Germantown, etc., The monument was dedicated by the Montgomery County Historical Society on October 8, looi, with apnropriate ex- ercises. The addresses and papers read on this occasion are in press, and will soon appear in a separate volume. Andrew Reed, grandfather of Dr. Reed, was the youngest son of Lieuten- ant-Colonel Jacob and Magdalena (Leidy) Reed. He was born in Hatfield township May 14, 1781, and died June 10, 1869. He was a farmer by occupa- tion, and remained and farmed his father's place in New Britain until his death in 1820. April 21, 1807, he mar- ried Mary Hartman, daughter of Henry Hartman, of Lykens Valley, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and to whom five children were born : Jacob, Michael Hartman. Julian, Abigail and Sarah. An- drew Reed, after the death of his father, removed with his family to a farm that he already owned in Hilltown township, adjoining New Britain. Here he lived until advanced years, when he removed to Hatfield township, Montgomery county, and soon thereafter died. For some years previous to his death he was totally blind. During his life he was strictly honest in all of his dealings, de- voted to his family, and much beloved by his neighbors. Both Mr. an'd Mrs. Reed wfere consistent Christians, early Reformed and latterly were members of the Church of the Evangelical Associa- tion at Hilltown, Bucks county, in whose graveyard their remains are in- terred. Michael Hartman Reed, father of Dr. Reed, was born October 24, 1809, at the home of his grandfather, Lieutenant- Colonel Jacob Reed, in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the nearby Men- nonite district school. When he was but a lad lie was indentured with Henry Shellenberger at Line Lexington to learn the trade of hatting. After com- pleting his trade he worked for a while as a journeyman in Schaffer's hat fac- tory at Germantown. In 1830 he located at Skippackville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and conducted the "hat- ting" business. Two years later he sold his hat business at Skippack and located in Philadelphia at the same business. After a successful business he retired in 1847, and removed to Doylestown, Bucks county, where on Februarv 15, t8;2. he was married to Marv Ann Rock- a fellow, eldest daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth (Probasco) Rockafellow, of Hilltown township. Bucks county. In t8.t5. with his family, he removed to Xorristown. ^Montgomery county, where tine subject of this sketch was born; in 1857 he removed to Jefifersonville. Mont- aroniery county, Pennsjdvania. At this letter place he resided until his death, Januarv 17. 1898. Dr. W. H. Reed, besides filling a num- ber of positions of honor and trust, is a member of the American Pharmaceuti- cal Association: the Pennsylvania Phar- maceutical .Association, and was its president in 1804-95: is a member of the Alumni Association of Tefferson Medi- cal College: and the Philadelphia CoJ- lege of Pharmacy, Philadelphia Botani- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 469 cal Club, Pennsylvania-German Society, Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, Montgomery County His- torical Society, of which latter he is treasurer; and is also a member of Nor- ristown Lodge. No. 620. Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Norristown Chapter, No. igo, R. A. M., and Hutchinson Com- mandery No. 32, K. T. Dr. Reed has been a contributor to medical, pharma- ceutical, historical and general litera- ture. He is at present engaged writing a "History and Genealogy of the Reed Familv." MAJOR HARRY CRAIG HILL, of San Francisco. California, though not a native of Bucks county, spent his youth- ful days just over its borders at Hat- boro, and has always taken a deep in- terest in the county as the home of his maternal ancestors. He is a son of Dn John Howard and Cynthia (Craig) Hill, who were married in 1835, and was born in Philadelphia. His paternal ancestors. William and Mary (Hunter) Hill, came to America from Ireland about 1720 and settled in Middletown, Chester county, where the former died in 1747. leaving six chil- dren— Alexander, Mary, John, Peter, Christiana, and another whose name is unknown, being an infant when the father died. John Hunter, the father of INIary (Hunter) Hill, was a native of Durham, England, and a descendant of the Hunters of Meadowsley Hall, Gates- Tiead. Durham, where are buried many of this noble family who trace their descent from William, the Hunter, who in 1 185 married a lady of Whittenstall and founded the family of Meadowsley Hall. John Hunter was a strong church- man, and, having made himself obnox- ious to the Catholic party, was forced to flee from Durham on the accession to the throne of James II. and took refuge in Rathdrum, county Wicklow, Ireland, where he married in 1693 Margaret Al- iDin. He was captain of a troop of Tiorse under William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne. July i, 1690. and was wounded in the left hip, from which "he suffered a slight lameness during the remainder of his life. His superior of- ficer in the battle of the Boyne was An- thony Wayne (the grandfather of "Mad Anthony Wayne." of the Revolu- tion), with whom he came to America in 1722, settling for a short time near "Downingtown. Chester county, but re- moving the following year to a one thousand acre tract of land in Newtown township, now Delaware county, pur- chased March 17, 1723. where he died in T734 at the age of seventy years, and is buried in the churchyard at St. David's Episcopal Church. Radnor, of which Tie was a member of the first vestry. His children were John, William, Mary. Mar- garet. George, Peter, Martha, Ann, Elizabeth and James, the first and last named being also members of the ves- try of St. David's. John Hill, son of William and Mary (Hunter) Hill, was born in ^liddletown, Chester county, in 1736, and died there in February, 1814. He married at Christ Church. July 22, 1760, Mary Gibbons, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Mar- shall) Gibbons, and granddaughter of James and Ann (Pearce) Gibbons, great- granddaughter of John and Margery Gib- bons, who came from Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in 1681. and settled in Newtown, Chester county. Mary (Gibbons) Hill was born 2 mo. 15. 1743. Her father. Joseph Gibbons, was a mem- ber of colonial assembly 1748-63. and her grandfather, George Pearce of Thornbury. was also a member of as- sembly 1717-19. Her mother, Hannah Marshall, was a daughter of Abraham Marshall, who came from Gratton, Derbyshire, in 1700. and a sister to Hum- phrey Marshall the famous . botanist. John and Mary (Gibbons) Hill were the parents of thirteen children, eleven of whom lived to maturity and left de- scendants. Humphrey Hill, the grandfather of ■Major Hill, was the third son of John and Mary, and was born in October, 1763, and died in December, 1811. He married at Christ Church. March 3, 1791, Alice Howard, born January. 1762, daughter of John and Sarah (Bunting) Howard, and granddaughter of Thomas and Grace (Beakes) Howard. Sarah (Bunting) Howard was a daughter of John and Alice Lord (Nicholson) Bunting, of Burlington county. New Jersey, and granddaughter of Samuel and Mary (Foulke) Bunting, the former of whom was a son of Anthony and Ellen Bunting, of Matlock, Derbyshire, and the latter a daughter of Thomas Foulke, one of the nine commissioners of 'New Jersey who settled at Crosswicks in 1677. Job Bunting, another son of An- thony, was a large landholder in Bucks county. Grace (Beakes) Howard was a daughter of Stephen Beakes and Eliza- beth Biles, of Bucks county, both natives of England, their respective parents (William Beakes. of Barkwell. Somerset- shire, and AVilliam Bjles. of Dorchester. Dorsetshire) being among the earliest English settlers on the Delaware in Bucks county, the latter being an officer of the court at Upland prior to the ar- rival of Penn. and a member of the first provincial council from Bucks. Dr. John Howard Hill, the father of Major Hill, was the only child of Hum- phrey and Alice (Howard) Hill. He was for man}' years an eminent physician at Hatboro. Montgomery county, and had a large practice in adjoining parts of Bucks countv. He was twice married, having married in December, 1813. Eliza 4/0 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Louisa Davis, and (second) in October, 1835, Cynthia Craig, born October, 1804, daughter of Daniel and Jean (Jamison) Craig, both natives of Warrington, Bucks county, the former being a son of Thomas and Jean (Jamison) Craig, also natives of Warrington, and grandson of Daniel Craig, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Warrington about 1735. and died there in 1775- Thomas Craig, grandfather of Mrs. Hill, was a captain in the "Flying Camp" dur- ing the Revolution, and the command of the Bucks county regiment devolved upon him on the death of Colonel Will- iam Baxter, during the battle of Fort Washington, November 16. 1776. His brother John and his cousins Thomas, John and William Craig, of Northamp- ton, were also distinguished officers in the Revolution. His sister Sarah, who married John Barnhill. was the ances- tress of President Roosevelt. The Craig and Jamison families were among the earliest Scotch-Irish settlers in Bucks county. The former consisted of four brothers: Thomas, Daniel, W'illiam. and James; and three sisters: Sarah, wife of Richard Walker, of Warrington, a prominent justice and member of the colonial assemblj': ^Margaret, wife of John Gray, an earl}- elder of Nesham- iny church, and the wife of John Boyd, of the 'Irish settlement. The Craig brothers, with the exception of Daniel, all eventually settled at Craig's or the Irish Settlement. The Jamison family consisted of Henry Jamison and his sons, Henry. Robert and Alexander, who all settled in Warrington, Bucks county, about. 1720. where they became large landholders and prominent citi- zens. Henry Jamison, Jr., married IMary Stewart, and their daughter Jean, born in 1738. became the wife of Cap- tain Thomas Craig. Robert Jamison married Jean Blackburn and their sec- ond son. Robert, born in 1739 and mar- ried in 1767 to Hannah Baird. was the father of Jean Jamison, who became the wife of Daniel Craig. Jr., who was born in Warrington in 1794. and died in Montgomery county in 1836. Dr. John Howard Hill removed to Cali- fornia in 1851, his two sons Harry and Horace going there in i8=;2 — three older sons eroinfT with their father and one preceding him. ' Major Harry Craig Hill, has a dis- tinguished war record, having served throughout the civil war as a cavalry officer, and will carry to his grave many mementoes of that heroic service, among them a sabre scar extending di- agonally across the forehead, the result of a wound received in a cavalry charge. He served on the stafif of General Ben- jamin F. Butler during most of the war. Returning to California after the close of the war. he became interested in sil- ver mines in New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, and made his home in Utah for several years. He takes special pride in his descent from his Scotch-Irish an- cestors in Bucks county, and has paid several visits to their former homes. He has retired from business, and now re- sides in San Francisco, California. ELIAS DEEMER. For almost two> centuries the Deemer family has been represented in Pennsylvania. There were at one time extensive historical records concerning this family, but un- fortunately many of these were de- stroj'cd, although authentic record is ob- tainable to some degree concerning the early settlers of the representatives of the name in the new world. The immigrant ancestors of the Amer- ican branch of the Diemer (as was the original form of the name) family came from Rhenish. Bavaria. They were pro- testants in religion, being adherents of the doctrines of Zwingli. the great Swiss reformer. They came to America very early in the eighteenth century, presum- ably with that great influx of their countrymen who came about 1707. As the family tradition has it, they came to- Pennsylvania "more than one hundred years previous to the second war with Great Britain." This would fix the date of their coming at not later than 1711, but the earlier date of 1707 is generally- accepted as the true one. They first set- tled near Germantown. and engaged irr clearing ofif land for other families, get- ting out timber for building purposes, burning charcoal, and cutting up wood for fuel, which they marketed in Phila- delphia. From the vicinity of German- town they removed to Providence town- ship, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county. John Deemer was a landowner in Lower Providence township in 1734. but the family was settled there before that time. In 1727 a German Reform churclr (said by some to be the first regularly organized church of that denominatiorr in the United States, but _ which Mr. Lambert doubts), was organized at Skip- pack by the Rev. George Michael Weiss. Among the original officers of this church was Jacob Diemer. and it is be- lieved that he or his ancestors were among the first German Reformers ir» America. About 1740 a part of the Deemer fam- ily (as the name now appears) removed from their Montgomery county home and settled in Durham. Bucks county. Here they followed farming, charcoat burning, and working in the iron fur- naces. Some years after settling in Dur- ham, a part of the family located in Nockamixon. and the greater number of their descendants of the present day HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 471 live in these two townships, with a num- ber in Williams township, Northampton county. Joseph Deemer, a native of Durham, when a young man. located in Hunterdon county. New Jersey, and worked at "the forge," presumably Ex- eter Forge. When the Revolutionary war broke out he enlisted in the First New Jersey Regiment and served throughout the entire struggle, belong- ing during that time to four of five dif- ferent organizations. All trace of him is lost soon after the restoration of peace. Pertinent to this narrative is the fact that after a lapse of eighy years an- other Deemer, Edward by name, also a native of Durham, enlisted in the New Jersey regiment (the Thirty-first) and served in the civil war. Dr. Henry M. Muhlenberg, the father of the Lutheran church in America, fre- quently made mention in his diary of a Rev. Diemer, who preached at various places during the Revolutionary war, and with some he seems to have been on intimate terms. It is to be inferred from the diary that Mr. Diemer was a Lutheran. The Deemers (Diemers) were all originally, and nearly all con- tinued so. members of the Reform church, and if this Diemer was a mem- ber of this branch (and of this there is no assurance), he departed from the faith of his kinsmen. This, however, would not be a radical change, for the gulf between the two denominations is not broad. There were other changes, too, for at a later day there were some members of the family living in Will- iams township who became ^Methodists under the preaching of Bishop Asbury and other pioneer ministers of that de- nomination. After some of the family had embraced IMethodism. those of the family w-bo adhered to the ancestral faith cut off all further intercourse with them, and for more than a generation the two branches acted the part of utter strangers to each other. Some time after the removal of a por- tion of the Deemer family from Mont- gomery county to Durham, some of those who remained in Providence re- moved to the Susquehanna river and at a later time to the Juniata, where fur- ther knowledge of them ceases. As has been stated, the Deemer family furnish- ed at least one soldier to the Revolu- tionary war, one to the Mexican war. and quite a number to the Union during the Civil war. Originally Federalists in politics, they, in common with the great mass of the settlers of German extraction in the upper end of the coun- ty, rebelled against the Federalist sys- tem of taxation and became "JefFerson- ian Republicans." and afterwards Demo- crats, which, with few exceptions they are to the present time. The Deemers were always noted for industry and in- tegrity. From the middle of the eigh- teenth century to the present time there has scarcely been a period of ten years when one or more Deemers were not em- ployed in the iron furnaces at Durham. In early years they did considerable freighting over the mountains and down the river, but to a large extent abandon- ed this occupation when the canal had been completed. While that waterway was in course of construction they aided the work, several of the Deemers serv- ing under the afterward celebrated George Law, who built the Durham lock and acqueduct, and also the lock and ac- queduct at the Narrows. Michael Deemer, a direct ancestor of Elias Deemer, but whose ancestry is not obtainable, was born in America, De- cember 20, 1776, and died March 8, 1850. He became an extensive landowner and prominent citizen of Bucks county, mak- ing his home in Kintnerville. Nocka- mixon township, exercising considerable influence in shaping the early policy of the county and in promoting its ma- terial upbuilding. Dorothea, his wife, was born October 15, '1779, and died Oc- tober 29, 1843. John Deemer (2) son of Michael Deemer. resided in Durham township. Bucks county, where he. too, followed the occupation of farming. He had five children, two sons and three daughters. Edward Deemer, eldest son of John Deemer, was born in the year 1834 on the family homestead in Durham town- ship, and died December 12. 1896. He was reared to the occupation of the farm, and at the time of the Civil war responded to the countrj-'s call for troops, enlisting in the Thirty-first New Jersey Regiment, wnth which he re- mained until the close of hostilities. Elias Deemer (3) a son of John Deem- er, acquired his early education in the public schools and under private in- struction. When fifteen years of age he entered upon his business career as a salesman in a store in order to acquire knowledge of and acquaint himself with mercantile methods, and at the age of twenty he had entire charge of commer- cial enterprises. In the spring of 1859 he became bookkeeper, collector and salesman for W. N. Treichler. of Kint- nerville. who was an extensive manu- facturer and dealer in lumber. In the fall of i860 he went to Philadelphia, where he entered a wholesale notion house, and in 1861, following the inau- guration of the Civil war. joined the Union army, enlisting in the month of August, as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Captain George T. Harvey and of Colonel W. H. H. Davis, of Doyles- town. Pennsj'lvania. However, in the month of May, 1862, he was discharged 472 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. because of physical disability. The following spring he removed to ]\Iil- ford. New Jersey, where he engaged in business until the spring of 1868. when he located in Williamsport. , Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where he has since made his home. Here he turned his attention to the lumber industry. He has been interested in a number of dif- ferent lumber enterprises, largely in connection with the lumber trade. He is the senior member of the firm of Elias Deemer & Company, his partner being John H. Hunt: was treasurer and manager of the partnership of Strong, Deemer & Company. Limited; was pres- ident of the Williamsport Lumber Company, of the Williamsport Land and Lumber Company, and of the Will- iamsport and Chesapeake Company, and of numerous improvement companies; and was treasurer and half owner of the Williamsport Wood Company. All of the latter named companies have, how- ever, closed out their business. Elias Deemer is now^ and has been since 1893 president of the Williamsport National Bank, and is a stockholder and director in the J. K. Risher Furniture Company and in the Lycoming Calcining Com- pany, and his business enterprise and sound judgment have been important factors in the successful control of a number of important commercial and in- dustrial concerns, which have contribu- ted to the prosperity of the city of Will- iamsport as well as to the success of individual stockholders. Mr. Deemer has taken an active and helpful interest in public affairs. He had never aspired to office, yet his fitness for leadership led to his selection to the city council in the spring of 1888, and his capability in the discharge of his duties caused his re-election in 1889. He was elected a member of the Fifty-seventh Con- gress in the fall of 1900, was again elect- ed a member of the Fifty-eighth Con- gress in the fall of 1902. and once more was re-nominated for the third time^ an unprecedented occurrence in the con- gressional district he represents — and was re-elected in the Jail of 1904. a mem- ber of the Fifty-ninth Congress, receiv- ing 19.807 votes to 11.959 votes for his Democratic opponent, thus securing the largest majority over a Democratic op- ponent that was ever given a Republi- can candidate in the district. So that he has. since March 4. 1901. represented his district in the legislative councils of the nation. Elias Deemer was married to Henri- etta Hunt, in November, 1865, and they have four children: William Russell, Mary Lillian. Laura Hunt and Lulu May. William Russell Deemer. who is practicing law in Williamsnort. married Sara January Grundy, of Kentucky, and have one son, William Russell. Jr.. and one daughter. Mary Elizabeth. JOHN G. KING, vice-president of the Doylestown National Bank, was born in New Britain township. December 6, 1857," a son of John F. and Mary (Godshalk) King, both of German descent. Among the early German emigrants to Pennsylvania were many of the name of Koenig, long since Anglicized into King, all of whom seem to have settled originally in Montgom- ery county, from whence they migrated into several other sections as the country became settled westward and northward. Among these was Peter King, who with two broth- ers, Nicholas and Balthasar, emigrated- from Germany in the year 1752, arriving in Phila- delphia on October i6th of that year in the good ship "Snow Kitty," Theophilus Barnes, commander. They probably remained for some time, so says tradition, in the neigh- borhood of Germantown, but about 1760 Peter King purchased a farm in Hatfield township. Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, and settled thereon. Here his two sons, Peter and IMartin King, were reared, though both eventually found homes in Bucks county. Martin King, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, first located in Bucks county in 1783, when -he purchased a farm of one hundred acres near Leidytown. in Hilltown township. He later purchased another farm in that neighborhood and be- came a prominent man iji the community. He was one of the original trustees of the Hilltown school house, erected in 1795, and maintained for the education of the youth of the neighborhood. He died on his Hill- town farm in September, 1831, his wife, Elizabeth, surviving him. His children were : Peter ; Catharine, wife of George Eckhardt, of New Britain; Henry; Martin, Jr.; John; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Wisler; Mary, wife of Samuel Dannehower ; Sarah and Margaret. Martin King. Jr., was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Hilltown township, and on arriving at manhood married Catharine Hartman. who bore him three children, John F.. Amos and Catharine. The father. Martin Kinar. Jr.. died about the year 1827, and his widow remarried a man by the name of Snyder, and survived her hus- band many years, dying in Doylestown about 1878. John F. King, the eldest son of Martin and Catharine (Hartman) King, was born in Hilltown township April 19. 1820. At the age of sixteen years he went to Phila- delphia and learned the trade of a stair builder, which he followed for a few vears in Philadelphia, and then returned to Bucks county, where for several years he followed the trade of a carpenter. In 1849 he pur- chased of his cousin. John Eckhart, a lot of eighteen acres near Newville, in New Britain township, where he made his home until 1867, when he purchased the farm and mill property now owned by the subject of this sketch, on the- Herkiaken. a tributary of the North Branch, near Fountainville, in New Britain township. Mr. King was HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 473 an active business man. He operated the saw and grist mill in connection with his farm for several years, and greatly im- proved the property. Mr. King was a man of high standing in the community. Both he and his wife, Mary Godshalk, were ^len- nonites. In politics he was a Republican. He died in August, 1892. John G. King, the subject of this sketch, was born near Newville, in New Britain township, and was reared on the farm, obtaining a good common school educa- tion. Being the only child of his parents that grew to maturity, his only brother Isaiah dying at the age of twelve years, his services were in demand in the management and conduct of the mill and farm, and he never left home excepting for a period of eighteen months, nine of which he spent in travel and the other nine months in a mill. After the death of his father he ac- quired title to the farm, and has taken great pride in its management. In the fall of 1900 he was elected prothonotary of Bucks county, and filled the office with eminent ability for three years. At the reorganization of the Doylestown National Bank, in the fall of 1903, he was selected as a director, and on February ist, 1904, was elected vice-president and given a gen- eral supervision over the affairs of the bank, to which he devotes his entire time. In April, 1894, he removed to Doylestown borough. He was married, December 26, 1882, to Belle M. Worthington, daughter of Aaron M. and Elizabeth ( Michener) Worthington, of Plumstead, and has one child, Mabel W., born September 19, 1895. In politics Mr. King is a Republican, and has always taken an active interest in its councils. He is a member of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. R, and of Doyles- town Encampment, No. 35. DR. A. J. HINES, deceas-d, of Doylestown, was born August 5, 1826, on the old Hines homestead, in the ex- treme west corner of Warrington town- ship, adjoining the Montgomery county hne, and was a son of William C. and Elizabeth (James) Hines. Mathew Hynes, the great-great-grand- father of Dr. Hines. and the pioneer an- cestor of the family, was born in Ire- land in 1718. and came to Pennsylvania in the year 1740 or thereabouts, locating first in White ]\Iarsh township, now Montgomery county, and removing a few years later to a tract of five hundred acres on the county line, partly in what was then New Britain township, later ad- ded to Warrington, and extending across the county line into ' Montgomery. This tract, like many other large tracts in that locality, was held for half a century by parties who were not actual settlers. It was patented to Andrew Hamilton, and conveyed by him in 1739 to his daughter Margaret, wife of William Allen, by whom it was conveyed in trust for their use to James Delaney of London. It is probable that the title and possession was vested in M&thew Hines about 1752, though no actual transfer of title was made until 1793, when it was conveyed by Delaney to the sons of Mathew Hynes, except six acres "reserved for the use of their father Mathew Hynes." Mathew Hynes married Ann Simpson, a widow who, tradition relates, preceded Mathew to this country from Ireland, with her son William Simpson, and that IMathew, who had known her in Ireland, followed her to America and married her soon attei his arrival. Tradition further relates that she was the ancestress of General U. S. Grant, and that on the occasion of one of his early visits to his relatives in Bucks county he visited the Hines family, and the relationship was discussed by members of the family old enough to have some knowl- edge of the connection. If this be true, Ann Simpson was the widow of William Simpson and the mother of another son John, who was also a neighbor of the Hynes family. He was born in 1738, and died August 16, 1804, in Horsham township, on the county line near the Hines residence. He married Hannah Roberts, daughter of Lewis Roberts, of Abington, and a sister of Captain (later Colonel) William Rob- erts, whose farm adjoined that of Hines, and under whom William Hines, son of Mathew, served in the Revolutionary war. John Simpson and Hannah Roberts were married November 25, 1762, and their son John, who married Rebecca Weir, daugh- ter of Samuel Weir, of New Britain, was the grandfather of General Grant, John Simpson having removed to Ohio, in 1799, when his daughter Hannah, the mother of General Grant, was a maiden. Mathew Hines died December 23, 1804. aged eighty- six years, and his wife Ann on December I, 1790, aged eighty years. They are bur- ied side by side at Neshaminy church, of Warwick of which Mathew was a trustee in 1755. They were the parents of three sons, ^Mathew. Samuel and William, the last two of whotn, at least, have descend- ants in Bucks county. William Hines was born in 1749. He was an ensign of the first regiment " raised in Bucks county for service in the Continental army, under the supervision of the Bucks county committee of public safety, it being the complement of four hundred men that the county was to furnish for the forma- tion of the Flying Camp for the Jersey campaign in 1776. The commissions of the officers were dated July 9, 1776, and William Hines was assigned to the position of ensign of the company of which Will- iam Roberts was captain, and Henry Dar- rah and James Shaw were respectively first and second lieutenants. At the close of the Jersey and Long Island campaign this reg- iment returned to Bucks county and was incorporated in the organization of the mi- litia in May. 1777. when William Roberts was made a lieutenant-colonel, and the cap- 474 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. tair.cy of his company was committed to Henry Darrah, and William Hines became its second lieutenant. The company saw active service in the fall and winter of 1777 under General John Lacey, and par- ticipated in the battle of Germantown. In the reorganization of the militia in May, 1778, William Hines became first lieuten- ant of Captain Darrah's company, which did considerable active service in and around Philadelphia, though not incorporated m the regular Continental army. A well founded tradition in the family relates that, at one time during the struggle, Lieuten- ant Hines was at a blacksmith shop near his home having a horse shod, when new: of a conflict with the British reached him, and that he mounted his horse and hurried to the front without returning home. In the division of the Hines plantation in I793> 143 acres were conveyed to William Hines, 112 acres of which descended to his son William and his grandchildren, remain- ing in the tenure of the family for four generations. He died January 17, 1830, in his eightieth year. He married Eliza- beth Harris, daughter of Henry and Mar- tha Harris, of New Britain, and of Welsh descent. Elizabeth died September 30, 1830, aged seventy-eight years, and both are buried at New Britain Baptist church. They were the parents of eight children : viz: three sons, — John; Isaac and William; and five daughters, — Elizabeth, who mar- ried Simon James, of New Britain ; Ann, wife of John Singer; Sarah, wife of John Eder; Hannah, wife of Dr. Joseph Mathew ; and Priscilla, wife of Britain V. Evans. Colonel John, the eldest son, was a promi- nent officer of militia, and the grandfather of Charles Cox, of Doylestown. Isaac, the second son, died a few months before his father. William C. Hines, the father of Dr. A. J. Hines, and the youngest of the three sons of William and Elizabeth (Harris) Hines, was born on the old homestead in "Warrington township. He purchased it at the death of his father, and died there in 1858. He married Elizabeth James, daugh- ter of Abiah and Rachel (Williams) Jarpes, of New Britain, both natives of New Brit- ain and of Welsh descent. The former born in 1749, died December i, 1834, was a son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, grandson of William and Mary James, an;: great-grandson of John and Elizabeth James, who emigrated from Caermarthen- shire, Wales, in 1810 and settled in New Britain. (See James Family in this work). The children of William and Elizabeth (James) Hines were: Nathan James, An- drew Jackson, Elizabeth and Emily, none of whom married with the exception of the subject of this sketch. DR. ANDREW JACKSON HINES, was born and reared on the old homestead, and was educated at a private school at the Hermitage, a well known academy conduct- ed in Doylestown township by Professor T. J. Clarke. He studied medicine under Dr. O. P. James, who was a iirst cousin to his mother, and entered Jefferson Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1853. After practicing ior a little less than a year at Centreville he purchased in the fall of 1853 the properly, and practice of Dr. Joseph Moyer, at Leidytown, Hill- town township, where he practiced for eight years with success, and then sold out and located at Jarrettown, Montgomery county, succeeding Dr. Albanus Styre. He remained at Jarrettown until 1874, when he removed to Doylestown, and after a few months' rest resumed the practice of his chosen profession and continued to prac- tice until January i, 1901, when he was taken seriously ill, and after three weeks of intense suffering died on January 23, 1901. He married, June 5, i860, Anna Maria Armstrong, daughter of Jesse Armstrongs of Doylestown, who died in 1876. They were the parents of three children : Will- iam P., who died in childhood; Eliza- beth A., and Ella E., who resides at tuc Doylestown homestead. Dr. Hines and his family were members of the Baptist church, as had been his father and grandmother and his maternal ancestors for many gen- erations. He was a member of the Bucks County Medical Society, and a prominent and successful practitioner. His wife was a descendant of William Armstrong, a:. early Scotch-Irish settler in Bedminster township. Bucks county, whose descend- ants were at one time very numerous in Bucks county, some of them filling posi- tions of eminence in the official, military and professional life of the county and elsewhere. A. HAYES JORDAN, editor and pub- lisher of the "Republican," Doylestown, was born in Riegelsville, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, July 13, 1868, and is a son of Dr. Alexander S. and Amanda (Weikel) Jor- dan, the former a native of Lehigh county^ and the latter of Springfield township, Bucks county. The first paternal ancestor of A. Hayes Jordan of whom there is any definite rec- ord was his great-great-grandfather, Frea- erick Jordan, of English ancestry, who was born in 1744, and in 1769 married Cathar- ine Eckel, daughter of Henry and Susanna Eckel, of Bedminster township, and settled in Alexandria township, Hunterdon coun- ty, near Milford, where he operated two- mills during the Revolutionary war. Dr. John W. Jordan, librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, (a great-grand- son) has in his possession letters from Col- onel Howell, quartermaster of New Jersey, to Frederick Jordan, arranging to meet the farmers at IMr. Jordan's mill to pay them for grain ground by Mr. Jordan for the use of the Continental troops. Frederick Jor- dan also served for a time as a sergeant in tne New Jersey Line during the Revolu- tion. He died in 1784 and his wife Cath- arine in 1786, and both are buried in the HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 475 grave yard of St. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal church in Alexandria township, near where they lived. Catharine Eckel was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, December i, 1750. Her father, Heinrich Eckel, with his wife Susanna and his mother Catharine Eckel, came to Amer- ica from Hannan on the Main, in Hesse, in the ship "Ranier," Captain Henry Brown- ing, arriving in Philadelphia from Rotter- dam, on September 26, 1749. He settled in Bedminster township, on land surveyed to Chief Justice William Allen, which the latter later conveyed to him in fee. He died in Philadelphia on his return from a visit to his relatives in Germany, in the au- tumn of 1764, leaving children, Henry, Catharine and John. The children of Fred- erick and Catharine (Eckel) Jordan were; John, the grandfather of Dr. John W. Jor- dan, born September i, 1770; Frederick Jr., born August 27, 1772; Catharine, w'ho died young, and Henry. John and Henry lived and died in Philadelphia. Frederick Jordan, Jr., the great-grand- father of A. Hayes Jordan, was but twelve years of age at the death of his father, and, his mother dying two years later, he was left to the care of his maternal uncle, Henry Eckel, then a farmer and tanner m Bedminster , township, Bucks county, re- moving later to Springfield township, where he lived to an advanced age, dying in 1839. Frederick Jordan, Jr., learned the trade of a tanner, and soon after attaining his ma- jority established himself in business in Philadelphia, being senior member of the firm of Jordan & Foering, Third street, near Race, tanners and leather merchants. This firm did an extensive business for several years, shipping their product to Europe and distant ports of the United States, but lost heavily in the trying times preceding the second war with Great Britain and failed financiall}^ Mr. Jordan then removed to near Coopersburg, Lehigh county, where he soon recupterated his shattered finances and became a considerable landowner and a prominent man in the community. He was one of the commissioners who laid out Le- high county, March 6, 1812, and held toi several years the office of justice of the peace. He was tw'ice married, first on April 4, 1797, to Catharine Hartzell, daughter of Paul and Catharine Hartzell, of Rockhill, Bucks county, and second to Catharine Stet- ler, of Lehigh county. Paul Hartzell was a tanner in Rockhill township, and died there in 1806, leaving a large family, Cath- arine Jordan being his eldest daughter. Paul w^as a son of Henry Hartzell, the pio- neer ancestor of the Hartzell family of Bucks county, a large landowner and prom- inent citizen. ]\Iany of his descendants have become eminent business and profes- sional men. The date of the death of Cath- arine (Hartzell) Jordan and that of the subsequent marriage of Frederick Jordan to Catharine Stettler have not been ascer- tained further than that the first Catharine was living at the death of her father in 1806. Frederick Jordan died in Upper Sau- con, Lehigh county, February i, 1861, ana his wife Catharine died February 18, 1847. Henry Jordan, eldest son of Frederick and Catharine (Hartzel) Jordan, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia in 1800 and died in Lehigh county in 1876. He married El- len Stahr, of an old Bucks county family and German ancestry, and followed the life of a farmer in Lehigh county. His chil- dren were : William, late of Coopersburg^ deceased ; Catharine, who married Louis- Seiger; and Mary, who married Owen Seiger, both of whom are deceased; James, still living on the old homestead ; Frank and Milton, of the firm of Jordan & Bro., carriage manufacturers of Coopersburg; Alexander S., deceased; and Frederick, ot Coopersburg. Dr. Alexander Jordan was the fourth son and sixth child of Henry and Ellen (Stahr) Jordan, and. was born in Lehigh county,^ April ID, 1839. He was educated at Muh- lenberg College, Allentown, and later stud- ied medicine and graduated from the med- ical department of the University of Penn- sylvania in the class of 1861. He first set- tled at Coopersburg, where he practiced for a short time, locating later at South Beth- lehem, from w'hence he removed to Riegets- ville, Bucks county, in 1866, practicing his chosen profession at the latter place with eminent success until his death in Novem- ber, 1900. During the war Dr. Jordan served for two years in the Union army as assistant surgeon in the general hospital. He married, July 4, 1861, Amanda Weikel, daughter of Charles and Annie (Taylor) Weikel, of Springfield township, where she was born in 1840. Charles Weikel, father of Mrs. Jordan, was also a native of Spring- field township, Bucks county, where he died in 1S52 at the age of about forty-five years. He was a son of Samuel Weikel and a grandson of Peter Weikel, who settled in Springfield township in 1772 and died there in 1830 at an advanced age. Samuel Wei- kel, grandfather of ]\lrs. Jordan, was twice married and had fourteen children, all o^ whom grew to maturity and left families. His many descendants are now scattered over several states of the Union, though a number of them still reside in Bucks coun- ty. Dr. Alexander S. and Amanda (Wei- kel) Jordan were the parents of three chil- dren : Minerva A., Lillie C. and Alexander Hayes. Dr. Jordan w'as an active and prom- inent member of the Masonic fraternity, be- ing a past master of Prosperity Lodge, No. 567. He was also a past grand of Peace and Union Lodge, L O. O. F., of Riegelsville. He was affiliated with the German Reformed church, and politically was a Democrat. A. HAYES JORDAN was born and reared in Riegelsville, Bucks county, and obtained his elementary education at the Rieglesville public schools and Reiglesville Academy. He later took a classical course at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of 1890 with the de- 476 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. gree of Bachelor of Arts, and later receiv- ing the degree of A. M. at the same insti- tution. He taught school for a short time in Bucks county, and in i8gi entered the office of the "Riegelsville News," but soot, after connected himself with the editorial stafif of the "Easton Argus," where he re- mained until March i, 1903, when he pur- chased the "Bucks County (Weekly and Daily) Republican," published at Doyles- town, which he has since conducted with success. Mr. Jordan married, in 1892, Dora Snyder, daughter of William H. and Annie E. Snyder, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of two children — Glenn Catharine and Alexander Weikel Jordan. WILLIAM' CHAFFEE RYAN, lawyer and referee in bankruptcy, Doylestown, was born in New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, June 15, i860, and is the son of John and Lydia (Moore) Ryan, both na- tives of Hunterdon county, New Jersey. He spent his boyhood days in his native town, and attended the high school there until 1878, when he accepted a position as clerk in the office of the Lambertville Spoke Manufacturing Company, which he Ailed until August, 1882. In September, 1882, he entered the office of Hugh B. Eastburn, Esq., at Doylestown, as a student at law, and was admitted to the bar, of Bucks county September 15, 1884, and located at Doylestown. In 1887 he formed a law- partnership wtih the late Hon. Robert M. Yardley, member of congress from the Bucks-Montgomery district, which was con- tinued until 1890. In 1891 Mr. Yardley was made receiver of the Keystone National Bank, Philadephia, and Mr. Ryan became assistant receiver; and in 1894, Mr. Yard- ley having also been made receiver of tile Spring Garden Bank, Mr. Ryan becanje assistant receiver of that institution aild continued in the work of 'closing out the affairs of both banks until 1898. Return- ing to the active practice of law at Doyles- town, he was appointed referee in bank- ruptcy by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in July, 1898, a position he still fills (1904). He has been admitted to practice in the state and federal courts, including the su- preme court of the United States ; is a member of the County and State Bar Asso- ciations and of the National Association o? Referees in Bankruptcy. Mr. Ryan stands high in the practice of his profession, and has acted as coun.sel in many important cases. As chief counsel he conducted the defence of Wallace Burt, the half-breed rnurderer of the Rightlys, in 1894, in connec- tion with Howard I. James, Esq. He represented the borough of New Hope in the important contest against the Western Union and Postal Cable Telegraph Com- panies over an ordinance Imposing license fees on Uie telegraph companies for the maintenance of poles and wires within the borough limits, and carried the case through the state and United States supreme courts. The latter court sustained the contention of the borough, in 1903. in the case of the Western Union Company, (187, U. S. 419), but 10 some extent modified its decision in the case of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company, in 1904 (192, U. S. 55), though it sustained the contention of the plaintiff, viz. : the right of the borough to enact and enforce such an ordinance if the rates imposed be reasonable. The cases were therefore important, involving a con- stitutional question of great interest. Mr. Ryan argued both cases in the several courts. In politics Mr. Ryan is a Republican and has often taken the stump in political cam- paigns. He has also been frequently called upon to deliver addresses upon formal oc- casions. In the practice of his chosen pro- fession, to which he is thoroughly devoted, he is active, earnest and successful, both as a counselor and advocate, frequently ap- pearing before the courts in the trial of civil and other causes. Mr. Ryan was mar- ried April 18. 1889. to Katherine Grimes, and has one daughter, Helen Lydia Rvan. E. WESLEY KEELER, of Doylestown, attorney and counselor at law, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Feb- ruary 13. 1853, son of Eli K. and Anna F. (Reeder) Keeler. His grandfather, John Keeler, was born in Tinicum township, Bucks county, and was a son of Baltzer Keeler, an early settler in that township, who lies buried in the old graveyard near Lower Tinicum church. John Keeler mar- ried Ann Heaney, a granddaughter of Peter De Roche, a Frenchman, supposed to have come to America with the French troops during the Revolution, and settled in Tini- cum. John Keeler died a comparatively young man, but his widow, "Nancy" Keeler, lived to be over one hundred years old. Eli K. Keeler was born in Tinicum town- ship in 1820, and died in Plumstead town- ship, March 10, 1897. He married in 1850 Anna F., daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Fell Reeder, of Buckingham (see Reeder family' in this work), and settled first on the Stavely farm in Solebury township, where was born his eldest child, a daughter, who died in infancy. Two years later he re- moved to Buckingham township near the Doylestown township line, where Emmor Tomlinson lately lived, where the subject of this sketch was born. On April i, 1857, he removed to a farm in Plumstead, north- east of Danboro, where the remaining years of his life were spent. ' His wife, Anna F., died December 29, 1901. Their children were : Louisa, died in infancy ; E. Wesley, the subject of this sketch: Anna Mary, living in Plumstead. unmarried; Sarah Jane, widow of Edmund M. Price, of Lahaska, now living in Philadelphia; Caroline, uimiarried ; Lizzie R.. wife of Joseph II. Meyers, of Plumstead; Charles HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 477 E., a druggist of Philadelphia ; Edward H., died in Buckingham in 1895 ; Emma, wife of Daniel S. Klipple, of Plumstead ; and Joseph C, a physician in Philadelphia. E. Wesley Keeler was reared on the Plumstead farm and attended Valley Park public school, and later took a course at the Doylestown Seminary, and attended West Chester Normal School for one term. He taught school in Bucks county for five years, during the last two of which he was studying the rudiments of law, and entered the office of George and Henry Lear, at Doylestown, as a student, jMarch 11, 1874', and was admitted to the bar of his natiye county March 13, 1876. Being a careful and diligent student and an indefatigable worker, he acquired a reputation as a safe counselor, and has built up a lucrative practice, being considered one of the ablest lawyers at the home bar. He has been admitted to practice in the Supreme and Superior courts of the commonwealth, and in the United States District court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania. Mr. Keeler is a Republican in politics, and has always taken a prominent part in the councils of his party. He was for several years chairman of the county committee, and was again chosen for that position in 1903, and is still filling it with eminent ability. He was county solicitor for six years, 1885- 1891, and was a notary public for many years. The only elective office he has filled was that of register of wills for the year 1895, by appointment to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Chas. H. Weaver, the elected register. He has been a delegate to many district and state con- ventions and was the representative of Bucks county in the national convention of 1892. Mr. Keeler was married to Laura W. Jones, on October 6, 1881. They have no children. DR. JAMES E. GROFF, a popular and successful physician, of Doylestown, was born near Sellersville, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, August 3, 1856. He is a son of Isaac S. and Mary A. (Fellman) Groff, both of German descent. Hans Jacob Groff emigrated from the Palatinate, Germany, with his wife Verona, and arrived in Philadelphia in the ship "Pa- tience," August II, 1750, and located in Rockhill township, Bucks county, on land surveyed to him in September, 1761. In 1770 he purchased two tracts of 186 acres and forty-seven acres respectively, near the present borough of Perkasie, adjoining the land of Jacob Stout, with whose family the Groffs later intermarried. He was a black- smith by trade. He died April i. 17-82, leaving a widow Verona, and children ; Jacob, Peter, John, Henry, and Mary, who married Isaac Souder. John married Chris- tina Fulmer. Peter Groff, brother of Jacob, accompanied him to America in the "Pa- tience," and both were doubtless sons of Peter, who arrived in the "Crown" in 1749. Peter Groff, son of Jacob, settled in East Nantmeal township, Chester county. Henry Groff, fourth son of Jacob and Verona, was born in Rockhill township, and at the death of his father in 1782 was living on the home- stead, and three years later purchased in partnership with his brother John one hun- dred acres thereof, and purchased John's interest therein in 1794. He married Esther , and had two sons Jacob and Abra- ham. Jacob Groff, born on the Perkasie home- stead about 1800, acquired title to a part of it from his father, Henry Groff, in 1826, on condition of providing for his father and mother during the remainder of their lives. He also purchased two hundred acres ad- joining, and other tracts in Rockhill, be- coming an extensive landowner and prom- inent man in the community. In religion he was a Mennonite, and in politics a stanch Whig. He died April, 1855. He was twice married, his first wife being Mary Magda- len, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Barndt) Stout, of Rockhill, born August 29, 1804, died February 7, 1848. (See St family in this work). The children of Jacob and Mary Magdalen Groff were : Owen, Isaac, Charles, Abraham, ]\Iary and Jacob. Mary, the only daughter, married Jacob Shearer. Jacob Groff married (.second) Hannah Moore, but had no issue by her. Isaac Stout Groff, second son of Jacob and Magdalen, was born in Rockhill town- ship, August 13, 1834, and there grew to manhood. He was a merchant tailor, and carried on business at Benjamin, now a part of Perkasie borough, for many years. He later conducted a general store at Chal- font. but returned to merchant tailoring steveral years prior to his death, locating at Line Lexington, New Britain township, where he died in 1890. He was a member of the Reformed church. He married Mary Ann Fellman, daughter of Jacob Fellman, of Richland, of the well known family of that vicinity, Charles Fellman, who was shreriff of Bucks county, 1854-6, being a brother of Jacob. Dr. James E. Groff, the subject of this sketch, was the only child of Isaac S. and Mary Ann Groff, and was born at Ben- jamin, August 3. 1856. He attended the public schools of that neighborhood until fifteen years of age, and then taught school for two years. He then entered Ursinus College at CoUegeville, and remained two and a half years. In his sophomore year the serious illness of his father necessitated his leaving school, and he returned home and conducted his father's business for two and a half years, and expected to follow the business of a merchant for life, but, his fa- ther selling out his business in the spring of 1877, James E. began the study of medi- cine with Dr. A. J. ]\Iathews, at Chalfont. In the fall of the same year he entered Jeff- erson Medical College, and graduated in 1880. He first located for practice of his profession at Tradesville, Warrington town- ship, Bucks county, and remained there un- 478 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. til 1886, when he removed to Doylestown, where he has lived and practiced ever since. He has been eminently successful in liis chosen profession, and has built up a large and lucrative practice. He is a member of the Bucks County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American Medical Association ; the local representative of the State Board of Health and a member of the board of United States Pension Examining Surgeons. He is now serving his second term as a member of the borough council of Doylestown. He is an active worker in the German Reformed ■church of Doylestown ; a member of Doyles- town Lodge, No. 24s, F. and A. M.; Aque- . tong Lodge, No. 193, I- O. O. F. ; and Len- ape Council No. 11 17, Royal Arcanum.' He has always taken an interest in all that per- tains to the improvement and development of his town and county. In politics he is a Republican. He was married November 16, 1876, to Adelaide, daughter of Charles R. -Grove, of New Britain, by whom he has one son, Howard R., born November 26, 1877, who is a clerk in the Doylestown Trust Company. He was married in 1902 to Miss Nellie Wolf, and resides in Doyles- town. CLARENCE DECKER HOTCHKISS, of the. editorial staff of the "Intelligencer," Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, August 4, 1857, and is a son of George W. and Williamma (Bittenbender) Hotchkiss, of English and German ancestry, respectively. He is a lineal descendant of Samuel and Elizabeth Hotchkiss, who were married at what is now New Haven, Connecticut, in 1632, from which date the ancestors of the subject of this sketch were residents of that locality and of New York. Samuel Hotchkiss, the great-grandfather of Clar- ■ence D., was commissioned a master in the United States Navy, July 18, 1788, but re- signed his^ commission ]\Iarch 16, 1799, and settled in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsyl- vania. He married Sarah Decker of Fort Ticonderoga, New York. His son George, reared in the Wyoming Valley, had three children, Jeremiah, Eme- line and George W. Hotchkiss. George W. Hotchkiss, the father of Clar- ence D., married Williamina Bittenbender, sixth daughter of William Bittenbender, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and removed to Philadelphia and later to Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. George W. and Williamina (Bittenbender) Hotchkiss, were the parents of five children, all of whom are deceased except the subject of this sketch. Clarence D. Hotchkiss attended the pub- lic schools of Philadelphia and the Wyoming Seminary, and subsequently took the studies of a college course under private tutors. Upon leaving school he entered the drug l)usiness in Philadelphia, but relinquished that business on the re- moval of the family to Doylestown, and entered the office of the Duylcstozvn Demo- crat. He subsequently served on various papers in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, and Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and subsequently founded the Apprentices' Journal, a me- chanical monthly journal, which he pub- lished in Philadelphia for a number of years, but sold his interest therein and re- turned to Doylestown in 1885, and again took a position on the staff of the Demo- crat, which he retained until 1890, when General W. W. H. Davis, the then editor and proprietor, sold the plant to a syndi- cate, who organized the Doylestown Pub- lishing Company. Mr. Hotchkiss then took a position on the reportorial staff of the Intelligencer, daily and weekly. In 1892 he was promoted to local and news editor, a position which he has since filled with eminent ability. At the incorporation of the Intelligencer Company in 1898 he be- came a stockholder, and later a director of the corporation, and takes a deep interest in the conduct and success of this old and reliable newspaper. Mr. Hotchkiss and his family are mem- bers of the Doylestown Presbyterian church, and he was the first president of the Bucks County Christian Endeavor Union, and has always been one of the active workers of the organization. He is one of the directors of the Intelligencer Company, secretary of the Press League of Bucks and Montgomery counties, trustee of Doylestown Fire Company, No. i, and has been secretary of the Doylestown Board of Health since its organization in 1894. He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 193, and Doylestown Encampment, No.. 35, I. O. O. F., being one of the most active members of both organizations, filling im- portant positions on their respective degree staffs, and serving for many years as one of the trustees of both. He is a member of the Bucks County Historical Society, and was for several years a member of the Doylestown Glee Club. Mr. Hotchkiss enjoys considerable local celebrity as an amateur photographer, and is a member of the Columbia Photographic Society of Philadelphia. He married, June 19, 1878, Albertine Walton, daughter of Dr. Thomas H. Walton, for many years a druggist of Doylestown, now deceased. Two children of Clarence D. and Albertine (Walton) Hotchkiss, survive : George S., of the reportorial staff of the Intelligencer, and Sarah W. HARVEY S. KISER, of Doylestown, one of the rising younger members of the Bucks county bar, was born in Springfield town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 16, 1871, and is a son of Edwin and Emma (Seiner) Kiser, the former of whom is serving his second term as county com- missioner. The first paternal ancestor of this branch of the Kiser family of whom we have any HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 479 Ti knowledge was Frederick Kiser, said to have been a native of Germany. He set- tled in Durham township near the Nock- amixon line in 1773, having first appeared as a communicant of Nockamixon Lutheran church in June, 1773. November 21, 1774, he purchased Tract No. 19 of the Durham Tract, containing 145 acres and 25 perches, and lying along the Nockamixon line, and lived thereon until his death, about June i, 1792. His wife, Anna Barbara Stem, was a native of Brotzinger, a little village near the Rhine, in the grand duchy of Baden, and was a daughter of Johan Michel Stein, who died there about the year 1784. Au- gust 7, 1784, Friedrich Kyser, of Durham, Bucks county, and Anna Barbara, his wife, "an heir and issue of Johan Michel Stein, late of Brotzinger, in Germany, under the jurisdiction of Baden-Durlach, now of the County of Bucks" make a power of attor- ney to their "loving friend, Jacob Epp, of Easton, in the county of Northampton" to collect in her name and for her use her -whole inheritance "which my deceased father Johan Michel Stein, and mother Barbara, left unto me in Brotzinger, under the jurisdiction of Baden-Durlach, and in the hands, care and administration of my ■dear and loving friend Johan Jacob Hock- smuth." The children of Friedrich and Anna Bar- bara (Stein) Kyser, were five in number, viz. : Mary, , who married a Wagner ; Michel ; Conrad ; Friedrich ; and Margaret, who married a Gesler, or Gresler. Friedrich Kiser, youngest son of Fried- rich and Anna Barbara, was born Sep- tember 14, 1764. He married Gertrude Hoffman, born September 22, 1770. daugh- ter of Conrad Hoffman and Gertrude his wife, the former being one of the earliest patentees of lands in Nockamixon who became actual settlers there. Conrad Hoff- man obtained a patent from the proprietors for two hundred acres of land in Nock- amixon in 1765, and died there in 1780, leaving sons Conrad, Martin, and Williim. and daughter "Kertout" wife of Friedrich Kiser, Jr., and Catharine. The widow "Kertrout" Hoffman married a German by the name of Premour. In 1793 these heirs •of Conrad Hoffman made partition of the two hundred acres of land, and "allowance" and one-half of the same, amounting to III acres, was conveved to Frederick Kiser and Gertrude his wife, but they soon after conveyed it to Martin Hoffman. On Aoril 7, 1794, Frederick Kiser, Jr., purchased of his brother. Conrad Kiser. a plantation of 135 acres in Nockamixon, near the Durham line where he lived the remainder of his life, adding to it thirty acres additional in 1802. This plantation was called "Candia," and was originally patented to Thomas Leightle. whose widow and son conveyed it to Conrad Kiser in 1792. Frederick Kiser later purchased 115 acres of land adjoining his "Candia" plantation. He died on the old homestead December 5, i8j6. aged over •eighty-two years. His wife Gertrude pre- ceded him six years, dying May 25, 1840, at the age of seventy years. They were the parents of five sons: Conrad, John, Jacob, Frederick and Samuel, of whom the eldest, Conrad, born January 21, 1792, died April 22, 1823; and six daughters — Mary, wife of John Hoffman, who settled in Monroe county; Catharine, wife of William i^amp- bell; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Trough; Sarah, wife of John Seiner; Susan, wife of George Ott, who removed to Indiana ; and Polly, who never married. Samuel Kiser, youngest son of Freaerick and Gertrude (Hoffman) "Kiser, was the grandfather of Harvey S. Kiser. He was born on the old homestead in Nockamixon, October 12, 1814, married Mary Ochs, who was born in Lower Saucon, Northampton county, November 7. 1816, and settled on the farm bought in that year by his father, adjoining the old homestead, which he pur- chased of his father's estate in 1847. He was a lifelong resident of Nockamixon, dying there March 26, 1877. His widow, Mary (Ochs) Kiser, .died August 10, 1880. They were the parents of two sons : Wil- son O. Kiser, of Nockamixon; and Edwin Kiser, of Springfield. Edwin Kiser, father of Harvey S. Ki^er, was born in Nockamixon in 1840. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Bur- sonville for a number of years, but for the past fifteen years has been engaged in farm- ing in Springfield township. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the community in which he lived, and has filled a number of local offices, serving for sev- eral years as school director of his district, and also filling the office of supervisor of the roads. In February, 1902, he was ap- pointed by the court to fill the unexpired term of Michael Callahan, deceased, as county commissioner, and at the following November election, was elected to succeed himself for the term of three years, and made a conscientious and efficient official. He married in 1870 Emma Seiner, daughter of Peter and Hannah Seiner, of Spring- field, and that union has been blessed with five children: Harvey S., the subject of this sketch ; Frank W., now engaged in the mercantile business in Germantown ; Minnie A., a dressmaker in Allentown ; Ella N., residing at home ; and Warren S., a book- keeper in Philadelphia. Harvey S. Kiser was reared in Spring- field township, and acquired his education at the Springtown Academy and the Key- stone Normal School at Kutztown. Penn- sylvania, graduating from the latter in 1893. Prior to his graduation at Kutztown he taught school in Sprmgfield for four years, and after his graduation taught at Richboro. Northampton township, Bucks county, for two years. He then entered Dickinson Law School, at Carlisle. Penn- sylvania, from which he graduated in 1897. He then entered the office of Hon. Webster Grim, at Doylestown, as a student at law, and on June 6, 1898, was admitted to prac- tice at the Bucks county bar. He at once 48o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. opened an office at the coiuity seat and en- tered upon the practice of his profession. July I, 1900, he formed a partnership wit.i Hon. Mahlon H. Stout, under the firm name of Stout & Kisor, attorneys and coun- sellors at law, which continued until the elevation of Mr. Stout to the bench in January, 1904. Both members of the firm were popular and successful lawyers and built up a large clientage. Mr. Kiser has since continued the practice of his chosen profession alone with marked success. He has always taken an active interest in all that pertains to the best interest of the town in which he lives. At the organization of the Doylestown Board of Trade he was selected as its president, a position he still fills. He is a director of the Bucks County Trust Company. Doylestown's leading financial institution, and is identified with several business and social institutions of the town. Mr. Kiser married, June 5, 1901, Miss Louisa Butler, an accomplished young lady of Bridgeton, New Jersey. JAMES POLLOCK, the genial pro- prietor of the Pollock House, Doyles- town, was born in county Down, Ireland, February 4, 1858. and is a son of James and Esther (Kerr) PolloCk, who, with their' two sons, James and Robert, and a daughter, Sarah Jane, now the wife of George Turkington of Plumstead. emi- grated to America in 1866 and settled in Philadelphia, where both parents died in 1873. The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days in Philadelphia, and ob- tained a meagre education at the public schools. He was compelled to earn his own livelihood at a very early age, and sought such employment as w^as avail- able to boys of his age. At the age of eighteen years he opened a small store for the sale of coffees and tea, and sup- plemented the local trade by running a team out into the country, taking orders and delivering the goods. In 1880. he removed to Doylestown and opened a store there for the sale of cofifees and tea, which he conducted for two years. In 1883 he bought out the bottling estab- lishment on State street, Doylestown, and conducted it until 1891, when he sold out and purchased the Lenape cigar store, which he conducted for over a year. About this time he purchased a tract of land at West Court and Frank- lin streets and erected several houses thereon. In the summer of 1895 he con- ducted a hotel at Atlantic City. Return- ing to Doylestown he began the manu- facture of bicycles, a business which he conducted for nearly two years. In 1898 he purchased the Armstrong property on the north side of the borough, and. open- ing Shewell and Harvey avenues, laid it out into building lots, many of which have been since built upon. In 1899 he was proprietor of the Union House,. Lambertville. In 1900 he purchased the present site of the Pollock House, then a restaurant, which he conducted for two years, and then erected the present hotel building. A unique feature of the popular hostelry is the Sixteenth Cen- tury Cafe, known as "The Jug in the Wall," fitted up in the quaint style of centuries past, that attracts a great deal of attention from visitors to the county town. Mr. Pollock has always taken a deep interest in everything that pertains to the improvement of the town. He was one of the organizers and a member of the first board of directors of the Doyles- town Electric Company, and was super- intendent of their plant for about one and a half years. He was an original stockholder and director in the Worstall and Carl Wheel Works, and has been an active promoter of other local enter- prises. In politics he is an ardent Re- publican. He has served three years in borough council, and was one of the most active members in the advocacy of inunicipal improvements. Mr. Pollock is strictly a self-made man, and by in- dustry, integrity and a close application of good business qualifications has won a fair competence. He was married, April 4, 1879, to Emma, daughter of Charles and Wil- helmina Miller, of Philadelphia, who has borne him two children : Emma, born 1880, died 1884; and Laura, born March 29, 1881, who resides at home. HON. CARLILE SHEPHERD, of Buck- ingham township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, was born October 19, 1834, on the farm adjoining his present residence, that had been the home of his ancestors for three generations. He is a son of Cornelius and Jane (Fell) Shepherd, both natives of Buckingham township. Cornelius Shepherd, the great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, is said to have come to America from Germany in 1752, accompanied by a brother and two sisters. He located in Baltimore county, Maryland, where he married into a family who were members of the Society of Friends, and became a member of the Society. On 6 mo. 5, 1/75, he produced at Buckingham Meeting a certificate from Gunpowder Monthly Meeting in Maryland for himself, wife Catharine and children Rachel, Joseph, Alargaret, Jonathan and Mary. The birth record of these children as shown by the Buckingham records is as follows : Rachel, born 7 mo. 3, 1762 ; Joseph, born 5 mo. 31. 1764; Margaret, born 10 mo. 4, 1766; Jonathan, born 6 mo. 8. 1771 ; and Mary, born 6 mo. g, 1774. He purchased the Buckinghatn farm of no acres in 1789, and spent his remaining days thereon, dying in 1819. He was disowned ^^iy/c.^/^^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 481 by the Friends in 1779 for taking the oath of allegiance to the United Colonies, and refusing to acknowledge his sorrow there- for. His wife Catharine having died, he married (second) on April 23, 1801, Phebe" Scott, who survived hjm, dying at the residence of Thomas Smith, in Buckingham, 4 mo. 18, 1832, at the age of ninety-four years, three months and four days. His daughter Rachel married Joseph Burgess, of Buckingham, 2 mo. 6, 1786. Joseph mar- ried Sarah, daughter of John Carlile, March 24, 1788. Margaret married Isaiah Michener, 3 mo. 5, 1789; Jonathan mar- ried out of meeting and was disowned in 1798; and Mary married Mechack Miche- ner, March 30, 1793. Joseph Shepherd, grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, as above stated, mar- ried Sarah Carlile in 1788. By the will of his father the Buckingham farm was de- vised to the two sons, Joseph and Jonathan, they paying the legacies to the daughters and a dower to their stepmother. In 1820 they partitioned the farm between them, Joseph getting the western half, fifty-seven acres. He died in 1821, and the farm de- scended to his eldest son, Cornelius, the father of the subject of this sketch, who spent his whole life thereon. The children of Joseph and Sarah (Carlile) Shepherd were : Elizabeth, married William Car- min ; Rachel, married William Jones ; Re- becca; Cornelius; John; Benjamin; and Joseph. Cornelius Shepherd, the eldest son, was bom on the old homestead in 1797, and died there in 1881. With the exception of a few years prior to the death of his grand- father, when his parents resided in New Britain, his whole life was spent on this farm. In politics he was a Democrat, and took an active part in the councils of his party. He served one term as director of the poor. In religion, he conformed to the principles of the Friends, whose meetings he and his family attended. He was a member of Doylestown Lodge, I. O. O. F., and was an active and influential man in the community. He married Jane, daughter of Eli and Rachel (BradshawO Fell, who was born 2 mo. 12, 1809, on an adjoining farm, and a descendant of one of the oldest fami- lies in the neighborhood, an account of which is given in this work. She was a granddaughter of Seneca and Grace (Holt) Fell, great-granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Hartley) Fell, and great-great- granddaughter of Benjamin and Hannah (Scarborough) Fell. Cornelius and Jane (Fell) Shepherd were the parents of eleven children, seven of whom grew to maturity, viz. : Joseph, born 7 mo. 6, 1828, now living in Philadelphia; Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 25, 1829, widow of Robert Long, now living with her son, ^Varren S. Long, at Doylestown; Martha / nn, born 2 mo. 8, 1833, widow of Robert A -mstrong, now living at Lock Haven, I msylvania ; Carlile ; Cornelius, born I lo. 20, 1837, an eminent physician of 31-3 Trenton, New Jersey, died 1902 ; Sarah Jane, born 8 mo. 9, 1840, unmarried, living with her brother Carlile; Watson F., born 12 mo. 28, 1843, a lawyer at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Jane (Fell) Shepherd died 7 mo., 1889. The subject of this sketch, born 10 mo. 19, 1834, was reared on the old homestead and acquired his education at the public schools. He has never followed any other vocation than that of a farmer except that he taught school a part of a term as a substitute for an uncle. He remained on the homestead until 1883, from which time until 1902 he farmed in Buckingham as a renter. In the latter year he purchased his present farm of thirty-five acres. In poli- tics he is a Democrat ; he was elected in 1892 to the state legislature and served one term. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Doylestown, of which he has been an elder for thirty years. He has been the superintendent of the Sabbath school at Friendship School for thirty years. He married in 1867 Hannah B. Overholt, daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann (Pick- ering) Overholt, of Chester county, Penn- sylvania. She died in April, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd were the parents of three children — Harry W., deceased; Wilmer S., now in the stationery business in Philadel- phia ; and Laura P., wife of Robert Mc- Neal}', in the employ of the Easton Electric Railway Company. HENRY C. SHEPHERD, of Bucking- ham, was born in that township, and is a son of John Carlile, and Elmina (Shaw) Shepherd. On the paternal side he is a descendant of the family mentioned in the preceding sketch, being a grandson of Joseph and Sarah (Carlile) Shepherd, and great-grandson of Cornelius and Katharine Shepherd, who migrated from Baltimore county, ]\Iaryland, to Buckingham in 1775. John C. Shepherd, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born on the old homestead in Buckingham, and in early life learned the trade of a shoemaker and fol- lowed that occupation in Plumstead town- ship for several years. In 1850 he pur- chased the farm of 126 acres in Bucking- ham, nowr owned by the subject of this sketch, where he resided from that date until his death in 1883. He was an active worker in the Democratic party, and served one term as coroner of the county, 1855- 1857. He was for many years a trustee of the Hughesian Free School, and ^Iso a director of the public schools. In religion he was a Friend. His wife. Elmina Shaw, was a daughter of Aaron and Susanna (Brown) Shaw, and was born in Plum- stead township, May 4, 1814, and was mar- ried to John C. Shepherd, April 4, 1838. She died April 29, 18S6. The pioneer ancestor of this branch of the Shaw family was John Shaw, a native of England, who settled in Northampton 482 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. townsliip in 1697, purchasing in that year 300 acres of land. By his wife Susanna he had ten children, who have left numerous descendants in Bucks county and elsewhere. James Shaw, eldest son of John and Susanna, was born January 9, 1694. In 1724 he purchased of his father-in-law, Thomas Brown, a native of Barking, Essex county, England, 200 acres of land in Plum- stead township, a part of which remained the property of his descendants until 1903, and settled thereon. He died December 3, 1761. By his wife, Mary Brown, he had six children; the sixth, Alexander, born November 24, 1734, died January 11, 1790. was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch. He inherited the old homestead and lived his whole life thereon. He mar- ried Sarah, the widow of Moses Brown, by whom he had eight children. Aaron Shaw, the eighth child of Alexander and Sarah Shaw, was the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. He was born on the old homestead. August 19, 1778, and died November 3, 1838. He lived on a portion of the old Shaw homestead. He married. December 13, 1804, Susanna Brown, of Plumstead. The children of Aaron and Susanna (Brown) Shaw were: Rachel; Amos B. ; Charles M. ; Harvey ; Elmina. the mother of the subject of this sketch; John A. ; Aaron and Gilbert. Both the Shaws and Browns were prominent people in Buckingham and Plumstead township. where they were large landowners. Both families were members of the Society of Friends, and there was a number of inter- marriages between them. The Browns donated the land upon which the Plum- stead meeting house stands. The children of John C. and Elmina (Shaw) Shepherd are: Harvey S., of Chi- cago, 111.; John A., of Buckingham; Henry C. ; Charles S., deceased, who was insur- ance commissioner in Chicago ; and Emily, of Buckingham. Henry C. Shepherd, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the Buckingham farm and obtained his education at the Hughesian School. His father was an in- valid for many years prior to his death, and, his two brothers having left home to seek their fortunes in the west, the active management of the farm devolved upon him soon after attaining manhood. In 1884 he purchased the farm, his mother removing to the village of Buckingham, where she died two years later. In 1891 Mr. Shepherd was appointed clerk of the board of county com- missioners and removed to Doylestown, where he resided for four years. Return- ing to Buckingham, he again took up the management of the farm. In 1900 he re- moved to the village of Buckingham, but still continues the active management of the farm. In politics he is a Democrat, and takes an active part in the councils of the party. He has served three years as school director, and in 1899 was elected trustee of the Hughesian School for life. He is a member of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., of Doylestown. He married, in 1883, Minnie W. Holloway, daughter of Henry and Ellen Holloway. of Philadelphia, both deceased. Mr. and Airs. Shepherd are the parents of one child, Isabelle Emily, born October 18, 1893. A. OSCAR MARTIN, architect, of Doylestown, was born at Dublin, Bucks county, September 8, 1873, and is a son of Jonas and Mary Catharine (Crouthamel) Martin. Jonas Martin, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 'a native of Bucks county, and of German descent, his ancestors having been among the earliest German settlers in upper Bucks. He was a veteran of the civil war, having enlisted in Company D, Captain Jacob Swartz- lander, in the One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel W. W. H. Davis, on September 17. 1861, being commissioned sergeant of the com- pany. He served the full term of his en- listment, three years, and re-enlisted in the same company for the war. After his re- enlistment, with a number of other mem- bers of the company stationed at Philadel- phia, while the company was being recruited, he paid several visits to his family. In January, 1865. they were ordered to the front and proceeded to Point of Rocks, Virginia, where Sergeant Martin was at- tacked with acute diarrhoea, and died Jan- uary 24. 1865. and is buried in the Na- tional Cemetery at City Point. Virginia, in Section F, Division i, No. 138. His widow, who was Hannah Hill, of Bedminster, is still living at Durham, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, aged eighty-eight years. Jonas Martin, father of the subiect of this sketch, was born on a farm near Dublin, in Bedminster township, in 1850. He lived on the farm until his eighteenth year, when he was apprenticed to the carpenter trade, and has followed that occupation ever since. He has been a resident of Doylestown for the past thirty years, where he has been a prominent contractor and builder. He married Mary Catharine Crouthamel, who was born in Bedminster township. Bucks county in 1851, the daughter of Michael and Barbara Crouthamel. both of German descent. They were the parents of thir- teen children, twelve of whom survive : Ida. wife of George Freas, a carpenter of Philadelohia : Ezra, a builder and contrac- tor in Philadelphia: A. Oscar, the subject of this sketch: Elmira. wife of Warren Lewis, a painter, residence Philadelphia ; Barbara, residing at home : Frank, a car- penter residing in Philadelphia : Laura, Raymond, Emma, Hannah and Howard re- siding at home. A. Oscar Martin, the subject of this sketch, was an infant when his parents removed to Doylestown. and his education was acquired at Doylestown high school. He learned the carpenter trade with his father, but at the age of seventeen years be- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 483 gan the study of architectural drawing, and in 1892 entered Drexel Institute, Philadel- phia, where he took up a special course for the study of architectural work. He early displayed special talent for this branch of work, and prior to his college course de- signed numerous buildings. Atter his grad- uation he spent nearly three years in the offices of prominent architects in New York city, Philadelphia and Buffalo, New York, thereby gaining the necessary experience to equip him for a successful career in his chosen profession. He then located in Doylestown, where he is doing a fine busi- ness. The German Reformed and Meth- odist churches were designed by Mr. Mar- tin, as well as numerous prominent build- ings in other parts of the country. His plans for the development of the grounds and location of building of the Bucks Coun- ty Historical Society were accepted by the building committee, and he drew the sec- ond prize in the competition. Politically Mr. Martin is a Republican. He is a mem- ber of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F. Religiously he is a member of the German Reformed church. He was married in January, 1896, to Miss Minerva Fretz, "of Bedminster, and they are the parents of three children : Marian Cathryn, died April 30, 1905; jMargaret F., and Fred F. LEHMAN & SONS. The enterprising firm of Lehman & Sons, retail and whole- sale butchers, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, has been for many years one of the promi- nent business firms of Doylestown. Michael Lehman, the senior member of the firm, was born at Landow, Bavaria. April 22, 1828, and came to America about 1850. He first found employment with John G. Myers, of Plumstead, and later with John Clem- mens, of Doylestown township. In 186 1 he started the business of pork butchering at the corner of State and Pine streets, where McGinty's printing establishment now stands, and two years later moved to his present location on the opposite side of State street. In 1865 he entered into part- nership with Samuel Hall, of Doylestown, and largely increased the business, adding in 1867 the beef butchering branch and shipping large quantities of meat to Phila- delphia. In 1876 he purchased Mr. Hall's interest in the business, and took his son Harry C. into the firm. In the autumn of the same year the other son, Arthur C. also became a member of the firm, under the name of Lehman & Sons, which has continued to the present time, doing a large and successful business, wholesale and re- tail, and maintaining a high standing as a reliable business firm. Mr. Lehman is a son of Joseph and Mar- garet (Diemer) Lehman, and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Schaffer) Lehman, who were fa^-mers in Germany. Joseph was •one of six children : Michael, Peter, Jacob, Joseph, Elizabeth and Catharine. Joseph and Margaret (Diemer) Lehman had three children : Adam, Michael and Elizabeth. Adam also came to America, settling in Philadelphia in 1830, and removing later to the neighborhood of Doylestown, owning and occupying the farm lately occupied by the Doylestown Country Club, south of the town, and also owning a small farm at Pebble Hill. He married a Miss Schreiner, and had seven children : John, Joseph, Henry, Adam, Charles and two others who are deceased. Michael Lehman married Hester Deemer, daughter of Bernard Deemer, of Rockhill township, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, where she was born, Oc- tober 25, 1825. She was of German descent, but her ancestors had been residents of Bucks county for several generations. (See Deemer Family, in this work). Mrs. Leh- man died in Doylestown in 1896. Michael and Hester (Deemer) Lehman were the parents of two children — Harry C, and Arthur C, the two junior members of the firm of Lehman & Sons. ARTHUR C. LEHMAN, eldest son of Michael and Hester (Deemer) Lehman, was born at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, November 22, 1855. He received his preliminary education at the public schools of Doylestown, and finished the course at the Doylestowai English and Classical Seminary. From 1869 to the fall of 1876 he filled a clerical position in Philadelphia. He then returned to his native town and entered into business there with his father and brother Harry C, and has since been an active mem- ber of the firm of Lehman & Sons, having special charge of the wholesale department, and attending to the trade in Philadelphia. He married. November i, 1877, Elvina Kemble, daughter of Charles and Eliza- beth (Thompson) Kemble, of Philadelphia, and took up his residence on State street, Doylestown, where he still resides. Mrs. Lehman died June 30, 1900. They are the parents of three children, viz. : George W., born November 26, 1879; Addie L., born November 16, 1881 ; and Harry L., born April 14, 1886. George W. received his primary education at Doylestown and then took a four years course at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and later graduated from a medical university in Tennessee. Addie L., is possessed of re- markable musical talent; she is a graduate of the Sternburg Musical Conservatory at Philadelphia, and is considered one of the ablest performers on the piano in Bucks county. She has conducted a number of musicales in Bucks county, Philadelphia and elsewhere, and has officiated at many high class musical . entertainments. Harry L., the youngest son, is at present a student at a preparatory academy in Franklin county, Pennsvlvania. HARRY C. LEHMAN, second son of Mi- chael and Hester (Deemer) Lehman, was born at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, February 26, 1858. He acquired his education at the Doylestown public school and Doylestown English and Classical Sem- 484/ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. inary. On leaving school he entered his fa- ther's butchering establishment and meat store, and in the spring of 1876 became a partner in the business, and is still a member of the firm of Lehman & Sons. He mar- ried, November 21, 18S8, Mary C. McAnall, adopted daughter of William McAnall. She was born in Philadelphia, June 14, 1866. They are the parents of two children : Charles F., born September 21, 1889, now a student at a preparatory school m Frank- lin county, Pennsylvania; and Bertha, born January 11, 1893, a student in the Doyles- town high school. filled other than local offices. He is a practical and successful farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Brunner have been born three children: Wallace, deceased; Benjamin Franklin, and Harvey Leroy. HARVEY S. BRUNNER, of Bucking- ham township, Bucks county, is a worthy representative of one of the oldest Penn- sylvania German families in Bucks county, and of that sturdy race who by industry, frugality and rectitude have added much to the wealth, prosperity and moral standing of the county. Many of his name have found homes in Bucks .county, the first Brunner arriving in Pennsylvania in 1728. The subject of this sketch is a son of Solomon and Bar- bara (Shelly) Brunner, both natives of Springfield township, Bucks county, and was born in Bedminster township, March I, 1857. Solomon Brunner was born in the year 1822, and his wife Barbara two years earlier. On their marriage they settled in Bedminster township, where he followed his trade, that of a car- penter, later locating at Danboro. in Plumstead township, where he resided for three years. A few years prior to his death, which occurred on March 14, 1896, he removed to Telford, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. His widow is a resident of Hatfield, Montgomery county. They were the parents of eight children, five of whom survive: Cath- arine, wife of Abraham Rohr, of Bed- minster; Isaiah, residing in Indiana; Charles, of Hatfield; Harvey S. and Thomas, of Bethlehem, Pennsjdvania. The family were members of the Ger- man Reformed church. Harvey S. Brunner was reared in Bed- minster township and received his edu- cation in the public schools, and at the age of eighteen years began teaching in his native township, which he followed for two years. After two years devoted to painting, he took up the carpenter trade under Louis High, of Bedminster, and followed that trade for nine years. In 1886 he married Hannah Overholt, daughter of Abraham and Hannah Over- holt, of Bedminster, and for three years conducted the farm of his father-in-law. In the spring of 1890 he purchased his present farm in Buckingham and moved thereon. He and his family are mem- hers of the Mennonite meeting. In pol- itics he is a Republican, but has never HENRY CLAY LARGE. Among the most successful, enterprising and scien- tific farmers of Bucks county is Henry Clay Large, of Buckingham township. He was born in Buckingham on Febru- ary 2, 1846, and is a son of William M. and Anne (Watson) Large. The Large family is one of the oldest in Bucks county, though the lineal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were residents of New Jersey for three generations. Joseph Large and Elizabeth his wife came to Bucks county from Long Island about 1690, and settled in Falls town- ship, where he died about 1706, leaving four sons: John, who settled in Bristol, Joseph, the ancestor of the Larges of middle Buckingham; Samuel and Eben- ezer. Samuel Large settled in early life in Kingwood, Hunterdon county. New Jersey, where he purchased a large tract of land. He was one of the original members of Kingwood Friends' Meeting in 1744, and was an elder until his death, 6 mo, 9, 1765, and travelled ex- tensively in this and other provinces in the "service of truth." Jacob Large was born in Kingwood and became an ex- tensive farmer there. He married 8 mo., 1746, Mary Bunting, and raised a fam- ily of nine children: Aaron; Elizabeth; Samuel; Anne, married Isaac Lundy; Mary, married John Allen; Ebenezer; Rebecca; William; Sarah. William, ' born 7 mo. 14, 1765, married Susanna Palmer. William M. Large, father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born in King- W'obd township, Hunterdon county. New Jersey, June 17, 1812. being a son of Will- iam and Susanna (Palmer) Large. His father died when he \yas a babe, and at the age of twelve years he came to Doylestown and was apprenticed to James Kelh^ then editor and proprietor of the "Bucks County Intelligencer," to learn the printing trade. He served his term, and, arriving of age, remained in the ofiice a few weeks, and then went to Philadelphia in search of a job. Here he encountered Seneca W. Ely, a native of Buckingham, just returned from Rochester, New York, where he, too, had learned the printing trade, and the two young printers formed a partnership, purchased a press, and removed to Chil- licothe. Ohio, where they started a print- ing office. At the end of a year. Mr. Large having been solicited by his pre- ceptor to return and take an interest in the business, came back to Doylestown and entered into partnership with Mr. Kelly. They ran the "Intelligencer" for HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 48: two years, 1835-36, when Mr. Large re- tired from the hrm, but one year later bought the entire interest of Mr. Kelly and conducted the paper with good suc- cess until March 14, 1841, when he sold out to Samuel S. Fretz. He then pur- chased a farm in Upper Buckingham, and followed farming for the next fif- teen years. In 1857 he became one of the banking firm of J. Hart & Co., of Doylestovvn, and retained his interest therein until about 1864. During the fif- ties he purchased the farm wdiereon the subject of this sketch now resides, on the Buckingham and Doylestown turn- pike, known as Chestnut Grove Farm, and erected the present handsome and commodious buildings, and took up his residence there, where he died. May 20, 1893, in his eighty-first year. William M. Large w^as a man of more than or- Rachel Atkinson, daughter of William and Margaret (Baker) Atkinson, of Bris- tol, Bucks county, and a granddaughter of Henry Baker by his second wife^ Mary Radcliffe. Henry Baker, the ma- ternal grandfather of Rachel (Atkinson) Stapler, came to Bucks county from. Darby, Lancashire, England, in 1684, with wife Margaret, and seven children — two sons. Samuel and Nathan; and five daughters: Rachel, who married Job Bunting; Sarah, who married (first) Stephen Wilson and (second) Isaac Milnor; Phebe. who married (first) Ed- ward Radcliffe, and (second) William Stockdale; and Esther, who married Thomas Yardley. Henry Baker was. one of the most prominent men of Bucks county in his day. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and the early meetings of the society were held at his house prior to the erection of Falls Meeting House. He was one of the committee to lay out Bucks county into townships in 1690; was one of the early justices of the courts of the county, and a member of the colonial as- sembly from 1685 to 1698. His second wife, Mary Radclifife, whom he married 8 mo.. 13, 1692, was the widow of James Radcliffe, whom she accompanied to America, from Chapel Hill, Rosendale, Lancashire, in 1685; it was their son Richard who married Martha Stapler in 1709, and their son Edward married Phebe Baker, as above shown. James Radcliffe was a noted minister among: Friends, and died in 1690. Mary died in 1715- William Atkinson, the father of Rachel Stapler was a son of Thomas and Jane (Bond) Atkinson, both ministers among Friends, who were married at Knares borough Meeting, in Yorkshire, in 1678. and some years later migrated' to Pennsylvania with their three sons, Isaac. W^illiam and Samuel, and settled in Bucks county. William Atkinson, second son of Thomas and Jane, and the father of Rachel Stapler, was born in Lancashire, and died in Bristol in 1749. He was twice married, his first wife being a daughter of Richard and Margery Hough. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and' HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 487 a prominent man in the community. Thomas and Rachel (Atkinson) Stap- ler were the parents of six children, viz.: William, who married 11 nio. i, 1780,- Mary Mitchell; John, see forward; Stephen, Sarah and Esther, who died unmarried; and Thomas, who married 4. mo. 24, 1794, Acsah Yardley, ilaughtet of William and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley. John Stapler, son of Thomas and Rachel, was born in Midtiletown town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and was reared, in Bensalem township. On attaining manhood he married and set- tled in Lower Makefield township where he followed the life of a farmer, and was a considerable landholder. He and his family were members of Falls Meet- ing of Friends; both he and his brother Thomas were part owners of Morns- ville Island, and the industries thereon established, after the failure of Robert Morris. He died in October, 1823. He had married, 10 mo. 21, 1779, Hannah Yardley, born 10 mo. 3, 1758, died 8 mo. 8. 1830, daughter of William and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, who bore him thir- teen children of whom eleven lived to maturity, viz.: Sarah, born 7 mo. 27, 1780, died 1868; Rachel, born 10 mo. 25, 1781, died 1854; Acsah, born 4 mo. 3, 1783. died 3 mo. 11, 1861, married Charles M. Reeder; Ann, born 10 mo. 16, 1785, died 1851 ; Esther, born 9 mo. 30, 1787, died 1844; Thomas, born 3 mo. 25, 1789, died 12 mo. 28, 1842, married Sarah Bunt- ing; Mary, born 5 mo. 30, 1792, died 1867; John, born 10 mo. 19, 1793, died 9 mo, 23, 1834, see forward; Charles, born 5 mo. 8, 1795. died 11 mo. 13. 1865, mar- ried Sarah Jones; Hannah, born 7 mo. 19. 1797; and Christiana, born 9 mo. 23, 1803, died I mo. 15, 1876, about three years before Hannah. William Yardley, the maternal grand- father of the above children, was born 3 mo. 25, 1716, and died 8 mo. 3, 1774. He was sheriflf of Bucks county, 1752-55, and a justice of the courts of Bucks county 1764-70. His wife, Sarah Kirk- bride, was a daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride; her father and both her maternal and paternal grandsires were members of the colonial assembly and justices of the courts of Bucks county at different periods. John Stapler, third son and ninth child of John and Hannah (Yardley) Stapler, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born near Yardley, Lower Makefield township, Bucks county. 10 mo. 19, 1793. He learned the trade of a miller, and located at Lam- bertville, New Jersey, in 1820, where he operated a mill for several years as a member of the firm of Lukens and Stapler. About 1827 he removed to Bucking- ham, where he operated the mill at Me- chanics Valley, now owned by Oliver J. Rice, for four years. In December, 1830, he purchased a farm of two hundred acres in Upper Makefield, and removed there in April. 1831, and died 9 mo. 23, 1834. He married 4 mo. 18, 1822, Su- sanna Betts, daughter of Zacariah and Mary Betts, of Upper Makefield, and granddaughter of Thomas and Susanna (Field) Betts. Thomas Betts, the grand- father, was born on Long Island, August 14, 1689, and died at Newtown, Bucks county, April, 1747. He was a son of Thomas and Mercy (Whitehead) Betts, and a grandson of Richard and Joanna Betts, who came from England in 1648 to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and removed soon after to Newtown, Long Island, where the former died November 18, 1713, at the age of one hundred years. He was a member of the colonial assem- bly in 1665, and filled the office of sheriff and many other important positions on Long Island. After the death of John Stapler his widow and family removed to the village of Dolington, where she died in February, 1847. The children of John and Susanna (Betts) Stapler were: Joseph Betts, born 7 nio. 28, 1823; John M., the subject of this sketch; and Mary Ann, born 6 mo. 8, 1830. John M. Stapler was born in Buck- ingham, 5 mo. 6, 1828, and was but six years of age at the death of his father. He was reared at Dolington, and was educated at the Claremont Academy, conducted by Yardley and Edward Buck- man, at Rising Sun. He taught school in Makefield for two years. In 1839 he went to Doylestown, where he and his brother Joseph B. conducted a store five years; his brother was then fifteen years old. In 1854 he removed to Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery county, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits for a period of three years. He then re- moved to Norristown, where he con- ducted a store for several years. In 1864 he came to Newtown and entered into partnership with W. Kirk Carver, and the firm conducted the store now occupied by Evan T. Worthington for ten years. In 1874 he purchased the store now conducted by his son-in-law, William T. Wright, where he was ac- tively engaged in mercantile pursuits for upwards of twenty years. He married II mo. 18, 1852, Margaret Rich, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Pennington) Rich, of Doylestown, and they were the pa- rents of two children: Fanny, who died young; and Emma, born 10 mo. 14, i860, who married in 1887. William T. Wright, son of Mark and Louisa Wright. Mr. Wright was reared in Falls township, and comes of an old family that have been associated with lower Bucks for many generations. He became asso- ciated with Mr. Stapler in the conduct of the Newtown store upon his marriage in April, 1887, and is now its proprietor. Mr. and Mrs. Wright are the parents 488 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. of two children — John Stapler and J\Iar- garetta. Mrs. Stapler died July 7, 1S97. Mr. Stapler is a worthy representative of a worthy ancestry that have in the past, as shown by the preceding sketch, held many positions of trust and honor, and been closely associated with the de- velopment and maintenance of our in- stitutions in the state and county tor many generations. Like all his Ameri- can ancestors he is a member of the So- cietj- of Friends. He has enjoyed a long and successful business career, and en- joys the reputation of a careful, conserv- ative and conscientious business man. For over sixty-five years engaged in ntercantile pursuits, he has been brought in close contact with the people, and has always enjoyed their confidence, and esteem. HARRY B. SCHMITT. Among the enterprising and successful farmers of Buckingham' township, is Harry B. Schmitt, who was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1865, a son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Baukert) Schmitt, both na- tives of Germany. Leonard Schmitt was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, m 1828. He learned the trade of a black- smith in his native country, and in 1852 emigrated to America. With him came his affianced wife, Elizabeth Baukert, who, failing to obtain the cpnsent of her parents to marry the man of her choice, fled with him to America and was married to him at Philadelphia on their arrival. Mr. Schmitt worked at his trade in Philadelphia for about six months, and then removed to Hagers- ville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a journeyman blacksmith for two years, after which he removed to Line Lexington and 'worked one year. He then opened a shop of his own at Reiff's corner, Hilltown, where he did a prosperous business for twenty- four years. In 1876 he took up the tailor- ing business, and was successful finan- cially, but returned to the anvil after two years. In 1887 he purchased the farm in Buckingham where the subject of this sketch now resides, and con- ducted it until the marriage of his son, Harry B., when he retired from its ac- tive management. He died in 1900, and his wife Elizabeth died in 1892. Mr. Schmitt was a Democrat in politics. He and his family were members of the Ro- man Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schmitt w^ere the parents of nine children, only three of whom sur- vive: Harry B.; Philip, now living in Oklahoma; and Mary, a widow of James McColgan, of Philadelphia. The subject nf this sketch was born m Hilltown, and removed with his parents to Buckingham in 1887. On November 18, 1890, he married Mary Kern, a na- tive of Plumstead, daughter of John and Christiana (Saylor) Kern, the former a native of Bingen, and the latter of Baden, Germany. Mr. Schmitt assumed the conduct of his father's farm in 1891 and purchased it in 1897, and takes pride in making it one of t4ie neatest and most productive in the neighborhood. In poli- tics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the German Aid Society of Doyles- town, the Doylestown Mennaerchor, St. Joseph's Society, and a number of other benevolent institutions. Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt have two children, Ruth Elizabeth and Grace. THEODORE P. HARVEY, for a quar- ter of a century an expert telegraph opera- tor, was born in Doylestown township, February 18, 1833, being a son of Joseph and Ann (Horner) Harvey. Mr. Harvey was reared on the farm and received such education as could be attained at the pub- lic schools, and afterwards" 'was a pupil of Rev. Silas M. Andrews in a private school at Doylestown. He was an apt student and acquired a good education. He studied telegraphy and learned the manipulation of the key under Thom.as H. Walton, of Doylestown, when seventeen years of age, and soon became an expert operator. After filling the position as operator at Doyles- town he was called to Allentown. and from there to Norristown. At the latter place he also conducted a drug store. In 1858 he went to Cincinnati, where he filled a responsible position for one year, during which time he was called upon to transmit a presidential message, which he did accu- rately and expeditiously. In 1859 he re- turned to Doylestown and assumed the management of the local telegraph business, and continued in that capacity until his death, on February 5, 1886. He w'as inter- ested in several local enterprises, and was at one time joint owner with the late James Kane of the Doylestown Gas Works. He was a careful business man, a good ac- countant, and faithful and efficient in all trusts reposed in him. He was a member of Doj-lestown Council, No. 166, Jr. O. U. A. M., and the treasurer of that institution for many years prior to his death. In poli- tics he was a stanch Democrat. He was married in 1861 to Lydia A. Shearer, daughter of Jesse W. and Margaret (Kneedler) Shearer, of Doylestown town- ship, who survives him, and is a resident of Doylestown. Jesse Shearer, father of Mrs. Harvey, was born in Montgomery county in 1808. In early life he was a school teacher, and later was a clerk in Polk's store at White- hallville (now Chalfont), for some j-ears, and then went into the mercantile business for himself at North Wales. After suc- cessfully conducting the store there for several years, he removed to a farm in Warrington township. Several years prior sK "^ ■^■oy . HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 48; to his death he removed to Doylestown, where he died June 3, 1886. His wife, Margaret Kneedler, was born in Mont- gomery county in 181 5, and died in Doyles- town in 1882. They, as well as their daughter, were members of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Harvey was their only child. ASA MATLACK STACK'HOUSE, M. D., of Moorestown, New Jersey, formerly of Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, 7 mo. 21, 184s, and is a representative of one of the oldest and most prominent families in Bucks county. He is a son of Robert and Ann Roberts (Matlack) Stackhouse. The ancestry of the Stack- house family is traced in England to the year 1086, and in America traces back to the year 1682, when Thomas Stackhouse, of the village of Stackhouse, in the dean- ery of Craven, West Riding of York- shire, came to America, arriving at New Castle 10 mo. 27, 1682, accompanied by his wife Margery and two nephews, Thomas and John Stackhouse. They all settled in Middletown township and took up large tracts of land. Thomas Stack- house, the elder, lost his wife Margery, who died 11 mo. 15, 1682, and he mar- ried in I mo., 1702, Margaret Atkinson, nee Fell, daughter of Christopher Fell, of Newtown, Lancashire, and widow of Christopher Atkinson, who had died on board the "Britanica" in 1699 on his way to Pennsylvania. Thomas Stack- house died in 1706 without issue. Thomas and John Stackhouse both reared large families in Middletown, and have both left numerous descendants. The latter died in Middletown in 1757. Thomas Stackhouse was a very prom- inent man in the community, represent- ing his county in the colonial assembly of Pennsylvania for the years 171 1 to 17 15, inclusive, and then declining a re-elec- tion. He was also collector of proprie- tary qifit-rents for Bucks county; served !as one of the commissioners to lay out roads, and in many other capacities of trust. He was one of the active mem- mers of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends, and built their meeting house in 1690. He took up 507 acres of land in Middletown on th6 Neshaminy, and in 1707 bought 1200 acres of Francis Rich- ardson. He died 4 mo. 26, 1744. He was three times married; first, on 7mo. 27, 1688, to Grace Heaton, daughter of Rob- ert and Alice Heaton, who was born in Yorkshire, I mo. 14, 1667, and accom- panied her parents to Pennsylvania in 1682 in the "Welcome" with William Penn ; she died 8 mo. 8, 1708, and Thomas married (second) on i mo. i, 1711, at Falls Meeting, Ann Mayos, widow of Ed- Ward Ma3'Os, who died 5 mo. 6, 1724. and Thomas married a third tiine, in 8 mo., 1725, Dorothy Heston, widow of Ze- bulon Heston of Wrightstown, who sur- vived him. Thomas and Grace (Hea- ton) Stackhouse were the parents of nine children, viz. : Samuel, John, Rob- ert, Henry, Grace, Alice, Thomas, Jo- seph and Benjamin. Thomas and Ann (Mayos) Stackhouse were the parents of live children, viz.: Isaac died at age of two years; Jacob, Ann, Sarah and Isaac. Nearly all these children lived to rear families and have left numerous descendants, the four daughters marrying into the families of Longshore, Plumly, Wilson and Gary. Thomas and Dorothy (Heston) Stack- house left no children. Robert Stackhouse, third son of Thomas and Grace, was born 9 mo. 8, 1692. He married Margaret Stone and settled on a tract of land purchased by his father, "adjoining Pigeon Swamp" in Bristol township, which was later de- vised to him by his father's will. He later removed to Berwick on the Sus- quehanna, where he resided until his death in 1788, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. Robert and Margaret were the parents of eight children: Thomas, Joseph, James, Grace, Benja- min, Alice, William and Robert. James Stackhouse, third son of Rob- ert and Margaret (Stone) Stackhouse, was born in Bucks county 11 mo. (Jan- uary), II, 1725-6, and married 10 mo. 13, 1750, Martha Hastings, who was born 4 mo. 27, 1722. daughter of Samuel and Mary (Hill) Hastings, and granddaugh- ter of Joshua Hastings, who represented Chester county in the colonial assembly, residing then near Chester, but later re- moved to Philadelphia. His son John^ Hastings married Grace Stackhouse, sis- ter of James. The children of James and Martha (Hastings) Stackhouse were: Margaret, Hastings, Mary, Amos, Mar- tha, James, and another Amos, who died in infancy. James, the father, died in Philadelphia, 8 mo. 16, 1759, and his wife Martha died 6 mo. 23, 1806. He is in- terred at the Arch street Friends' bury- ing ground. Amos Stackhouse, third son of James and Martha (Hastings) Stackhouse, was born 5 mo. 4, T757, and was 'married at Mt. Holly. New Jersey, i mo. 14, 1779, to Mary Powell, born 7 mo. 9, 1763, daughter of John and Susanna (Bryan) Powell, granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Perdue) Powell, who were married August 10, 1729. Isaac being a son of John and Elizabeth (Parker) Powell, and a grandson of Robert and Prudence Powell, the former of whom came to New Jersey in the ship "Kent." 6 mo. 16. 1667. and settled near Bur- lington, West Jersey. Amos Stackhouse died 4 mo. 5. 1825. and his widow Mary 7 mo. IS, 1841. They were the parents of thirteen children, viz.: Susanna, Hast- ings, Martha, Powell, Esther, Martha, 490 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. second of the name; James, Samuel i'., Amos, Robert, Mary P., John P., and another Robert who had died in infancy. Robert Stackhouse, son of Amos and Mary (Powell) Stackhouse, was born in Philadelphia 12 mo. il, 1801, and died I mo. 6, 1881. He married (first) 4 mo. 23, 1829, Elizabeth Davis Kimber, of Richard and Elizabeth, by whom he had: Tacy J., born 3 mo. 13, 1830, died II mo. 2, 1837; Edward Livingston, born 3 mo. 27, 1833; Tacy Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 25, 1838. He married (second) Ann Roberts Matlack, daughter of Asa and Tamar (Roberts) Matlack, 9 mo. 21, 1841, by whom he had Asa ^latlack Stackhouse, born 7 mo. 21, 1845. Tacy Elizabeth, of Robert and Elizabeth, married i mo. 2, 1862, Allen Lippencott, M. D., of Fallsington, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Dr. Lippincott died 2 mo. 28. 1863, when she married 11 mo. 25, 1867, Milnor Gillingham, who is also de- ceased; no issue. Tacy E. Gillingham and her brother Edward L. Stackhouse reside at Fallsington, Pennsylvania. The paternal ancestor of Matlock fam- ily was William Matlack, born about the year 1648 in Cropwell Bishop, Notting- hamshire, England, who came to Bur- lington county, West Jersey, with Dan- iel Wills in the ship "Kent," arriving at Burlington in October, 1677. In 1682 he married Mary Hancock, from Brayles, Warwickshire, England, aged about six- teen years at the time of her marriage. They were the parents of nine children: John, George, Mary, William, Jr., Rich- ard, Joseph, Timothy, Jane and Sarah. Of these Timothy, who married Mary Haines in 1720, was the father of Tim- othy Matlack, at one time secretary of the continental congress and for many years secretary of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania during the Rev- olution. William Matlack, Jr., third son of William and Mary (Hancock) Matlack, married in 1713 Ann Antrim, daughter of John and Frances Antrim, of North- ampton township, Burlington county, who were among the earliest settlers in Burlington county. New Jersey, where John died in 1719. William Matlack, Jr., died in Chester township, Burlington county. New Jersey, in 1730, leaving chil- dren, Jeremiah, William, Rebeckah, Rachel, Leah, Mary, James and Ann. William Matlack (3) born 6 mo. 31, 1725, married Mary Turner in 10 mo. I, 1748, and their son Reuben Matlack, born II mo. 17, 1757, married Elizabeth Coles, in i mo. 22,. 1783, a descendant of Samuel Coles and of William and Thomas Budd, all early members of the colonial assembly of New Jersey, and their son Asa Matlack. born 10 mo. 21, 1783, who married Tamar Roberts 5 mo. 12, 1807, was the father of Anna Rob- erts Matlack, who married Robert Stack- house. ASA MATLACK STACKHOUSE was. educated in the public schools of Moores- town, New Jersey, and entered the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1865. He sub- sequently studied medicine, graduating from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1868, and practiced med- icine in Attleborough (now Langhorne) Bucks county, and elsewhere for a num- ber of years, but has now retired from practice and resides at Moorestown,. New Jersey. He has always taken, an interest in local history and the gen- ealogy of the old families of Bucks county and vicinity, and has contributed 'a number of articles on these subjects to the local papers. Dr. Stackhouse was married at Allen- town, Pennsylvania, 12 mo. 8, 1868, to- Ella Jane Romig, daughter of William J. and Mary Ann Catharine (Royer) Romig, and they are the parents of two- children: Williain Romig Stackhouse, of Moorestown, New Jersey, who was born in Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, January 10, 1870, and mar- ried Rebecca Gibson; and Ernest Robert Stackhouse, born at Allentown, Pennsyl- vania, December 3, 1884. Another child, Ernest Raymond, born January 17, 1874,. died young. William R. Stackhouse above mentioned has been for several years past engaged in connection with his cousin, the late Powell Stackhouse, ^in extensive gen- ealogical researches, and his history of the Stackhouse Family is now in press. SUMMERS FAMILY. Hance Georgt Summers ( Sommer in German), the an- sector of the Summers family, and great- great-grandfather of William Summers, of Conshohocken, with his wife Elizabeth and children Johannes, Hans Martin, George, Peter and Margaretha Elizabeth, arrived in Philadelphia from Germany on Septem- ber 22, 1752, in the ship "Brothers," Cap- tain William IVIuir. Philip and Henry, also sons, arrived Septenfber 22, 1754, in the ship "Edinburg," James Russel, master. Hance George Summers resided in Lower Dublin township in 1769. Johannes, born 1737, married, January 24, 1764, Elizabeth Reidannauer; at the date of his marriage his residence was near New Hanover. (There was a John in Moreland in 1774.) Children: John, born February 24, 1765. Martin died in March. 1804 ; married July 6, 1769, Anna Barbara Geiss ; children: Philip ; Henry ; and Elizabeth, married Loedwyk Sharp. Martin lived in Lower Dublin in 1769; he was an employe in the United States mint from its organization to 1804, as were also some of his descend- ants down to 1899 ; he was a private in Cap- tain Ezekial Lett's company in the war of HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 49 i the Revolution ; muster roll, August 25, 1779. Feter died November 24, 1783 ; married August 3, 1769, Catharine ^laenchen. Chil- dren : Ernest, Margaret and Catharine. He lived in North Ward, Philadelphia, in 1774; he served in the war of the Revolution, filling the following positions in the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment ; ensign, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and quarter- master. George, born April 5, 1745; died October 14, 1825; married Ann , born 1752, died March 16, 1829. Children : John, died 1781 ; Eli ; David and Martin ; George was a drummer in the Sixth Pennsylvania Regi- ment in the war of the Revolution. He re- sided at the time of his death in Warring- ton township, Bucks county. He and his wife and son John are interred in the churchyard of Upper Dublin Evangelical Lutheran church, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. Henry died October, 1798; marred, May 6, 1766, Catharine Dessinger. Children : Mary, married Daniel Linker; Henry Sum- mers Linker, and Elizabeth, who married 'Squire Clevenger. Henry was enrolled as a private in Captain Isaac Cooper's com- pany, muster roll dated November 2, 1778, war of the Revolution. He resided in the city of Philadelphia. Philip Summers, great-grandfather of William Summers, was born October 2, 1728; died May 2, 1814; married February 24, 1764, by the Rev. Henry Melchoir Muh- lenberg, pastor of St. Michael's and Zion's Lutheran church, Philadelphia, to Salome Reibel, daughter of Nicholas and Susannah. Salome, born 1739, died May 20, 1817. Philip and his wife are interred in the churchyard of St. John's Lutheran church, Race street, Philadelphia. Philip purchased November 24, 1774, a farm of 165 acres in Horsham township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, of Charles Steadman, and here resided until March 29, 1796, when he sold his homestead to Job Spencer and removed to Philadelphia. Previous to pur- chasing his farm he resided in the follow- ing places : Douglass, Cheltenham, and Manor of Moreland in 1769. Philip was enrolled as a private in Captain David Mar- pole's company, 1777-1780. His name is in the depreciation pay roll, Pennsylvania Ar- chives, vol. 13, p. 721. Children: 1. Martin Summers, grandfather, born December 5, 1764, died July 27, 1845. (See forward.) 2. Nicholas Summers, born September 10, 1767, died March 24, 1854 ; married Ann Hoover, born November 8, 1776, died Au- gust 8, 1827. Children : John, Sarah, Isaac and Enos. 3. Philip Summers, born 1770, died July 3, 1834; married Catharine Hurst, born De- cember 18, 1772, died June 18, 1827. Chil- dren : Henry, John, Philip, William, Anna, Mary, Jesse and Charles. 4. John Summers, born 1770, died April 10, 1846; married Catharine Kneedler, born 1777, died February 12, 1835. Children : Jacob, John and Elizabeth. 5. Anthony, born 1773, died August 22,. 1816, single. He enlisted May 4, 1812, for five years in the Fourth Regiment United States army, and died at Creek Agency. 6. George Summers, born 1775; married Elizabeth Dotts. Children : John, George,. Jacob, Henry, Samuel, Mary and Elizabeth. 7. Henry Summers, born 1775; married Maria Magdalena Shearer, died. May 24, 1802. Children: Henry and Samuel. Mar- ried (second) Susannah Johnson. Chil- dren: Elizabeth and Elijah. 8. Peter Summers, born 1778, died March 12, 1865 ; married Susannah Schwenk, born July 24, 1770, died March 10, 1865. Chil- dren : Eva Maria, Sarah and Noah. 9. Elizabeth Summers, born September I, 1781, ded October 12, 1803. Martin Summers (grandfather,) named above, born December 5, 1764, died July 27, 1845 ; married Elizabeth Houpt, born Au- gust 4, 1766, died November 4, 1822. Issue: Sarah, married George Bossert ; Georgt, married Sarah Hilkerd; Martin, married Elizabeth Freed ; Anna Margaret, married Nicholas Gouldy; Philip, married Ann Shutt ; Elizabeth, marred Andrew Keel ; Samuel, married Eliza Whitby; Hannah,, married Philip Shambough. Martin mar- ried (second) December 11, 1823, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Sterigere, born January i, 1770; died June 21, 1853. She was the widow of Peter Sterigere, sister to his first wife. He and first wife are interred in the church- yard of St. John's Episcopal church, Nor- ristown, Pennsylvania. His first place of residence was in Horsham township, second Gwynedd township, third Providence town- ship, 1803; fourth Norriton township, where he purchased, April 5, 1810, a farm of 104 acres of John Brown. He was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran church,. North Wales (known as "the yellow church"). He was elected a deacon of this church November 16, 1796. His residence at that time was Gwynedd township. Samuel Summers (father), son of Martin and Elizabeth (Houpt) Summers, was born in Providence (now Upper Providence) towuship September 27, 1804; died July 18, 1881 ; married March 22, 1832, by Rev. George Wack, to Eliza Whitby, born March 22, 1809, died November 16, 1898. She was the daughter of Anthony and Mary (Berk- heimer) Whitby. He resided in the bor- ough of Norristown, and for several years was employed by the borough ; in later years he bought and sold country produce. He and his wife are interred in Montgomery ceme- tery, Norristown, Pennsylvania. Children : William (subject), born May 30, 1833. Martin, born November 2, 1836 ; died May 12, 1872 ; was a soldier in the Civil war. Company G, One Hundred and Fourteentn Pennsylvania Regiment. Charles, born De- cember 2, 1839; died January 14, 1874; em- ployed as a clerk with his brother William, at Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Anna Elizabeth, born January 7, 1843 ; resides at 492 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Norristown, Pennsylvania. George i\I., born July 19, 1845 ; died November 12, 1872 ; was a soldier in the Civil war, Com- pany D, Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Regi- ment. Alljert, born April 24, 1848; resides at Norristown, Pennsylvania; married Theresa Manes ; no issue. William Summers, the eldest son of Sam- uel and Eliza (Whitby) Summers, was born May 30, 1833, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He received his education in the public schools. In the year 1851 he was employed as a clerk in a general store at Consho- hocken, Pennsylvania. In 1858 he con- menced business as a dealer in general mer- chandise on the corner of Fayette and W^ashington streets. In 1880 he erected the store on the corner of Fayette and Elm streets, where he continued business until the year 1900, when he retired. He took an active part in promoting the growth and improvement of the borough. He was ■elected burgess of the borough of Con- shohocken for two terms, and also served as a member of town council and school director for several terms. He also served as a director in the Conshohocken Gas and Water Company. At the present time he is librarian of the Montgomery County His- torical Society and a member of the Penn- sylvania German Society. On October 10, 1858, he married Henrietta Yost, born March 26, 1833 ; died May 18, 1887, daugh- ter of Abraham and Maria (Christman) Yost. She was a great-great-granddaugh- ter of Jacob Yost, born March 16, 1696; married July, 1732, Elizabeth Shambough. He emigrated to ths country from Zwi- brucken, Germany, landing in Philadelphia, September 21, 1727. Children : William E. Summers, born June 6, i860, ■died March 9, 1897; married, February 8, 1888, Anne Donnelly, born June, 1866. Chil- dren: William, born November, 1888; died July, 1889; Frances, born July 9, 1891. Clara E. Summers, born July 16, 1865; married July 26, 1900, John Murray, born July 14, 1865. They reside at Wharton, New Jersey. Lillian E. Summers, born December 5, 1875. OLIVER M. THOMAS, of HiUtown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, near Line Lexington, is the sole survivor, of the paternal name, of a family that was once very numerous in Hilltown, and whose members were among the largest landown- ers and most influential people in the town- ship. He also resides on land taken up and improved by his ancestors nearly two cen- turies ago. Rev. William Thomas, or as he was more familiarly known, "Elder Thomas," the pa- ternal ancestor of the Thomas family of Bucks county, was born in the year 1678, in Lanwenarth, Merionethshire, Wales, on the borders of England. He belonged to a family that possessed considerable means, being freeholders of a considerable estate. His parents were members of a Baptist church in Merioneth, and he was reared in the tenets of that faith, and, receiving a superior education for his time, and being of a studious and pious disposition, he be- came a speaker in religious meetings of his sect when still a young man, and, though never an ordained minister, continued to administer to the spiritual needs of his neighbors through his en- tire life. Rev. Abel Morgan, for many years pastor of the Baptist church at Penny- pack, and the founder of the Montgomery Baptist church, and also a native of Mer- ioneth, was his acquaintance and friendf Prior to his coming to America his parents located on a farm called Blassaw of Wyn, in the parish of Bedwlldy, some distance from the place of his nativity. At the death of his parents he sold the patrimonial estate, and being possessed of sufficient means to settle himself comfortably in a new country where land was cheap, he made his pre- parations to embark for Pennsylvania. He had married in 1710 Ann (maiden name not recorded), born in 1680, and his eldest child Thomas was born in Wales in 171 1. In January, 1711-12, he transported his house- hold goods and his wife and infant child to Bristol, England, and, having engaged passage on a ship lying there bound for Philadelphia, had his goods, clothing ana the greater part of his cash taken aboard. Being informed that the ship would not sail for several days, he took his family to the country to await the day of sailing. Though he returned before the appointed time, the ship had already sailed, though still in sight. After an ineffectual attempt to overtake her he was forced to await the sailing of a later vessel. He and his family arrived in Phila- delphia on February 14, 1712, and, though he found the vessel there in which his goods had been transported, the dishonest master had absconded with everything of value he could lay his hands on, and he had the mortification of seeing some of his own clothes on the backs of persons who had bought them of the dishonest master. Wholly without funds or any worldly po- sessions, he was forced to look about for means of obtaining a livelihood. Fortun- ately, he had learned the useful craft of a cooper, and, meeting with a family by the name of Watkins, whom he had known In the old country, he obtained sufficient funds to pay for his passage and to equip him in a modest way to follow his trade. In the latter part of the year 1713 he located in Radnor township, now Delaware county, where he followed the trade of a cedar cooper for some time, returning later _ to the east side of the Schuylkill and locating in the Northern Liberties. By industry and shrewd business tact in the course of five years he accumulated sufficient funds to re- pay his benefactors and to warrant him_ in fulfilling his original intention of becoming a freeholder. At that time the township of Hilltown, though already surveyed, was he'd in large tracts of one thousand to three HISTORY OF ^BUCKS COUNTY. 493 thousand acres by a few residents of Phila- delphia and vicinity. Among these was Jeremiah Langhorne, of Bucks county, then chief justice of Pennsylvania. Of him Mr. Thomas purchased 440 acres lying along the county line between Line Lexington and Telford, for eighty-eight pounds. The pur- chase, being consumnidt.^d Februarv 12 1718, William Thomas removed his growing family to his new purchase, which 'vas- en- tirely unimproved. He soon erected a sub- stantial though modest house which_ con- tinued to shelter him and some of his de- scendants until nearly a century later, being demolished in 1812. Continuing his life- long habits of industry and thrift, he was able five years later to purchase another tract of three hundred acres one and a half miles further north, part of which is still in possession of the subject of this sketch. In 1725 he purchased 406 acres ^ in two tracts, one of them adjoining his first pur- chase, and the other adjoining the New Britain line, where he later erected a Bap- tist church and gave to the township, with land sufficient for a graveyard. In 1728 he purchased another fifty acres, making in all 1258 acres, whose total cost was 361 pounds. He continued 'his religious labors from the time of his arrival in Pensylvania, and on locating in Hilltown united himself and his family with Montg'imery Baptist church which had been founded in 1714. This church being, however, over three miles away, he began to minister to* the Welsh Baptist settlers in Hilltown, located still farther away from the church, first at his and their houses and in the open air, and later at the little meeting house erected on land donated by him as before stated. He also assisted the Rev. Benjamin Griffith in his pastorate of Montgomery church. The meeting house erected by him in 1737 stood for forty-four years, being demolished in 1771, and a more commodious building erected in its place. Death closed the earthly career of this pious Welsh pioneer on October 6, 1757, and a large flat marble slab marks his last rest- ing place in the shadow of the church his earnest labors had helped to establish, on which is inscribed the date of his death and age, and the following singularly appro- priate and unique epitaph, composed by himself : "In yonder Meeting House I spent my breath ; Now silent mouldering here I lie in death. These silent lips shall wake and yet declare, A dread Amen to truths they published there." His wife preceded him, dying Novemoei 5, 1752, at the age of seventy-two years. By his will dated December 11, 1753, he devised to the inhabitants of Hilltown for- ever the meeting house erected by himself, and the graveyard in which to bury their dead, both to be for the use of the people of whatever religious creed, "Papists and those who refuse to take the oath of allegiance to a Protestant king excepted," and, in reference to the graveyard, "those guilty of self-murder only excepted." The house was also to be used for school purposes. A considerable sum was also devised for the use of the Baptist church. His large rea! estate holdings were divided among his children, most of whom were already set- tled on the lands then devised to them. Elder William Thomas and Ann his wife, were the parents of seven children; 1. Thomas, born in Wales in 171 1, died in Hilltown, January, 1780. 2. John, born in Radnor, Delaware coun- ty, December, 1713, marrjed Sarah James, and was for many years pastor of the Mont- gomery and Hilltown Baptist churches and has left numerous descendants. 3. Gwently, born 1716, married Morris Morris. She inherited from her father the farm near the meeting house, and she and her husband are the ancestors of the Morris family of that section, and many others scattered all over the country. 4. Anna, born 1719, married Stephen Rowland, some of whose descendants still reside in Hilltown. 5. Manasseh, born 1721, died in Hill- town, February 7, 1802. 6. William, born 1723, married Abigail Day, and died in Hilltown in 1764. 7. Ephraim, a twin of Anna, born 1719, married Eleanor Bates, and died in 1776. All these children left families and spent their lives in or near Hilltown. Thomas Thomas, the eldest son of Elder William Thomas, was the direct ancestor of the subject of this sketch. He married in 1735) Margaret Bates, and settled in a house erected for him by his father on the tract purchased in 1725, of Rowland Ellis, and this tract and fifty acres of the first purchase of his father was devised to him later. In addition to this he purchased in 1735 seventy-nine acres, and in 1750 he purchased a tract of five hundred acres,, but immedi- ately conveyed one hundred acres, each to his brothers Manasseh and John. With the 250 acres received from his father he was therefore the owner of 629 acres. He was a member of the Montgomery Baptist church, but attended the Hilltown Baptist church and became a member there on its acquiring a separate existence. He died in January, 17S0. His first wife, ^Margaret Bates, died prior to 1750, leaving three chil- dren, Morgan, born 1736, removed to New Jersey, where he died unmarried ; Ann, who married (first) John Custard, and late in life Jacob Appenzeller; and Alice, born 1746, married John Mathias, and died in Hilltown, October 25, 1810, leaving a large family. Thomas Thomas married a second time prior to 1750, Mary Williams, who bore him ten children, viz. : Elizabeth, mar- ried Henry Godshalk ; Esther, married William Williams ; Job, born 1751, married Rebecca Bates, daughter of Thomas and Sarah; Amos, born 1752, married Ruth Bates, sister to Rebecca, removed to Vir- ginia, where he was a captain in the Revo- 494 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. lution. Jonah, born 1754 or 1755, married Sarah Freeman, daughter of Richard ; Cath- , arine, married Charles Miller, and settled in Northampton county ; Asa, born Febru- ary, 175H, married Martha James, daughter of Abel and Mary (Howell) James, of New Britain, was a soldier in the Revolu- ton; Sarah, born 1760, married Patrick Maitland, and settled in Buffalo Valley, (Union county, Pennsylvania) ; Abel, born 1762, married Mary James, another daugh- te- of Abel and Mary (He well) James and settled in Shenandoah Valley; Anna, twin Oi Abel, married Joseph Mathias. Job Thomas, eldest son of Thomas and Mary (Williams) Thomas, was born on tlie old homestead in 1751. Though two of his brothers were soldiers in the Revolutionary army, he held aloof from the patriot cause, and had little faith in its ultimate success. In 1774 his father and mother conveyed to him 150 acres of the 500 acre tract pur- chased in 1750, and he later heired tifty acres additional, and lived thereon until 1793, when he sold it and removed to the Buffalo Valley with a part of his family, and later to Shamokin, where he was killed by a falling tree in^June, 1798. His widow and family returned to Hilltown, where the former died June 30, 1819. Job and Re- becca Bates were the parents of eight chil- dren, as follows: i. Thomas, married Mary Mathias. 2. Abiah, married Sarali Ashton. 3. Ruth, never married; 4. Aaui, married Morgan Custard. 5. Zillah, mar- ried Eber Thomas, son of Manasseh. 6. Sarah, married Richard Heacock. 7. Mary, married Owen Rowdand. 8. Ann, married Issachar Thomas, son of Elias and grand- son of Ephraim Thomas, third son of Elder WiUiam Thomas. Ephraim had heired from his father a portion of the 300 acres pur- chased by Elder William Thomas in 1723, and upon which his father had erected him a house in 1740, and this tract descended to his son Elias, and through him to Issachar, and from him to his son Levi, who lived thereon until his death in 1886, being then the last survivor of his name as a land- owner in Hilltown. Levi Thomas devised the old plantation for life to Oliver ]M. Thomas, the subject of this sketch, he be- ing the grandson of his mother's brother Abiah Thomas. Abiah Thomas, second son of Job and Rebecca (Bates) Thomas, married Sarah Ashton. He was a farmer for many years in ^Montgomery township, Montgomery county, and had two sons, Alfred and Hi- ram, the former of whom died in Phila- delphia in 1882. Hiram Thomas, second son of Abiah, was born in Hilltown, Bucks county, but was reared in iMontgomery county. He was for several years a school teacher in Hatfield and other parts of Montgomery county, and later a farmer in Montgomery tow^nship. He died in Lower Providence township, Montgomery county. His wife was Pru- dence Roberts, daughter of John Roberts, and of Welsh descent, and they were the parents- of six children, as follows: Eliza, Kate; Oliver M., Alfred, Sarah J., wife 01 Nathan R. Wamsher ; and Robert. OLIVER iM. THOMAS, eldest son of Hiram and Prudence (Roberts) Thomas, was born in ^Montgomery county, July 25, 1836, and was educated at the public schools of Gwynedd township. Early in life he learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he followed for thirty-two years. In 1886 he was devised the farm on which he now re- sides in Hilltown, for life, by his cousin Levi Thomas, and has since resided thereon. In religious matters he holds to the faith of his ancestors for many generations, and is a member of the Baptist church. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Thomas married November 25, i860, Elizabeth Fens- termacher, of Lower Providence township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and they have been the parents of three children : Samuel, who died at the age of three years ; Hiram Brook, who died at the age of ten months ; and Eliza Katharine, who died at the age of nine years. THE HENDRICKS FAMILY, of Bucks county, is one of the oldest in Pennsyl- vania, its progenitors forming part of that little colony that emigrated from the dis- trict of the Lower Rhine, in Rhenish Prussia anjl Westphalia, and founded Ger- mantown in 1684-5. There under the lead- ership of the gifted Pastorius they founded the first Mennonite congregation in ^.mer- ica, established schools, and a little later a printing press, and gave a tremendous impetus to the growth of religious freedom. Gerhard Hendricks, of Kreigsheim, a little village on the Rhine, with wife Sytie, sons Wilhelm and Lendert, daughter Sarah and servant Heinrich Frey, came to Penn- sylvania in the "Frances and Dorothy" Oc- tober 12, 1685, with Peter Shoemaker and a number of others who became prominent in the affairs of not only the German settle- ment on the Schuylkill, but of the province of Pennsylvania. Prior to the organization of the Mennonite congregation many of those who were later Mennonites, affiliated with the Friends and took part in their re- ligious meetings. Among these were Ger- hard Hendricks and the Opden Graf broth- ers from Crefeld, who, with Hendricks, signed the famous protest against human slavery that was presented first to the Ger- mantown Friends Meeting in 1688. and by them forwarded to the monthly quarterly and yearly meetings of the society. Sarah, the daughter of Gerhard Hendricks mar- ried Isaac Shoemaker. September 28. 1709. the colonial assem- bly passed an "Act for the better Enabling the Divers Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania, to Hold and Enjoy Lands, Tenements and Plantations in the same Province." by which over eighty of tlie then German residents of Germantown and vicin- itv were naturalized. The list is headed by HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 495 Francis Daniel Pastorius, and contains the names of the Cunrads, Keysers, Luckens, Tysons, Shoemakers, Neuses and many others, whose descendants became later residents of Bucks county. Among these persons then naturalized were William Hen- dricks and his sons Henry and Lawrence Hendricks. Lawrence (or Lourentz) Hen- dricks was one of the first settlers on the Skippack, in what is now Towamencm township, Montgomery county, having pur- chased of Jomes Shattuck, February 30, 1713, 120 acres in that section on which he settled. At the time of his purchase he was a resident of Upper Dublin township, and is denominated in the deed as a "hus- bandman." He later became a tanner. On November 22, 1724, Isaac Pennington, ot Bucks county, conveyed to Lawrence Hen- dricks, of Skippack, fifty acres of land "near Skippack" and adioinmg his first purchase. In 1748 he purchased 246 acres in Hatfield township, iii acres of which he immediately conveyed to his son Henry Hendricks. Towamencin was formed into a township in 1728, and on the tax lists of 1734 appear the names of the following landholders: Paul Hendricks, 100 acres; Lawrence Hendricks, 150 acres ; Leonard Hendricks, 100 acres; and Henry Hen- dricks, 123 acres. Henry was the brother naturalized with Lawrence, and Paul and Leonard were doubtless also brothers, though born in America. Leonard mar- ried Elizabeth Turner, daughter of Herman Turner, of Germantown, and purchased his land in Towamencin at about the same date as Lawrence's second purchase, December 20, 1720. He died in 1776, leaving children: William. Mathias, Herman, Mary and Eliza- beth. Paul Hendricks died in 1775, leav- ing widow Margaret and sons Paul, Will- iam, John and Peter ; and daughters Cath- arine; Mary, wife of Henry Fry; Sophia, w'ife of Nicholas Godschalk; Susanna; Elizabeth, wife of Herman Hendricks ; and Rachel, wife of William Nash. Lawrence Hendricks' wife was Janneke or Jane Tyson, daughter of Cornelius Ty- sen, of Germantown, who died in 1716, leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, - Mathias and Peter; and daughters; Barba- ra, wife of Mathias Cunrad; Alice, wife of John jCunrad; Willietnptie, wife of Pail Engle ; and Jannicke, wife of Laurentz Hendricks. Paul Engle settled near his brother-in-law, Lawrence Hendricks, on the Skippack, and his tombstone dated 1723 is the oldest in the Skip- pack jMennonite burying ground. Law- rence Hendricks died in Towamencin township in September, 1753, his wife Jan- neke surviving him. Their children were Peter, Benjamin, Cornelius, Margaret, wife of Peter Tyson; Henry; Sedgen (or Seytje), wife of Walter Jansen : William, John and ]\Iathias. Benjamin married Katharine, daughter of William Nash. William died in 1776 leaving an only child Jane, who married Daniel Sampey. Cornelius Hendricks, the ancestor of the Bucks county branch of the family, was born in Towamencin township, now Mont- gomery county, about the year 1720. He married prior to the death of his father in 1753, Mary Bean, who bore him two chil- dren, Benjamin and Christiana. He was a farmer in Worcester and" Towamencin townships. Benjamin Hendricks, son of Cornelius and Mary (Bean) Hendricks, was born and reared in Montgomery county, and married there Esther Clemens, and followed the life of a farmer for some years in Lower Sal- ford township, in connection with his trade of a weaver. Iii April, 1800, he purchased of Samuel Moyer a farm of 107 acres in Hilltown township, Bucks county, and re- moved thither. He was one of the sub- stantial and prominent agriculturists and business men of the community, and ac- quired a competence. He died on the Hill- town farm in 1831, his widow Esther sur- viving him. Their children were as fol- lows : Catharine, who married Isaac Bech- tel ; Abraham, married Barbara Bean, and died in 1820, leaving children, Henry, Ben- jamin, Susan and Jacob; Jacob (the great- grandfather of J. Freeman Hendricks, of Doylestown) married Mary Drissel ; John, married Mary Alder fer, see forward; I\Iary, who married Samuel Moyer; George, died young; Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Bergy ; Joseph, who married Elizabeth George ; and Susanna, who married Joseph Swartz. Benjamin, the father, having- con- veyed sixty-seven acres of his first pur- chase to his son Abraham in 1814, had pur- chased in 1812 of Benjamin ^ouder 106 acres adjoining. This old homestead has remained in the family ever since, and is now occupied by Joseph G. Hendricks, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (George) Hen- dricks. John C. Hendricks, fourth child of Ben- jami"h and Esther (Clemens) Hendricks, was born in Montgomery county, Decem- ber 20, 1794, and was reared and educated in Hilltown township, Bucks county, where his parents settled when he was at the age ■ of five years. He married April 4, 1820, Mary Alderfer, daughter of Frederick Al- derfer, born September 21, 1796. John C. Hendricks was a successful farmer in Hill- town all his life. He died at Blooming Glen. Hilltown township. October 7, 1881, and his wife Mary died February 4, 1861. They, like their ancestors, were Mennonites, and "belonged to the Blooming Glen con- gregation. He was a prominent man in the community. The children of John C. and ]\Iary (Alderfer) Hendricks, were seven in number, as follows : Benjamin, rnarried Susanna Leatherman and has six children ; Frederick, never married ; Jacob, married Anna Moyer and has three chndren; Jo- seph A., see forward; Abraham, married (first) Lydia Hunsicker (second) her sister Mrs. Feilman, and (third) Eliza Moyer; Elizabeth became the wife of Amos Penny- 496 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. packer, and has three children; Hettie Ann wedded Jacob Landis and has five children. JOSEPH A. HENDRICKS, one of the most prominent and successful business nicn of upper Bucks, and for the last thirty years a resident of the thriving borough of Perkasie, which town he helped to lay out, is a son of John C. and Mary (Alder-.. fer) Plendricks, and was born in Hilltown township, May 20, 1827. He was reareu on his father's farm and acquired his edu- cation at the local schools. He learned the carpenter trade at the age of twenty years, and followed that vocation until his mar- riage in 1859, when he embarked in the feed, coal and lumber business at Seilers- ville. After successfully conducting that enterprise for thirteen years he sold out to Abraham S. Cressman, and in partnership with Mahlon H. Moyer purchased the old Nace farm, where the town of Perkasie now stands, and laid it out in building lots. The project was a success from the start, and the town grew rapidly. He erected a large three-story building near the railroad, and engaged in the mercantile business. His old stand is now the thrivmg estauiishment of Bissey & Baringer, dealers in clothing and general merchandise. Mr. Hendricks has been interested in various business en- terprises, but now lives retired in his hand- some residence at the corner of S'^vonth and Market streets, Perkasie. He has been a director of the Lansdale National Bank for thirty-two years; is treasurer of the borough of Perkasie; treasurer of the Per- kasie and Bridgetown Turnpike Company; was treasurer for several years of the Per- kasie Water Company, and has served sev- eral years as school director. He is a mem- ber of the Mennonite congregation at Blooming Glen, and in politics is a Repub- lican. He married December i, 1859, Mary Yeakle, daughter of Samuel Yeakle. and they are the parents of one child,- Emma, born February ir, 1865, now the wife of Tobias S. Bissey, senior member of the firm of Bissey & Baringer, before referred to. Mr. and Mrs. Bissey have one child, Stella May. JOHN AUBREY CREWITT, M. D., of Newtown, was born at Reidsville, ]\Iifflin county, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1853, and is a son of Alfred and Jane (Dorland) Crewitt, the former of English and the lat- ter of Holland descent. Richard Chandler Crewitt, grandfather of Dr. Crewitt, was born in Marjdand and married at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1805, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Bcrryhill, of Harrisburg, where she was born January 5, 1777. Their children were Fannie, ]\fatilda, Aubrey, and Alfred, the father of Dr. Crewitt. Alfred Crewitt was born in t8ii. He became a prominent iron master in Huntingdon county, Pennsyl- vania. He was a man of prominence in that county, where he resided for many- years. He and his family were prominent members of the Presbyterian church, as- were his ancestors for three hundred years. He died April 5, 1857, while holding the ofifice of county treasurer. Ilis wife was Jane Dorland, daughter of Isaac and Jane (McNamara) Dorland, who died May 8, 1884. The paternal ancestor of Jane (Dorland) Crewitt, was Jan Gerretse Dorland, who emigrated from Holland in the year 1652, and settled at Brooklyn, Long Island, where he was an elder in the Dutch Reformed church. He was twice married. By his first wife, who was a Jans, he had three children: Maeretje, baptized April 11, 1672; Geertje, baptized August 19, 1674; and Gerret. He married (second) An- nettje Remsen, born April 11, 1669, d ugh- ter of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, a native of Drenthe,- Holland, who married Dec ~i- ber 21, 1642, Jannetje, daughter of T Rapalie. His descendants dropped t ur- name and were known by the na. .e of Remsen, signifying sons of Rem. Jnhn (or Jan) Dorlandt, baptized at, E ooklyn church. March 20, 16S1, married (first) Marretje (Mary) and his son John, bap- tized at Brooklyn, July 17, 1701, was the great-great-great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. The other children were: Cornelia, baptized August 7, 1705; Lambert, George, Jacob, Isaac, Hermina^ Eve, and Abraham. John Dorian It, Sr., married (second) in 1718 Barbair; Aukes Van Nuys, daughter of Auke Jii se Van Nuys, who was baptized April 2ii [702. In 1720 he left Brooklyn, and after ap lort stay among his relatives on the Rariti in New Jersey, removed to Moreland ■ "iiownship, Philadelphia, now Montgome;y county, Pennsylvania, and purchased in 1726 a farm from William Brittian, near Somerton. Lambert Dorlandt married in September, 17,31, Elizabeth Brittian; George married in 1735 Catharine Whiteman ; Jacob married in 1741 Ann Hewitt ; Isaac, in 1753, Mar- garet Johnson ; Hermina married Charles Hufte; Eve married in 1751 John Brit- tian, all the above having accompanied their father to Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Brittian, who married Lambert Dorlandt, was a granddaughter of Nathaniel Brittian, an early English settler in Kings county, L. I., where he married in 1660 Anna, daughter of Nicholas Stilwell, and later removed to Staten Island, where he died in 1683. Of his ten children several removed to Penn- sylvania at about the same date as the Dorlandt family, and have numerous de- scendants in Bucks county. The children of Lambert and Elizabeth (Brittian) Dor- landt were Nathaniel, John, Lambert, Esther, all born in Moreland. John Dorland, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born at Somerton in T754. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and an active man in the community. He married Ann Robin- son and had children, Joseph, Rebecca,. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 497 Isaac, Sarah, Eve, Elizabeth, Jacob, John, Jr.. Mary, Ann. Isaac Dorland, the grand- father of Dr. Crewitt, was born at Somer- ton, December 8, 1782, and married Feb- ruary 25, 181 1, Jane ]McNamara, of Scotch- Irish descent, who bore him eight children, of whom the third was Jane, who married Alfred Crewitt, and became the mother of the subject of this sketch. The children of Alfred and Jane (Dorland) Crewitt were : Isaac, Elizabeth, Howard, Andrew, Jane, Edward, William; John Aubrey, the subject of this sketch, born March 29, 1853 ; Thomas. Isaac and Howard Crewitt were both in the service of their country during the Civil war, the former holding the rank of lieutenant and the latter that of sergeant. Dr. Crewitt was reared at Huntingdon and attended the public school there. He filled the position of mail agent for three years, and in the meantime studied medicine with Dr. D. P. Miller, of Huntingdon. In 1874 he entered the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1876. In the year of his graduation he lo- cated at Robertsdale, Pa., where he was in active practice for eight years. In 1884 he came to Newtown, Bucks county, where he has since practiced his chosen profes- sion with success, having built up a large practice. He is a member of and was presi- dent in 1905 of the Bucks County ^ledi- cal Society, and is a member of the Lehigh Valley iNIedical Association, the Pennsyl- vania State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He served five years in Bucks county as school di- rector. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church for thirty-seven j-ears, and a trustee of the Newtown Presbyterian church for eighteen years. Dr. Crewitt married, December 18, 1878, Joanna Bayard Stewart, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Bayard) Stewart, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of three children : Alfred Bayard Crewitt, B.'S., is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania ; Lillian, at home ; and John Aubrey, Jr., who is a student at the George School. Alfred Bay- ard Crewitt became an active worker in the temperance cause before he was sixteen years of age, and was one of the organizers of the Young People's Temperance Asso- ciation of Bucks county in 1899, and presi- dent of the Association until the fall of 1904. when he resigned and his brother, John Aubrey Crewitt, Jr., was elected president. DR. NERI BARNDT WILLIAMS, of Perkasie, physician and druggist, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, February 12. 1863. and is a son of Dr. Cyrenius and Margaret (Barndt) William?, of Easton, both of whom are natives of Bucks county. On the paternal side he is of Welsh descent, the earliest ancestor of whom he have any 32-3 definite record being John Williams, who in 1737 purchased two hundred acres of land in New Britain township, near Crier's corner, on the Hilltown township line, and in 1747 purchased one hundred and fifty acres additional in Hilltown, and one' hun- dred and thirty-five acres adjoining in New Britain. Both he and his wife died prior to 1787, leaving five children : John, an in- valid; Isaac; William; Sarah, wiie of John Parker; and Rebecca, wife of William James, of New Britain, William being ;v Baptist minister. The last three children in 1787 conveyed their interest in their father's real estate to their brother Isaac on condition that he care for their elder brother, John. Isaac Williams, married Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Thomas and Mary (.Williams) Thomas,* and lived all his life on the part of the homestead lying in Hilltown. In 1800 he conveyed the land in New Britain to his sons, Thomas and Benjamin. Elizabeth Thomas was a grand- daughter of Elder William Thomas, who came from Wales in 1712 and settled in Hilltown in 1724. (See Thomas Family). Thomas Williams, son of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Thomas) Williams, born in Hill- town township, Bucks county, Pennsvlvania, May 14, 1776, was the grandfather of Dr.' Williams. April 8, 1800, his father con- veyed to him fifty acres of the land pur- chased by his grandfather, John Williams, i" ^72,7, lying in New Britain township, on the stump road. Here he lived until 1834, when he purchased at sherifif's sale the farm of Nathan Thomas near Silverdale, m Hill- town township, part of the Ephraim Thom- as homestead whereon his wife was born, consisting of ninety acres, and lived thereon until his death, December 8, 1844. He mar- ried about 1800 Eleanor Thomas, born No- vember 10, 1779, died March 31, 1856. I'hey were the parents of the following children : Anna, born May 13, 1804, died June 23, 1822; Eleanor, born October 3, 1805, died March 8, 1817; Joseph, born Februarv, 1808. died, August 2, 1808; Nathan Thomas, born August 21, 1818, died at AHentown. Pennsylvania, January 18, 1901 ; Cyrenious, born January 26. 1821, died 1881 ; Amy, born 1824, died 1865, unmarried; and Thomas, who removed to Reading, where he has descendants. Eleanor (Thomas) Williams was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Brittain) Thomas, and a descendant on both maternal and paternal side from Elder William Thomas, above mentioned., her father, Joseph Thomas, being a son of Ephraim (born 1719, died 1776) and Eleanor (Bates) Thomas, and her mother a daughter of Nathan and Ann (Thomas) Brittain, and granddaughter of Rev. John Thomas, born December. 1713. died 1790., for many years pastor of Hilltown Baptist church, and the eldest son of Elder Will- iam. His wife was Sarah James of Radnor. Dr. Cyrenious Williams, father of Dr. N. *The "History of the Thomas Family" says Eliza- beth married Henry Godshalk. She was the wife of Isaac Williams when her mother made her will in 1781 498 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. B. Williams, was born in New Britain town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1821. He received a goad academic edu- cation and entered Jefferson Medical Col- lege, from which he graduated. lie located in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he practiced medicine until his death in 1885. He was a member of the Lehigh Valley Medical Society and other medical associations. He was a member of the Baptist church, as had been all his ancestors since their settlement in Bucks county. In politics he was a Democrat. He married Margaret ^arndt, born in Hilltown, Bucks county, June I5> 1842, and still living at Easton, Pennsyl- vania. She was a daughter of Neri and Hannah Barndt. the former was born in Bucks county, February 9, 1818, and died March 23, 1902, and he was a farmer in Hilltown and Rockhill townships, and a son of Samuel Barndt. His wife, Hannah Barndt, died in August. 1903. aged eighty- five years, and both are buried at Indian Field Cemetery, Montgomery, county. They were the parents of two daughters : Mar- garet, above mentioned ; and Elizabeth, the wife of William H. Sherm, of New Britain. Dr. Cyrenious and Margaret (Barndt) Will- iams were the parents of eleven children as follows : Courtland B., born June 12, 1861, married Elmira Scheetz, of Quakertown, Pennsylvania; Neri B., the subject of this sketch; Naomi B.. born September 8, 1864, widow of Peter Hill, of Frankford, Indi- ana; Percy B., born April 12, 1807, married a lady of New York city and resides there ; William B., born June 14, 1869, married a lady from New Jersey and resides with wife and three children at Easton, Pennsyl- vania ; Hannah B., born July 14, 1871, mar- ried William Edgar, of Chicago, where they reside and have one child ; Cyrenious B., of Frankford, Indiana ; Margaret B., born May 5, 1876, unmarried ; Nathan B.. born October 15, 1877, married Margaret Hilgert, of William=port ; ElizabeiTi B., born Febru- ary 12, 1880, wife of Arthur Smith, of Easton, Pennsylvania ; and Ruth B., born October 16, 1884. unmarried. Dr. Neri B. Williams is the second child of Cyrenious and Margaret (Barndt) Will- iams, and was born February 12, 1863. He was educated at the public schools of Hoke- daqua, Lehigh county, Pennsvlvania, and subsequently entered the Philadelphia Col- lege of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1885. After his graduation he took charge of a drug store at Pittsburg, where he remained for three years and then went to New York city, where he had charge of a drug store for three j^ears. He had mean- while taken up the study of medicine and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1891. He besan the practice of his pro- fession at Wilkes-Barre, Penns/lvania, where he remained for two years, and then removed to Philadelphia where he prac- ticed for one year. In 1894 he located at Perka^ie, Bucks county, where he has built up a lucrative practice. In 1899 he erected a brick dwelling and store at the corner of Fifth and Market streets and opened a drug store, and, being thoroughly skilled and experienced as a pharmacist and phy- sician, is doing a fine business. He has always taken an active interest in the af- fairs of the town, and has filled the. posi- tion of school director for six years. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fra- ternity, having taken the thirty-second de- gree. He is affiliated with Bethlehem Lodge . No. 283, F. and A. M. ; Zinzendorf Chap- ter, No. 216, R. A. M., of Bethlehem ; Beth- lehem Council, No. t,(>, R- S. ]\I. ; Allentown Commandery No. 20, K. T. ; Philadelphia Consistory; and the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine, Lu Lu Temple, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Perkasie Lodge, K. of P. Re- ligiously he is a member of the Lutheran church, and politically a Republican. He married March 21, 1888, Jennie A. Paul, daughter of Richard C. and Susan (Dawes) Paul, of Brooklyn, ■ New York. Richard C. Paul was captain of a company during the civil war, and was shot through the hip and died in a Philadelphia hospital from the effects of his wound. Dr. N. B. and Jennie Alethea (Paul) Williams are the parents of three children: Beatrice Labira, born October 5, 1895 ; and Gladys and Dorothy W., twins, born September 8, 1901. THE LAUBACH FAMILY OF DURHAM. Samuel H. Laubach, one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Durham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in that town- ship j\Iarch 23, 1834, and he and the fam- ily to which he belongs have been prom- inent in the affairs of that locality for several generations. Christian Laubach, the great-great- grandfather of Samuel H. was a native of the Palatinate on the Lower Rhine, and at the age of thirty-eight years, ac- companied by his father, Rhinehart Laubach, aged seventy years, and his wife Susanna and several small chil- dren, embarked for Pennsylvania in the ship "Queen Elizabeth," Captain Alex- ander Hope, from Rotterdam, and landed in Philadelphia, on September 15, 1738. He was a blacksmith by trade, and was probably induced to settle on extreme northern frontier of the county of Bucks by the then proprietors of the Durham furnace, started in 1727, and then in full blast. He obtained a warrant for the survey of one hundred acres of land in Bucks county, on one of the tributaries of the Saucon Creek, in what became Northampton county in 1752. This war- rant was dated October 31, 1738, but six wrecks after he had taken the oath of allegiance to the English crown. He possibly followed his trade near the furnace for some time, as men of his handicraft were much in demand about HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 499 the mines and furnace and found lucra- tive employment. On May 22, 1745, he obtained a warrant for another seventy- five acres, and in 1755 and 1756 three other tracts were surveyed to him. On one of these he erected a saw and grist mill which was the property of his de- scendants for several generations. Some of the land taken up by him is still oc- cupied by his descendants. By his will •dated March 4, 1762, probated January 5, 1769, he devised his mills to sons Con- rad and Frederick, and his other lands to sons Rhinehardt and Peter. His eld- est son, John George, received 190 pounds, and his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Adam Kuckert, thirty pounds. Johan George Laubach, eldest son of Christian and Susanna, born in Germany November 11, 1729, was the great-grand- father of Samuel H. Laubach, of Dur- liam. He reared a family of twelve children, as follows: Susan, born'^No- vember 7, 1757; John Michel, born No- vember 28, 1759; John, born August 25, 176T; John Christian, born June 30, 1762; Catharine, born February 26, 1764; John Conrad, born December 23, 1766, died young; Anna Mary, born October 21, 1768; Anna Margaret, born January 19, 1770; John Conrad, born March, 1772; John George, born March 5, 1774; Wal- burth, born February 15, 1776; and Eliza- zeth. born April 10. 1779. John George Laubach, born ]\Iarch 5, 1774, tenth child of John George, Sr., ■was the grandfather of Samuel H. Lau- "bach. He married in 1798, Elizabeth Reel, of Williams township, Northamp- ton county, Pennsylvania, and they were the parents of nine children: Mary, born November 11, 1799, married Jacob Boyer; Lydia, born June 7, 1802, mar- ried Joseph Trauger; Anthony, born Oc- tober 18, 1804, married Elizabeth Hess; Elizabeth, born June 23, 1807, married Samuel Rinker; John born July 5, 1810, •died unmarried; Susan, born Januaiv 8, 1813, married Simon Illick; Peter, born January I, 1816. married Lavinia Bach- man; Anna Margaret, born May 30, 1819, married Jacob Hess; and Sarah, born January 14, 1826, married David W. Hess. Anthony Laubach, third son of John George and Elizabeth (Reel) Laubach, born October 18, 1804. was the father of Samuel H. Laubach and Charles Lau- bach of Durham. He married March 17, 1829. Elizabeth Hess, of Lower Saucon, Northampton county, and settled in Dur- Tiam township, where he was a lifelong resident and prominent farmer and busi- ness man. He died March 15, 1891, in his eighty-seventh year. The farm con- veyed to him by his father, George Lau- bach, in 1832, near Riegelsville, pur- chased by George in 1812. is still occu- pied by Samuel H. Laubach. The chil- •dren of Anthony and Elizabeth (Hess; Laubach,. were as follows: Hannah, born March 21, 1830, married Leidy N. Wor- man; George W., born December 23, 1832, married Maria Fraley, is still a res- ident of Durham; Samuel H., born March 23, 1834, married Sarah Rufe; Charles, born August 29, 1836, died Au- gust 22, 1904, married Jane Raub; Frank- lin, born September 13 1838, married El- mira Heller, and is still residing in Dur- ham; Elizabeth, born May 4, 1841, died unmarried; David Anthony, born De- cember 14, 1843, died young; James Francis, born April 25, 1847, died young; Benjamin H., born March 30, 1853, married Lizzie Stover, and is liv- ing in Brooklyn, New York. Samuel H. Laubach, second son of An- thony and Elizabeth Hess Laubach, was born in Durham township, March 23, 1834. He received a good common school education, and later attended the celebrated Vandeveer school at Easton, Pennsylvania, for several terms. He has always been one of the active and pro- gressive men of his township, and has filled a number of positions of trust. He served for many years as a school director of Durham township, and was twice elected to the office of justice of the peace. He is a practical surveyor and civil engineer, and was appointed in 1884 as one of the commissioners to re- trace and locate the boundary line be- tween Lehigh and Northampton coun- ties. He also served as county surveyor for six years, 1877-1883. Mr. Laubach has been interested in various local en- terprises in Durham and vicinity, and has always taken an interest in the af- fairs of the community in which he lives. He has always taken a special interest in botany and mineralogy, and is an au- thority on these subjects in that local- ity. He still resides on the old home- stead near Riegelsville. ]Mr. Laubach married in 1857 Sarah Rufe. and they are the parents of five children, viz.: Vincent R. Laubach, of Riegelsville, born September 21, 1858, married Margaret Jane Leh ; Howard R. Laubach. of Riegelsville, born June 15, 1861, married Laura B. Nicholas; Edgar R. Laubach, of Bethlehem, born June i, 1S68. married Abigail L. Judd; Ida R. Laubach, born June I, 1868, now wife of William H. Judd, of Bethlehem; and Clara R. Laubach, born November 24, 1877. now wife of William H. Bischoff, of Bethlehem. Vincent R. and Margaret J. (Leh) Lau- bach. have the following children: Ger- trude Alice, born November 13. 1881, wife of Charles Lincoln Free, of Phil- lipsburg. New Jersey; Charles Reuben Laubach, born July 16. 1883; Mabel Alma Laubach. born August 8. 1885, wife of Fred Neamand, of Richlandtown; and Laura Lovina Laubach, born October 20, 1887. William H.. and Ida R. (Laubach) Judd, have one child, Florence Alma, 500 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. born December 4, 1893; another daugh- ter, Dorothy Sarah, died in infancy. William H. and Clara R. (Laubach) Bischoff, have one child, George Sam- uel Bischoff, born February 14, 1902. Charles Lincoln and Gertrude Alice (Laubach) Free, have one child, Lincoln Forest Free, born April 8, 1903, the first great-grandchild of Samuel H. Laubach. CHARLES LAUBACH, third son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Hess) Laubach, was born in Durham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1836, and died there August 23, 1904. He was reared on the Durham farm and received a thorough common school education, and afterwards took a classical course in the Vandeveer Collegiate Institute of Easton. In 185s he took up a course of study in phrenplogy and ethnology and later lectured extensively on these subjects. In 1857 he took up the study of practical obstetrics under John Ludlow, M. D., of Easton, Pennsylvania, and at the same time took a thorough course of study on medical electricity. On completing his medical studies he took up the practice of medical electricity, which he followed for thirteen months with success. He then returned to the farm and continued his scientific studies, devoting consid- erable portion of his time to geology and archaeology, and became the best in- tO!mcd g^eologist in Bucks county. He was a member of the Archasology and Palaeontology Society of the University of Pennsylvania, and of the Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, and con- tributed many valuable papers on scien- tific subjects that have been widely pub- lished. He was an indefatigable student of the folk lore and local history of his native section, and was the best known authority as to the conditions and hab- its of the Indians living in that section, as well as of the events pertaining to its early settlement by his own race. The newspapers of the county and elsewhere have published a vast number of his ar- ticles on geology, archaeology and local history that are of incalculable value. He was one of the organizers of the Buckwampum Literary and Historical Society, and served as its secretary until his death, besides contributing a num- ber of valuable papers to its archives, as well as to those of the Bucks County Historical Society, of which he was one of the oldest members. His collection of interesting specimens of minerals and Indian relics and curios at his home in Durham is one of the best of its kind in the state, and he has presented many specimens to the museum of the Bucks Countj^ Historical Society. He was no mere relic hunter or collector, but thor- oughly understood the value and merits of each article in his collection, and any one interested in historical and scientific subjects could spend hours in poring over this valuable collection, and the most lukewarm student could not fail to be interested in his intelligent and Hu- ent explanation of the value and signifi- cance of each article therein. He was also profoundly interested in popular education and all matters pertaining to the advancement and enlightenment of his community. He served several terms as school director, and was dis- trict superintendent of the Durham schools for four years, 1879-1883, and did much for their advancement. In 1885 he represented the the first district of Bucks county in the School Direc- tors' Assciation at Harrisburg. He has been connected with numerous success- ful business enterprises in his district. In politics he was a Jefifersonian Demo- crat of the old school, but took little in- terest in the practical politics of 'the day. He was a member of the Reformed church. On March 29, i860, he married Jane Raub, of Riegeftville, who survives him. Their only child, a daughter, died in infancy. The immediate cause of his death was cancer of the face, from which he suffered for upwards of two years. WATSON P. CHURCH, the editor and proprietor of the Ncivtozvn Enterprise, was born at Center Bridge, in Solebury town- ship, Bucks county, '2 mo. 7, 1849. He is the second son of Eleazer F. and Hannah Brock (Price) Church. Mr. Church is a descendant, through both parents, of Joseph Fell, the pioneer ancestor of the Fells of Bucks county, who in 1705 emigrated from Longlands, in the county of Cumberland, in England, and settled in Buckingham, Bucks county. He was twice married. By his first wife, Bridget Wilson, of Cumberland, he had four children, Joseph, Benjamin, Tamar and Mary. Benjamin, born in Cumberland, 9 mo. I, 1703, married (first^ Hannah Scar- borough, and the fifth chil'd of this mar- riage, Phebe Fell, born i mo. 27, 172,6, mar- ried in 1760 Stephen Kirk, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, of Bucking- ham. The third child of this marriage Elizabeth Kirk, born 10 mo. 19. 1773, mar- ried in 1796 John Price, son of Smith and ^Martha (Carver) Price, of Plumstead, and their daughter, Hannah Brock Price, born January 20, 1814, was the mother of Watson Price Church, the subject of this sketch. Joseph Fell, the emigrant, married (sec- ond) 3 mo. 10, 171 1, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle, (born 1688, died 1784). Rebecca was the daughter of Rev. Thomas Dungan. who came to Bucks county from Rhode Island in 1684 and founded a Baptist church at Cold Spring, in Falls township, and she and her husband were the grandparents of William Doyle, from whose colonial tavern of 1745 Doylestown took its name. Sarah Fell, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, born s^^ \ \- 0. ^ li)hA^.cj. rW YORK T'- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 501 8 mo. 26, T713, married in 1735 Richard Church, who had brought a certificate from a Friends' Meeting in Ireland two years previously, and settled in Bucking- ham. Richard Church obtained a patent for 267 acres adjoining the tract of his father-' in-law, Joseph Fell, in 1741. This tract in- cluded the present Church's school, founded by his sons, and th^ mill at Mechanics Valley, now owned by A. K. Steever. The mill was erected by Richard Church in 1742. Richard Church was a prominent man in the community, and an active mem- ber of Buckingham Friends' Meeting. He died 6 mo. 11, 1776, and his widow Sarah died 10 mo. 11, 1797. He was the great- grandfather of the late Eleazer F. Church, who was the father of Watson P. Church. Eleazer F. Church learned the trade of a printer in the office of the Doylestoivn Democrat, under General John S. Bryan, graduating in 1839. For the next ten years Tie followed other pursuits, being engaged in the mercantile business at both Mechan- icsville and Centre Bridge. In March, 1850, Tie started a newspaper in Baltimore, Mary- land, called the Baltimore County Advo- cate. It was published in the interest of a separation of the county and city of Balti- more in municipal affairs. From Baltimore the paper was removed to Cockeysville, in August, 1850, and from there to Towson, the new county seat, in 1853, where INIr. Church continued its publication until 1865, when he sold it. In the same year he was appointed inspector of internal revenue for three counties in lower Maryland. In 1866 he purchased a half interest in the Herald and Torchlight, at Hagerstown, Maryland, but in a short time disposed of his interest and returned to Towson and started an- other paper under the name of the Balti- more County Free Press. This he sold in March, 1868. and returned to Bucks county and established the Nezvtozvn Enterprise. The paper was a success from the start, and "has always been one of the most popular weekly papers in the county. Independent in politics, clean, newsy, and specially de- voted to local matters, it has found its way into a great majority of the homes in lower Bucks, and has probably the largest circulation of any weekly paper published in the county. Eleazer F. Church continued to conduct the Enterprise until his death, June IS, 1893. He was a man of sterling integrity and irreproachable character, of pleasing address, and possessed of good literary ability, and was exceedingly popular as an editor and as a man. He married Hannah Brock Price, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kirk) Price and had the fol- lowing children: William, born 8 mo. 17, 1847, now a farmer near Taylorsville ; Wat- son P., the present editor and proprietor of the Enterprise; Mary E. born 6 mo. 11, 185 1, who married George M. Wright, and died in Philadelphia October 6. 1899; Harry F., born 2 mo. 16, 1853, who married Helen W. Trego, and died in Newtown, December 2, 1901 ; and Fannie M.. living in Newtown. Watson Price Church, born 2 mo. 7^ 1849, received a liberal education, and has always followed literary pursuits. He was associated with -his father in the conduct of the Nezvtozvn Enterprise, and at his father's death in 1893 he purchased of the executor the entire plant and has since conducted the paper and maintained its old-time popular- ity. He was married June i, 1899. to Mary Gillam, of Langhorne, daughter of the late Simon and Elizabeth Richardson Gillam. a lineal descendant of Justice Joseph Grow- don,- of Trevose, Bensalem (who was a member of provincial council, 1687-9, 1692, 1695, 1697-8 ; Justice of supreme court, 1698-9; judge of Bucks county, 1689, 1708; member of assembly, 1684, 1686, 1690, 1693, 1704-5-6, 1713-4-5-6 and until 1723; speaker of the assembly, 1690, 1693, 1700 to 1706 and 1713 to 1716, and again in 1722). through the marriage of his daugh- ter Elizabeth to Francis Richardson of Philadelphia in 1705. The children of Watson P. and Mary (Gillam) Church are Watson Price Church, Jr., born June 7, 1900. and Millicent Eliza- beth Church, born August 15, 1901. ALFRED MARSHALL, of Lang- borne Manor, Bucks county, was born in Marslaallton, Delaware, October 29, 1848, a son of Caleb H. and Jane (Thompson) Marshall, and comes of a distinguished English ancestry. John Marshall, paternal ancestor of Alfred Marshall, was born in Derbyshire, Eng- land, and migrated from Elton parish m that shire in 1686 to America, and after locating for about a year in Blockley township, Philadelphia county, located in Darby, Delaware county. He was a member'of Darby Friends' Meeting, and married there 10 mo. 19. 1688, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Smith, that bemg the first marriage solemnized under the auspices of Darby Meeting. He was a cousin of Abraham Marshall, the distni- guished botanist and horticulturist, who came from Gratton parish, Derbyshire, in 1700, and settled in West Bradford, Chester county. John Marshall died 9 mo. 13, 1729, and his widow 5 mo. 16, 1749. They had three children. John, born 6 mo. 16, 1690, died 8 mo. 4, I749, married Joanna Paschall. and (second) Elinor Shcnton, a widow; William, born 2 mo. II. 1692, died 1727, married Mary Sellers; Thomas, born 12 mo. 10, 1694, (see forward). Thomas Marshall married 2 mo. 24, 1718. and settled in Concord township, Chester county. His wife was Hannah Mendenhall. daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Pennel) Mendenhall. Thomas died in 1741. and his widow married Peter Grubb. Thomas and Hannah (Menden- hall) Marshall had nine children. John Marshall, eighth child, born 11 mo. 22, 502 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1734, in Concord, married (first) Han- nah James, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah (Hickman) James, of Westtown, and settled in Birmingham township, where his wife died in 1764, leaving two chil- dren. Mary, who married William Phil- lips; and Martha, v/ho died unmarried. He removed to Kennett township in 1765, and on 4 mo. 27, 1768, married Su- sanna Lamborn, daughter of Robert ixnd Ann (Bourne) Lamborn. She was born 4 mo. 7, 1749, and died 3 mo. 3, 1839. John Marshall became a large landowner in Kennett, among his extensive hold- ings being a grist and saw mill. He and his family were members of Hockesin Meeting, and Kennett Monthly Meeting. He died 11 mo. 30, 1815. The children of John and Susanna (Lamborn) Mar- shall were: Thomas, born 4 mo. 22, 1769, died 2 mo. 2, 1851, married Sarah Gregg; Robert, born 9 mo. 15, 1771, (see below); William, born 5 mo. 26, 1773, died young; Hannah, born i mo. 7, 1775, died I mo. 21, 1859, married John Yeaman; Ann, born 8 mo. 22, 1778, died 5 mo. 26, 1862, married John Scarlett; Martha, born 8 mo. 20, 1780, died i mo. 3, 1811, unmarried; and William, born 7 mo. 30, 1784, died 1859, married Margaret Mc- Cammon. Robert Marshall, second son of John and Susanna (Lamborn) Marshall, was born in Kennett township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, 9 mo. 15, 1771. He inherited his father's homestead in Ken- nett. His^ son Caleb some years before the latter's death in 1869, removed to Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle county. . Delaware. Prior to his removal to Del- aware he operated the grist mill in Ken- nett, inherited from his father. His son Thomas was also a miller and success- fully operated the mill in Kennett for many years, and in 1856 began the man- ufacture of paper, establishing the ex- tensive plant now operated by his sons, T. El wood and Israel W. Marshall. Robert Marshall married 11 mo. 22, 1804, Mary Hoopes, born 3 mo. 16. 1781, died 7 mo. 30, 1847, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Bane) Hoopes. of Goshen, Ches- ter county. They had five children, viz.: Caleb H., born 9 mo. 11, 1806, (see for- ward) ; John, born 10 mo. 7, 1808, died 5 mo. 23, 1885, married Sarah Phillips, and (second) Mary Harlan; Martha, born 8 mo. i, 1810, married Thomas Hannum; Abner, born 8 mo. 27, 1814, married Ann Eliza Pvle; and Thomas, born 3 mo. 18. 1818. d"ied 3 mo. 6, 1887, married Mary Way. Caleb H. Marshall, born on the old Marshall homestead in Kennett, 9 mo. II. 1806. removed to New Castle county, Delaware. He married Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Reed) Thompson, of Mill Creek Hundred, and settled at the site of the present town of IMarshallton, New Castle county. Jolin Marshall, second son of Robert and Mary (Hoopes) Marshall, also removed to New Castle county, and the two broth- ers, Caleb H. and John, engaged in the iron busines at Alarshallton, building uj> a large business. In 1863 Caleb H. re- moved to Philadelphia, where the firm had already established a large plant under the name of the Penn Treaty Iron Works. In 1878 Alfred Marshall, the subject of this sketch, with his two- brothers, W. W. Marshall and J. Howard Marshall, purchased their father's and and uncle's interest in the business, and continued it with great success under the firm name of Marshall Brothers & Company, introducing many new fea- tures, keeping abreast of the times dur- ing the period of vast developments in the iron and steel business in America. Both J. Howard and Alfred Marshall be- came residents of Langhorne Manor, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where J. Howard died January 24, 1902. John. Marshall, junior member of the original firm, died 5 mo. 23, 1885. John Thompson, the maternal ances- tor of Alfred Marshall, came to Fen- wick's colony near Salem, New Jersey, in 1679, from W^icklow county, Ireland, but was of English birth. He was a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Thompson, and was born in Kirkfenton parish, York- shire, in May, 1635. In 1658 Thomas and Elizabeth Thompson, with their twcv sons, John and Andrew, removed to Ireland, locating in the parish of Don- ard. county Wicklow, where John mar- ried in 1665 Jane Humble, daughter of Thomas Humble, who had lately re- moved to Ireland from county Durham, England. Four children were born to- John and Jane in Ireland; Thomas, born 7 mo., 1666; James, born 8 mo., 1668- Ann, born 9 mo., 1672 ; and Mary, borrr 10 mo. 25, 1675. Andrew Thompson, brotiier of John, married in countj^ Wick- low, Isabel Mar.shall. in 1664. and had by her Elizabeth. William and Anarew, born in Ireland. On 9 mo. 16, 1677, Johrt and Andrew Thompson with their fam- ilies embarked on the ship "Mary." for Fenwick's colony in West Jersey, where they arrived 12 mo. 22. 1677. John Thompson died in 1715- James Thomp- son, son of John and Jane, married in October, 1700, Ann Hollingsworth, daughter of Valentine and Ann (Cal- vert) Holilngsworth. of New Castle county, Delaware. He died in 1712, leav- ing five children: Jane. Ann. John. Eliza- beth and James. James Thompson, son of James and Ann, was born in Salem county. New^ Jersey, 8 mo. 26. 1712. On arriving at manhood he settled in Lea- cock township. Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, and married 3 mo. 22, 1735, Sarah Worslej', daughter of Daniel and Sarah Worsley, of New Castle county. She was born 4 mo. 3. 1717. On his mar- ria,ge James Thompson removed to New- Castle county, locating in Mill Creek HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 503 Hundred. On the death of his first wife he married, 4 mo. 10, 1742, Elizabeth Hadley, daughter of Joseph and Amy (Greeg) Hadley, of Mill Creek. By the first marriage he had three children: Grace, born 3 mo. 9, 1736, married i mo. 17; 1763, Moses Pennock; Daniel, (see below); and Ann, born 10 mo. 7, 1739, died young. By the second marriage there were seven children: James, Sarah, Amy, John, Ann, Joseph and Elizabeth. Daniel Thompson, eldest son of James and Sarah (Worsley) Thompson, was born in Mill Creek Hundred, 11 mo. 16, 1737, and married 10 mo. 25, 1764, Eliza- beth Chambers, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Chambers, of White Clay Creek, by whom he had nine chil- dren: William, James, Eli, Deborah, Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Daniel and Joshua. John Thompson, born 5 mo. 17, 1777, married Elizabeth Reed, and their daughter Jane was the mother of the subject of this sketch, through her mar- riage with Caleb H. Marshall, of Mar- shalton, Delaware. -Alfred Marshall was educated in the public schools of Marshallton, Dela- ware, and later in Philadelphia, to which city the family removed in 1863. On leaving school he entered the Penn Treaty Iron Works, of which his father was proprietor, and thoroughly learned all the details of the business that was to become his life work. His father, Caleb H. Marshall, died 12 mo. 16, 1888, and the business was continued by his sons under the firm name of Marshall Bros. & Co. This firm was the first manufacturer of galvanized sheet iron. In 1892 they began the manufacture of tin plate, establishing the first plant for this industry east of the Alleghenies, and making it a thorough success. The firm sold out the tin plate departf^ient in 1898 to the American Tin Plate Com- pany, but still continues the iron and steel business as jobbers, doing a large and lucrative business. Mr. Marshall married December 19, 1878, Florence Virginia Mather, of Phil- adelphia, daughter of Richard and Esther (Coates) Mather. Mrs. Marshall is a descendant through many genera- tions of Quaker ancestors who have been prominent in the history and develop- ment of Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties. She is a granddaughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Rowland) Mather, and a great-granddaughter of Banjamin and Ann Mather. On the ma- ternal side she is a descendant of Moses Coates, who was born in Ireland of an old English family who had crossed the channel to escape religious persecution. He married, in Ireland, Susanna Wel- don, and, coming to this country, in 1731, purchased 540 acres of land on the site of Phoenixville, where his descendants became owners and operators of the iron works that have contributed so largely to the growth and importance of the town. Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was named for Moses Coates, a grandson of the emigrant, who w.as the great-grand- father of Mrs. Marshall, her grandpa- rents being Caleb and Elizabeth (Gil- bert) Coates. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been the parents of three children: Clarence Mather, born March 16, 1880, died March 5, 1883; Frederick Warren, born Sep- tember 25, 1881; and Richard Mather, born November 13, 1890. These children attended the William Penn Charter School, and Frederick W. is now a stu- dent of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1905. In 1889 Mr. Mar- shall and his family removed to Lang- horne Manor, where he had previously erected a handsome home. He is a bus- iness man of excellent judgment and high standing in the community. He has identified himself with the business, so- cial and political interests of the county and borough. He is a director in the People's National Bank of Langhorne; president of the Langhorne Electric Light Company; president of the Junc- tion Furnace and Foundry Company; and senior member of the present firm of Marshall Brothers in Philadelphia. GEORGE BAILEY, of Lower Make- field township. Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, known for his zealous and useful efforts in behalf of education, was a de- scendant in the fifth generation from Thomas Bailey, a native of Bristol, which was in his day one of the most im- portant mercantile cities of England. Thomas Bailey came to America in 1682 and purchased land in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a bodice maker by occupation. From him the line of de- scent to George Bailey is through Thomas (2) and Mercy (Lucas) Bailey; Edward (3) and Ann (Satterthwaite) Bailey; and Edward (4) and Margaret (Livezey) Bailey. George Bailey (5), son of Edward and Margaret (Livezey) Bailey, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, January 15, 1816. He began his education in the common schools in the home neighborhood, and pursued what was equivalent to an academical course in the Friends' school of Falls town- ship. He was of studious disposition and devoted himself to his studies so assid- uously that on leaving school he was en- tirely capable of teaching, and he fol- lowed that occupation for several years. During his later life he followed farm- ing, industriously and successfully. He never lost his interest in educational af- fairs, and was among the foremost in laying the foundations for the normal school sj^stem and in effecting its es- tablishment. In politics he was a Re- 504 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. publican. He married October 26, 1837, Ann, daughter of Israel and Rachel (Parsons) Bailey, and they died respec- tively April 30, 1853, and February 19, 1852. They were the parents of seven children: i. Peter, born April 30, 1839, died October 10, 1899; 2. Emily, born February 19, 1841. 3. Harding, Decem- ber 8, 1842; 4. George W., July 12, 1845; 5. Edward, February 17, 1848; 6. Anna Mary, August 29, 1849. 7. Isaiah, born December 5, 1851, died in infancy. Emily, oldest surviving child and eld- est daughter of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, resides in a handsome home in Langhorne borough, near the ancestral homestead, to which she is devotedly attached on account of the tender memories and honored traditions belonging to it. Her life has been un- selfishly devoted to the welfare of others, and she is held in regard by the many in the neighborhood who have constantly been objects of her care and the re- cipients of her bounties — bounties be- stowed so modestly and unassumingly that they go unheralded save by those grateful souls to whose comfort she has so generously contributed. She is also sincerely beloved by the widely dis- persed members of the family, who view in her an affectionate and considerate relative who by reason of her residence near the old home and her loyalty to her ancestry and kinspeople is in peculiar degree their principal and most honored representative. Harding, third child and oldest sur- viving child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married September 29, 1868, Lu- cretia M. Garretson, and they are the parents of five children: i. William, born in 1870, died in infancy; 2. Luella M., born 1872; 3. Lorin H., 1876: 4. Hazel, 1886; 5. Arvine, 1891. This family re- side in Ohio. George W., fourth child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married December 3.1, 1868, Ruthetta Butler, and they are the parents of eight children: i. John Butler, born 1870. died 1893; 2. Anna E., born 1871; married December 24, 1901, Horace C. Baldwin, of Whittier, Califor- nia, and to them were born two children: one died in infancy, and Clififord, born March 28, 1904; 3. Laura M., born 1874; died 1891; 4. Edward H., born 1876, mar- ried Esther Harris. June r, 1904; 5. Erwin G.. born 1880, married Carrie Huntington, August 23. 1904; 6. William J., born 1884; 7-8. Charles F. and Ches- ter M., twins, born 1889; Chester M. died in infancy, and Charles F. is still living. Edward IM., fifth child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, married Sarah Lee Taylor, September 12, 1888. Anna Mary, sixth child of George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, became the wife of Charles H. Carver, in January, 1872, and to them were born three children: I. Anna B., 1873; married Charles T. Windle, and they had one child, Edward Howell, born 1897. 2. Rachel B., born 1876, is quite an artist, and in 1904 ex- hibited at the Trenton State Fair, win- ning seven prizes. 3. Edward L., born 1879, died 1881. SAMUEL R. KRAMER, Postoffice Per- kasie, was born March 29, i860, on the Ridge road, about two miles northeast of Perkasie borough, in Rockhill township, and was the youngest of seven children born to Abraham and Elizabeth Kramer. At the age of eight years his father died, and for five years he was in the employ of George L. Baringer, a farmer in Rich- land Center, during which time and be- tween the attendant duties of farm life he received a common-school education in the Quakertown public schools. In 1875 he was apprenticed to a jeweler in Delaware county. Pennsylvania, June 4, 1877, he was apprenticed to J. E. Witmer, of the Langsdale Reporter, at Langsdale, Montgomery county, this state, and served three years at the printing business. In June, 1881, Hon. M. S. Sellers established the Central News in Perkasie, and em- ployed him to take charge of the mechani- cal part, which position he held until the death of the founder, February 7, 1882, when he became a member of the firm of Moyer & Kramer, and continued the print- ing and publication business. In 1885, at the age of twenty-four, he was elected to the office of justice of the peace by his fellow-citizens, for the term of five years, and was re-elected for three succeeding terms thereafter. He was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Swartley. of Gwynedd, IMont- gomery county, Pennsylvania. The union was blest with ten children, the following of whom are living: Samuel R.. Jr.. Russell, Lulu, Mamie, Stewart, Folwell and Ran- dall. From a wooded hillside Mr. Kramer created Menlo Park. He united Perkasie and Quakertown by trolley. He produced the Perkasie water works. He gave the "upper end" a model weekly newspaper. He was a charter member of many lodges, and belongs to the following: F. and A. M.. K. of P.. I. O. O. F., O. U. A. M. He brought to Perkasie its largest industries, persuading the proprietors to locate here, and financed the building of factories. As a surveyor he laid out important and profit- able annexes to the borough. He was a leading spirit in annexing Bridgetown to Perkasie, and in freeing the Bridgetown- Perkasie turnpike. He was successful in pleading for municipal ownership of the borough electric light plant. He was the pioneer along the North Pcnn for modern railroad stations, the first and finest of which is located at Perkasie. To a great extent Perkasie Bank is because of him. Verily a busy and honored career — a course uniformly run with integrity, and oppor- ^a. (i^^^-'M^'i-^i-'*-^-^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 505 tunity for his associates to go along with •equal privileges. His political affiliations tend toward the Democracy of Jefiferson, although his partisanship is not of the intense type. Man or measure appeals to him because of its worthiness — nothing else — although, all things being equal, he is a Democrat. He was one of the leaders of the Palmer and Buckner (Gold Democrats) campaign in 1900, and was a national delegate to the convention that year. By the. loss of only one vote Mr. Kramer failed to be- come the choice of his party for the as- sembly in 1890. The products of his pen are a source of great pleasure. He is versatile, facile, and keen — convincing — and is equally at home with the weapons of sarcasm, ridicule, or the "statement direct" — the power of which has been felt in many a campaign, or other public question. And, remarkable as it may seen, he is equally forceful as a public speaker. Mr. Kramer subscribes to the German Reformed faith, and has served the St. Stephen Sunday school as its superi- tendent, choir leader, and orchestra leader. Of late years, however, his religious tenets have undergone a liberalizing process, and his views upon the plan of salvation, and the mundane machinery connected there- with, are a fusion of most beliefs — a com- promise for all. Socially, his home is head- quarters, locally. His genial personality, through which magnetism runs as the band of red through the national colors, attracts all classes. His heart is large, and ,his purse open — although his charity is un- ostentatious. He does good by stealth and blushes to find it fame. Commercially, he is at present head of a corporation engaged in manufacturing and selling his patented attachments for platen printing presses — an ingenious mechanism which makes these presses print from a roll, in colors, perforating, number- ing, collating and packing, or rewinding the same. He dissolved partnership with ex-Senator Moyer m the proprietorshop of the Central News in 1903, they two disposing of the property to Charles M. Meredith. DAVID W. ALLABOUGH, Esq. David W. Allabough, of Silverdale borough, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county. May 13, 1869, and is a son of Henry S. and Elizabeth (Wismer) Allabough, of the same place. Henry Allabough, grandfather of David W., was a native of Montgomery county, and a carpenter by trade. He lived for a time in Salem county, New Jersey. He was twice married, the subject of this sketch being descended from the second marriage, with Sarah Smith. By his first marriage he had two children — John and Amanda ; and by the second three — Etta, Sarah Ann, and Henry S. Henry S. Allabough was born in Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1843. He was reared in that county, and on March 4, 1862, enlisted as a private in Company E, Ninetieth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, at Philadelphia, under Captain John Barnes and Colonel Peter Lyle. The regiment was incorporated in the Second Brigade, Second Division, Tenth Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, and was in the thick of the fight through- out the war. He was in the battles of Cedar Creek, Fredericksburg, Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg and many others. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the right shoulder and right cheek and was sent to the military hospital at Broad and Cherry streets. Philadelphia, and after being there four months was transferred to Chestnut Hill hospital. On his discharge from the hospital he was transferred to Company H, Eleventh Regiment, and was at the bat- tle of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, where he was slightly wounded in the right thigh but took part in the two weeks fight at Petersburg, June 15 to 30th. He was hon- orably discharged May 4, 1865. and was highly commended for bravery and meritor- ious conduct. He is a member of Peter Lyle Post. No. 145, G. A. R., of Quaker- town. Returning from the war he settled in Bucks county, and married October 11, 1866, Elizabeth Wismer, daughter of Chris- tian and Mary (Cassel) Wismer of Plill- town, and, purchasing his father-in-law's farm, which he conducted for fourteen years, then moved to Silverdale, purchas- ing a small property where he now lives retired. Henry and Elizabeth (Wismer) Allabough are the parents of three chil- dren: David W., the subject of this sketch; William, of Hilltown, who married Emma Miller, daughter of Noah Miller, of Rock- hill, and has one son Harvey; and Mary, wife of Henry Hunsberger, of Silverdale. Christian Wismer, the maternal grand- father of 'Squire Allabaugh, was born in Montgomery county, and was a son of Christian Wismer who married Mary Rosenberger. He settled in Hilltown, and married Mary Cassel, also a native of Mont- gomery county, and they were t?he parents of seven children : Anna, who married David Ruth; Sarah; Elizabeth ;_ Jacob^ of Silverdale, who married Catharine Stout ; Joel, who married Mary Shelly; Mary de- ceased; and Daniel, who married Annie Roberts. David W. Allabough was reared on his father's farm in Hilltown, and acquired his education at the public schools. As a boy he entered the tailoring establishment of his maternal uncle, Jacob Wismer, and is still employed there, filling the position of foreman in the large establishment of Mr. Wismer at Silverdale for many years. He has always taken an active interest in the local affairs of the community in which he lived, and has filled a number of local of- 5o6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. fices. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1897, and reelected in 1902. In politics he is a Republican, and has served for some years as a member of the county committee. He married Rosa Stout, daughter of Aloses and Mary Ann (Bishop) Stout. HON. HAMPTON W. RICE was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, on the old Rice homestead, March 24, 1844, the son of Samuel H. and Ann (Livezeyj Rice, both natives of that township. Jidward Rice, ancestor of the Rice family of Bucks county, was a native of the parish of Killa- man, county Tyrone, Ireland, from whence he emigrated to America, bringing with hnn a certificate from the rector and church wardens of the parish, dated June 12, 1736. He settled in Buckingham, and on Decem- ber 19, 1753, obtained a deed for 153 acres of land on the old York road and the War- wick line, comprising the present Edward Swartz and Percy farms. He had probably resided on this land some years previously. It was part of a tract of 1,622 acres patented to Thomas Mayleigh, and had been devised to his son and heirs male in feetail, and proceedings had been instituted to bar the entail so as to make conveyances thereof in fee, some years previously. Edward Rice resided on this farm until his death in 1761. His wife was Elizabeth . She mar- ried Mathew Beans, 5 mo. 18, 1763, and had two children — Aaron and Moses Beans by this second marriage. She died in Buck- ingham in 1814. The children of Edward and Elizabeth Rice, were eight, viz. : I. James, born about 1742, died in War- wick township, November 5, 1822, leaving seven children : Jane, wife of Henry Wig- gins ; Rebecca, wife of Henry Black ; John ; James ; Phebe, wife of James Lukens ; Wil- liam and Mary. James had removed to Baltimore, Maryland, but returned to Bucks county and settled in Warwick ten years later. 2. John, born 1744, died on the home- stead in Buckingham, October i, 1801, mar- ried Rachel Worthington, August 24, 1765, and had children : Mary, who married Thomas Kirk; Edward, Elizabeth, Han- nah, Ann, John and James. 3. Edward, born 1747, married Martha Fell, and lived in Plumstead. Children: Jonathan and IMary. 4. George Rice, born 1749, married Elinor, daughter of Robert and Jane Skelton, of Buckingham, and had children : Robert, Ann, Susanna, George, Sarah, INIary, Moses, and Elias. George Rice and his son Robert were wheelwrights and lived in Plumstead. 5. Mary, born 1752, married John Kinsey, 3 mo. 22,, 1774. 6. Joseph, born 1754. 7. Thomas, born 1756. 8. Will- iam, born 1758. Joseph, sixth child of Edward and Eliza- beth Rice, was born in Buckingham in the year 1754. He was very young when his mother was married to Mathew Beans, and his boyhood days were probably spent on the old Beans farm, near the Solebury line, where Henry H. Beans now lives. He mar- ried, 4 mo. 14, 1779, Letitia, daur-hter of William and Catharine (Fisher) Hartley,, of Solebury. He purchased of his wife's uncle the farm on the state road in Sole- bury, part of which is still owned and oc- cupied by his descendants, and spent his long life thereon, dying in November, 1848, in his ninety-fourth year. His children were: Catharine, born 1780, married Elias Paxson; James, born 1785, died in' infancy; William, born 4 mo. 30, 1782, died 1827; Letitia, born 1788, married John Bodder ; James, born 2 mo. 7, 1791, died young; and Joseph, born 3 mo. 2, 1792. Letitia (Hart- ley) Rice died 11 mo. 30, 1815. William Rice, eldest son of Joseph and Letitia, born in Solebury, 4 mo. 30, 1782, was devised by the will of his grandfather^ William Hartley, a farm of 180 acres ad- joining the one purchased by his father,, the greater part of which is still owned by the subject of this sketch, and, marrying Sidney Hartley settled thereon. He died when but forty-live years of a^e, in 1827. His children were: Samuel H., father of the subject of this sketch; Hiram, for many years a prominent citizen of Buckingham, died at Newtown ; Charles and Eliza. Samuel H. Rice, eldest son of William and Sidney, was born on the old homestead in Solebury in 1808. At his father's death he assumed the management of the farm, and two years later, he having arrived at his majority, the farm was partitioned through the orphans' court and he accepted the homestead and 127 acres and spent the remainder of his life thereon. He was an auctioneer, and followed that vocation in connection with farming. He was twice married, his first wife being Euphemia, daughter of John and Euphemia (Ingham) Watson to which marriage two children were born : Mary Ellen, now deceased, mar- ried William M. Wharton ; and one who died in childhood. He married (second) Ann Livezey, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Paxson) Livezey of Solebury, by whom he had three children : Euphemia Ann and Sarah L., both single, residing at Lahaska ; and Hampton W., the subject of this sketch. Samuel H. Rice died in June, 1879. Hampton W. Rice was born on the old homestead, March 24, 1844, and was reared to the life of a farmer, acquiring his edu- cation at the public schools and at the Excelsor Normal School at Carversville. On attaining manhood he took charge of the home farm, which he acquired at the death of his father, and resided thereon until 1886, when he removed to Lumberton and engaged in the manufacture of fertilizers. In 1901 he sold out at Lumberton and re- moved to his present residence at Centre Hill, built by his uncle. Dr. Abraham Liveze\', in 1850. In politics Mr. Rice was a Republican and has always taken an active interest in politics. In 1895 lie was elected a mem- ber of the legislature, and was re-elected m 1897. In 1899 he was elected to the state HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 507 senate. During his eight years of con- tinuous service in the two houses of the legislature he took an active part in legisla- tion, particularly in that relating to the interests of the farming community. He be- longed to the anti-Quay wing of the party, and helped to defeat the re-election of Mr. Quay to the United States senate in 1900. He was nominated for the assembly in 1903 by a fusion with the Democrats, but was defeated at the polls by a small majority. Mr. Rice has always taken an active in- terest in all that pertains to the best in- terests of the local communiLy, has served as school director, and filled other local offices. He is one of the most active mem- bers of the Solebury Farmers' club. He is a member of Doylesto\\ n Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M. and of Paunaucussing Lodge, K. of P., at Carversville. He and his fam- ily are members of the Society of Friends. He was married January 11, 1881, to Emma L., daughter of Watson and Hannah (Pres- ton) Kenderdine, of Solebury, both of whom are descendants of Welsh ancestors who came to this country in the seventeenth century. Air. and Mrs. Rice have been the parents of three children, only one of whom survives — Marion, wife of, George H. Ely, who has two children, Wilton G. and Helen M. Ely. CAPTAIN THOMAS PRESTON CHAMBERS, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, son of Alexander and F"rances Wayne Chambers, was born in Philadelphia, Feb- ruary 20, 1836. His life has been one of varied and constant activity ; he has been a pioneer in many branches of industry, and is today one of the leading and influen- tial citizens of the borough. He received a good education in private schools, and in 1855 went West, where he remained two years exploring what was then an undeveloped country, returning again to his fathers home in Newtown. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, (Captain H. Y. Picker- ing), Colonel W. W. H. Davis command- ing, becoming first sergeant, from which position he was promoted to quartermaster sergeant November 5, i86r. After serving a short time he was taken sick with small- pox, and was honorably discharged on ac- count of physicial disability, and was sent home. Upon his recovery he recruited a company of infantry of which he was chosen captain, to repel the invasion of Pennsyl- vania. He started with it to the front, but on reaching Harrisburg was notified that the enemy had retreated. After this he enlisted in the Twentieth Cavalry Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Jol n E. Wynkoop, for six- months, was commissioned second lieutenant, and at the expiration of six months was mustered in for three years in the same regiment. Shortly before the close of the war Captain Chambers was taken ill with typhoid fever, and was discharged on account of physical disability. Captain Chambers participated in the celebrated Hunter's raid in the Shen- andoah Valley, and numerous other import- ant engagements. Soon after the close of the rebellion, de- velopments of oil along Oil Creek in the vicinity of Titusville, Pennsylvania, at- tracted the attention of all adventurous spirits. It was not long therefore before Captain Chambers entered the new field of industry, and established at Titusville one of the pioneer oil refineries of the region. In this venture he was joined by his two brothers-in-law, Dr., H. Y. Pickering, and Major Samuel Comfort. Succumbing to the inevitable, the refining business was eventually sold to the Standard Oil Com- pany, and Captain Chambers turned his at- tention to the production of crude petro- leum. He was the organizer of several large and successful oil companies, besides en- gaging m numerous private ventures in the petroleum industry. He was practically a resident of Titusville from 1869 to 1887^ and then returned to the family home in Newtown township. In 1898 he removed from there to the borough of Newtown, purchasing the Ewing property, which he has since made his home. He was the promoter and organizer, of the Newtown Electric Street Railway Company, of which he has been the largest stockholder and president since its organ- ization. Soon afterwards he acquired the control of the Newtown, Langhorne & Bris- tol Trolley Street Railway Company, of which he had been a director from its or- ganization, (this was the first street rail- way built in Bucks county) and extended the line of trolleys to Doylestown. With his son Alexander, he has had the active management of the company from its open- ing for traffic February 26, 1899. In the autumn of 1899, while on a trip to Hon- duras, he became impressed with the nat- ural resources of this undeveloped country, and on his return organized the Ulua Com- mercial Company for the purpose of con- necting the Ulua River with Puerto Cortez by a system of canals opening for naviga- tion several hundreds of miles of the inte- rior, and establishing a line of steamers to carry the fruit, mineral and other products of the country to the seaboard. He was also one of the organizers of the Olancho Mineral Company, who are opening and operating gold mines in the interior of Honduras. Captain Chambers and his two sons have spent much of their time during the last years in Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in the management of these companies and the development of their resources. Captain Chambers was married October 16, i860, to Hannah H., daughter of John and Mary (Hough) Barnsley, whose ances- try is given on another page of this volume. Their children are : Mar}' B., Francis Wayne, married R. E. Hopkins, of Tarry- town, New York ; Alexander ; Helen T., married E. T. Roberts, of Titusville, Penn- 5o8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. sylvania; Anna Pickering; John B., Eliza- beth C. ; and Clarissa W. Captain Chambers is well and favorably known in Bucks county, and is connected with many of the local institutions, lie and his family are members of the Epis- copal church. He is a member of Newtown Lodge, No. 427, F. and A. M., and of the Philadelphia Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 427, New- town, Pennsylvania. Mr. Chambers dates his ancestry on his father's side from William Chalmers, as the name was then spelled, who was born and lived in Perth, Scotland. His son Alex- ander Chambers, came to Philadelphia when a lad, and married Ann Fox, of that city, in 1746. He died in London, England, and is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard in that city. John Chambers, son of Alex- ander and Ann (Fox) Chambers, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about 1746, and married there in 1770 Deborah Hall; he died April 3, 1776. George Chambers, son of John and Deborah Hall Chambers, was born in Philadelphia, August, 1774, and died June 7, 1814; he married Mary Pres- ton, August I, 1796, and had six children. After the death of George Chambers his widow married Mr. Richard Harris, ot England, and in 1827 moved from Phila- delphia to Newtown township, where they purchased a farm of one hundred acres. Mrs. Harris died in 1864. Alexander Chambers^ the father of the subject of this sketch, son of George and Mary Preston Chambers, was born in Philadelphia, June 4, 1808. On March 25, 1835, he married Frances Wayne, daughter of Caleb Parry and Mary Stokes Wayne. Caleb Parry Wayne was great-grandson of Captain Anthony Wayne, and a cousin of General Anthony Wayne, of Revolution- ary fame, also grandson of Captain David Parry, and a nephew of Colonel Caleb Parry, who fell in the battle of Long Isl- and in 1776. They had two sons, Thomas P. and Frances Wayne Chambers. Mr. Chambers was engaged in the mercantile business in Philadelphia until 1841, when with his family he moved to Newtown and purchased the farm of his mother, and be- came a prominent and active man in this community. He and his family attend-^d the Protestant Episcopal Church at Now- town, where he was a vestryman until his death. Alexander Chambers, son of Thomas P. and Hannah H. (Barnsley) Chambers, \\as born in Newtown, October 20, 1865. He was educated at the schools of Newtown, at Swarthmore College and Lehigh Univer- sity, but failing health prevented his grad- uation from the latter institution in the class of 1887. He was engaged in the oil business with the Tidewater Oil Com- pany of New York, until 1894, when he purchased the Agricultural Machine Works at Newtown, which he operated for sev- eral years in connection with the manu- facture and sale of other machinery. He is general manager and treasurer of the Newtown Electric Street Railway Com- pany, and actively associated with its man- agement. For the past several years much of his time has been spent in Honduras, where he is associated with his father and brother John in the management of. the Ulua Commercial Company, and the Olan- cho Mineral Company. He is a member of Newtown Lodge, No. 427, F. and A. M., and a well known young business man of Newtown. LEWIS KELLER, the enterprising and successful merchant of Bedminster, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1852, being the eldest son of Abraham and Judith (Myers) Keller. He comes of good old Pennsylvania German stock who for five generations have been prominent in the afifairs of the upoer end of Bucks county. The pioneer an- cestor of the family was Heinrich Keller, who was born in Weierbach, Baden, Ger- many, January 9, 1708, son of Wilhelm and Gertraut Keller. His wife was Juliana Kleindinst, daughter of Peter and Anna Maria Kleindinst, the former an official of Weierbach, Baden. Julianna was born in 171 1, and was married to Heinrich Keller, October 20, 1728. Heinrich Keller, with his wife Juliana and four young children, emi- grated to America in 1738 in t]lie ship "Glasgow," arriving in Philadelphia on September 9, 1738. Their eldest cnild x'eter died within a week of their landing, and seven others were born to them in Penn- sylvania. Heinrich Keller was one of the organizers of Keller's Church in 1746. and was an elder there until his death on Octo- ber 18, 1782. He purchased large tracts of land in Bedminster and Haycock, which descended to his children and grandchil- dren. His children, as shown by the records of the church of which he was one of the founders, were; i. Johan Peter, born November 20, 1729, died September 15, 1738. 2. Johannes, born January 28, 1733, died 1792, married Maria Drach. 3. Anna Margaret, born June 2, 1735. married Feb- ruary 3, 1756. Solomon Gruver. 4. Maria Elizabeth, born November 19, 1737. mar- ried October 8, 1756, Philip Stever. 5. Eliz. Barbara, born April 14, 1739: mar- ried, 1760, John Niemand, and in 1769 Michael Steinbach. 6. Anna Maria, born November 5, 1742, married April 24, 1770. Adam Litzenberger. 7. Johan Hendrick, born June 20. 1745 ; died in the year 1748. 8. Johan Peter, born July 13. i747. was twice married and had many children. _ 9. Dorothea, born September 2. 174O. married Henry Steinbach. 10. Christopher, bcrn December 15, 1751. died July 8, 1820— see forward, ii. .Heinrich, born May 19, 175S, married Catharine Fox, and had many chil- dren. Several of the sons and sons-in-law of Heinrich Keller were prominent in the Rev- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 509 olutionary struggle, his eldest son, Colonef John Keller, being probably the most promi- nent of his nationality in the Bucks county. He was a member of colonial assembly in 1776, and in the same year a delegate to the first constitutional convention, and in 1778 was a member of the supreme executive council of Bucks county. In 1784 he was again returned as a member of the supreme executive council. At the organization of the Bucks county militia, in 1776. he was cimmissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Third Battalion, and in 1780 was assigned to the command of the becond Battalion. His battalion was in active service during the greater part of the war. His brothers Christopher and Henry, and his brother- Hi-law Philip Stever, were also in the serv- ice, the first as an ensign in the Fourth .Battalion, and the last as a captain under Colonel Keller. Christopher Keller, the tenth child of Heinrich and Juliana, born December 15, 1751, died July 8, 1820, was the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was commissioned an ensign in 1/76, xtiid his company was assigned to tne "rly- mg Camp" and participated in the disas- trous campaign on Long Island, where so many Bucks countians lost their lives or became prisoners in the "floating hells" in New York harbor. He married, February 17, 1778, Margaret Trauch, who was born in' 1759, and died February 11, 1811. They were the parents of nine child nen, and hav- left numerous descendants. The children were: i. John, born June 12, 1781, died February 25, 1842, and had nine daughters and two sons ; a son Robert and two daughters still survive. 2. Henry, born Sep- tember 28, 1783, died July 9, 1831. 3. jNIich- ael, born December 9, 1786, died Novem- ber 25, 1853. 4. Elizabeth, born August 19, 1788. 5. Anna Catharine, born July 17, 1790. 6. Samuel, born April 20, 1792, died January 28, 1861. 7. Joseph, born November 10, 1794, died February 14, 1877; See forward. 8. Sarah, born November 14, 1797. 9. Daniel, born April 10, 1802. . Joseph, the seventh child of Christopher and Margaret, born November 10, 1794. was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He lived all his life in Haycock township. He was a blacksmith and farm- er, an active and prominent man in the community, and was an elder of Keller's church. His wife w^as Anna Mary Affler- bach, who died in 1876; both are buried at Keller's church. They were the parents of nine children, three of whom are still liv- ing: I. Ann Margaret, born November 23, 1822, died 1902; married John Shisler. 2. Abraham, born September 16, 1823, died December 23. 1880 — see forward. 3. Catn- arine, born November 8, 1825. deceased; married Thomas Hulshizer. 4. Diana, born November 18, 1827; married Levi Stone. 5. Tobias, born March 3, 1830, died 1897; married a Miss Gerhart. 6. Joseph, born March 17, 1832. died 1898; married Lydia Afflerbach. 7. Sarah, born October 8, 1834 ; married Jacob Hess ; second, Samuel Dot- terer. 8. ]\Iaria, born February 17, 1837; married William Sames. 9. Abednego, born j\Iay 14, 1840, married Eliza Affier- bach, living in Haycock. Abraham Keller, father of the subject of this sketch, was the eldest son of Jo- seph and Anna Mary (Afflerbach) Keller. i-ie was born in Haycock township, and had only limited advantages in the way of education, but became an active and suc- cessful business man, and was an honored and respected man in the community in which he lived. He was a farmer in Plum- stead township for a number of years, and later in Bedminster. In 1870 he entered into partnership with J. H. Afflerbach, un- der the firm name of J. H. Afiflerbach & Co., and the firm conducted the Bedminster store for three years, when Mr. Keller pur- chased the entire interest and took his son Lewis into the firm, under the firm name of Keller & Son. Two years later he re- tired from the firm and left its control to his sons Lewis and J6seph. He then pur- chased the hotel at Bedminster, and con- ducted it for ten years, after which he con- ducted a feed store and looked after his farm and other property. He was twice married, first on October 10, 1847, to Judith Myers, who was the mother of all his chil- dren. She was born February 3, 1829, and died December 23, 1880. On December 26, 1881, Mr. Keller married Susanna, widow of Franklin Stauft'er, of Springfield, who survived him. Abraham and Judith Myers Keller were the parents of ten children : William, who died in infancy ; Mary, born November 20, 1850, wife of H. S. Deaterly, Bedminster; Lewis, the subject of this sketch; Joseph, born November 17, 1854, living in Philadelphia; Amanda, born De- cember 23, 1856, died July 26, 1874; Su- sanna, born March 17, 1858, died October 3, 1866; Abraham M., born ]\Iarch 20, i860, living in Doylestown ; Catharine, born July 8, 1862 ; married first Harvey Shull, now wife of Clinton Lerch, of Tinicum ; Mah- lon, born November 4, 1865, a justice of the peace and business man at Perkasie; IraM., born June 8, 186S, died 1895. Lewis Keller, the subject of this sketch, is one of the most successful and enterpris- ing merchants in Bucks county. He was reared on his father's farm and received his education at the common schools of the neighborhood. At the age of seventeen he entered the store of J. H. Afflerbach & Co., at Bedminster, of which firm his father was a member, and three years later bought Mr. Afflerbach's interest, and for two years was a member of the firn: of Keller & Son. In 1875 his father retired from the firm and was succeeded by his second son, Jo- seph M., and the firm name was changed to Keller & Brother. In 1878 Joseph M. retired from the firm, since which time the business has been conducted by Lewis Kel- ler. He is a. born merchant, and early realized the wants and needs of his cus- 5IO HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. tomers and how to supply them, to the mut- uel benetit of vendor and vendee. In a few years the business outgrew its modest quarters, and a new and much larger store was erected, including a large furniture warehouse. On October i, 1887, his store buildings and recently erected dwelling were entirely consumed by fire, entailing a loss of nearly $10,000 above the insur- ance. Undaunted by this misfortune, IMr. Keller erected a new and larger store, now the largest in Bucks county, and consider- and became proficient in the treatment of disease and setting of broken bones He was twice married, iirst in .March, 171^ to Deborah Carter, and second in 1716 ' to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and R!i/a- beth (Hooten) Hillborn, of Attleboro Lucks county, by whom he had three daughters and two sons. He died 2 mo 9 1776. and his wife i mo. 28, 1771. ' ' Thomas Darlington, son of Abraham and Elizabeth, was born in Birmingham in I72S._ He married 4 mo. 25, 1754, Hannah, ably increased his stock, and by closely daughter of Edward and Hannah (Pierce) studying the needs of the community and Brinton, and settled in East Bradford the wants of his customers and giving all courteous treatment, has built up the larg- est general store business in the county ; demonstrating that a large business can be done out in the country away from rail- road centers. The result is due to the in- Chester county, where he was a promi- nent farmer. He died 12 mo. 17, 180S, and his widow 10 mo. 12, 181 1. They were the parents of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters. Edward, the eldest child of Thomas and tegrity, industry and business ability of Hannah (Brinton) Darlington, was born the genial proprietor. in East Bradford 6 mo. 3, 1755. On 3 mo. Mr. Keller was married, December 22,, 8, 1781, he married Hannah, daughter of 1876, to Emma J., daughter of Amos Har- John and Joanna (England) Townsend, pel, who was born February 5, 1856. They and settled on a farm of 282 acres in Birm' have four children: i. Hiram, born Aug- ust 9, 1879, graduated in 1901 from Gettys- burg College with the degree of A. B., and in 1904 from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania with the de- gree of LL. B. ; was registered as a stu- dent in the law offices of Yerkes, Ross & Ross, and is now a member of the bars of Philadelphia and Bucks counties. 2'. Erwin, born November 30, 1882, a student at the Pennsylvania State College. 3. Elsie, born October 24, 1890. 4. Norman Luther, born February 7, 1896, resides at home. Mr. Keller has been postmaster of Bed- minster since 1875. He is a member of St. Mathew's Evangelical Lutheran church. HENRY TOWNS-END DARLING- TON, for twenty-three years the editor of the Bucks County Intelligencer, was born at "Darnhall," Birmingham township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1832, and died at Doylestown, Bucks county, November 24, 1878. He was the son of Edward B. and Hannah (Sharp- less) Darlington, and therefore descended from two old, prominent and influential families of eastern Pennsylvania. All his ancestors in America were members of the Society of Friends. On the paternal side, the subject of this sketch is a descendant in the ninth genera- tion from Richland Darlington, of Darn- hall, Cheshire, England, and in the fifth generation from Abraham Darlington, who migrated from Cheshire in 171 1, and settled in Aston township. Chester, (now Delaware) county, from whence he re- moved to Birmingham township, Chester county, in 1724. Abraham Darlington was a prominent and useful man in the com- munity. While ostensibly a farmer, he was a saddler by trade, and in later life de- voted much time to physic and surgery, ingham, devised to him by his grandfather, Edward Brinton. He was an influential man and public-spirited citizen, a member of assembly for twelve years (1802-1814), and held many other positions of trust. He was one of the commissioners ap- pointed to provide for the maintenance of the poor of the county, and took a promi- nent part in all that pertained to the best interests of the community. He . died 4 mo. I, 1825, and his wife 8 mo. 9, 1826. They were the parents of six children: William, the celebrated botanist, born 1782, died 1863; Thomas, born 1784, died 1866, unmarried; Ziba, born 1788, died 1S76; Samuel, born 1793, died 1794; Jane, born 1796, died 1817, unmarried; and Edward. Edward Brinton Darlington, youngest son of Edward and Hannah (Townsend) Dar- lington, was born in Birmingham, 12 mo. 16, 1798, and died there 5 mo. 6, 185 1. He married 3 mo. 23, 1831, Hannah, daughter of Nathan H. and Martha (Price) Sharp- less. He was a farmer and a prominent and active citizen. His children were Hen- ry T., the subject of this sketch; Dillwyn, born 1834, died 1851; Martha, born 1837, married Henry Hulme, a native of France; Emily P., married Brinton W. Woodward, of Lawrence, Kansas ; Hannah, married John E. Huey; Thomas, married Jane S. Paschall ; and Catharine, married Frank A. Faxon, of Kansas Citj'-, ^Missouri. Henry T. Darlington was born on the farm in Birmingham named by his grand- father "Darnhall" from the residence of his ancestors in England, and the first seventeen years of his life were spent there- on. The greater part of his educifion was obtained at the public schools of his native county. He spent one year at a boarding school kept by Benjamin Price, and another at Anthony Bolmar's school at West Ches- ter. In 1849 he entered the office of the Village Record at West Chester as an apprentice under Henry S. Evans, and re- HISTORY 'OF BUCKS COUNTY. 511 mained there until he attained his major- ity. His father having died, he went back to the farm in 1853, and remained there two years. In 1855 he entered into part- nership with Enos Prizer, and purchased the Bucks County Intelligencer, of John S. Brown, and assumed control February IS of that year. He was associated with Prizer under the firm name of Prizer & Darhngton in the conduct of the paper un- til the death of the former, November 25, 1864, when he purchased the entire inter- ■est, and for the next twelve years conducted the paper alone. In 1876 the Intclliger.ccr was changed from a weekly to a semi- weekly, and Alfred Paschall, a cousin, wab taken into the firm. A year later his broth- er, S. Edward Paschall, entered the part- nership. Mr. Darlington, being a man of more than average moral tone, of untiring en- ergy, and by nature an exceptional journ- alist, raised the Intelligencer to the front rank of American country journalism. As an editor there was a dignity as well as a scope in his writing that is seldom seen in newspaper work. He was not excep- tionally well educated, but admirably fitted for his chosen profession. He was a man ■of and for the people, he loved the truth and hated a lie, and devoted the whole force of an earnest and noble life to the -elevation and ennoblement of the profes- sion which was his pride. The Intelli- gencer under the management and control tecame a power in the community, and its circulation and influence was largely increased. Active in politics, yet never seeking office, he took a leading part as editor of the principal Republican paper in the county in moulding and solidifying pub- lic opinion and party policy. His newspaper was preeminently a county paper ; it coun- seled always patriotic and intelligent action in politics, and constantly urged public m preference to private interests ; it reflect- ed the soul of the man that devoted the best years of his life to it. During the twenty-three years of his life in Bucks ■county he was keenly alive to her best in- terests. As a journalist he labored inces- santly for the material interests of the coun- ty ; his whole heart was in his work. Intel- ligent, well read, thoroughly conversant . with the political and social drift of the state and nation, and intensely practical in his ideas, he constantly urged Bucks •county to perfect her own institutions and develop her resources, not only for her own welfare but that her influence might be felt beyond her limits. In the town in which he lived he was foremost in the advocacy of all that would contribute to the public good, and was always a leader in the practical affairs of the community. He was prominent in the promotion of the water works in 1869, and assisted in the establishment of several local institutions. One of his first concerns after locating in Doylestown was the need of a public library, and he was active in its establishment, and was its first secre- tary and librarian. He held many positions of trust, though never holding public of- fice other than that of town councilman, which he never sought. He was for sev- eral years a trustee of the State Asylum for the Insane at Harrisburg, and was one of the commissioners appointed to build the Hospital for the Insane at Norristown, holding a responsible position on the board. He was for several years a trustee of the State Normal School at West Chester, was secretary of the Bucks County Agricul- tural Society, trustee of Do}destown Ceme- tery, and an officer in several other local institutions. He was twice out with the militia of the county during the civil war, when our state was threatened with invas- ion. He frequently represented his party in state conventions, and was a delegate to the national convention that nominated Hayes for the presidency. His death was due to apoplexy, superinduced by intense mental work. He was stricken while on his way to the office, and died during the night following. Like his ancestors for many generations, he was a member of the Society of Friends, and a regular attendant at Meeting. He married, 9 mo. 9, 1857, Susan, daughter of Abraham and Susan (Hoopes) Darling- lington, who survives him, living in the old family residence at Doylestown. They were the parents of seven children, six of whom survive : E. Dilwyn, a florist, residing in Doylestown ; Frances, wife of Frank A. Faxon, of Kansas City; Helen, wife of Marshall R. Pugh, of Germantown ; Philip, of Doylestown ; Walter, on the edi- torial staiT of the North American; Zeanetta, the sixth child, died 3 mo. 25, 1893; and Agnes, wife of John C. Swartley, Esq., of Doylestown. DR. CHARLES B. SMITH, a practic- ing physician of Newtown and vicinity, obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Jefiferson Medical College of Phila- delphia in 1884. He became successor to his father, Elias E. Smith, M. D., who for more than thirty years was a practitioner of the same place — a man of gentle and benevolent character, and signally skillful in his art. Dr. Charles B. Smith descends from original county families. His father was of Quaker ancestry, being of the Wrights- town Smiths, whose progenitor settled at Windy-Bush Place in 1684. His mother was of the Wynkoop-McNair families, early Bucks county settlers, at or near Holland, they being of Presbyterian line- age, sturdy, patriotic yeomen, actively iden- tified with early colonial history in Penn- sylvania. He married M. Anna Stack- house, daughter of Jacob W. and Maria Palmer Stackhouse, of Fallsington, Penn- sylvania, in 1887. Dr. Smith comes of a family of physi- cians of this name who for a period of many 512 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 3'ears have been conservators of health in the middle-eastern section of the coun'.\-. useful citizens, able and progressive prac- titioners. Dr. Smith is and has been iden- tified with the interests of the public schools and health board of his native place, and is affiliated with various local, state and national medical societies. JOSIAH ERNEST SCOTT, M. D., of New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is a native of Washington county, Pennsyl- vania, and belongs to a family that have been prominent in the professional, official and social walks of life for many genera- tions. Hugh Scott, the founder of the family in America, was of Scottish ancestry and was born in the north of Ireland, from whence he emigrated to Pennsylvania and settled in Chester county about the year 1670; He was a Presbyterian, a Scotch- Irish Covenanter of the John Knox type, who loved liberty, civil and religious, and feared nothing but God. Abraham Scott, son of Hugh, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1677, and died in 1760. He was the father of seven children, all of whom were among the earliest settlers on the frontiers in Westmoreland and Washington counties, forming the vanguard of that army _ of sturdy Scotch-Irish who carried civiliza- tion and Christianity into the wilderness, establishing first the church, second the school, and taking an active part in the organization of a local self-government. The children of Abraham Scott were as follows: I. Ann, born 1699, married Arthur Patterson. 2. Thomas, born 1705, died 1796, was a justice of Westmoreland county, 1774, and a member of supreme executive council in 1777. On the organi- zation of Washington county, out of West- moreland, in 1781, was its first prothonotary, and became a judge of the court .of common pleas in 1786. 3. Rebecca, born December 17, 1707, became the second wife of James Agnew, a Scotch-Irish emigrant, and the great-great-grandmother of the famous Dr. David Hayes Agnew. 4. Alexander, set- tled in Lancaster county in 1738, was a captain in the provincial service there in 1756, and is said to have removed later to Virginia. 5. Grace, of whom no authentic history has been preserved. 6. Hugh Scott, born 1726, married Janet Agnew, daughter of James Agnew, before men- tioned, by a former wife, and lived for a time near Gettysburg, removing later to what became Pigeon Creek, Washington county, where he took up large tracts of land. Died there October 11, 1819, aged ninety-three years. 7. Josiah Scott, youngest son of Abra- ham, born 1734, died February 20, 1819, at the age of eighty-four years. He learned the trade of a blacksmith, and settled about 1760 at Peach Bottom, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, removing thence in 1773 to that part of Westmoreland county included in the formation of Washington county in 1781, where he took up 800 acres of land near the present site of Washington, then known as Catfish. He married in Lancaster county Violet Fisher, by whom he had six children, as follows : Sarah, who died young ; Alexander, who married Rachel McDowell and became a prominent man in Washington county ; Rev. Abraham, a dis- tinguished Presbyterian divine, who married Rebecca McDowell ; Mary, who married William Cotton, of a prominent Washing- ton county family ; Elizabeth, who mar- ried Robert Stevenson; James; and Jane, who married Hugh Workman. Josiah Scott married (second) Jane Gordon, born 1749, died December 26, 1831, and they were the parents of three sons — Hugh, Robert, and Samuel. Many of the descendants of Josiah Scott have distinguished themselves in professional, civil and official positions. One of them was a judge of the supreme court of Ohio ; many of them have been eminent jurists and lawyers ; several have achieved distinction as physicians ; while a large number have been eminent divines in the Presbyterian church. General Samuel Scott, youngest son of Josiah and Jane (Gordon) Scott, born near Washington, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1785, was the grandfather of Dr. Josiah Ernest Scott, the subject of this sketch. Born and reared in a newly settled community, where educational facilities were very limited, he was practically a self-educated man, what literary knowledge he possessed being gath- ered in the midst of a life of strenuous activity. He was from early manhood a member of the local militia of Washington county, and rose through successive grades of official position to the rank of brigadier- general. At the outbreak of the second war with the mother country he offered the services of his battalion " in defense of his country, but, though it was accepted,^ his command was held in reserve, and the war ended without it having been called into active service. He died October 16, 1819, in his thirty-fifth year. The Wash- ington Reporter, under date of October 25, 1819, contains an obituary notice of him of which the following is an abstract : "Brigadier-General Samuel Scott died on the i6th in.stant, beloved and esteemed by all who knew him. His private virtues se- cured the warm friendship of his asso- ciates, and the friends who wept around his tomb will find consolation in the remem- brance of a life which was busy in culti- vating, through the relations of piety, friendships for the advancement of civil liberty and national prosperity. The loss of a man inflexible in virtue and unap- palled by misfortune is a public one." Gen- eral Scott married in 1809 Mary Ann Wylie, daughter of William and Ellen (Noble) Wylie, who lived in his immediate neigh- borhood, and they were tlie parents of four children, as follows: William Wylie, who lived for a time in Newark, Ohio,. ^^^^^ c/^oy T! HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 513 and later removed to Europe, where he died; Josiah Noble, see forward; Jane, who married a ISIr. Lee ; and Samuel Godon, of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Josiah Noble Scott, second son of Gen- eral Samuel and Mary Ann (Wylie) Scott, born four miles north of Washington, Penn- sylvania, June 26, 1813, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was but six years of age at the death of his father, and his mother soon after married John D. Lindley, of Lindley's Mills, on Ten- Mile-Run, near the village of Prosperity, where the children of her first husband were reared. On March 8, 1837, Josiah Noble Scott m.arried Rachel Vance, daugh- ter of William and Rachel (Patterson) Vance, of Cross Creek township, Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, and settled in that township, where they reared a fam- ily of eight children. Mf. and Mrs. Scott were both members of Cross Creek Pres- byterian church, and both lie buried in the graveyard of that church. Their eight children were : Hannah Loretta, married Isaac M. Lavton, who died in 1878, and she later became matron of the boys' board- ing school at Saltsburg, Pennsylvania ; Mary Ann, w'ife of Captain J. B. Hays, of South Bur.'^ettstown, Pennsylvania ; Samuel Clark, wl."" served in the Twenty- second Pennsylvania Cavalry during the civil war, now a re. ident of Lyon county, Kansas ; Orphalina, 'vife of James Fyfe. of Kansas ; Ella, wife of J. Q. Law. of Harrison county, Ohio ; William Vance, of the same place ; Melissa Jane, wife of Samuel S. Campbell ; and Josiah Ernest, the subject of this sketch. Rachel (Vance) Scott, the mother of Dr. Scott, was born December 28. 1816, a daughter of William and Rachel (Patter- son) Vance, and was descended in both paternal and maternal lines from early Scotch-Irish settlers on the frontier of Penn.sylvania. Her father, William Vance, was born on the old Vance homestead in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Novem- ber 30, 1775. and was a son of Joseph Vance, and a grandson of William Vance, who was a member of the first committee of observation for Washington county under the committee of safety for that section in 1775. His first wife, Rachel Patterson, was born June 3, 1781, and died January 9, 1817; and his second wife was Hannah Patterson, her sister, born 1786, died 1878. James Patterson, the maternal great- grandfather of Rachel (Vance) Scott, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, of Scotch parents, in 1708, and emigrated to Pennsyl- vania in 1728. Landing in New York, he made his way to Little Britain township, Lancaster county, where he took up land, a part of which is still in possession of his descendants. After preparing a home in the wilderness he returned to New York in 1732 and married the wife of his choice, whom he had met on his arrival in Amer- ica, and brought her to his Lancaster county farm, where they reared a family of eleven .33-3 children, several of whom became pioneers in York, Westmoreland, Washington and other frontier counties, as well as in Ken- tucky and Ohio. William Patterson, eldest son of James the founder, born March 14, 1733, died June 29. 1818, was the grand- father of Rachel (Vance) Scott. He was twice married, his first wife being Rosanna Scott, of Cecil county, ]\Iaryland. by whom he had three sons — Samuel, Thomas and James. She died April 5. 1769. and he married, August 10, 1770, Elizabeth Brown, who died January 30, 1826. She was the mother of seven children : Nathaniel ; Rachel, born June 3, 1781, married William Vance, December 24. 1799, and died Janu- ary 9, 1817; Elizabeth; Josiah; Hannah, born 17S6. married June 12. 181S, William Vance, died in 1878; Nathan, and Elinor. William Patterson was one of the earliest settlers at Cross Creek, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a prominent man in that community. William Vance was a farmer in Cross Creek township, and reared a family of fourteen children, nine by the first wife and five by the second, Rachel, the mother of Dr. Scott, being the youngest child of the first marriage. Josiah Ernest Scott was born in Wash- ington county, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1856, and is a worthy descendant of his Scotch-Irish forbears. He early manifested a taste for study and reading, and with the sturdy persistency of his ancestors set about acquiring an education that would qualify him to fill the position he had chosen for himself in professional life. Mainly by his own efforts he worked his way through normal and other schools into and through the Ohio Weslej'an University at Delaware, Ohio, during the years 1878-1881, repre- senting his literary society on various occa- sions as essayist and orator. On April 26, 1882. he married Elizabeth T. Laizure, of Cadiz, Ohio, in whom he found an efficient aid and spur in realizing his cherished ambition for qualifying himself for the pro- fession of a physician. Returning to his native county of Washington, he devoted his summer months to agricultural pur- suits and the winter to study and teaching, for five years. His wife was a fitting helpmeet for the ambitious student. In addition to her household duties she found time to compete for prizes offered by var- ious journals for essays on various sub- jects, and for a time had charge of the woman's department of the National Stockman, published at Pittsburg. In 1887 Mr. and Mrs. Scott removed to Phila- delphia, and he entered the medical de- partment of the LTniversity of Pennsyl- vania, from which he graduated with the highest honors as an M. D. en May i, 1890. He at once located in New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he has since practiced his chosen profession with marked success, extending his practice into the adjoining parts of the county and across the river into the state of New Jersey. He has from time to time taken post- 514 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. graduate courses in various specialties in the line of his profession, and is a member of the D. Hayes Agnew Surgical Society of Philadelphia, and enjoyed the personal friendship of the eminent Dr. Agnew, for whom it is named, though, during the life- time of Dr. Agnew, neither of them were aware of their connection by ties of blood through their common descent from Abra- ham and Hugh Scott. Dr. Scott is also a member of the Bucks County Medical Society, the Medical Society of Pennsyl- vania, and the American Medical Associa- tion. In politics he believes thoroughly in the principles of the Republican party. He has always taken a deep interest in the affairs of the town in which he lives, and has served as chief burgess for three years, and a like term as a member of the local school board. He is an ardent member of the Presbyterian church, the church of his fathers, and has been for many years the superintendent of the Sabbath school connected with that church at New Hope. He and his estimable wife take an active part in philanthropic and church work in that vicinity, as well as in the social, literary and educational institutions, of the com- munity ; both are members of the Solebury Farmers' Club. Their only child, Gail Winters Scott, born in Philadelphia, July 2, 1889, was a graduate of New Hope High School in 1905. , ISAAC M. HUNStCKER was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, January 17, 1848, and is a son of Abraham and Catharine (Moyer) Hunsicker. Valentine Hunsicker. the pionet.- ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was an early disciple of Menno, and found a temporary asylum from re- ligious persecution in Switzerland, from whence he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1717, and was one of the earliest settlers in Perkiomen and Skippack township. Montgomery, (then Philadelphia) county. He was one of the founders of the Men- nonite congregation at Skippack. and is buried in the old burying ground ad- joining the ancient meeting house at Skippack. His son, Henry Hunsicker, was a minister for fifty-four years, and also a bishop of the Mennonite church, and was succeeded by his son John; who was a bishop and minister for ove,r forty years. Several of the descendants of Valentine Hunsicker have become em- inent in tlie legal profession, and others as ministers of the gospel in different denominations. A great-grandson was lately president of Girard College. Jacob Hunsicker, son of Valentine and Elizabetli Hunsicker, located in Hill- town township in 1757 on a farm pur- chased for him by his father, and con- veved to him by his parents in 1768. The original farm contained 100 acres, and he later pri chased 250 acres, partly in Hilltown and part in Rockhill township. He was a successful and prominent farmer. Strictly adhering to the tenets ()f the Mennonite faith, he took no part in affairs of state, either military or civil, but was an important factor in the establishment and development of local institutions, and reared a family in whom were instilled the best elements of citi- zenship. He and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of nine children: Jacob; Isaac; Elizabeth, who married Jacob Detweiler: Catharine, who married John Bergey: Sarah, who married Abraham Kolb; Barbara, who married John Bech- tel; Anna, who married Henry Kolb; Mary: and Egther. who married Isaac Hunsberger. Jacob, the father, died in December. 1812, his wife Jtlizabeth sur- viving him. Isaac Hunsicker, second son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born in Hilltown and resided there all his life. He inherited from his father 130 acres of the home- stead, upon which he lived until his death in i860. He was one of the orig- inal trustees of Perkasie Mennonite meeting to whom the deed for the land was made on which the meeting house and graveyard were located. He mar- ried Anna Overholt, and they were the parets of nilie children, eight of whom married IMoyers: Jacob, born in 1809, died 1880. married Barbara Moyer; Abra- ham, born December 8, 181 r, married Catharine Moyer; Elizabeth, married Samuel Moj^er; Hannah, married Isaac ■ Moyer; Anna, married John Moyer; Lydia, married Joseph Moyer; Leah, married Enos Moyer; Mary, never mar- ried; and Catharine, married Martin Moyer. Abraham Hunsicker, second son of Isaac and Anna Hunsicker, born on the old homestead iii Hilltown, December 8, i8ti, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He inherited from his father one-half of the homestead, and followed the life of an agriculturist there during the active j'ears of his life, carrying the produce of his farm to the Philadelphia markets by wagon, prior to the opening of the N. P. R. R. He was a well-to-do and intelligent farmer. He married in 18,35. Catharine INIoyer. born in Bed- minster in 1818. daughter of Christian and Anna ( Landis) Moyer, granddaugh- ter of Christian and Mary (Landis) ]\loyer. and ,great-granddaughter of Rev. Samuel and Catharine (Kolb) Moyer of Hilltown. Abraham Hunsicker died De- cember 18. 1888. His children were as follows: Lydia. deceased, first wife of Abraham Hendricks, of Perkasie: Nancy, who married (first) Benjamin Fellman. and (second) Abraham Hendricks; Elizabeth, wife of Ezra Moore, of Per- kasie; Sarah, wife of William Renner, of Perkasie: Isaac M.. the subject of this sketch: and Abraham, who married .\niia Overholt. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 515 Isaac M. Hunsicker was born and reared on the old homestead in Hilltown, and acquired his education at the public schools of that district. He has always followed farming, and is one of the prominent and successful men of the community. Like his ancestors for many generations he is a member of the Men- nonite church, and politically is a Re- publican. He married, April 13, 1872, Mary Detweiler, daughter of John and Annie (Detweiler) Detweiler, and they are the parents of three children: Sallie, born July 5, 1876, died August li, 1877; Leidy, born August 5, 1878, married De- cember 6, 1902, Delia Moyer, daughter of William C. Moyer; Emma, born June 5, 1883, married March 20, 1904, Henry Shaddinger, son of Edward Shaddinger. C. WATSON BETTS, postmaster, of New Hope borough, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, October 2t„ 1864, is the youngest son of William and Emily (Walton) Belts, lifelong residents of Sole- bury township. The paternal ancestor of the Betts family of Bucks county was Richard Betts, who came from England and settled at Ipswich, Essex county, Mas- sachusetts, in 1648, and soon after removed to Newton, Long Island, where he died November 18, 1713, aged one hundred years. He was a member of colonial assembly in 1665, and sheriff 1678-1681. By his wife Joanna he had eight children, — two sons, Richard and Thomas ; and five daughters : Joanna, who married John Scudder ; Mary, married Joseph Swezey; Martha, married Philip Ketcham ; Elizabeth, married Joseph Sackett; and Sarah, who married Edward Hunt. Thomas, the second son of Richard and Joanna Betts, married in 1683 Mercy White- head, daughter of Major Daniel and Abi- gail (Stevenson) Whitehead, and grand- daughter of Daniel Whitehead, one of the Smithtown purchasers of 1650. Thomas Betts died in 1709, and his widow married in 171 1 Colonel Joseph Sackett. Thomas and Mercy (Whitehead) Betts were the par- ents of nine children, viz : Richard ; Thomas ; Daniel ; Mercy, married Thomas Hazard ; Abigail, married Abraham Spring- stein ; Joanna ; Mary ; Elizabeth, married Robert Comfort ; and Deborah, who mar- ried Gershom Moore. Thomas, second son of Thomas and Mercy was born at Newton, Long Island. August 14, 1689, and died at Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April. 1747. He married. May 5, 1713, Susannah Steven- son, daughter of Thomas, by whom he had six children ; Ann, born December 14, 1714; Thomas, born November i, 1716, died young; John, born September 15, 1718; Stephen, born March 26, 1720: Thomas, born February 18, 1723; and Susannah, born February 18, 1723. After the death of his wife he removed to Chesterfield, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he married Susannah Field, and soon after re- moved to Bucks county, Pennsylvania. The children of his second marriage were Patience, Richard, Mercy, Zachariah, Mir- iam, and William. Thomas Betts, fifth child of Thomas and Susannah (Stevenson) Betts, was born on Long Island, February 18, 1723, and came with his father to Bucks county. He mar- ried 4 mo. 21, 1744, Sarah Smith, daughter of William and Rebecca (Wilson) Smith, and settled in Buckingham township, one mile north of Pineville, where he died in June, 1783. His wife died in 1804. They were the parents of eleven children, viz :. Thomas, born 8 mo. 3, 1745, died 1777; Sarah, born 4 mo. 14, 1747, married An- thony Hartley; Ann, born 5 mo. i, 1749, married Robert Sample; Rebecca, born 5 mo. 18, 1751, married Thomas Rose; Will- iam, born 12 mo. 3, 1752; John, born 5 mo. 8, 1755; Susannah, born 12^ mo. 20, 1756, married George Mitchell ; Stephen, born 5 mo. 31, 1758; Mary, born 10 mo. 2, 1760, married Isaac Van Horn ; Isaac, born i mo. 2, 1763; Zacariah, born 10 mo. 21, 1764. Stephen Betts, son of Thomas and Sarah (Smith) Betts, was born in Buckingham, 5 mo. 31, 1758. He learned the black- smith trade, and settled in Solebury town- ship, where he followed his trade for a unmber of years, but after middle life de- voted his attention principally to farming. He married, 4 mo. 19, 1786, Hannah Black- fan, daughter of Crispin and Martha (Davis) Blackfan, and in 1795 purchased of his brother-in-law, Edward Blackfan, a portion of the old Blackfan homestead, adjoining a tract of land granted to Will- iam Blackfan, father of Crispin, in 1718, by his cousin, William Penn, William being a son of Edward Blackfan, who married Rebecca Crispin, a sister to the mother of William Penn. This property remained in the Betts family for three generations, a period of over a century. Stephen Betts died on the homestead in 1834, and his widow in 1843. They were the parents of nine children, viz: William, born 1787; Sarah, born 1788, married Samuel Beans; Martha, born 1790, married Jacob B. Smith ; Stephen, born 1792 ; Hannah, born 1.794, married Daniel Smith ; Esther, born 1797, married Jacob Janney ; Anna, born 1799, married Joseph Taylor; Letitia, born 1801, married Joseph E. Reeder; John, born 1804, married Sarah C. Malone; and (sec- ond) Beulah Walker. William Betts, eldest son of Stephen and Hannah, inherited the homestead and lived thereon until about 1858. He died at the residence of his daughter, Sarah B. Mich- ener, in New Hope, May, 1875. He mar- ried in 1816, Ruth Simpson, born 4 mo. 3. 1795. died 3 mo. 16, 1857, daughter of David and Agnes (Wiggins) Simpson, of Solebury, and had by her seven children ; Sarah, married Hugh Michener: William: Samuel : J. Simpson ; Edward, died a -oung man: David, died young; and Stephen. William Betts, eldest son of William and 5i6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Ruth (Simpson) EcUs. was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born January 24, 1824, on the old homestead in Solebury. and spent his whole life there, dying November 28, 1895. He married Emily Walton, daughter of Jonathan and Jane Walton, of Buckingham, where Emily was born February 11, 1835. She died September 11, 1895, two months prior to her husband. They were the parents of four children; Edward, deceased; Anna J., wife of John W. Bradshaw; C. Watson; and Ruth, wife of Edward Livezey. The family were members of the Society of Friends from the time of their arrival in Bucks county. C. WATSON BETTS was born on the old homestead in Solebury, and acquired his education at the public schools. At the age of eighteen years he apprenticed him- self to the miller's trade under his uncle J. Simpson Betts, at New Hope, where he has since resided. At the end of three years he took charge of the mill, and continued to manage it for his uncle until the death of the latter, in February, 1900, and for his successor Isaac W. Holcombe, until July 2, 1900. On the latter date he was appointed postmaster of New Hope, and, resigning his position in the mill, took charge of the office, which he has since filled. In poli- tics he is a Republican, but has never held other than local elective offices, filling the position of auditor and other local posi- tions in New Hope borough. He is a member of Unity Lodge, No. 300, I. O. O. F., of New Hope; and Lone Star Lodge, No. 16, K. of P., Lambertville, New Jersey. Mr. Betts married November 24. 1888, Emma E. Hough, daughter of John Hough, of Solebury. They are the parents of two children — Alice H., and Emma Francis, who reside at home. CHARLES WEST HANCOCK. Among the retired business men who have found congenial homes in Bucks county, though born without her borders, and have become identified with and interested in the affairs of their adopted county and town, is Charles West Hancock, of Langhorne. a native of Philadelphia, where he w-as born June 19, 183s, of distinguished English ancestry. John Hancock, the paternal ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was a native of London, England, and came to Fen- wick's colony, Salem county, West New Jersey, by way of Maryland, in the "Willing Mind," arriving in New Jersey 10 mo. 25^, 1679, according to an account given by himself and transcribed upon the records of Salem Monthly Meeting of Friends. His father, William Hancock, seems to have preceded him to New Jersey, as one thousand acres were allotted to him on Alloway's Creek, and surveyed in 1676 by Richard Ilancock by order of Fenwick. John Hancock inherited five hundred acres of this land on the south side of the creek, while his brother, inheriting the personal estate of his father, settled at Elsinboro. John Hancock built in the year 1708 a bridge over Alloway's Creek that has given the name to the present town of liawrock's Bridge. His son William built in 1734 the brick house, now historic as the scene of the massacre of American militia and defenceless noncombatants by the British soldiers under Colonel Mawhood in 1778. William Hancock, then seventy-eight years old, was mortally wounded and died a few days later in the house of his brother-in- law, Joshua Thompson. Both John and William Hancock were prominent in the afifairs of the colony and province, the latter being a member of assembly for upwards of twenty years and a justice of the courts of Salem county for a longer period, holding that position at the time of his death. John Hancock married Mary Champney, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth. She was also a native of Lon- don, and came to New Jersey with her mother in the ship "Henry" in 1681. John and Mary (Champney) Hancock w'ere the parents of ten children: John, William^ Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Nathaniel, Edward^ Joseph, Jonathan and Samuel. John Han- cock, Sr., died in the year 1725. Samuel Hancock married 4mo. 26, 1727, Rebecca Fogg, and had several children, among them a son Samuel, born 8 mo. 28, 1738, who on arriving at manhood married Rachel Bradway. born 11 mo. 17, 1738. Samuel Hancock, son of Samuel and Rachel, born 3 mo. 25, 1772, was the grand- father of the subject of this sketch. He married Hannah Pancoast. Joseph Lee Hancock, son of Samuel and. Hannah (Pancoast) Hancock, was bora at Hancock's Bridge. Salem county, New Jersey, I mo. 5, 1806, and died in Phila- delphia 6 mo. 5, 1878. He was a promi- nent and influential man in Philadelphia, serving a term in the state legislature and filling the office of school' director for several j'ears. He moved to Philadelphia at an early age, and pursued various occu- pations. In 1845 he settled in West Phila- delphia and became actively identified with its development and growth. He married in 2 mo., 1832, Susanna Pryor Bacon, born in Philadelphia,. 2 mo. 22, 1810, died there 3 mo. ig, 1878. daughter of David and ^Margaret E. (Pryor) Bacon, and grand- daughter of Joseph and Sarah (West) Bacon of Philadelphia. On the paternal side she was a descendant of an early set- tler in Salem county, New Jersey, and on the maternal side from early Quaker set- tlers of Chester county, Pennsylvania, her mother, Margaret Edge Pryor, being a daughter of Thomas W. and Susanna (Edge) Pryor. and granddaughter of Jacob Edge and Margaret Paul, and great- granddaughter of Robert, son of John ap Thomas and Ellen Jones. Anna Bacon, a sister of Mrs. Hancock, married Mitchell Watson, late of Langhorne. Joseph Lee, ■/' — '^%^,.. a>yv\.>\f Up. -', LPNCx >";d HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 517 and Susanna Pryor (Bacon) Hancock were the parents of six children: i. Margaret Bacon, born 9 mo. 16, 1833 ; married Wil- liam B. Livezey, January 6. 1876, and died l^ovember 13, 1895, without , issue. 2. Charles West (the subject), born 6 mo. 19, 1835. 3. George W., born 3 mo. 2, 1837, died March 22, 1903 ; married Eliza- beth James, May 7, 1862 ; issue, Henry J., born August 18, 1865; Walter W., born October 21, 1870; George B., born Decem- ber 17, 1867; Clement who died in in- fancy. 4. Albert, born 11 mo. 21, 1838, died February 14, 1891 ; married Josephine Kimes, April 12, 1871 ; issue, Francis Bacon and Katie K. 5. Franklin died in infancy. €. Mary Anna, born 10 mo. 14, 1848, died December 20, 1886; married Charles A Dixon, September 15, 1869; issue, Edward C. and Susannah H. Charles West Hancock was educated in the schools of Philadelphia, and on Feb- ruary 22, 1852, entered the employ of Jenks & Ogden, wholesale druggists in Phila- delphia, where he proceeded to learn the business. He also attended the Philadel- phia College of Pharmacy, and graduated there in March of 1857. On completing his education he went to Trenton, New Jersey, where he passed a year. Returning to Philadelphia he purchased the drug store of his former preceptor, and in 1861 sold it to advantage. He then removed to West Philadelphia and built up a large and profit- able business in an establishment he con- tinued to rent until 1876. In that year be purchased a piece of ground and erected thereon a place in which to carry on his business, and a commodious residence. His business continued to increase with the growth of the section of the city in which he was settled. He had the entire <:onfidence of his profession and was well known to be accurate and highly edu- cated. In September, 1895, he retired from active business and moved to Langhorne, Bucks county, where he enjoys the advan- tage and luxuries incident to the career of a successful business man. He enjoys also the warm esteem and the highest respect of his fellowtownsmen, who have testified their appreciation of them by electing him to the town council, the presidency of the board of health, and a number of local offices. Dr. Hancock is a distinguished and prominent member of the Masonic fratern- ity, a member of Newtown Lodge, No. 427 ; Temple Chapter, No. 248 ; Philadel- phia Commandery, No, 2; and is a thirty- second degree member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He is also a mem- ber of Hamilton Lodge, No. 596, and Logan Encampment, No. 83, I. O. O. F. ; of Mantua Council, No. 22, O. U. A. M. ; ^nd Mantua Degree Council, of Mohave Tribe, No. 320, L O. R. M. ; Wenona Council, No. I, Degree of Pocahontas: William Penn Division, No. 143, Sons of Temperance ; and is a past grand chaplain Being early on the ground, and of shrewd business capabilities, he amassed a comfort- able fortune. Becoming somewhat broken in health, he returned to Bucks county and located at Langhorne in 1890. He died May 24, 1892, aged sixty-one years. He was married October 16, 1861, to Anna J., daughter of John and Mary (Hough) Barnsley, now living in Newtown borough. Their children are : Russel, of Newtown ; and Mary, wife of Major Charles Stuart Spong, of the English army, now stationed at Carlo, Egypt. PETER L. KREISS, M. D., of South, Perkasie, was born in Lower Salford town- ship, Montgomer)- county, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1857, and is a son of Peter and Elizabeth (Leindecker) Kreiss, both natives of Germany, who emigrated to America soon after their marriage and set- tled in Lower Salford township. Peter Kness, Sr., died in Lower Salford when Dr. Kriess was a child, leaving four young children, viz : Henry L., of Allentown,. Pennsylvania, who married Catharine Kline, of Lower Salford ; Mary L., of Schwenksville, Montgomery county ; Will- iam, since deceased; and Peter L., the sub- ject of this sketch. Elizabeth Kreiss, the widow of Peter, married (second) Joseph Steigner, of Kulpsville, Montgomery coun- ty, who is still living in Montgomery coun- ty, with a daughter by a former marriage. During the later years of her life Mrs. Steigner and her husband resided with her son. Dr. Peter L. Kreiss, at South Perka- sie, where the former died in 1903 at the age of eighty-three years. Dr. Kreiss, after the death of his father, was reared at Silverdale, Bucks county, in the family of Christian Moyer. He worked on the farm for ]Mr. Moyer until eighteen years of age, and then entered the general merchandise store of Jacob C. ' Wismer, at Silverdale, as a clerk, where he remain- ed for three years. Choosing the medical profession as his life work, he entered Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- phia, from which he graduated in iSSr,, and on April i, of that year located at Sil- verdale and began the practice of medicine. After two years' practice at Silverdale he removed to Florida, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he practiced until February, 1886, when he located at Man- heim in the same county, where he followed his chosen profession until April, 1891, when he removed to South Perkasie, Bucks county, where he purchased a small farn> of Frank Wolfinger, and has since followed HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 519 his profession with success. In religion he is a member of the Church of United Brethren, and politically is a Republican. Dr. Kreiss married, September 11, 1S80, Lizzie Detweiler, daughter of Dr. Isaac and Lizzie (Swartley) Detweiler, and is a de- scendant of early German settlers in Bucks county on both the paternal and maternal side, and they are the parents of three chn- dren : Isaac D., Joseph D., and Sallie D. (.See Isaac Detweiler, in this workj. •■■' WILLIAM E. WILSON. The American progenitor of the branch of the Wilson family to which belongs William E. Wil- son, of Mechanicsville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, came from the county of Cumberland, England, about 1688. The following is an exact copy of the certificate produced by him and recorded upon the books of Chesterfield Monthly Aleetmg, ^ Burlington county. New Jersey : Whereas Steeven V\-4l.son of Ilgli^hfields, in ye Parish of BCgham & County of Cum- berland, haveing a purpose in his mynd to goe to Pensilvania to settle himselfe there in some employmt of honest Labour in yt. Country, Therefore this is to certifye and alsoe ' to satisfye ""ffriends or any other people there in that Island that may employe ye said Steeven Wilson that he hath not come away or left his owne Country for any misdemeanor or miscarriage or matter of dishonestye of any kind that wee knowe of never since he owned ye Truth but hath walked pretty orderly for severali yeares amongst us, only that it is his owne free w^ill purpose & resolution to settle him- selfe in that Planta:tion -being a single man. John Banches, Richard Richison, Philip Burnyeatt, Jerem : Bowman, Christ. Wilson, John Serugham, James Dickenson, Jere : Spencer, John Robinson, Peter Hudson, Richard Head, Jon: Spencer. The above certificate is without date, but w^e find from other sources that btepii- en Wilson was in the neighborhood prior to 1690. In that year he was one of the carpenters who had charge of the building of the meeting house at Falls, Bucks coun- ty. He married in 6 mo. 1692, Sarah Baker, daughter of Henry Baker, who was born at West Darby, Lancashire England, 8 mo. 18, 1672. Henry Baker, father of Sarah Wilson, came to Bucks county in 1684 and became a very prominent man, serving as justice and member of the colonial assem- bly for many years. Stephen Wilson from , the date of his marriage was a member of Falls Meeting in Bucks county, though he continued to reside in New Jersey. He was one of the committee who had charge of the collection of money for the building of Buckingham meeting house in 1705. Dur- ing the winter, when the river was impas- sable, permission was given the Friends on the other side to hold their meeting at the house of Stephen Wilson. He died in March, 1707, and his widow married, 8 mo. 19, 1708, Isaac Milner. She died in 2 mo. 1715. The children of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson were Stephen, Sa- rah, :Mary, Rebecca, John and Samuel. Samuel Wilson, youngest son of Steplien and Sarah, was born March 6, 1706. He married in 1729 Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Oliver) Canby, and on June 4, 1730, purchased 310 acres of land in Buckingham, covering the present site of Mechanicsville, a portion of which is still occupied by his great-great-grandson, the subject of this sketch, having been in the family for 175 years. Thomas Canby, above referred to, was a son of Benjamin Canby, of Thorn;^ Yorkshire, and his moth- er was a sister to Henry Baker, above men- tioned, with whom Thomas came to this country in 1684. Like his uncle, he became a very prominent man in the community, serving several terms in the colonial assem- bly, and filling several other positions. He was also a minister among Friends. Sam- uel Wilson lived a long and useful life in Buckingham and reared a family of thir- teen children, the tenth of whom, Stephen, born 7 mo. 2, 1749, married Sarah Black- fan, and remained upon the homestead, a portion of which he inherited at his father's death in 1787. Both he and his wife died in April, 1818. Samuel Wilson, fifth of the nine chil- dren of Stephen and Sarah, born 6 mo. 5, 1786, became the owner of the home- stead and 222 acres. He married Hannah Longstreth, and had eight children, one of whom, Samuel, born in 1823, was the father of the subject of this sketch. Samuel Wilson was reared on the Buck- ingham farm and acquired his education at the old Tyro Hall school, then quite an educational institution. He taught school for several years and was for a short time engaged in the mercantile business at New- town. He also traveled extensively in the interest of a newspaper, part of his route being through the southern states, where he witnessed some stirring scenes just prior to the civil war. In the spring of 1876 he began growing seeds for market in a small way, and, the business growing from year to year, he became an extensive seed grower, shipping seed to all parts of the world, and doing a large business for about, twenty years. He died in 1897. He mar- ried in 1852 ]\Iaria Webster, nee Burger, by whom he had the following children : Samuel Howard, a physician at Mechan- icsville; William Edmund, the subject of this sketch; and AI. Elizabeth, who resides with her brother William. Samuel W 1 son was a prominent and esteemed citizen. He was a member of the orthodox branch of the Society of Friends. In politics he was a Republican, but never sought or held 520 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. other than local office, filling the office of school director for nine years. His wife was a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Schoch) Burger, and was born in Phila- delphia in 1819, and died in Buckingham in 1893. Her father was a jeweler in New York city for a number of years and after coming to Buckingham lived a retired life. William Edmund Wilson, second son of Samuel and Maria (Burger) Wilson, was born on the old Wilson homestead at Me- chanicsville, October 23, 1856. He acquir- ed his education at the Tyro Hall School and at the Doylestown English and Clas- sical Seminary. On leaving school he as- sisted his father in the seed business, and after a few years took an interest in the seed growing, part of the farm being al- lotted to him for that purpose. He later filled the position of postmaster at Me- chanicsville for seven years. After his mother's death he purchased the present farm of fifty-three acres of his father, and is a practical and enterprising farmer. He is a member of Doylestown Presbyterian church, in which he has been an elder for several years. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He. is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. j\I., and Doyles- town Chapter, R. A. M. Mr. Wilson mar- ried, October 19, 1898, Fannie Watson, daughter of Henry and Emeline (Rich) Watson, of Buckingham, an account of whose ancestry is given in this work in the sketch of her brother, William Watson. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have no children. ALLEN ROBERT MITCHELL, of Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is a representative in the seventh generation of a family that have resided in that vicinity since 1699. He was born in Middle- town township, Bucks county, August 22. 1852, and is a son of the late Gove and Catharine Mather (Croasdale) Mitchell. The first American ancestor of this fam- ily was Henry Mitchell, of Marsden Lanes, Lancashire, England, who was married ^lay 6, 1675, to Elizabeth Foulds, at the house of Stephen Saeger, Marsden Lanes, under the auspices of Marsden Monthly ^Meeting of Friends. On 12 mo. (February) 16, 1698-9, a certificate was granted by Mars- den Aleeting to Henry Mitchell, his wife Elizabeth, and their three children, Henry, Richard and ]\Iargaret, to Friends in Penn- sylvania. They sailed in the '"Brittanica," with a number of other Friends on their way to Penn's colony, and Elizabeth and the children arrived in the Delaware river 6 mo. (August) 25, 1699, Henry, the father, having died on the voyage. Elizabeth sur- vived but two months after her arrival, dying 8 mo. 10, 1699. The certificate was read and accepted at IMiddletown Meet- ing 10 mo. 7. 1699, and the children taken under the care of that meeting. Richard Mitchell, witii the approval of the meet- ing, found a home with John Smith. He married in 1712 Mary ^lilnor, two years later Alice Shires, and late in life married a third wife, Agnes Warner (nee Croas- dale). He settled in Wrightstown, where he operated a mill for many years at Rush Valley. He became a very prominent man, serving his county as justice and in the colonial assembly for many years. Mar- garet Mitchell married Stephen Twining in 1709. HENRY MITCHELL, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Foulds) ^litchell, was born in iMarsden Lanes, Lancashire, England, in 1680, 9 mo. 17, and died in 1726 in Bristol, Bucks county. He was a carpenter, and soon after his arrival entered the employ of Joseph Growdon, with whom he re- mained until after his marriage to Sarah Gove, daughter of Richard Gove, of Phila- delphia. He was one of the builders, and owners of Milford Mills, at Hulmeville. In 1714 Growdon conveyed to him 125 acres of land in Bristol township, ad- joining the Middletown line, which re- mained in the family for several genera- tions. Henry and Sarah (Gove) ]\Iitchell were the parents of six children: Henry; John ; ]\Iartha, who married Thomas Jan- ney ; Sarah, who married Joseph Clark ; ]\rary. who married Renald Burden; and Elizabeth, who married James Barber. John Mitchell, second son of Henry and Sarah, was born 3 mo. 10, 1711, and mar- ried 12 mo. 19, 1738. Margaret Stack- house, born 3 mo. 16. 1714. died 5 mo. 3, 1774. He died 4 mo. 31, 1789. He was also a carpenter, and later a farmer, and resided in Middletown on land taken up by his father-in-law. They were the parents of seven children : John, Richard, Henry, Samuel, Margaret, Sarah and Pearson. Pearson Mitchell, youngest son of John and Margaret (Stackhouse) Mitchell, was born in IMiddletown township and resided there all his life. He married Rebecca Allen, daughter of John and Rebecca (Gibbs) Allen, and granddaughter of Sam- uel and Jane (Wain) Allen, and had four children ; Gove, an eminent physician, John Allen, William and Achsah. Pearson Mit- chell died in 1834. John Allen Mitchell in- herited- from his father a farm in Middle- town, upon which he lived till late in life, and then removed to the village of Attle- borough, now Langhorne. where he died. He married Tacie Stackhouse, and had five children: Pearson; John S. ; Gove;, Sarah, who married Rowland Mather : and Rebecca, who married James W. New- bold. Tacie Mitchell died in 1866. Gove Mitchell was born in Middletown 2 mo. 10. 1825. and was reared in the simple faith of the Society of Friends, his parents. John Allen and Tacie (Stackhouse) Mitchell, both being elders in Middletown Meeting. After a few years of mature life as a farmer he removed to Philadelphia, where he was actively engaged in business for a number of years. He returned to Middletown in 1883, and at the organiza- 03^^t^.-w^. /^ y^,C^s.X^^^^__ ROBERT S. DANA HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 521 tlon of the People's National Bank of Langhorne he was made its cashier and re- tained that position until his death, June 17, 1904. He was twice married; first to Catharine Mather Croasdale, by whom he had two sons — Isaac S., who died in early manhood, and Allen Robert, the subject of this sketch. He married (second) Anna Croasdale, who survives him, and had hy her two sons — Horace G., born 8 mo. 2^, 1869, for several years assistant cashier and now cashier of the People's National Bank; and George Rowland, born 10 mo. 18, 1873, an electrical engineer. , Allen Robert Mitchell was born in Mid- dletown, but spent his boyhood days in Philadelphia, and acquired his education at the Friends' school at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia, and at Bryant and Stratton's Business College. On leaving school he secured a position in the store of Keim & Biddle, jobbers and importers of woolen goods, and, after filling re- sponsible positions in their employ for sev- eral years, in 1879 became a member of the firm and assumed the management of its financial affairs and has continued in the business ever since. The present firm name is J. R. Keim & Co., who in addition to the importing business are proprietors of the Shackamaxon Worsted Mills, and manufacture a fine grade of worsted goods, running over one hundred looms and em- ploying five hundred hands, and have es- tablished a market for their goods in all parts of the United States. He is a mem- ber of the Manufacturers' Club of Phila- delphia. Mr. Mitchell married February 20, 1S79, Ada Begley, of Philadelphia, daughter of Thomas Smith and Sarah Phipps (Martin) Begley, and granddaughter of Thomas and Sarah (Smith) Begley, her maternal grand- parents being Benjamin and Jemima (Phipps) Martin. Mr. and ]\Irs. Mitchell are the parents of three children : Edith Maud, born November 25, 1879; Allen Robert, Jr., born April 11, 1882; and Ada Begley, born March 7, 1885, died February 20, 1892. Edith M. and Allen Robert were educated at the Friends' Central school, Philadelphia, and the latter entered Swarthmore College, from which he gradu- ated in the class of 1902. He is now employed in his father's establishment. He is a" member of the Delta Upsilon fratern- ity, the Swarthmore Club and the Univer- sity Club, of Philadelphia. Edith Maud married Henry Ridgway Knight, of Phila- delphia. Mrs. Mitchell is a descendant of Joseph Phipps, from Reading, Berkshire, England, who came to Pennsylvania in 1681 and set- tled in Chester county, removing later to Abington township, Philadelphia county, where he died in 1716. He was, one of the organizers of Abington Friends' meeting, and especially active in public affairs. He served as member of the first provincial assembly held in Philadelphia in 1682, and again in 1685 from Chester county. ROBERT SHOEMAKER DANA, M. D., whose postofiice address is now Mor- risville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, November 10, 1833, is the son of Sylvester Dana, A. M., and his wife, Elizabeth Brown. On his paternal side he is of Huguenot descent, the family having left France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Richard Dana was the first of the family in America. He was born in France about 1612, whence with his parents and others he fled to England in 1629, and emigrated from there to America in 1640, landing in the Plymouth colony. Afterwards he re- moved to West Cambridge now (in 1830) called Brighton, near Boston. His place was called also the Hannewell farm, which he once owned and sold to Edward Jack- son in 1656. He died at West Cambridge (or Brighton) April 2, 1690. He was the father of Jacob, whose son Jacob was the father of Anderson Dana, Sr., who was born at Pomfret, Connecticut, October 26, 1735. He resided at Ashford, Connecticut, until 1772, when with his family he moved to Wyoming Valley, then called West More- land, now in Luzerne county, Pennsyl- vania; there he located an original section of land about one mile below the centre of the town, the section being laid out long, and reaching from the lower flat lands to and including a portion of the mountain, giving each settler a variety of flats, hill land and mountain. He was a lawyer, and at one time clerk of the coun- cil. In 1774 he was chosen a surveyor of highways and "lister," also a member of the school committee, and in May, 1778, was chosen as representative of Westmore- land to the Connecticut assembly, from which he had returned to Wyoming in time to participate in the battle which took place there July 3, 1778, between the settlers and the British, Tories, and their Indian allies. In that engagement he acted as aide to Colonel Zebulon Butler, was wounded in the thigh and unhorsed. One of the men escaping from the Indians when the battle was lost, Rufus Bennett, reported that he saw his son-in-law, Stephen Whiton, try- ing to help him on his horse. That was the last seen of either of them, and undoubtedly they were immediately killed, as the Indians were close upon them. His son, Anderson Dana, Jr., the grand- father of Dr. Robert S. Dana, was born August II, 1765. at Ashford, Connecticut, and went with his father to Wyoming Valley in 1772. He was nearly thirteen years old at the time of the massacre, and, in company with many others, among whom he was the oldest male, he with his mother and other children fled back to Connecticut through the wilderness east of the Valley, which was long known as the '"Wilderness and Shades of Death," on account of the number of the fugitives from the Valley who died there from hunger and privations. His mother, knowing that her husband's 5^^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. papers were of great value, took them in a pillow case along with her to Connecticut. When Anderson became of more niauire age he, with a younger brother, returned to Wyoming Valley, taking with them a cow and a horse. They built a log house on the land their father had located, put in some crops, and when the crops had well grown they sent for their mother and the other children, who came on with other persons coming to the Valley from Con- necticut. He married Sarah Stevens, of Wilkes-Barre (so named after the Declara- tion of the Independence of the United States of America, in honor of John Wilkes, and Colonel Barre, men of influence in England, who used their influence in favor of the freedom of the colonies), the county town of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and located in the valky of Wyoming, about the centre of it. He carried on farm- ing. While in Connecticut and a minor, he had learned the trade of cooper, and made his own barrels, milk pails, tubs, etc. He was associate judge for some time in the Wilkes-Barre county court, council- man, road supervisor, collector of taxes, and Lieutenant of the State Militia. He held other positions of trust, and was highly esteemed as a citizen and a neigh- bor. He had eleven children who mostly settled in and around Wilkes-Barre. He died at his homestead in Wilkes-Barre in 1851, aged about eighty-six years. The children were : Amelia, born July 23, 1791 ; Laura, born May 28, 1793, died Aug- ust 16, 1794; Asa Stevens, born December 17, 1794, married Hannah Pruner, and after her death he married her sister, Nancy Pruner; Sarah, wife of Rowland Metcalf, born September 16, 1796; Francis, born May 23, 1798, married Sophia Whitcomb; Louisa Huntington, born March 19, 1800, died 1842 ; Anderson, born February 26, 1802, married Ann Jameson, and afterward Mary Hammer; Eleazer, born April 22,, 1804; Sylvester, born May 28, 1806, married Elizabeth Brown, of Worthington, Ohio; Mary, born June 16, 1808, married Ly- man C. Kidder; and Charles, born August 6, 181 1. Sylvester Dana, son of the above Ander- son Dana, was a gentleman of great worth as a lawyer and educator. He was born May 28, 1806, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he was reared on his father's farm. He was educated at the Wilkes-Barre Academy, then conducted by the Hon. Joel Jones, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From thence he went to Yale College, in New Haven, Connecticut. Having passed through the usual course he graduated from there in 1826 with the degree of Master of Arts. He then returned to Wilkes-Barre and entered upon the study of law with Judge Garrick Mallory, and, when admitted to the bar, went to Ohio, where he had charge of the Worthington seminary as principal for three years. He married Eliza- beth Brown, one of the assistant teachers in the seminary. He then practiced law. associated with Judge . Olds, having, moved to Circleville. He there also pub- lished the "Olive Branch," a weekly paper. His health proving delicate, his physician advised a change of climate, and he arranged to take charge of a seminary at Charleston, South Carolina, but before moving the directors sent word that a former applicant, whom they had thought would not come, had arrived. The academy of Wilkes-Barre having then no principal, he accepted a call to this old school of his boyhood days and moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In 1839 he he built a fine academy of his own for young men, especially those fitting them- selves for college, known as Dana's Acad- emy, at the corner of Franklin and Acad- emy streets, the latter so called from his institution. In 1855 he was called as prin- cipal to the academy at Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, near Williamsport, on the west branch of the Susquehanna river, where he served for two years, having rented to another party his school at Wilkes-Barre. Then being called to the Saltsbury academy, in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburg, he conducted that two years, when his school at Wilkes- Barre being vacant he returned to Wilkes- Barre, and resumed his academy there, which bore his name. During his teaching at his academy in Wilkes-Barre, most of the rising young men of the place, and many from Baltimore and other places at great distances around, were prepared for their entrance into colleges. October i, 1866, he moved to the place near Morris- ville where he resided until his death, June 19, 1882. Politically he was a Whig, and later a Republican. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he was. deacon most of his life. He was married to Elizabeth Brown in Ohio, March 26, 1832, and had five children : Robert Shoe- maker Dana, subject of this history; Eu- nice A., born September 9, 1837; Elizabeth, born March 4. 1840; Louisa Amelia, born February 3, 1842 ; and Ellen, born Septem- ber 16, 1850. The daughters are now liv- ing at No. 24 South Clinton Avenue, Tren- ton, New Jersey, except Elizabeth, who died of pneumonia, December 20, 1901. After moving to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, he was a member of the Fourth Presby- terian church in Trenton, New Jersey, also one of the original founders of the Mor- risville Rubber Company, chartered in 1872, and located in the old Morris _ (Robert) and General Victor Moreau brick stable building in Morrisville. He was also one of the originf^l members who organized the Standard Insurance Company, now (as then) located in State street, Trenton, and one of the original stockholders and founders of Greenwood cemetery, outside of Trenton, where the family have a lot and where he and his wife and daughter Eliza- beth lie buried. His wife died February 6, 1878. She was borii in Bloomficld, Con- necticut, November i, 1814, and was of a HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 523 family that sent many of its members into the Revolutionary service. One, John Brown, and Amariah Dana, were with Ethan Allen in taking Ticonderoga. Robert S. Dana was a little over three years old when his parents left Ohio. He obtained his intellectual training under the direction of his father until about fitted to enter the Yale .sophomore class, but at that time he was induced to abandon the course at Yale and take up the study of medicine in Philadelphia, with Dr. George Chamberlain, at his request, December, 1852. This offer afforded excellent opportunities in connection with his preceptor's drug business and practice, as well as attend- ance at clinics in the Pennsylvania Hos- pital and the Philadelphia Almshouse. He matriculated at the Jefferson Medi- cal College and took his degree of M. D. there from March 7, 1857. In October following he commenced practice at Nan- ticoke, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, being the only settled physician there at that time. The practice was not very lucrative, but very extensive, reaching to nine or ten miles in every direction from Nanticoke. After a little over a year's practice, another physician settled there, and he, having come into possession of a drug store on the public square in "VVi.kes-Barre, moved his office there, siill retaining many of his old patrons living between there and Nanticoke. After about a year (the drug store not paying) the building was rented to a milliner, and the office transferred to his father's house on Academy street. The German Yeager rifle company's band hav- ing lost a member (the B flat cornetist) he was prevailed upon to take the vacant horn, and became a member of the band, meeting once a week to practice in the evening. He also was a member and treas- urer of the Wilkes-Barre Musical Associa- tion, which gave a series of concerts every winter, which were conducted by Lowell Mason, William B. Bradbury and other celebrated composers of that time. The civil "war coming to a certainty in 1861, Dr. Dana, at the instance of several companies raised in that neighborhood, went to Harrisburg and applied for a posi- tion as surgeon. Governor Curtin gave him to understand that he had left all of these matters to the Colonels of the Regi- ments, as he had more than he could at- tend to without surgical appointments, his private clerk, having a short time before (despairing of obtaining permission) jumped out of the window and gone off with a regiment starting for the front. Dr. Dana therefore applied to the officer in the regiment who was supposed likely tp be the colonel when fully organized. This officer gave every assurance of the appointment being made, and requested that he should look after a number of the sick in the regiment. This was done for some days, when the regiment was ordered to move, the colonel elected, a personal friend appeared 'as surgeon, another as assistant. The regiment moved for the seat of war, and Dr. Dana returned home, hav- ing assured the band that he would go with them if he did not get a position first. He bided his time for something to happen. The war was not over in three months, regiments for enlistments of three years were wanted. The band was called to enter the service with the Lochiel cavalry .^regiment, and recruited their numbers to twenty-four^ under their leader (Louie Practorious) of Wilkes- Barre. The transportation, and order to report having arrived October i, the band proceeded by rail to Harrisburg, and found their regiment, the Ninth Pennsyl- vania Cavalry (Lochiel Cavalry, Senator Cameron's regiment) at Camp Cameron. They were mustered into the United States service October 6, 1861. About November I, 1861, the regiment left Harrisburg by rail with their horses, saddles and etc., but no arms. At Pittsburg they were put into seven steamers ^or transportation to Louisville, Kentucky. The headquarters Boat was the side wheeler "Westmore- land," the others were stern wheelers, the "Arago," "Clara Poe," "Haileman," "Daco- tah," "Idema" and "Anglo-Saxon." The Ohio river was somewhat short of water, and the boats had frequently to swell each other off of the bars by backing down, sud- denly reversing the paddles and throwing a swell against the boat in trouble. The "Arago" broke some paddles on a gravel bar, but extra floats were always carried along, and a couple or hours repaired damages. At various towns along the route they fired salutes from cannon ar- ranged on the bluffs. At Wheeling the bridge was filled with people and the shores as well. Salutes were fired, and to answer there was on the "Westmoreland" a cannon arranged on a common two wheel truck, lashed fast with strong cables ; the handles of the truck, to make the cannon level, were placed upon the combing of the open forward hatch. The first discharge, with its recoil, sent the cannon and all down through the hatch into the hold. It was soon hauled out and better secured. In time the regi- ment arrived at Louisville, and the enemy being in force only a few miles away, it was put into camp at Jeffersonville, on the Indiana side, on Senator Jesse Bright's farm. About New Years, the Ninth Penn- sylvania Cavalry left camp, and advanced with the rest of the western forces to Bards- town, thence to Mumfordsville, on the Green river. General Thomas having defeated Zollicoffer at Spring Mill, near the Cum- berland Gap, all of the center forces were gathered at Mumfordsville for a general advance. General Grant with Commodore Foote's flotilla, was on the river west. When the army moved southward, the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry was assigned to the duty of protecting the lines in the rear from guerillas and General John Mor- gan's raids, which they pretty effectually did, driving him out of Kentucky several 524 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. times, once having a severe fight with him at Paris, Kentucky, in July, 1862, and driv- ing him through Winchester and Crab Orchard to and beyond Somerset, where, his band, having dispersed, the regiment re- turned to Danville, Kentucky, and thence to Lebanon, where it went into camp. Here the band was discharged from the United States service in compliance with an act of congress discharging all regiment- al bands,' and allowing only one band to a brgade. The leader having accepted a position as lieutenant of a company, Dr. Dana took the band to Louisville and made out their discharge and pay rolls to August 18, 1862, secured their pay, and all returned home to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Most of the band enlisted into regiments that found their way into the army , of the Potomac. After having been at home for six days, their was a call for surgeons to fill vacancies in Pennsylvania regiments. Mr. Dana answered the call, went to Har- risburg, was examined, and, answering to an emergency call for fifty surgeons to go at once to the field, he was assigned as assistant surgeon, September 12. 1862 to the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, already at the front. Taking the first train to Baltimore that got through to that coity after the enemy had destroyed several bridges on the line, he joined his regiment on the field about noon during the battle of Antietam. From that time he was with the One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, First Bri- gade. Second Division, First Army Corps, on the field, in every engagement, including Gettysburg, where his horse was killed by the enemy the afternoon of the first day's fight, while attempting to reach Cemetery Hill through the town. He then being sur- rounded by the enemy, reported for duty to the Division Hospital in the Lutheran church which was close by. Here all hands were regarded as prisoners, and their names taken, and without any questions they were considered paroled. The enemy having failed, early July 4 left the town, also the surgeons, who soon reported to their respective places. The engagements are a matter of general history and need not be repeated here. March 4, 1864, the One Hundred and Seventh re-enlisted while at Michell's station, below Culpeper, Vir- ginia, and in April was sent home on veteran furlough of thirty days, thereby •escaping the second Wilderness fight under General Grant, but returned just in time for the Spottsylvania affair. The First Army Corps being now consolidated with the Fifth Corps, the regiment followed its fortunes to Cold Harbor, White Oak Swamp, etc., to below Petersburg, where the regiment aided in building Fort War- ren, on the Jerusalem Plankroad. the cap- ture of the Weldon railroad and built on it Fort Wadsworth ; helped destroy the same railroad to Bellefield, near the North Carolina line: were at the battle of Five Forks with Sheridan's command ; and aided in the final wind up at Appomattox. About this time Dr. Dana vvas promoted to sur- geon, April 27, 1865, with the rank of Major by the request of the Colonel of the One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment (Colonel McCoy). Johnson hav- ing surrendered to Sherman in North Car- olina, the regiment was marched via Peters- burg and Richmond, to Ball's cross roads, opposite Washington ; participated in the grand review ; was transported to Harris- burg by rail, paid off, disbanded, and sent home. Dr. Dana, having reached home, went to the Jefferson College again, attending the lectures for three months. Then, his father having purchased the place near Morrisville where he now lives he settled in Morrisville, June i, 1866, purchasing the store now owned by E. D. Titus, and the house now owned by Isha V. Smith in March, 1867, and practiced extensively throughout the surrounding country, both in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was one of the original founders of the Mercer County Medical Society in New Jersey, in 1868, one of the original founders of the Morrisville Rubber Company, incorporated in 1872, and treasurer of the company seven years, until the factory was rented. The last year before renting it he was also its general superintendent, making all of the formulas for the compounding of the mate- rial, etc., and looking after the business in all of its branches. He was one of the trustees and also treasurer of the Morris- ville Presbyterian church from 1867 to 1878; member of Morrisville council, 1868- 1873 ; member of the school board and pres- ident of the board 1868 to 1875 ; medical examiner for three insurance companies, 1872 to 1875 ; member of the Jefferson Med- ical College Alumni Association ; the soci- ety of the Army of the Potomac; the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Bucks County Historical Society (Pennsylvania). He was chairman of the executive com- mittee and Marshal of the day at the Cen- tennial anniversary of incorporation of the borough of Morrisville, which was cele- brated May 24, 1904; surgeon of Post 23, G. A. R. of Trenton, New Jersey ; special aide on the staff of the Commander-in- chief, G. A. R., in charge of military and patriotic instructions in the public schools of New Jersey. He is something of a mechanical genius, having constructed a plumb level ; a churn which he has had in use for eight or ten years, of peculiar construction ; and a combination surveyor's instrument, besides other articles. His liter- ary productions include several historical papers of local interest, one of which was read at the meeting of the Bucks County Historical Society, held May 24. 1903. in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. He is also a member and one of the stockholders of the Fallsington Library Company of Fallsing- tnn, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was also chairman of the committee appointed to arrange for a centennial (;elebration of its HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 525 corporated existence, and prepared and read a history of the library at the meeting, also arranged a condensed history of the institution which was published with various illustrations as a souvenir of the occassion, and conducted the exercises during the day and evening, June 14, 1902. Dr. Dana married, June 3, 1872, Fanny Pawling of an old Norristown (Pennsyl- vania) family related to the Muhlenberghs Heisters, the Biddies, and others of promi-* nence in early Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey history. Dr. and Mrs. Dana have one son, Sylvester. LUCY WHARTON DREXEL. On the historic Bristol Pike, in Bensalem township, in a mansion hardly less historic, lives a representative of one of the oldest and most prominent families in Pennsylvania. Lucy Wharton Drexel, widow of the prom- inent banker and philanthropist, Joseph Drexel. Mrs. Drexel is a descendant of Thomas Wharton, the first acting executive of the infant commonwealth when she had joined her sister colonies in the effort to throw off the yoke of the mother country. He was a deputy from Philadelphia to the first provincial convention, July 15, 1774, a mem- ber of the committee of safety in 1775 and 1776, and the first "President of the Supreme Executive Council of the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania, and Captain General and Commander-in-chief in and over the same," on March 5, 1777. He was a merchant in Philadelphia, and was a leader in the patriotic cause from the start. He died at Lancaster in 1778, while iilling the office of chief executive of the state, at the age of forty years. He married Susannah Lloyd, a descendant of Thomas Lloyd, the first acting provincial Governor of the province of Pennsylvania, by virtue of his office as president of William Penn's first council, from September, 16S4, to Feb- ruary 9, 1688, and was deputy governor under Penn, 1690-1. A rare distinction in one individual, a lineal descendant of the first executive of the province and of the first executive of the commonwealth, is enjoyed by the subject of this sketch. Kearney Wharton, the oldest son of Thomas, and the granfather of Mrs. Drexel, was a lawyer, but followed chiefly the business of a merchant in Philadelphia. He was a member of the council of the city, and its president at one time. His wife was Maria Salter, of Tacony, Philadelphia county, whom 'he married November 11, 1795. Their children were : Thomas Lloyd; John; Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Mor- ris ; George, and James. Kearney Whar- ton died January 4, 1848, at the age of eighty-four years, and his widow survived until 1867, aged ninety-two years. She was a member of the Society of Friends. Her family were of the Church of England. Thomas Lloyd Wharton, the father of Mrs. Drexel, was born in Philadelphia in 1799, but was reared on a farm near Tacony, where he later became the owner of a fine farm. He was employed in a bank in Philadelphia, being prominently connected with the Philadelphia Bank for forty years. He died in 1869 at the age of seventy years. His wife was Sarah Howell Smith, daugh- ter of Richard R. and Sarah (Howell) Smith, by whom he had two children^ namel}' : Fanny, born in 1843, wife of Brigaciier General Guy V. Henry, and Lucy Wharton, the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Wharton died in 1846. Lucy Whar- ton was born in 1841. She was educated at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, New Jer- sey. In 1865 she married Joseph W. Drexel, a member of the well known banking firm of Drexel & Company, of Philadelphia. Joseph W. Drexel was a son of Francis M. Drexel, a native of Austria, who in early life was an artist and protrait painter. He located for a time in South America, where he attracted the attention of General Simon Bolivar, the distinguished hero and patriot of South American Independence, whose protrait he painted. Under the pat- ronage of General Bolivar he started the bank in Philadelphia, with money loaned by him. The venture proved a success from the start, and soon became one of the most prominent banking institutions of the country. The firm as first organized in- cluded Francis M. Drexel and his son Francis, and soon after its establishment the other two sons, Anthony and Joseph W., became members of the firm. In 1871 Joseph W. Drexel went to New York city and established a branch banking house which he conducted for five years, when he retired and devoted the next twelve years to philanthropic schemes for the bet- terment of the condition of mankind. He organized several plans for the bene- fit of the poor, and carried them into effect. One of his successful projects was the incorporation of Klej Grange upon a large tract of land in Maryland, where he induced poor families to settle by keeping them without charge for one year and then sell- ing them the land on easy payments. He also owned Cedar Hill Farm in New Jer- sey, where unemployed poor were fed and clothed until employment could be found for them elsewhere. Many other projects for the employment and improvement of the poor were carried into effect in Phila- delphia, New York, and elsewhere. Mr. Drexel was a musician of talent, and an eminent patron of the higher arts. On every Thursday a musical quartet was en- tertained at his house, and he was presi- dent of the Philharmonic Society at the time of his death, as well as a member of several other musical organizations. He was one of the organizers of and a life member of the Metropolitan Art Museum. Mr. Drexel died in 1888. He left four children : Kath- erine, wife of Charles B. Penrose, of Phila- delphia ; Lucy, wife of Eric B. Dahlgren ; Elizabeth, wife of John V. Dahlgren, of 526 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. New York city ; and Josephine, married Dr. John Duncan Emmett. Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel now resides on the old Bickley estate known as Pen Ryn. It is part of a plantation of two hundred and fifty acres purchased in 1744 by Abraham Bickley, Sr., a native of Sussex, England, but of Welsh descent. The plantation on the Delaware river was then known as "Belle Voir." but its name was changed by Mr. Bickley to Pen Ryn, after the home of his ancestors in Wales. Abraham Bickley married a daughter of Robert Shewell and sister of Mrs. Benja- min West, and settled on the plantation on Bristol Pike. In 1804 he remodeled the old mansion house by adding the present front to it, and later renewed the back portion. Mr. Bickley had six children : Robert Shewell, Abraham, Isaac, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Lydia, all of whom died un- married, and all with the exception of Abraham, Jr., lie buried in a vault erected On the premises by Mr. Bickley. Robert Shewell Bickley resided for the most part in the city of Philadelphia, though he had purchased several tracts of land adjoining Pen Ryn, which, together with his inter- est in the homestead, he devised at his death to his sisters Elizabeth and Hannah. Isaac Bickley died in 1853 and devised his share in Pen Ryn to his sisters for life, then to his relative Lloyd Wharton, who took the name of Lloyd Wharton Bickley. The sisters had previously made a deed to Isaac for the land devised by Robert and Pen Ryn, vesting the title in Lloyd Wharton Brickley after the death of Isaac. After the death of the latter, in 1890, Mrs. Drexel purchased Pen Ryn of Mrs. Bickley. and has since that time made it her home. and has enlarged the mansion and made extensive improvements in the surrounding grounds. The stately old house commands a fine view of the Delaware river and surrounding country. Mrs. Drexel usually spends the year at Pen Ryn. She is a wo- man of high character, generous and hos- pitable, and enjoys the esteem and friend- ship of a very large circle of friends. CONVENT OF THE BLESSED SAC- RA^IENT. Travelers, passing through Bucks county via New York Division of the Pennsylvania railroad, may be curiously at- tracted by a large institution situated on an eminence at Cornwells. overlooking the Delaware river and displaying the quaint form of architecture peculiar to both the Spanish and Italian styles and resembling somewhat in form the old Spanish Indian Mission buildings of Southern California. This institution, unique in its form of ar- chictecture, is unique also in the plan of work mapped out for the members who en- ter it, whose lives after the customary pro- bation and preparation, are to be conse- crated to the Christianization, education. and elevation of the two neglected, aban- doned, and oft despised races — the Negro and the Indian. This building is known as the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament, St. Elizabeth's, Cornwells. It is the Moth- er House of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a religious body of women, or- ganized in the year 1889 for the purpose above named, the evangelization of the In- dian and Negro. The conception of such an organization originated in the first place, in the noble and exalted mind of Right Reverend James O'Connor, Bishop of Omaha, who in his early priestly days had belonged to the archdiocese of Philadelphia, and had been pastor of St. Dominic's Catholic church, Holmesburg, before his elevation to the episcopate. A man thoroughly devoted to th° best interests of the Indians, he had during his apostolic visits witnessed not only the wrongs to which they had been subjected, the encroachments to which they were forced to submit, the injustices for which they obtained no redress, but also with the deepest sadness, he had seen the moral degredation of these people neglecteo as it were, and in darkness waiting for the bread of life, with none to break it to them. He knew that for these evils there was only one power that could cope effectu- ally— the elevating and ennobling force of the Christian religion which had human- ized mankind, exemplified in the lives ot its followers who were ready to freely renounce all ties of earth to enlighten, ameliorate and emancipate these people from their physical, intellectual, and moral bondage. While seriously pondering these things, the deplorable condition and neglect of another despised race appealed to his great heart, and he planned to form a con- gregation whose exclusive work should be amonfst the people of these two races. In complete harmony with his designs for the intellectual, moral and physical re- generation of these two benighted' races, he found a generous co-operator in Miss Katharine M. Drexel of Philadelphia who in the wealth which the heavenly Father had placed at her disposal, saw only a treasure confided to her care to be used not for self, nor selfish purposes, but for the uplifting of her fellow men. She knew that "Kindness to the wronged is never without its excellent reward, holy to man- kind, and ever acceptable to God." and "That the light of heaven's own love hath fallen there Where deed on earth hath rendered less The sum of human wretchedness." Therefore, though years before she had learned"That the secret of life — is, giving," she determined now, when this gwnd Bishop appealed to her in behalf of these races, to consecrate that wealth to their service, to minister, to serve and to espouse their cause forever. In 1889, she HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 527 made the first sacrifice by leaving the home of her childhood to enter the Convent of Mercy, Pittsburg, to prepare herself for the renunciation which comes with the religious profession. In May, 1890, Bishop O'Connor died and the new work was placed under the kindly care of the Most Reverend Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia who generously, and with unwearied patience and with wide em- bracing charity, found room in his large heart to interest himself and to take un- der his direction this new work inaugurated to minister to the needs of the Negro and the Indian. Miss Drexel made her profes- sion of religion, was given the name of Mother Mary Katharine in 1891 and was appointed by the Most Reverend Archbish- op Superioress of the new community. Some few young ladies eager to co-oper- ate with her in the work of this undertak- ing had meanwhile joined her and in 1891 there were some twenty or twenty-five members. Cornwells, Bucks county, was the spot selected for the erection of the new build- ing which was to be the novitiate where the future Sisters of the Blessed Sacra- ment would prepare themselves for their missionary labors. In July, 1891, the cor- ner stone of this building was laid with the inscription, very appropriate to the ■work to which they were consecrated, "And it shall be in the place where it was said to them. Ye are not my people ; there they shall be called the children of the living God."— (Rom. Chap. IX.) In De- cember, 1893, the building was ready for occupancy, and the little community num- bering not more than twenty-five, entered the new home where they were to prepare themselves for the great missionary work of their order and where they were to show forth in their lives — "That they who love their fellow-men, are loving God the holiest way they can ;" where they were to learn with the poet that "It was theirs to cheer the hearts that hopeless grieve To follow in the steps of want, its vic- tims to relieve ;" where they were to prepare themselves for the vast field of labor which awaited them, for they were not to be confined by any limitations of time or place, their rule pointing out to them the following : "The}' may employ any means most opportune to secure living temples for the Divinity amongst the Indian and Negro faces in whatever country they rvre located ;" so that wherever a Negro or Indian child is to be found it will not be contrary to the rule of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to find some of their representatives there also. The work of the Tnst-tnte embraces the charge of schools, orphanages, nursing, visitation of sick, and the instruction of adults in the principles of Christian doc- trine. It may not be out of place to men- tion here that their rule admirably points out to them the following: "The Sisters admitted to this Religious Congregation, besides attending particularly to their own perfection, which is the principal aim of all religious orders, shall by an apostolate of prayer and work, zealously endeavor to procure living temples for the Divinity amongst the Indian and Colored races, ac- cording to the words of the great apostle : "Know ye not that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?'" — I Cor., Chap. Ill, Verse 13. If this truth- be but effectually realized their morals are elevated, their minds are raised to that higher plane, their hearts are more in harmony with the Unseen Power working within them in "Whom they live and move and have their being." Acts, Chap. XVII, 28 v. It is not wrong to say that if this truth had reached the power of conviction in the great multitude of mankind, the annals of history would record nothing but what was glorious in all creatures. Education then, in both hu- man and divine knowledge is necessary for these people — education which will exer- cise a formative influence — education, not only of the body but of the soul — education which teaches not only of the present, but brings before them their eternal destiny — education which teaches them the knowl- edge of their duty towards God and the consequent result of their first and primal duty — their duty towards their neighbor in order to fulfill the command of God. Much then, depends upon the education of these people, .many considered the outcast of so- ciety, who born under the said heritage of indifference, poverty, and misearble sur- roundings need the help of superior mmds to teach tme to face the problin which con- front their races. Tennyson said : "Love took up the harp of life And Smote on all the chords with might ; Smote the chord of self That trembl'ng passed in music out of sight." So, in the work of the education of these two races, the highest and holiest love has inspired the hearts of over one hundred young women who are at present engaged in the work, or are preparing for it. The love of God smote v-pm the chords with might, smote the chords of self to trans- form, divinize it and make that music "pas- sing out of sight pass over into the souls of those who know not the Divine Om- nipotence, who know not that they are in truth the temples of the Holy Ghost; chil- dren not of wrath, but of truth, and that the 'truth shall make them free.' " These young women wish to make these poor people catch a glimpse of that glory which they do not always see. Attached to the convent by a cloistered 528 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. walk, covered with a picturesque tiled roof is the institution known as Holj- Providence House. It is a combination of an industrial and intellectual iraining school. Here the Sisters teach the children the principles of domestic science, the im- portance of habits of thrift, industry, and economy so necessary for their future suc- cess ui life. There are i/O children ni the Institute, iio girls ranging in ages from hve to twenty-one years ; and fifty-two boys ranging from five to thirteen years of age. When the boys reach the age of thirteen, they are transferred to industrial or trade schools to complete their education. The girls remain with the Sisters until they are twenty-one, and the Sisters endeavor to im- press upon their minds the necessity and dignity of labor, striving to hold befort them the most exalted motives to enable them to fultill faithfully their work on earth. All are obliged to attend school daily during the school session which lasts from September i, to June 30. The girls have the opportunity to complete the Grammar School course. If proficient in the branches which this course includes they receive a certificate or diploma testifying to their ability. In order to receive this certifi- cate they must also have satisfactorily passed the Dorriestic Science course whicn includes cooking and dress-making, taught according to scientific principles, and laun- dry work. From the Mother House at Cornwells three branches have sprung: One, St. Cath- arine's Indian ' Boarding School at Santa Fe, New Mexico, where 160 children are taught by the Sisters, the plan followed there being something similar to that at Gornwells ; another, St. Frances de Sales, Rock Castle, Virginia, where southern girls are received from fourteen to twenty-one years of age. Here they prepare themselves for teaching and aim to become proficient in other spheres of industry in order to become. self sustaining in the future, and of benefit to their people ; also another In- dian Mission in a lonely wilderness in the wilds and wastes of Arizona called St. - Michael's, where; about one hundred Na- vajo Indian children belonging to the vast ' pagan tribe of twenty thousand souls are , received and cared for, taught the princi- ples of religion and human knowledge ac- cording to their capabilities. Let us hope that the little seed planted in Cornwells, Bucks county, may grow and produce fruit for a rich harvest in the hearts of the poor Negroes and Indians, both for time and eternity, spreading its branches far and wide for their benefit, and enlisting the sympathies of the many noble-minded men and women who are connected with the history of the county. This is the ardent wish of those whose lives are to be spent in furthering the cause of their elevation. JAMES B. CANDY. The family of Candy in England are of French extraction, whose progenitor was Jean de Conde, younger son of Louis de Bourbon, the first Prince of Conde, and the founder of the family who took their name from the town of Conde, near the borders of Belgium, and the home of the royal family of Bour- bon and Navarre. He was the friend and- pupil of Gaspard Coligny, the famous Ad- miral of France, and like him espoused the cause and religion of the Huguenots and became their leader in 1554. Condemned to death by Francis II., he escaped through the sudden demise of that prince, and at the reopening of, hostilities between the Catholic and Protestant" factions in 1562 he became again the recognized leader of the Huguenots, and opened negotiations with Queen Elizabeth, under whose pro- tection he placed his family. He was killed at the battle of Jarnac, December 15, 1569. His eldest son Henry, second Prince of Conde, returned to France, and his descend- ants were prominent in the internecine struggles at the court of that kingdom for several generations. From the younger son of Louis the English family is descended. A grandson emigrated to the New Eng- land colony in 1639 and settled in Boston, from whence he removed to Windsor in 1650. Another descendant, John Condee, with his nephew, Alexander, Condee, emi- grated to Maryland and settled in Prince George county. In Hanson's "Old Kent" is this record; "Alexander Condee, bap- tized ye 226. day of Aprill 1693." Through their residence among the English the end- ing of the name became changed. On a tombstone in an old cemetery at New Haven, Connecticut, is found this inscrip- tion ; "Rebecca Canbe, wife of Zachariah Canbe, died September 22, 1739,' aged 91 years." The family has been prominent in England for many generations, some of its members holding high governmental and social positions. In the "Armorielle L^niverselle" is recorded their coat-of-arms, charged with three fleur-de-lis and a star. Thomas Davy Candy, father of James Bentley Candy, of Langhorne, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, and a lineal descendant of Jean de Conde, emigrated with his pa- rents from Manchester, England, at the age of two years. The family settled at Poughkeepsie, New York, where Thomas Davy Candy was reared and educated and acquired proficiency as a mechanical en- gineer. He later located at Paterson, New Jerse\% where he married Ann Bentley. She was a native of England, and had come to America with her parents at the age of one and a half years. Her family had located for a time at Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, and removed from there to Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, where the parents died, after which the family moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Thomas D. Candy removed with his wife to Philadelphia soork GL/"*^-v^v.-«--4 (ih.^ 0^\^ ^-9 J. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 529 after their marriage, and followed the trade of a mechanical engineer in that city for many years. He was the father of two sons, James Bentley and John Bent- ley Candy. JAMES BENTLEY CANDY was born in the city of Philadelphia, June 7, 1836. He began his education at the private school of Edwards & Parton, at the south- west corner of Penn Square and Market street, and later attended the Morris public school and the high school, graduating from the latter in 1852. He inherited from his father a mechanical turn of mind and much of his leisure time as a boy was spent in the neighboring machine shop of Mr. Harrison. On leaving school he entered the employ of James E. Caldwell & Co. to learn the jewelry business, but later chose the calling of dentistry and took up his studies under the tutelage of John De- Haven White, M. D., D. D. S., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Penn- sylvania College of Dental Surgery. ]\Ir. Candy was a student at this college and was an assistant in the clinical department at the age of nineteen years. He graduated at the age of twenty-one, and practiced his profession in the villages of Yardley, Dolington, and Attleboro, now Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He then en- tered the employ of his preceptor, and sub- sequently opened a dental laboratory at 108 South Eighth street, Philadelphia. He was also in the employ of what is now the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company in the manufacture of artificial teeth, in sections ; these were then entirely handmade, and were mounted upon gold or silver plates. At the outbreak of the civil war Dr. Candy, having been a member of the Artil- lery Corps of the Washington Greys for nearly five years, was well skilled in the manual of arms, and was called upon to spend several months in the drilling of squads of recruits for the front. H^ was lieutenant commanding, of Company B, Grey Reserves, Captain William H. Kern, and at one time gave an exhibition drill and company movements in Musical Fund Hall, and was subsequently presented with a sword for his proficiency in the art of war. Returning to the practice of his pro- fession, he located at 248 North Eleventh street, where he practiced until April i, 1863, when, owing to the illness of his wife, he removed for her benefit to Attle- boro (now Langhorne), Bucks county, where he has since resided, and has achieved distinction and succes in his chosen pro- fession. Dr. Candy is a man of strong individual- ity, has always been a close student, and is independent and fearless in the advocacy of what he believes to be right. In the matter of the incorporation of the village of Attleboro into a borough he was one of the most earnest advocates of the change, 34-3 and took an active part in the establish- ment of grades and building and fence lines, though these measures met with strong opposition by some of the property owners of the borough. He has always been a strong advocate of the Democratic party and its principles. In 1883 he was appointed a notary public, and filled that position with satisfaction to the public, until he was appointed by President Cleve- land, postmaster of Langhorne, which latter office he held until the change in the ad- ministration. He is a past master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, F. and A. M. On March 15, 1855, Doctor Candy was married to Jennie Moser, of Philadelphia, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Everett) Moser, and of English and German descent. Her grandfather, Henry Moser, was a soldier in the revolutionary war under Gen- eral Anthony Wayne, and his brother, Burkhardt Moser, furnished financial and material aid for the prosecution of the war of independence. Dr. James B. and Jennie (Moser) Candy were the parents of six children; Kate Adele; Anna Bent- ley ; Thomas Davy ; James Bentley, Jr. ; Pierson Mitchell; and Laura Hudson. Kate Adele died in her fifth year of diphtheria. Anna Bentley married Wilmer Stevens Black (an account of whose ancestry ap- pears in this work) and they are the pa- rents of two children : Edith Holbrook and Cyrille Kershaw. James Bentley Candy, Jr., married Harriet L. Headley, daughter of John Burton Headley, of Winchester! Virginia, and they have one child, James Bentley (3), born September 22, 1904. Dr. Candy's sons have been established by him in the business of florists and land- scape gardeners at Langhorne, in which they are successfully engaged and give em- ployment to a number of hands. The Doctor is still hale and hearty, and gives, promise of many years of usefulness. DR. JOSEPH BENNER HERITAGE, of Langhorne, was born in Bustleton, Phila- delphia county, October 5, 1809, and is a son of Joseph Dearman and Annie Loisa (DeWees) Heritage, both of English de- scent. The first American ancestors of the subject of this sketch came from England prior to 1700, and settled near Salem, New Jeisey, from whence the immediate an- cestor of Dr. Heritage migrated to the neighborhood of Horsham, Montgomery county, where his great-grandfather, John F. Heritage, was born. John F. Heritage was a tailor by trade, and followed that vocation during the active years of his life, locating at Bustleton, Philadelphia county, building the first house in what is now a thriving business town. He also operated a small farm there. He was a soldier in the war of 1812-14. He married Ann Fet- ters, a native of INIontgomery, and of Ger- 530 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. man descent. They were the parents of live children, viz. : John F., Jr., Joseph, George, Samuel, Sarah. John F. Heritage, Jr., son of John F. and Ann Fetters Heruage, was born in Phila- delphia county, and early in life learned the tailor's trade with his father. On arriv- ing at manhood he took charge of a farm, and also followed his trade. He was an officer of militia, and captain of a company that was called out to quell the riots in Philadelphia. He later purchased the home- stead at Bustleton, and spent the remainder of his life thereon, dying at the age of sev- enty-hve years. He was a member of Pen- nypack Baptist church for over thirty years. He married Ann Benner, daughter of John Banner. Her father died during her early girlhood, leaving two daughters, Mrs. Her- itage, and Hannah, who married a Camp- bell. Her maternal grandfather was Joseph Dearman, who was a captain in the Revo- lutionary war, and was taken prisoner while at home on a furlough, and confined in a British prison for some time; later he was exchanged, and entered the service and served until independence was achieved. After the close of the war he became a farmer in Philadelphia county, and lived to a good old age, long enough to see nis country achieve a second victory over the mother country, and become a power among the nations of the earth. He died about 1827. John F. Heritage and Ann Benner were the parents of seven children, viz : Anna, wife of George Brooks ; Joseph, ttie father of Dr. Heritage; Samuel; John B. ; George ; Mary A., deceased ; and Emma C, deceased. Joseph Dearman Heritage, eldest son of John F. and Ann (Benner) Heritage, was born and reared at Bustleton. He learned the coach making business, which he has carried on for many' years at Bustleton, doing a large business. He married Annie Louisa DeWees. daughter of Isaiah and Mary (Hart) DeWees, both of whom were born in England. Dr. Joseph Benner Heritage, the subject of this sketch, was born and reared at Bustleton, and received his education at the Fayette public school and at a high school at Vineland, New Jersey. Choosing the medical profession, he entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadel- phia, from which he graduated in 1891. He at once located at Langhorne, Bucks coun- ty, where he has since practiced his chosen profession with success. He married No- vember 8, 1893, Ida May Marple, daughter of Captain Alfred and Anna Addis (Van- sant) Marple. and granddaughter of Da- vid and Eliza Ann (Hart) IMarple. and great-granddaughter of Joseph Marple, whose ancestors have been prominent in the affairs of Bucks county for many gen- erations. Dr. and Mrs. Heritage are the parents of three children, viz. : Charles Ed- ward, born August 13, 1894; Florence ..lar- ple, born August 23, 1897; and Joseph Irving, born October 8, 1898. H. AUGUSTUS PICKERING, for many years a prominent merchant and bus- iness man of Carversville, Bucks county, was born at Mechanicsville, Buckingham township, Bucks county, December 22, 1842, and is a son of the late Jonathan C. and Elizabeth (Anderson) Pickering. • His pa- ternal ancestor, Isaac Pickeruig, was the second child of Samuel and Mary (Scar- borough) Pickering, and was born on the old homestead in Solebury, between the upper and lower York roads, two miles east of Lahaska, 12 mo. 23, 1716. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that occupation during nearly his whole life m connection with farming. He purchased in 174;^, a farm adjoining the homestead, which had been the property of his matern- al grandfather, John Scarborough, where he lived and died. He was a prominent member of Buckingham Friends" Meeting, holding the position of overseer and elder for many years. He was also one of the trustees of the "Stone School House" at Centre Hill. He died in December, 1798, at the age of eighty-two years. He was married in 1738 to Sarah Lupton, and (sec- ondly) late in life to Sidney Wright, a widow, and the mother of Solomon Wright, who had married his daughter Rachel. Isaac and Sarah (Lupton) Pickering were the parents of nine children, viz: i. Jo- seph, born 5 mo. 9, 1739; married 8 mo. 18, 1762, Jane Paxson, see forward. 2. Sa- rah, born 2 mo. 27, 1741 ;' married 12 mo. 14, 1763, Joseph Butler. 3. Mary, born 5 mo. 13, 1743; died unmarried. 4. Mercy, born 8 mo. 27, 1745; married 5 mo. 11, 1774. Joseph Roberts. 5 and 6. Isaac and Sam- uel, born I mo. 27, 1747, died young. 7. Jonathan, born 2 mo. 15, 1750; married in 1773 IMary Williams, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. 8. Rachel, born 2 mo. 17, 1752; mar- ried 6 mo. 13, 1787, Solomon Wright, the schoolmaster. 9. Esther, born 6 mo. 6, 1755. died young. Joseph Pickering, the eldest of the above children of Isaac and Sarah, lived and died in Solebury. He died in December, 1793, his wife Jane surviving him. They were the parents of five children, four daughters, Ann, Jane, Rachel and Sarah— the first named three of whom married Carvers, and the latter married Israel Michener; and one son, Isaac. Isaac Pick- ering, Sr., conveyed to his son Joseph by deed of gift a farm of 125 acres' on Long Lane, in Buckingham, which the latter de- vised to his only son Isaac. Isaac Pickering. Jr., married 10 mo. II, 1756, Elizabeth Carey, daughter of Thorn- • as and Mary Townsend Carey, of Plum- ASTOK, LtNox AND < P-. H O U CO 14 U W I— I CO < &^ W p-i u u Q W O w pi; w 0-1 W H CO H 1/3 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 531 stead, and took up his residence upon the Buckingham farm. He later purchased two acres in the village of Carversville, and erected a hotel and store which he con- ducted in connection with his son Isaac, until his death in 1815. He had eight sohs, viz : Isaac, Thomas, John, Joseph, James, Stephen, Mahlon and Carey. Joseph Pickering, son of Isaac and Eliza- beth (Carey) Pickering, was born in Buck- ingham in 1792. He learned the black- smith trade and followed it for a number of years in Plumstead, later removing to Mechanicsville, Buckingham township, where he followed blacksmithing for a number of years. He married Rebecca Keiple. Jonathan C. Pickering, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Jo- seph and Rebecca (Keiple) Pickering, and was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, in 1817. He was but a boy when his parents removed to Mechanicsville, where Jonathan was reared. On arriving at manhood he married Elizabeth Ander- son, and followed farming in Buckingham until 1867, when he removed with his wife and six younger children to Henderson county, IlHnois, where he followed farm- ing until his death in 1892, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife Elizabeth survived him two years. They were the parents of eight children, seven of whom survive, viz: Mary Anna, wife of Wilson Flack, of Solebury ; H. Augustus ; Joseph, residing in Nebraska ; Rebecca, widow of James Crawford, of Nebraska ; Lester, liv- ing in California ; Elizabeth, wife of W. F. Jones, of Illinois ; and Ezra M., of Illi- nois. H. Agustus Pickering was born and reared in Buckingham and resided with his parents to the age of fourteen years, when he accepted a position in the store of Sam- uel A. Firman, at Carversville. After six years of service as clerk and one year spent as a soldier in the army during the war of the rebellion, he became in 1864 a partner with his employer under the firm name of Firman & Pickering, which continued for six years, when Watson F. Paxson became a member of the firm, and the name Was changed to S. A. Firman & Co. In 1872 'Mr. Firman retired from the firm and removed to Doylestown, and his interest was pur- chased by the surviving members of the firm, who continued the business under the firm name of Paxson & Pickering until 1880, when A. W. Walton purchased an interest in the firm, and for the next five years the firm name was Pickering & Wal- ton. In 1885 Mr. Pickering sold his in- terest to Edward H. Worthington and en- gaged in farming for five years, when he purchased Mr. Worthington's interest, and is still senior member of. the firm of Pick- ering & Walton, who do an extensive trade in general merchandise. Mr. Pickering en- listed on August 8, 1862, in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty»-eighth Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Cap- tain Samuel Croasdale, who later became colonel of the regiment. Mr. Pickering served in the regiment for ten months, par- ticipating in the battles of South Mountam, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellors- ville. He was taken prisoner at the latter battle on May 3, 1863, and confined in the notorious Libby Prison for sixteen days, when he was exchanged and returned home and resumed his position in the store, be- coming a member of the firm the following year. In politics Mr. Pickering is a Re- publican, but has never sought nor held other than local offices. He is a member ot the Grand Army of the Republic. He was married in 1879 to Hannah H. Shaw, daughter of Eleazer C. and Grace R. (Green) Shaw of Plumstead, and they are the parents of one child, Arthur C, who is a clerk in his father's store. JOHN FRANKLIN AFFLERBACH, of Perkasie, Bucks county, is of German origin, a son of Captain John H. Aftler- bach, of Bedminster, where he was born August 27, 1869, and was reared and edu- cated in the township of Haycock. Henry, Daniel and Ludwig Afflerbach emigrated from Germany about the time of the Amer- ican Revolution and settled in Bucks coun- ty— Henry in Springfield, Daniel in Hay- cock, and Ludwig (Lewis) at Durham. The descendants of Henry later located in Haycock and spelled the name Applebach. while most of the descendants of Daniel have held to the original spelling of the name. Daniel AiBerbach purchased a farm of 140 acres in Haycock and lived thereon until his death in 1826. He left six chil- dren— one son, George ; and five daughters ; Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Mills, Cath- arine, wife of Isaac Diehl ; jNIaria, wife of Isaac ]Mills ; Magdalene, wife of John Wel- der : and Sarah, wife of Anthony Weire- back. George Afflerbach, the only son of Dan- iel, was born in Haycock township about 1778, and lived his whole life there. He was a farmer and a member of Kellers' church. He died in 1838. His wife was Dorothy Stonebach, daughter of Heinrich and Dnrothy (Keller). Stonebach, aind granddaughter of Heinrich Keller, for whom Keller's church was named, and who had emigrated from Weirbach, in Baden, Germany in 1738 and settled in Bedminster. Both he and the paternal grandfather of Dorothy (Stonebach) Afflerbacli were among the organizers and first elders of the church. George and Dorothy (Stonebach) Afflerbach were the parents of thirteen chil- dren, eleven of whom lived to maturity; John; Hannah, born August 22, 1805, wife 532 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. of Peter Swartz; Mary, wife of Joseph Keller; Elizabeth, wiK o. i\ F. B. Smith; Tobias, born August o, 1007; Abraham, boni May 11, 1809; Daniel, born April 13, 1^13; Josiah, born September 15, 1817; Sa- rah; Isaac; and Dorothy. Abraham, seventh son of George and Dorothy, born in Haycock, May 11, 1809, was a carpenter by trade, but also followed farming. He purchased a farm in Hay- cock in 1854, part of a tract formerly owned and occupied by his maternal great- grandfather, Heinrich Keller, and purchas- ed by the latter of Griffith Davis, to whom it had been patented by the Penns in 1737. Abraham Afflerbach died in January, 1874. He had married Mary Magdalene Bebig- horse, who was born April 17, 1808, and died July 3, 1887. Abraham and Magdalene Affierbach were the parents of four chil- dren : Sarah, born September 25, 1835, mar- ried Jacob Strouse; Charles Tobias, born August 12, 1838, died in 1868; John Hen- ry, born August 12, 1840; and George Franklin, who died in service in the civil war, December 6, 1862, at Suffolk, Virgin- ia. He married Levina King and left two sons, Milton and John. Captain John Henry Afflerbach, son of Abraham and Magdalene, was born and reared on the Haycock farm. In early life he was a school teacher. In 1862 he and his brother George Franklin, enlisted as privates in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and the latter was elected ser- geant, but died as previously stated. Cap- tain Afflerbach was elected captain of the company, October 31, 1862, and served for nine months in Virginia and North and South Carolina, and was mustered out with his company August 7, 1863. At the ex- piration of this term of service he re- turned home, and in the spring of 1864 accepted a clerical position in the general store of Charles Sheets, at Keller's church, and in 1867 went to Bedminsterville, and three years later purchased the store and conducted it for six years, the last three in partnership with Abraham Keller, his cousin, whose son Lewis now owns and conducts the store. His father dying in January, 1874, he sold out the store to the Kellers, and purchased the old homestead in Haycock, and still lives there. Captain Afflerbach married November 15, 1868, Ab- bie Fulmer, daughter of John and Cath- arine (Kramer) Fulmer, and they were the parents of four children : John Franklin, born August 27, 1869; Abraham Lewis, born December 24, 1870; Emma, born Sep- tember 24, 1872, now the wife of Elmer Johnson ; and Anna I\Iary, who died in in- fancy. John Franklin Afflerbach. the subject of this sketch, was born in Bedminster, and removed with his parents to the old home- stead in Haycock at the age of four years. He received his primary education at the public schools, and later entered the nor- mal school at Kutztown. After leaving school he taught school in Haycock ana Bedminster townships for four years, and also studied telegraphy. He married Octo- ber 17, 1894, Emma Atherholt, born April ^5> 1873, daughter of Aaron and Emma (Strawn) Atherholt, and for five years con- ducted her father's farm. In igoo he erect- ed a handsome residence in Perkasie, where he has since resided. In 1901 he be- gan the manufacture of brick at Perka- sie, which business he has since success- fully conducted. He is a member of the Reformed church, and politically is a Dem- ocrat. He has served as school director, and filled other local offices. He is a mem- ber of the Modern Woodmen of America, of Lodge No. 671, I. O. O. F., of Perka- sie; Mont Alto Lodge, No. 246, K. of P., of Perkasie; and Colonel Edmond Schall Camp, No. 92, Sons of Veterans, of Lands- dale, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Affler- bach are the parents of two children — Calvin Eugene, born October 11, 1896; and Esther Lucretia, born December 25, 1899. DR. GEORGE THOMAS HESTON was born in Pineville, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, February 27, 1826, the son of Jesse Stackhouse Heston and Martha Comly Thomas, of the well known Philadelphia family of that name. Deceased removed from Pineville to Newtown with his parents when four yearsi old. His early education was acquired at the old Newtown Academy and Westtown Friends' School. On the completion of a course at Haverford College he entered the University of Pennsylvania for the study of medicine, his preceptor being the noted ■ Dr. P'hineas Jenks, of Newtown. Failing health compelled him to travel at the end of two years, and he toured the world, starting on the barque "Adelaide," com- manded by Captain Joseph Eyre, of Newtown, spent sometime in California in '49, afterwards visited Brazil, Chili and Peru, and bore the distinction of a man living in Newtown who had twice doubled Cape Horn. While in Peru he met Don , Pedro, and, when the latter visited the Centennial Exposition in 1876, through the instrumentality of George W. Childs, the acquaintance of former years was renewed, and the agricultural developments of Bucks county, that the Doctor had described as the "Eden of Pennsylvania," were thor- oughly appreciated and lauded by the Emperor. After a close study of fevers on the South American coast he embarked from Valparaiso on the ship "Independence," commanded by the Danish Captain Peder- son, studied on his arrival in Europe in the hospitals of Berlin, Paris and London, and, on his return to his home in 1851, re- £J^^^ / rn HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 533 newed his course in the University of Penn- sylvania, and at his graduation in 1852 made "Typhoid Fever" the subject of his thesis, which was highly commended by Sir Benjamin Brodie, of Edinburgh, Scot- land. During the civil war he passed a suc- cessful examination as surgeon, and held a certificate marked "very distinguished," but, yielding to his father's Quaker prin- ciples, declined an appointment, but from no lack of patriotism, as was evidenced by his ministering freely of his knowledge, time and money in the city hospitals and in the homes of his townsmen who were doing duty on the battle field, until the conflict was ended. Dr. Heston was a lineal descendant of Zebulon Heston, who came to Eastham, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, from Heston Parish, on the Midland road, six- teen miles out of London, in 1684. He re- moved to Burlington county, New Jersey, and was very active in building the first Episcopal church in New Jersey, near Tren- ton, deeding the land and contributing gen- erously in finance toward the erection of the house of worship. His sympathies, which had been aroused for Friends while in New England by the unjust persecution of the Quakers, led to his becoming a member, and in 1707 -he removed to Fallsington, Bucks county, and later (in 171 1) he trans- ferred his certificate to Wrightstown, hav- ing purchased 211 acres in Upper Make- field, where he continued to reside until his death in 1720, and was interred in the old burying ground at Wrightstown. Hav- ing purchased one hundred acres of land at what is now known as Hestonville, his grandson Edward located there and was noted for his ability legally and financially, and was a well known revolutionary patriot, winning the title of colonel. His brother, who established the Heston Glass Works, now known as Glassboro, also held the same commission as Colonel Thomas Heston in the army. Dr. Heston on his mother's side was a direct descendant of Llewellyn, King of Wales, and had in his home the family •coat-of-arms, to which he was entitled from the Thomas castle in Wales. Dr. Heston's father was a shrewd business man in his day, and was largely engaged in mercantile enterprises in Newtown. He was an ex- tensive owner of coal lands in the Shamo- kin Valley, and a pioneer in the Middle coal fields, for many years president' of the Locust Mountain Summit Improvement Company. The development of .these coal fields made him a man of great wealth. In 1853 Dr. Heston married ^liss J\L Amanda Duncan, then a talented and promi- nent teacher, who has distinguished her- self from a literary point of view, being a gifted speaker, fine conversationalist, in- terested in all good, active in the Forestry Association of Pennsylvania and ranks as the oldest graduate of the Philadelphia High and Normal School for Girls. Their married life of half a century was very congenial. The Doctor relied on her in all business transactions, and made her his confidant in all matters pertaining to finance. There were no children born of the marriage. In 18S5. owing to poor health. Dr. Heston relinquished his practice in favor of Dr. J. Aubrey Crewitt, of Huntingdon, whom he always highly esteemed and in his dying moment said "that man has been a son to me in alleviating my suflFerings." The Doctor never lost interest in his pro- fession. As one of his brother physicians (Dr. Charles Smith) wrote, "Dr. Heston will always stand out as a unique per- sonality, doing harm to no one, kindly to all. a big heart, strikingly benevolent and charitable in suspecting poor but needy places, never letting his right know what his left hand did, as a physician, forceful, posi- tive and progressive, in fact, I never met an elder medical man, as I of a younger gen- eration would say, who more fully kept awake to all that was new in his pro- fession." The Doctor was a gifted writer, a fine English as well as classical scholar, reading his Greek Testament a week before his death as well as his English, a thorough chemist, even in his college days the origina- tor of numerous prescriptions that would have made a fortune, but pride in his alma mater forbade all secrecy that leads to quackery. He was a prominent local his- torian, well informed in botany, geology, niineralogy, ichthyology, and particularly so in conchology. In a w'ord, he was at home in the field of science, and the study of nature was his pleasure. Caring nothing for social life, yet there was a rare hospitality in his home, and he was a genial and charming host. For more than a year he had been a quiet uncomplaining sufferer from the results of la grippe in the form of insomnia and acute Bright's disease. He died as he lived, honored and beloved by all who knew him, leaving a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. His philanthropic and charitable deeds will be missed by many in his com- munity, to whom .he was always ready and willing to extend help from his well- filled purse and larder. The funeral services in the home where he had lived for seventy- five years were largely attended. The casket designed as his last resting place was a handsome work of art in solid mahogany, richly carved, while the floral offerings were of unique and original de- sign. Dr. Heston was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and Evan L. Worth- ington's remarks on this last occasion were appropriate to the life of the deceased who had solved the mystery of death without a fear, and borne the testimony that he had made his peace with God. The INIasonic fraternity, of which he had been a member fifty years, rendered their burial ceremonies in a most impressive manner at the grave in Newtown cemetery. 534 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ZACHARY TAYLOR JENKINS, of Washington, D. C, was born in War- rington township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, P>bruary 17, 1853, and is a de- scendant of ancestors that have been prominent in the affairs of Bucks and Montgomery counties for several gen- erations. William Jenkins, the pioneer ances- tor of the family, was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the year 1658, and married there Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Grififith. and about 1682, with wife and three children, — Stephen, Margaret and Elizabeth — emigrated to Pennsyl- vania and settled in "Duffrn Mawr," near Haverford, Chester county, on i.ooo acres of land purchased of Will- iam Penn, October 24 and 25, 1681. At different periods between 1686 and 1698 he sold the 1,000 acres and purchased 400 acres in the latter year in Abington township, Philadelphia (now Montgom- ery) county, including the present site of Jenkintown, of which town his de- scendants were the founders-. He was one of the original members of Abing- ton Friends' Meeting, and with Joseph Phipps had charge of the erection of the rnceting house in 1697. He was commis- sioned as a justice of Chester county in 1691 and 1692, and was a member of the colonial assembly from 1690 to 1696. His daughter Margaret, born in Wales, 3 mo. 23. 1674, married 9 mo. 15, 1692, Thomas Paschall, and had eleven chil- dren, the numerous and prominent fam- ily of that name in Chester and Bucks counties being her descendants. She died II mo. 17. 1728. Elizabeth, the other daughter, died 9 mo. 14. 1711, unmarried. William Jenkins died in Abington town- ship. 4 mo. 7, 1712, aged fifty-four years. Stephen Jenkins, only son of William and Elizabeth (Griffith) Jenkins, was born in Tenby. Pembrokeshire, Wales, and came to Pennsylvania with his par- ents when a child. At the death of his father he inherited the lands in Abing- ton and resided there until his death, in 1761. Like his father he was an active and prominent member of Abington Meeting. He married, 9 mo. 14. 1704, Abigail Pemberton, daughter of Phineas and Phebe (Harri.eon) Pemberton, of Bucks countv, an account of whose an- cestrv and the distinguished services of the former is given in this work. Abi- gail was born in Bolton. Lancashire, England, and accompanied her parents to Bucks county in 16S2 at the age of three years. She died in Abin,gton. 9 mo, 2. 1750, aged seventy years, nine months and twenty-one days. The chil- dren of Stephen and Abigail (Pember- ton) Jenkins were as follows: William, born 8 mo. 16. 170c;, and died i mo. 5. 1763, married Lydia Roberts; Phineas, born 8 mo. t6. 1707, died 4 mo. to. i7or. married, first. Isabel Mather, who died 8 mo. 31, 1728, and second, Mary Rob- erts, who bore him eight children; Phebe, born 6 mo. 14, 1709, died unmar- ried; Sarah, born i mo. 19,. 1711, mar- ried Isaac Tyson in 'i737; Abigail, bom Ti mo. 18, 1712, married a Hugh; and Stephen, born 11 mo. 14, 1714, removed to I'hiladelphia in 1740. Phineas Jenkins has left numerous de- scendants in and around Bucks county. His eldest daughter, Sarah, born 7 mo. 6, 1731, married, in 1753, John, son of Richard Brock, of Solebury, Bucks coun- ty, and has left numerous descendants in Bucks county. Mary Jenkins, a granddaughter, married Hon. John Ross, and was the grandmother of the late Senator George Ross, of Doylestown. William Jenkins, eldest son of Stephen and Abigail (Pemberton) Jenkins, inher- ited from his father the homestead at Jen- kintown and lived there until his death. He married, in 1746, Lydia Roberts, and they were the parents of four children, the eldest and third of whom, both named William, died in infancy; the- two surviving children were: John, born 7 mo. 25. 1749; and Mary. born 8 mo. 10, 1754. Lydia, the mother, died 3 mo. 6, t8o6. John Jenkins, only surviving son of William and Lydia (Roberts) Jenkins, was but a lad of fourteen years at the death of his father, in 1763, and his un- cle, John Roberts, was made his guar- dian by his father's will. He was reared in Abington township, and. attaining manhood, married Elizabeth Rea. dau.gh- ter of Mathew and Sarah (Harman) Rea, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, of Moreland. IMathcw Rea. the grandfather of the above named Mathew, was an early set- tler in Ulster county, New York, from whence his son moved to Bucks (bounty and settled in Bedminster. John Jen- kins died August 13, 1830. and his widow, Elizabeth, August 13, 1833. in her eigh- ty-fourth year. Their children were as follows: William. John. Joseph, Sarah, (who married a Shoemaker), Ann (who married a Krusen). Elizabeth (who mar- ried John Whitcomb), and Jesse (who married Sarah Van Pelt). ]\Tost of these- children lived and died in the neighbor- hood of Abington. Jesse and Sarah (Van Pelt) Jenkins had seven daughters and one son. Two of the former (Mrs. James K. Miller and Mrs. Clift) be- came residents of Doylestown, Bu'^''^ county, where Mrs. Miller still resides. Jesse Jenkins owned a farm in Warwick: townsliip for a number of years, on whi(~h one of his daughters, Mrs. Clift. resided. Josenh Jenkins, son of John and Eliza- beth (Rea) Jenkins, was the grand- father of the subject of this sketch. He was a farmer in Bvicks and Montgomery comities, and married Tacy ]\Tartindale, daughter of Amos and Martha (Mer- rick) Martindale, whose paternal an- cestor. John Martindale, born in Eng- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 535 land 8 mo. 24, 1676, married Mary Bridg- man, daughter of Walter and Blanche (Constalile) Bridgman. of T^Iiddletovvn. Bucks coimty, — both the latter being na- tives of England and among the earliest arrivals in Bucks county. John ]\Iartin- dale, son of John and Mary (Bridgman) Martindale, born 6 mo. 22, 1719, married 2 mo. 9, 1746, Mary Strickland, and had twleve children, of whom Amos, above mentioned, was born 8 mo. 10, 1761, and married, in 1789, Martha Merrick, daugh- ter of Thomas Merrick, of Upper Make- field, Bucks county, and Tacy Martin- dale, born 2 mo. 21, 1792, was the sec- ond of their ten children. Thomas Mer- rick was a- descendant of John Mer- rick, who came from Bedfordshire al)out 1699 and settled in Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county, from whence his son John, who married Hannah Hulme, came to Upper Makefield. where he has left numerous descendants. Joseph Jenkins died December 19. 1862. in his seventy-eighth year, and Tacy, his wife, died August 10, 1857, in her sixty-sixth year. The children of Joseph and Tacy (Martindale) Jenkins were Martha M., who married John Erwin and had six children — Joseph J., of Spokane. Wash. ; B. Franklin, of Philadelphia; Preston, of Westport. Missouri; Tacy, widow of the late Williarri Sutton, of Philadel- phia; James and Charles, also of Phila- delphia— ^lahala. who never married ; and John, the father of the subject of this sketch. John Jenkins was born in Philadelphia INIay i.^. 1822. He was a farmer, miller and millwright in Bucks and Montgom- ery counties prior to i860, when he moved with his family to Frr.iiklir; county, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A. Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. While his regiment was on the march to Philippi. West Virginia, he was injured internally and was honor- ably discharged. In 1862 he removed, with his family, to Wilmington, Dela- ware, where he followed his trade of jiiiller and millwright for a short time. Being an excellent mechanic he secured employment in a shipyard, and thor- oughly mastered the trade of ship car- penter cis well as that of ship joiner and car builder. He was practically a self- educated man and was noted for his abil- ity as a mathematician and for his re- markable memory. He married Martha M. Erwin, daughter of Joseph and Han- nah (Morrison) Erwin. of Montgomery county, and granddaughter of John and Susan (Tomlinson) Erwin, of Bucks county. Her father. Joseph Erwin. was born December 2,^. 1792, and died Octo- ber 8. 1870. and her grandfather. John Erwin. was born in 1770 and died Feb- ruary 7. 182,3. On the maternal side Martha ]\T. (Erwin) Jenkins was a great- granddaughter of John Morrison, who came' from the north of Ireland and set- tled on the Brandywine about 1760. His son John (born 1769, died in North- ampton township, Bucks county, March 17. 1858), married Hannah Yerkes (born June 29. 1772, died February 12, 1844), daughter of Elias Yerkes, and grand- daughter of Silas and Hannah (Dun- gan) Yerkes, of Southampton, Silas be- ing a son of Herman and Elizabeth (Watts) Yerkes, and grandson of An- thony Yerkes, one of the first burgesses of Germantown. Hannah (Morrison) Erwin, mother of Martha M. (Erwin) Jenkins, was the second child of John and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison, and was born February 10, 1796, and died December 10, i860, She was a sister to Joseph Morrison, who was county com- missioner, county treasurer, recorder of deeds, and associate judge , of Bucks county, as well as holding every com- missioned office in the Bucks county mi- litia, from captain to brigadier-general. John Jenkins died .September 18, 1898, in his seventy-sixth year, and his wife, ]\Iartha M., died July 6, 1892, in her six- ty-seventh year. Of their nine children only two lived to the age of maturity — ■ Zachary T. and Joseph Erwin. The lat- ter was born October 9, 1855, at Long's rnill in Warwick township, Bucks coun- ty, and is now carrying on the business of plumbing and gas fitting at Wilming- ton, Delaware. He married Ella Far- ren, of that city, and has three children, — Howard, Gilbert, and Joseph. Z. T. Jenkins, the subject of this eketch, was born on a small farm, whereon his parents and paternal grandparents then resided, adjoining the farm known as "Brown's Folly," in Warrington town- ship, Bucks county, February 17, 1853. After six years' residence in Bucks and Montgomery counties, his parents moved to Franklin county, Ohio, and about two years later to Wilmington, Delaware. He became an apprentice to the printer's trade in the office of the "Evening Commercial," published in Wilmington, by the late Howard M. Jenkins and Wilmer M. Atkinson, but finished his trade in Philadelphia, and soon after the establishment of the "Philadelphia Times" secured a position as compositor on' that paper, where he remained until the fall of 1889, when he resigned to accept a position in the gov- ernment printing office at Washington, D. C, where he is now employed as a proof-reader. He is a past master of Myron M. Parker Lodge. No. 27. F. A. A. M.; a member of Capitol Chapter, No II. R. A. M.; of Amaranth Lodge, No. 28'. K. of P.; of Northeast Wash- ington Council, No. 755. National Union; of Columbia Typographical Union. No. loi. all of the citv of Washington. D. C, and of the Bucks County Historical Society. Mr. Jenkins married, September 27, 536 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1877, Amelia Branin, daughter of Rich- ard and Sarah (Phipps) Branin, of Wil- low Grove, Montgomery county. Amelia Branin was born in Stark county, Ohio, April 12, 1857, and is a descendant, pn the maternal side, of Joseph Phipps, who was associated with William Jen- kins, the pioneer ancestor of her hus- band, in the organization of Abington Meeting. On the paternal side she is descended from Francis I'ranin. born in Ireland, in 1683, who emigrated to America early in the eighteenth cen- tury and settled in Burlington county, New Jersey, where he became a large landholder. His son Michael, born September 9. 1708, married November 24, 1730, Elizabeth Norcross, daughter of John and Mary ("Antrim) Norcross, who were for a number of years rc-^- dents of Bucks county. William Branin, son of Michael and Elizabeth. born_ De- cember 15, 1749, married Abigail, daughter of Abner Rodgers, in 17/8, and died February 14, 1813. Their son, Abijah .Branin, born 'May g, 1783. mar- ried October 18, 1804. Mary, daughter of John Houston, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and their son, Richard Branin. born October 10, 1820, is aljve and well at this writing. He married Sarah Pliipps, who died December 3, 1900, in her seventy-ninth year. Richard Branin was in his younger days a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Jenkins are the parents of three children, viz.: Henry Lincoln, born February i, 1880, at 925 Walnut street, Philadelphia, in the house where George M. Dallas, at one time vice-president of the United States, lived, and where the Prince of Wales (now King Edward VII) was enter- tained when visiting this country in i860: Walter Scott, born May 12. '1881, and Elsie, born May 9, 1886. MATTHEW C. CUNNINGHAM, sen- ior member of the firm of Cunningham & Seal, wool merchants and importers, Phila- delphia, was born in Newtown township. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, July 6. 1847, and is a son of Joseph T. and Rebecca (Cadwallader) Cunningham, the former of Scotch-Irish and English and the latter of Welsh and English descent, both being natives of Bucks county. The Cunningham familv is of Scotch origin, and took its name from the munici- pality of that name on the Frith of Forth, in Scotland, now North Ayrshire, the birth- place of Wallace and Bruce, both of whom were connected by blood and marriage with this same family. Some of the American descendants of the family have traced their ancestry back in a direct line to Malcombe Frisbine. who in 1056 was knighted and made Thane of Conyngham, by Malcombe Canmorc, King of Scotland, for saving him from capture by Macbeth's victorious hordes. Three generations later the de- scendants of Malcombe adopted the sur- name of Cunningham, from the name of the principality over which they ruled as feudal lords. During the last half of the seventeenth ' century many members of this family mi- grated to Ireland, one considerable branch locating in county Donegal, where a num- ber of them are mentioned as landed pro- prietors during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, and from whence, at different periods, several of the name migrated to Pennsylvania, two generations later. Among these was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, who located in the neighbor- hood of Philadelphia, either in Chester or Philadelphia county. Thomas Cunningham, the first of the family of whom we have any definite record, married Ann Adams, on October 12, 1775, and soon after that date located in Middle- town township, where he followed the trade of a weaver. On February 20, 1794, he purchased a farm of one hundred acres in Lower Makefield township, and lived there- on until his death in August, 1813, his will stating that he was "advanced in years." Thomas and Ann (Adams) Cunningham were the parents of six children — two sons, Thomas and Matthew ; and four daughters, Martha Erwin, Margaret Van Horn. Ann Erwin, and Sarah Moon. The eldest son, Thomas, to whom was devised^the farm, sold it soon after the decease of his father and removed to Trenton, New Jersey. He married Ann Slack, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Torbert) Slack of Lower Makefield. Matthew Cunniiigham, second son of Thomas and Ann, born in 1779, removed with his parents to Lower Makefield town- ship in 1794, and from the age of sixteen years was a school teacher in that and ad- joining townships, until his death on Sep- tember 14, 1835, at the age of fifty-six years and eight months. On March 15, 1814. he purchased a farm in Newtown township which he operated in connection with the conduct of his school in that town- ship. He married Rachel Taylor, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mercv (Knowles) Tay- lor, of Newtown township, both of whom were lineal descendants of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher. William Penn's faith- ful stewards at Pennsbury. Sotcher being also a member of colonial assembly for many years. Benjamin Taylor, grandfather of Joseph Taylor above mentioned, was the son of Philip and Tulianna Taylor, of Oxford township, Philadelphia, earlv settlers at the present site of Tacony. Benjamin was a blacksmith, and followed that occupation in connection with farming in Newtown township and Upper M.nkcfield for nearly sixty years. In T730 he purchased 403 acres of land in Newtown township, which he conveyed to his sons Timothy and Bernard prior to 1750. and purchased T50 'IX> LAyV^\^n^^\.yX.yt^.^u HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 537 acres in Upper ]\Takefield, where he died in 1780. He became a lars^e landowner in Upper and Lower Makefield. and was one of the prominent men of his time in that locality. He was a member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends. He married in 1719 Hannah Towne, daughter of John and Deborah (Booth) Towne, and they were the parents of four sons ; Bernard, Benjamin, Timothy and John : and daugh- ters ; Hannah, wife of Joseph White: Deborah, wife of Benjamin Paxson ; and another who married a Gillingham. Timothy Taylor, son of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor, born at New- town in 1729, was a carpenter and lived all his life in the neighborhood of New- town, his father conveying to him 158 acres of his Newtown plantation in 1754. He was a justice of the peace and of the court of common pleas of Bucks county, being commissioned the former on June 7, 1784, and the latter on September 29 of the same year. Timothy and Bernard Taylor were two of the trustees appointed by Falls Monthly Meeting in T753 to purchase the land and erect Makefield meeting house. Timothy Taylor died in 1790. He was twice married, first on 12 mo. 27, 1752, to Letitia Kirkbride, daughter of Mahlon ' and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride, and grand- daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Stacy) Kirkbride, and great-granddaughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who were married at Cinder Hill, Yorkshire, England, in 1668. Both Joseph and Mah- lon Kirkbride were for many years mem- bers of the colonial assembly and justices of the courts of Bucks county, and were the largest landowners in Bucks county. The children of Timothy and Letitia (Kirkbride) Taylor were: Joseph; Hannah, wife of William Field; Stacy ;_ Timothy ; Mahlon ; David ; Jonathan K. and Bernard. Timothy Taylor married (second) it mo. 19, 1772, Sarah Yardley, daughter of Wil- liam and Ann (Budd) Yardley,* who bore him four children : Ann, who married Jacob Cadwallader ; William ; Deborah, who married Samuel Cary ; and Sarah, who married Phineas Briggs. Joseph Taylor, eldest son of Timothy and Letitia (Kirkbride) Taylor, born at Newtown in 1753, married, 12 mo. 11, 1777. Mercy Knowles, daughter of John and Mary (Sotcher) Knowles, grand- daughter of Robert and Mercy (Brown) Sotcher, and great-granddaughter of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, before men- tioned. He was a farmer in Lower Make- field, where he died in 1832. The children of Joseph and Mercy (Knowles) Taylor were: Letitia, born 1778, married Samuel Bunting; Mary, born 1780, second wife of Cyrus Cadwallader; Sarah, born 1783, married John Comfort; Hannah, born 1784, married Mahlon Buckman; Mahlon, born 1787, married Eliza Comfort ; Rachel, born 1789, died 1879, married Matthew Cun- * See " Yardley Family." ningham ; Ann, born 1784, married Richard/ Janney; Susanna, born 1797, married John*^ Palmer : and Joseph, born 1799, married Anna Betts. Matthew and Rachel (Taylor) .Cunning- ham were the parent? of two sons — Joseph T., born January 6, 1814; and George W., born May 21. 1816, died 1896. The latter married in 1852 Alary Ivins, daughter of Barclay and Mary (Thompson) Ivins, and died in Newtown township in 1896, leav- ing three daughters — Agnes, Mary L, and Edith. Rachel (Taylor) Cunningham sur- vived her husband many years, dying in 1879 at the age of ninety years. Joseph Taylor Cunningham, eldest son of Matthew and Rachel (Taylor) Cun- ningham, was born in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, January 6, 1814, and was reared on the old homestead in Newtown township, where he spent his entire life from the age of a few months. At the death of his father in 1835 the farm was divided between him and his brother George W., the part adjudged to Joseph consisting of about eighty acres. Joseph T. Cunningham married Rebecca J. Cad- wallader, born February 14, 1822, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Brown) Cadwallader, and granddaughter of Cyrus and Mary (Taylor) Cadwallader, and therefore, like her husband, a descendant of Benjamin and Hannah (Towne) Taylor, her grandmother, Mary Taylor, being a daughter of Benja- min' and Elizabeth (Burroughs) Taylor, and granddaughter of Bernard Taylor, (son of Benjamin and Hannah), and his wife Mary Kirkbride, the latter being an- other daughter of Mahlon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride. Joseph T. Cunning- ham died on his farm in Newtown town- ship, October 16, 1867, in his fifty-fourth year, and his wife Rebecca died November 8. 1865. Thev were the parents of three children : Maiy C. born 1844, died August 6, 1887, married George B. Buckman, of Newtown; Matthew C. ; William; and two other children, George and Jennie, who died in infancy. The maternal ancestors of these children were among the earliest settlers in War- minster township. The pioneer ancestor, John Cadwallader. a native of Wales, was a distinguished minister among Friends and died on the island of Tortula, in the West Indies, in 1742, while on a religious visit. He left several children, among whom was Jacob, who died in Moreland township. His wife was a granddaughter of Tunis (or Dennis) Kunders (Conrad) whose family was one of the thirteen who sailed from London on the "Concord" on Julv 24. 1683, and landed at Philadelphia, October 6, and fourteen days later located at the present site of Germantown. of which they were the founders. Dennis Kunders was one of the first burgesses. He was a native of Westphalia, and brought with him to Germantown three sons, and five other children were born to him in Germantown. Jacob Cadwallader, son of 53S rilSTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Jacob and Magdalena (Conrad) Cadwalla- der, married Phebe Radcliffe, of Warmin- ster, and was a large landowner in that township, and later in Makefield. Of his eleven cliildren, five grew to maturity, viz. : Cyrus ; Jacob ; John ; Rebecca, wife of David Jarrett ; Phebe. wife of Oliver Hough. Cyrus, the eldest son, born June 6, 1763, was twice married, both of his wives being Mary Taylor, as before recited, Jacob, the father of Mrs. Rebecca Cun- ningham, being the eldest son by the first marriage. MATTHEW C. CUNNINGHAM was born and reared on the Newtown township farm, and acquired his elementary educa- tion at the public schools of that vicinity and at Joseph Shortlidge's Academy in Delaware county, Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen years he went to Philadel- phia, and after a course in a business col- lege accepted a position as bookkeeper with the firm of Seal, Williams & Co.. wool mer- chants, and later became one of their most valued salesmen. On January i, i88r. he formed a partnership with Alfred Seal, of the old firm, under the title of Seal & Cun- ningham, and entered into the wool busi- ness for himself. Two years later Mr. Seal died, and a new partnership was formed with John H. Seal, a nephew of Alfred, under the firm name of Cunning- ham & Seal, which still continues, doing a large business. Mr. Cunningham is a popular and successful business man, and has a large circle of acquaintances and friends in Bucks county, where he has re- sided for the past ten years. Mr. Cunningham married, in i86g, Fannie S. Phillips, daughter of Charles and Sarah B. (Smith) Phillips, of Solebury. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, where her family have been prominent residents for several generations, the pioneer ancestor of the family being Thomas Phillips, who married, about 1725. Rebecca (Norton) Kitchin, widow of William Kitchin, and had two tury and a half. Aaron Phillips married in 1756, in connection with his half-brother, William Kitchin. erected a mill on Primrose run. near the Delaware, two miles above Wells' Ferry, now New Hope, of which he became the sole owner in 1779. and it has been known as Phillips' Mill for a cen- tury and a half. Aaron Phillips married Mary Clauson. and was succeeded as miller by his son Thomas, who in turn was suc- ceeded by his son Aaron, who married Sarah Croasdale, a descendant of Ezra Croasdale, who came from Yorkshire and settled in ISIiddletown in 1683. bringing a certificate from Brighouse Meeting of Friends in Yorkshire, dated i mo. 29, 1683. He married, in 1687, Ann Peacock, also a native of Yorkshire, and their third son, Jeremiah, born 8 mo. 29, 1694, a large land- owner and prominent man in Middletown. married Grace Heaton. granddaughter of Robert and Alice Heaton, who came from Yorkshire in 1682 in the "Welcome" with William Penn. Jeremiah Croasdale left four sons and three daughters. His second son, Robert, born 6 mo. 30, 1728, died 8 mo. 9, 1780, married in 1750 Margery Hayhurst (daughter of Cuthbert and Deliverance (Bills) Hayhurst), whose ancestors. Cuth- bert and Mary Hayhurst, also came over in the "Welcome." Jeremiah Croasdale, eldest son of Robert and Margery, born 6 mo., 20. 1751, died 9 mo. 27, 1829, mar- ried, 5 mo. 13, 1772, Ann Quinby, of New Jersey, and they were the parents of Sarali Croasdale, who married Aaron Phillips. Aaron Phillips died in 1858, and was suc- ceeded in the proprietorship of the old his- toric mill by his son Charles, the father of Mrs. Cunningham, who conducted it and the farm adjoining until 1889, when he re- moved to New Hope, where he died. Charles Phillips Cunningham, only child of Matthew and Fannie, died at the age of eight years. In 1895 Mr. Cunningham pur- chased his country home on the York road, in Buckingham township, Bucks county, near Holicong. where he and his family have since resided. THOMAS R. LEISTER, of Perkasie, was born in Hilltown township, May 23, 1834, and is a son of Jonas and Catharine (Ruth) Leister. Philip and Nicholas Leister emigrated from Germany in the ship "Brotherhood," arriving in Phila- delphia, November 3, 1750. The latter set- tled in Franconia township, Montgomery county, where he purchased land in 1760. Philip Leister settled in Rockhill township, on the north branch of the Perkiomen creek, where he purchased 150 acres of land JanuJiry 2, 1759- He subsequently pur- chased considerable other land adjoining. The only son of Philip Leister of whom we have any definite record was Philip Jacob Leister, who married September 26, 1772, Elizabeth Cell. On April 18, 1782, his parents, Philip and Catharine Leister con- veyed to him 175 acres of land in Rockhill, with the proviso that he was to support his father and mother, building for them a house on a part of the plantation, and pay fourteen hundred pounds in annual instjll- ments. In 17S7 they conveyed to Philip Jacob another tract of 148 acres. Philip Jacob later dropped the first name and was known as Jacob Leister. He was a mason by trade and reared several sons to the same trade. John Leister, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born and reared in Rockhill, and fol- lowed the trade of a mason in that neigh- borhood until about 1812, when, on the death of his wife Mary, he married Eliza- beth, widow of John Getman, of Milforo township, and purchased the farm formerly belonging to Getman in Mil ford. This farm he conveyed to his son Michael in 1820, but continued to reside in Milford until his death. He had sons— Philip, Jacob, George, Michael and Jonas; the two former settled HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 539 in Montgomery county, where they have left numerous descendants. Johnas Leister, youngest son of John and Mary Leister, was born in RockhiU town- ship, Bucks county, February ii, 1805. Like his father and grandfather and several of his uncles he was a mason by trade, and followed that occupation in Hilltown and RockhiU during the active years of his life. He married February 8, 1829, Catha- rine Harr, widow of John Harr, whose maiden name was Ruth, and lived for some years in Hilltown township, returning in 1845, to RockhiU, near Schlictersville, where he died May 26, 1897. Jonas and Catharine Leister were the parents of hve children, viz. : Elias, born November 16, 183 1, married Lavinia Treichler, and has five children; Thomas R., born May 23, 1834; Henry, born August 19, 1841, mar- ried Susan Snovel, and had two children ; Mary Ann, died young ; Catharine, born July 3, 1837, married Josiah Hoover; died February 12, 1874. Thomas R. Leister was reared in Hill- town and RockhiU, and was educated at the Ridge Road School. Early in life he learned the cigar making and cigar packing busi- ness, which he followed for many years, but for the last thirty years has been employeri as a cigar packer. In 1889 he purchased a residence in Perkasie borough, and three years later greatly improved it and now lives a retired life. In religion he belongs to the sect known as the River Brethren, and in politics is a Republican. He has been three times married ; in 1861 to Susanna, daughter of Elias Althouse, who died in 1862; second, on June 17, 1870, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Freed; and third, on May 22, 1886, to Salome K. Bergy, daughter of Abraham Bergy. He has no children. He and his wife reside in their pleasant home in Perkasie borough, enjoying the fruits of a life of industry and frugality. JOSEPH S. RUTH, of Line Lexington, New Britain township, was born in that township April 24, 1848, and is a son of Henry and ]\Iagdalena (Swartley) Ruth. Rev. David Ruth, the great-grandfather ot Joseph S., was a minster of the Mennonite faith, and resided for many years in Hat- field township, \JiIontgomery county, re- moving in 1801 to New Britain township with wife Catharine and their eight chil- dren— four sons : Michael, David, Jacob, and Joseph ; and four daughters : Mary, who married Isaac Derstein, of RockhiU township; Sophia, born August 23, 1787, married Christian Swartz, and removed to Upper Canada about 1808; Catharine, who married Jacob Ruth of Hilltown: and Mag- dalene, who married Andrew Ruth, of New Britain. David Ruth died in 1820. Michael, the eldest son, settled in Buckingham, Bucks county ; David and Joseph remained in New Britain; Jacob, the third son, settled in Tinicum. Ihe land purchased by David Sr., was located on the banks of the Ne- shaminy, and remained in the family for several generations. Joseph Ruth, young- est son of Rev. David and Catharine Ruth, was born in Hatlield, Montgomery county, and came to New Britain township with his parents when a child. On arriving at man- hood he married Ann Price, and, f)urchas- ing the greater part of the old homestead, made his home thereon during life, devoting his energies to the tilling of the soil. Henry P. Ruth, son of Joseph and Ann (Price) Ruth, was born in New Britain township. In 1853 he purchased of his fa- ther a portion of the old homestead and settled thereon. Like his ancestors, he \vas a consistent member of the Mennonite church. In politics he was a Republican, and was active in local politics and filled several positions of trust. He died April 7, 1903, and is interred at the old Mennonite burying ground at Line Lexington. His wife, Magdalena Swartley, was born in New Britain township, September 28, 1824, ana died April 7, 1893. They were married in 1844. Magdalena was a daughter of John and Mary (Moyer) Swartley of New Britain, the former of whom was born in New Britain, June 8, 1792, and died there March 14, 1856; and the latter was born in Springfield township, Bucks county, Oc- tober 9, 1795, and died in New Britain, April 10, 1872. Philip Scwardley, the fa- ther of John, and the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Eppingen, Germany, October 28, 1764, and died in New Britain township Septemt)er 23, 1840. His wife, Sarah Rosenberger, was born in Franconia tow'nship, ]\Iont- gomery county, Pennsylvania, and died in New Britain, April 6, 1849. The children of Henry and Magdalena (Swartley) Ruth, were, John S. residing at Lansdale ; Jo- seph S., and one who died in infancy. JOSEPH S. RUTH was born and reared on the old homestead, and was educated at the public schools of New Britain town- ship, supplemented by one year at CoUege- ville. He was reared to the life of a farmer, and on his marriage to Sarah Leidy took charge of the Jonas Leidy farm, which he operated for four years. He then removed to the old Swartley homestead in New Brit- ain, which he managed for over twenty years. In 1904 he removed to the village of Line Lexington, where he has since resided. His wife is a native of Hilltown, where her ancestors have been prominent farmers and business men for several generations. They are the parents of seven children; i. Elmer, married, De- cember, 1900, Anna Mary Bergey, daughter of Jones Bergey, of Hilltown, and they have three children — Grace, Joseph, Ear- nest. 2. Leidy. 3. Flora, married June, IC02. Harvard D. Sampey, and they have one child, Ruth C. 4. Stella. 5. Dora. 6. 540 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Maggie. 7. Lizzie. The four last named died in infancy. Mr. Ruth takes an active in- terest in local politics and all that pertains to the best interest of the community. He is the owner of three large farms, one of which was the home of his maternal an- cestors, the Swartleys. While Mr. Ruih does not personally conduct his farms he devotes much of his time to their care and supervision. He takes an active part in church work and is one of the leading men in the community in which he lives. HARVEY H. GILLAM, of Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, July 23, 1846, and is a son of Harvey and Hannah H. (Hunt) Gillam. His paternal ancestor, Lucas Gillam, son of Lucas and Lydia Gillam, was born in Bristol township about the year 1715. His father and mother both dying when he was a small child, he was, according to the cus- tom of that time, bound out by direction of the orphans' court of Bucks county and learned the trade of a cooper, which he fol- lowed in early life in Middletown township. He was also a farmer, having purchased in 1751 one hundred acres in Middletown township. He married 6 mo. 18, 1748, Ann Dungan, daughter and only child of Jere- miah Dungan, who was a grandson of Rev. Thomas Dungan, who came from Rhode Island to Bucks county in 1684 and estab- lished the first Baptist church in the county at Cold Spring in Falls township. Lucas and Ann Dungan Gillam were the parents of ten children: Susannah, wife of Jona- than Linton, of Northampton; Jeremiah; Lucas Jr.; Simon; Joseph; John; Sarah, wife of Euclides Longshore; Joshua, James and Thomas Gillam. Simon Gillam, third son and fifth child of Lucas and Ann (Dungan) Gillam, mar- ried 12 mo. 11, 1783. Anna Paxson, by whom he had four children: Mary, born 10 mo. 22, 1784; William, born 10 mo. r, 1786, died 12 mo. 31, 1842; Isaac, born 4 mo- I3i 1788; and Anna, born 10 mo. 30, 1794: died 2 mo. 8, 1798. Simon Gilliam was a prominent man in the community and a preacher among Friends. He was the owner of four hundred acres of land in Middle- town, and lived to a ripe old age. William, son of Simon and Anna (Pax- son) Gillam, was born in Middletown town- ship and died there 12 mo. 31, 1842. He married 12 mo. 16, 1809, Susanna Woolston, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Har- vey) Woolston. who was born 11 mo. 18, 1787, and died 8 mo. 31, i860. The Wojl- stons were early settlers in Burlington county. New Jersey, 'rom whence Jonathr.n Woolston, grandfather of the above named Jonathan, removed to Middletown and mar- ried Sarah Pearson n 1707. William and Susanna Woolston Gillam were the parent:^ of nine children : Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 17, 1810; Anna, born 8 mo. 12, 1812; Har- vey, born 7 mo. i, 1814; Jonathan W., born 10 mo. 25, 1816; William, born 11 mo. 15, 1818; Simon, born li mo. 24, i82o;Susanna, born 4 mo. 18, 1823 ; Hannah, born 6 mo. 3, 1825 ; Mary, born 8 mo. 25, 1827. Harvey Gillam, Sr., was born on the old homestead in Middletown, and on arriving at manhood turned his attention to agri- cultural pursuits, purchasing a farm two miles east of Langhorne, which he con- ducted for a few years. On account of poor health he sold his farm and engaged in merchandising at Langhorne for a few years, and then purchased a farm of thirty acres which he conducted a short time, and then removed to Philadelphia, where he en- gaged in the wholesale boot and shoe busi- ness, later becoming a member of the firm of Farrell & Herring, manufacturers of safes, where he remained until his death. He married Hannah Hunt, of Chestei county, Pennsylvania, who died in 1857. Harvey and Hannah (Hunt) Gillam were the parents of four children : Mary Wyatt, born 8 mo. 10, 1838, married William Al- bertson, of Philadelphia; Williarn Henry, born I mo. 9, 1841, died in 1871, leaving a daughter, now Mrs. Howard Reifsnyder; Morris Shallcross, who died in infancy; and Harvey H., born July 23, 1846. Harvey H. Gillam and his brother William Henry removed from Philadelphia to the home of their ancestors in Middletown, where they purchased farms. William Henry died sud- denly two years later at the age of thirty years. Harvey H. Gillam was reared in Phila- delphia, and received his education at the Friends' Central School. In 1869 he pur- chased a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in Middletown, which he conducted until 1888, when he rented it and removed to Langhorne, and has since followed the vocation of a real' estate and general busi- ness agent. He has been a justice of the peace for fifteen years, and has transacted a large amount of public business, filling many positions of trust in connection with the settlement of estates, etc. He was one of the promoters of the Langhorne, New- town and Bristol Street Railway, and one of its directors for a number of years ; and is a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county of Bristol, and of the Langhorne Building and Loan Association. He is a member of Bristol Lodge No. 25, F. and A. M. Religiously he is a member of the Society of Friends, and politically a Republican. He was married October 2, 1873, to Mary Mitchell, a daughter of Pier- son and Caroline (Burton) Mitchell, of Langhorne. Pierson Mitchell was a son of John Allen and Tacie (Stackhouse) Mitchell, of Lang- home, an account of whose early ancestry is given elsewhere in this work. He was born in Middletown, August 29, 1822. on the old homestead, which he inherited at HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 541 his father's death, and Hved thereon for a time, subsequently removing to Langhorne, where he died April i, 1894. He received a superior education and was a school teacher in Middletown before attaining his majority. He later took up the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Gove JNlitchell, but abandoned it on account of poor health, and returned to the farm. A few years later he studied and mastered surveying, and took up that business in connection with conveyancing and real estate and gen- eral business agency. He was a justice of the peace for thirty years, and prided him- self in never sending a case to court out of the many suits that were entered before him, being always able to induce the liti- gants to settle their cases out of court. He settled a great number of estates and filled a great number of positions of trust. He was for over thirty years a director of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county, and enjoyed the conhdence and esteem of all who knew him. He was a member of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends. CSee sketch of Allen Robert MitcheU.j He married in 1850 Caroline Burton, daughter of Anthony and Mary (Headly) Burton, representatives of two old and highly re- spected families of lower Bucks. Caroline (.Burton) Mitchell died May 16, 1890. Their only child was Mrs. Gillam. Harvey H. and Mary ^Mitchell) Gillam are the parents of two children ; Caroline Mitchell, born July 21, 1874, married Octo- ber II, 1904, Malachi White, of Langhorne, a representative of an old family in that vicinity; and Mary Wyatt, born Alarch 4, 1879, who resides at home. GEORGE W. SCHEIP. Among the younger generation of agriculturists, who still retain the land tilled by their ancestors for several generations, is George W. Scheip, of New Britain township. He was born on the farm where he still resides, March 11, 1856, and is a son of John L. and Maria (SchoU) Sheip. George Scheib (as the name was origin- ally spelled), the paternal ancestor of the subject of this sketch, emigrated from Ger- many in the last half of the eighteenth century, and in the year 1770 purchased one hundred acres of land in New Britain, of which the farm occupied by the present George Scheip is a part. In 1792 he pur- chased an additional one hundred acres ad- joining on the southeast side, which he conveyed to his eldest son John four years later. George Scheib died in 181 5, leav- ing a widow Elizabeth and five children ; John, Margaret, Elizabeth, Catharine and George, the latter being the grandfather of the late Levi C. Scheip, of Doylestown. Prior to the execution of his will in Feb- ruary, 1803, George Scheib made an agree- ment with his eldest son John by which he conveyed the homestead to him on condi- tion that John convey to the younger son George the lower farm, and provide for his father and mother during the remainder of their lives. John Scheib was probably born in Mont- gomery county, where, like nearly all the early German emigrants, his parents made their first American home. He was reared in New Britain, Bucks county, and on ar- riving at manhood, married Catharine Heller, of Montgomery county, and took up his abode on the farm purchased for him by his father, adjoining the homestead. In 1803 he took possession of the homestead farm which was in that year conveyed to him, and lived thereon until his death in August, 1818, purchasing in 1813 twenty- five acres of his former farm of his brother George. His children were George; Eliza- beth, wife of Andrew Bardt; Catharine, iViargaret and Joseph. George Scheib, eldest son of John and Catharine (Heller) Scheib, was born in New Britain township about 1795, and reared to the life of a farmer on the old homestead purchased by his grandfather in 1770, which he inherited at his father's death in 1818, and died there at the age of eighty- nine years. He married about. 1820 Eliza- beth Leidy, daughter of John Leidy, of Hilltown, who bore him six children, five of whom grew to maturity. John L. Scheip, eldest son of George and Elizabeth (Leidy) Scheip, is the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born and reared on the old New Britain home- stead, and married Maria, daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Leidy) Scholl, who was born in Upper Salford township, Mont- gomery county, May 19, 1825. John L. was born August 9, 1824. Both are still living in New Britain. To them were born two children : Isaiah S., deceaised ; and George W. George W. Scheip was born and reared on the old homestead in New Britain which he now owns. He has always followed farming, with its attendant industries o\ fruit culture and stock and poultry raising, taking especial pride in the production of choice fruits of all kinds. Living a quiet pastoral life, he has dignified the calling of his forefathers. In politics he is a Dem- ocrat, but has never sought or held pub- lic office. He and his family are members of the German Reformed church. He mar- ried in 1876 Lydia, daughter of Henry Al- bright, Esq., also of German ancestry, and this union has been blessed with eleven children, of whom three died in infancy; those who survive are : William F., born 2\Iay 13, 1877, married Anna Mary Biehn, daughter of Peter, and has one child, Pearl ; Estella, born July 14, 1880, married Evererd R. Ulmstead, and has two children, Mar- tha and Herbert ; INIartha, born March 2, 1883; Viola, born February 20, 1885; Mary, 542 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. born November 21, 1886; Catharine, born June 8, 1889; Anna, born November 22, 1890; and Titus A., born November 3, 1894. EDWIN C. WALKER, of Southampton township, Bucks county, was born in Hors- ham township, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania, June 21, 1851, and is a son of Elias and Amanda (Carson) Walker, both of whom were natives of Montgomery county. Peter Walker was a farmer in Mont- gomery county, and married Sarah Land, who bore him seven children; Elizabeth, who married William Mclntyre; Christi- ana, who married Samuel Radcliffe; Han- nah; Lydia; Susan Jane; Elias; and Sam- uel. Elias, son of Peter and Sarah (Land) Walker, was born near Willow Grove, Montgomery county, in the year 1826, and lived the uneventful life of a well-to-do . farmer in that locality, filling such local positions as the interests of the commun- ity demanded of him. He married Amanda Carson, and they were the parents of four children: Theresa; Edwin C. ; Ella, who married Harry McNair, and they had one child, a son, George Russell McNair; and George, who married Emma Force, in 1900. Edwin C. Walker was reared on a farm in Horsham township, and acquired a good common school education. In 1876 he mar- ried Fannie L. Johnson, daughter of Fred- erick and Harriet Newell (Wait) Johnson, and began life as a farmer, which vocation he has since followed, first in Horsham and later in Southampton township, Bucks county, where he has a fine farm. In poli- tics he is a Republican, but has never held other than local office. He has served in the office of township supervisor for two terms, and filled other local offices. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Walker is of Eng- lish descent, her maternal grandparents be- ing John and Sarah (Kyle) W\iit. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are the parents of two chil- dren ; Fannie, born in 1877 ; and Mabel, born in 1884. SAMUEL R. LENGEL, of Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Uppei- Bern, now Tilden township. Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1859, and is of German descent, his ancestors hav- ing been residents of that section for sev- eral generations. The pioneer ancestor of the family, Johannes Lengel, emigrated from Germany in I737 and settled in Berks county, and his descendants are now widely scattered. Paul Lengel the direct ancestor of Samuel R., was born in Berks county, and a tract of land was surveyed to him there in 1780. His son, Johan Lengel. was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Peter Lengel, son of Johan, married Mane Spisher, and they were the parents of the toUowing children: Maria, Susan, Adam, James, Paul, Peter, Eliza, Polly, William and Emanuel. Adam, son of Peter and Marie Lengel, was a farmer in Upper Bern township, where he was born in 1S35. He married Angeline Rentschler, and they were the parents of eight children: El- mira, Samuel R., Adam, Catharine, Ma- tilda, Franklin, James, and Wilson. James Lengel married Amelia Mathias. Samuel R. Lengel was born and reared in Berks county, and worked on the farm for his father until the age of eighteen years, and then came to Hilltown, Bucks county, where he followed butchering and attended the Philadelphia markets. In 1885 he pur- chased a farm of sixty-one acres, where he still resides. He is a member of Souder- ton Lodge, No. 612, I. O. O. F., and of the Golden Eagle Castle at Telford. Politically he is a Democrat, and takes an active in- terest in the councils of his party. He was the party nominee for clerk of the orphans' court in 1899, but was defeated at the polls with the rest of the ticket, the county then being strongly Republican. Mr. Lengel is a member of the Lutheran church. He married Mary Ann Hunsberger, daughter of Isaac and Anna (Bergy) Hunsberger, of Hilltown, where Mrs. Lengel was born. Mr. and Mrs. Lengel are the parents of four children— Isaac H., Gertrude, Melvin, and Adam. DARIUS SINE, proprietor of the feed and coal establishment at Perkasie, so long conducted by William Renner, is a native of Bedminster township, Bucks county, be-, ing a son of Joseph and Leanna (Kline) Sine, of that township, where he was born November 7, 1864. John Sine, the grand- father of the subject of this sketch was of German descent, though his ancestors had been residents of Bucks county for several generations. His wife was a Garis, of an old Pennsylvania German family, and they were the parents of five children, all born in Bedminster township, viz. : John, Joseph, Samuel, Elias and Catharine. Joseph Sme, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bedminster township, in September, 1821. Early in life he learned the trade of carpet weaver, which he followed for a number of years in Durham, Nockamixon, Tinicum and Bedminster townships. Some time in the sixties he purchased a farm in Bedminster, which he conducted until his death in 1898. He was a school director of Bedminster township, and always took a deep interest in educational matters. He jind bis family were members of Tohickon Reformed church. His wife was Leanna, daughter of John Kline, and they were the ])arents of nine children, viz. : Frank K. ; Sarah, wife of John M. Gruver; Edwin; ^lissouri. wife of Levi Roth ; Amanda, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 543 Leanna and Joseph, all deceased; Justina, wife of Peter S..Solli-day ; and Darius, the subject of this sketch. Darius Sine was reared and educated in Bedminster township. He taught school in Haycock, Bedminster and Springfield town- ships for six years. In 1887 he entered the employ of William Renner in the feed and coal business at Perkasie, and remained with him until January 4, 1904, when he purchased the business of Mr. Renner and now conducts it. He is a member of St. Stephen's Reformed church at Perkasie, and politically is a Democrat. He is a member of Perkasie Lodge, No. 671, I. O. O. F., Mont Alto Lodge, No. 246, K. of P. ; the Modern Workman ; and the Ridgely Pro- tective Association. Mr. Sine has been twice married, first in December, 1885, to Annie, daughter of Jacob Dimmig, who died in April, 1888, leaving him one child, Harry, born March i, 1887. He married (second) in 1889, Sarah J., daughter of Benjamin Fellman, who has borne him two children : William Renner, born July 12, 1890; and Paul Revere, born September 13, 1899. EZEKIEL A. GROOM, of Buckingham, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, October 29, 1834, being a son of Jonathan A. and Rebecca (Pidcock) Groom. The Groome family is an old one in Bucks coimty, the first settlers here be- ing Peter and Thomas Groome, brothers. Peter purchased two hundred acres of land of Penn in Southampton in 1683, but sold it in 1690 and removed to New Jersey. Thomas Groome in 1704 purchased 550 acres on the Delaware, in Bristol township, which he sold four years later, and set- tled in Byberry, Philadelphia county. Will- iam Groome, supposed to be the son of Thomas, settled in Southampton in 17 18 on 112 acres purchased that year, upon which he later erected a grist mill. He died there in 1736, leaving a widow Margaret and seven children, four of whom grew to maturity, viz. : Thomas ; Mary ; Anne, who married Garret Vansant in 1739; and Will- iam, who married Rachel Walton in 1747. Thomas, the eldest son of William and Margaret Groome, at the death of his broth- er William in 1760 purchased the interest of the other heirs in the mill property and settled thereon. Part of the land was --old by the sheriff in 1788, but was purchased by his son Thomas. Thomas and Lydia Groom, had three sons^Thomas, above referred to, William and John. Thomas remained on the old homestead, and Will- iam and John removed to LIpper Make- field about 1800. John Groom, third son of Thomas and Lydia, purchased of John Beaumont a small lot in L^pper Makefield, and died thereon in 1810, leaving four chil- dren : Thomas ; Phoebe, wife of John Hagerman ; Mary, wife of Amos Bennett: and John. Thomas Groome, eldest son of John, was a farmer in Upper Makefield, where his son Jonathan was born in 1808. Jonathan Groom married Rebecca Pid- cock, and had six children : Mary E. Cook, of Trenton, New Jersey; Joseph P., of Buckingham, a member of the One Hun- dred and Seventy-fourth Regiment Penn- sylvania Volunteers, during the Civil war; Ezekiel A. ; Ramsey C, a member of Com- pany A, One Hundred and Fourth Regi- ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, during the war; Sarah, wife of Israel Worthington, of Buckingham; and Anna Rebecca, wife of Rudolph B. Cotter, of Wycombe, Penn- sylvania. The subject of this sketch was born in Solebury, but at the age of nine went to live with 'Squire Edward Pool, in Upper Makefield. Two years later he went to John Murfit's, in the same township, with whose family he lived until 1870, with the exception of one year (his nineteenth) in which he made a trip to the west. In 1870 he rented the Merrick farm in Make- field (Washington's Headquarters in 1777) where he lived for one year, and then re- moved to the Anderson farm in Bucking- ham, where he lived for ten years. The next twelve years he lived on the D. W. McNair and Joseph Shelly farms in Buck- ingham. Mr. Groom has been a farmer in Buckingham continuously since 1871. In 1893 he purchased his present farm, and has resided thereon since that time. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1890 he was elected county commissioner and served a term of three years. Mr. Groom was mar- ried in 1858 to Elizabeth Wark, of Phila- delphia, by whom he has four children : Henrietta D., and Jennie, residing at home ; Georgianna, wife of Harry Hallowell, ot Philadelphia; and John M., residing at home. Both Mr. Groom and his son are members of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., of Doylestown. MAHLON KELLER, merchant and jus- tice of the peace, Perkasie, Bucks county, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, November 4, 1864, and is a son of Abraham and Judith (Myers) Keller, and a lineal descendant of Heinrich and Juliann (Kleindinst) Keller, both natives of Weier- bach, Baden, Germany, who came to Amer- ica in 1738 and settled in Bedminster, near Kellers' Church, of which Heinrich was one of the organizers and for whom it was named. Christopher (or Stophell) Keller, tenth child of Heinrich and Juliann, born in Bucks county, December, 1751, was ensign of a company in the Flying Camp in 1776, and served his country through the disas- trous campaign in New York and on Long Island. Returning to Bucks county he set- tled in Haycock township, where he was a considerable landowner and a man of prom- inence in the community. He died July 8, 544 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1820. On February 17, 177S, he married Margaret Trauch, of Budnunster, who was born in 1759 and died February 11, 181 1, ami they reared a family of nine children, wdj have left numerous descendants. Joseph Keller, the seventh child of Chris- topher and Margaret, born in Haycock, No- vember 10, 1794, died there February 14, 1877, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was a blacksmith and fanner, and lived all his life in Haycock township, and was an elder of Kellers' Lutheran church. His wife was Mary Aliierbach, daughter of George and Dorothy (Steinbach) Afflerbach, and a grand- daughter of Heinrich and Dorothy (Keller; Steinbach, the latter being a daughter of Heinrich and Juliann Keller, above men- tioned. Mrs. ^Mary (Afflerbach) Keller's pa- ternal grandfather, Daniel Afflerbach, came from Germany about the time of the Amer- ican Revolution, and settled in Haycock. Abraham Keller, second child of Joseph and Mary (Afflerbach) Keller, was the fa- ther of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Haycock township, September 16, 1823, and died in Bedniinster township. He was a farmer in Plumstead for a number of years after his marriage, and later in Bedminster. In 1870 he entered into part- nership with his cousin. Captain John H. Afflerbach, in the general merchandise busi- ness at Bedminsterville, under the firm name of J. H. Afflerbach & Co., and three years later purchased Mr. Afflerbach's in- terest in the firm, and took into partner- ship his son Lewis, the present proprietor of the store, and later another son Joseph was admitted to the firm, and I\Ir. Keller retired from the firm, purchasing the hotel at Bedminsterville, which he conducted for ten years, after which he conducted a feed store and looked after his farm and other property until his death in 1880. He was twice married; first October 10, 1847, to Judith Myers, who was the mother of his ten children; and second, December 26, 1881, to Susanna, widow of Franklin Stauf- fer. Judith (Myers) Keller was born Feb- ruary 3, 1829, and died December 23, 1880; Abraham and Judith (jNIyers) Keller were the parents of ten children, six of whom survive, viz. : Mary, wife of H. S. Deaterly, of Bedminster; Lewis, the Bedminsterville merchant; Joseph, of Philadelphia; Abra- ham M., of Doylestown; Catharine, wife of CHnton Lerch. of Tinicum ; and Mahlon. Maliion Keller was the youngest 5on of Abraham and Judith, and was born in Plumstead township, but was reared and educated in Bedminster. He remained on the farm with his parents until the age of sixteen, when he became a clerk in the Bedminsterville store, where he remained for nine years. In 1892 he purchased the large mercantile establishment of Grier Scheetz, at Perkasie, which he conducted for seven years, and then sold out to Kulp Brothers, the present proprietors, and opened an establishment for the manufac- ture of clothing at Perkasie. In 1902 he sold out this business and purchased the clothing and gent's furnishing store which he now conducts, of Moyer & George, and is doing a tine business. He was elected justice of the peace in 1895, and was re- elected in 1900, and again in 1905. He has also served as a school director. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and po- litically is a Democrat. He is a past master of McCalla Ledge No. 596, F. and A. M.; a past grand of Plumstead Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and a member of Mont Alto Lodge No. 246, K. of P., at Perkasie. He is also a member of Aquilla Castle, No. 330, Knights of the Golden Eagle. , He married November 15, 1889, Mary Ella Albright, daughter of John and Mary (Bryan) Al- bright, and they are the parents of two children : Paul, born May, 1894, and died August, 1894; and Ralph, born May 27, 1897. REVEREND JOHN HENRY WAIDE- LICH, who for the past sixteen years has been the pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran . Church at Sellersville, and of St. John's Church in Rockhill township. Bucks county, was born at Steinsville, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. March 17, i860, and is of German parentage. Michael Frederick Waidelich, father of the subject of this sketch, was the youngest son of Jacob Waidelich by his first wife, nee Hartman, and was born in Bosenfeld, Wurtemberg, Germany, in the year 1831. He came to this country in the year 1846, and learned the trade of a wheelwright with his eldest brother. Christian Waide- lich, through w'hose influence he had come to America. He married Sallie Follweiler, of a German family whose ancestors had settled in the upper part of Lehigh county about the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury, her mother being a Wanamaker. They were the parents of six children, five of whom were boys, who were at the proper age obliged to learn useful trades; and it fell to the lot of the subject of this sketch to learn the trade of coach painting. He attended the public schools of his native town and a private school for one session, after which he passed a successful examina- tion in the fall of 1877, and, receiving a teacher's certificate, taught school in Berks and Lehigh counties for a period of five years. He then prepared for college at the Keystone State Normal School at Kutz- town, Pennsylvania, and entered Mulilcn- berg College at Allentown in September, 1882. graduating with honors in June, 1886, receiving a prize in gold for scholarship in German. During the summer of 1885 he filled the position of principal of Prospect Institute at Steinsville, Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania. Entering the Lutheran Theologi- cal Seminary at Philadelphia, he graduated in June, 1889, and was ordained In- tlie THE ^- iRK PUBL. ARY ASTON, LENOX AND TILDEM FOUMDATIONS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 545 Ministerium of Pennsylvania in Salem church, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1889. He was installed as pastor of St. IMichael's and St. John's churches June 23. 1889, and is still filling that charge. Dur- ing his pastorate both churches have pros- pered, the latter having erected in 1899 a handsome modern church building. Mr. Waidelich, in addition to his regular par- ish, also served temporarily as pastor of Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church at Ridge Road, Rockhill township, and in 1892 organized Trinity congregation at Perkasie. Li 1900 these last two churches were by his advice formed into a separate parish. Mr. Waidelich served as secretary and later as president of the Norristown con- ference of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states, and has served as rep- resentative of his synod at the meeting of the General Council of North America. He was trustee of Muhlenberg College for six years. He has also been secretary of the Lutheran Pastoral Association of Bucks and of a portion of Montgomery county since the fall of 1889. In his home town of Sell- ersville Mr. Waidelich has exerted a wide influence for good among the young people. He has served as a member of the local school board and taken a deep interest in the cause of education. On July 4. 1889, Mr. Waidelich married Alice S. Keller, daughter of Nathan and Ellamina (Smith) Keller, of Albany. Berks county, Pennsylvania. She had been a teacher in the public schools of that county for five years or more, and had charge of a kindergarten department in the schools of Reading, Pennsylvania, for one year. Rev. and Mrs. Waidelich are the parents of one son, Luther Frederic, who was born at Sellersville, May 24. 1890, and is preparing for a college education. FRANK L. KNOLL. Among the en- terprising business men of Perkasie is Frank L. Knoll, undertaker and cabinet- maker. He was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on January 31, 1862, and is of German descent, being a son of Lewis and Hannah (Tref- finger) Knoll. Lewis Knoll, father of the subject of this sketch, is a son of Charles T. Knoll, and was born in Germany in 1827 and came to America June r, 1844, at the age of seventeen years. He had learned the trade of a locksmith in Ger- many, and after his arrival in Bucks county learned the blacksmith trade at Newville, New Britain township. He followed the latter trade at Mt. Pleasant, Hilltown town- ship, Bucks county, for about twenty years, and then removed to Lansdale, Montgom- ery county, where he still resides. He married Hannah, daughter of Frederick Treffinger, also of German descent, she having been born in Germany, February 23, 1830. She died November 4, 1892. Lewis 35-3 and Hannah (TreiBnger) Knoll were the parents of five children, viz. : Charles, of Perkasie, who married Susan Rickert ; Frederick, deceased; Mary, wife of John S. Barndt, of Line Lexington; Amanda, wife of Milton Haines; and Frank L., the subject of this sketch. Frank L. Knoll was reared and educated in Hilltown township. Early in life he learned the trade of a carpenter and cabinet maker with Francis Sellers, whose daugh- ter he subsequently married. In 1888 he started in the undertaking business at Sil- verdale, and in 1894 r^ioved to Perkasie, where he has since followed that business. He is a member of the Hilltown Reformed church, and politically is a Democrat. He filled the office of chief burgess of Per- kasie for six months, and then resigned the oflice. He married December 27, 1884, Emeline Sellers, daughter of Francis and Emiline (Frantz) Sellers, and they are the parents of two children : Florence, born October i, 1889, and Idella, born July i, 1891. ROBERT M. CROASDALE, one of the well known young business men of New- town, was born in Newtown, May 16, 1864, and is a son of John Wilson and Eliza- beth B. (Parry) Croasdale, and is a de- scendant of the oldest families in Bucks. His paternal ancestor, Ezra Croasdale, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and brought a certificate from the Friends' Meeting at Brighouse, Yorkshire, dated i mo. 29, 1683, and settled in Middletown, where he mar- ried 2 mo. 6, 1687, Ann Peacock, also a native of Yorkshire, coming from Kirks- dale, in that county, in 1684, in the ship' "Shield," of Stockton, which arrived in the Delaware river in the latter part of the 8th month, 1684. They were married at the house of Nicholas Wain, under the .direction of Neshaminy (now Middletown) Monthly Meeting. Ezra Croasdale died 4 mo. 18, 1740, and his- wife Ann 10 mo. 8, 1732. They were the parents of four chil- dren, viz. : Ezra, born 12 mo. 5, 1689, died 4 mo., 1702; William, born 7 mo. 19, 1690, died 9 mo. 19, 1777 ; Grace, born 2 mo. 6, 1692; and Jeremiah, born 8 mo. 29, 1694. Jeremiah Croasdale, son of Ezra and Ann, was born and reared in Middletown, and spent his whole life there. He married 7 mo. 22, 1720, Grace Heaton, daughter of Robert and Gra^e (Pearson) Heaton, of Middletown. Robert Heaton was born in Yorkshire in 1671, and came to Pennsyl- vania with his parents, Robert and Alice Heaton, from Settle, Yorkshire, ^n the "Welcome," with William Penn, arriving^ 8 mo. 27, 1682. He was a large landholder in Middletown, and one of the prominent men in the little Quaker colony on the Delaware. Jeremiah and Grace (Heaton) Croasdale were the parents of nine chil- dren: Grace, born 9 mo. 8, 1721. marrie-' Jonathan Knight ; Mercy, born 12 mo. 28, 1723-4; Ezra, born 5 mo. 12, 1726; Robert, 546 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. born 6 mo. 30, 1728; Ann, born 11 mo. 15, 1730-1; Eber, born i mo. 28, 1733; and Abijah, born 10 mo. 5, 1735; Macre and Achsah. Jeremiah died in 1748. Robert Croasdale, son of Jeremiah and Grace, married 9 mo. 15, 1750, Margery Hayhur.st, born in Middletown, 2 mo. 15, 1730, daughter of Cuthbert and Deliverance (bills) Hayhurst. Cuthbert Hayhurst was a son of William and Rachel (Radc'liffe) Hayhurst, and a granddaughter of Cuth- bert and jNIary Hayhurst, who also came over in the "Welcome"' from Settle, York- shire, in 1682. James Radcliffe, the father of Rachel, was an eminent preacher among Friends, and came from Rosendale, Lan- cashire, to Middletown in 1685. Robert Croasdale died 8 mo. 9, 1780, and his widow Margery 6 mo. 29, 1783. They had seven children: Jeremiah, born 6 mo. 20, 1751, irarried Ann Quinby, of New Jersey, and died 9 mo. 27. 1829; Abi. born 7 mo. 16, 1753; Rachel, born 3 mo. 7, 1756; Margery, born 7 mo. 3, 1758 ; Macre, born 12 mo. 7, 1760, married Samuel Eastburn ; and Robert, born 2 mo. 20, 1763. Robert Croasdale, son of Robert and Mar- gery, married (first) Tacy Knight, and had three children, all of whom died young. Tacie died 5 mo. 30, 1791, and he married 10 mo. 25, 1792, Hannah (Woolston) Mitchell, daughter of Jeremiah Woolston. w-ho died 9 mo. 14, 1793, leaving a son, Jeremiah W., born 8 mo. 14, 1793. Robert Croasdale married a third time. 11 mo. II, 1802, Ruth Richardson, daughter Of Joshua Richardson, who bore him five children, Mary, born 8 mo. 7, 1803; Joseph H., born i mo. 8, 1806; Rachel, born 1807. died 1815; Tacy, born 11 mo. 28, 1819; and Robert Morris, born 2 mo. 6, 1812. Robert, the father, died 6 mo. 15. 1821, and his widow Ruth 9 mo. 30, 1854, at the age of eighty-one years. Jeremiah W. Croasdale, only child of Robert by his second wife Hannah, was born and reared in Middletown township, and spent the active years of his life as a farmer in that township. After the death of his wife in 1866 he removed to Newtown, where he died in 1873. He married 12 mo. 27, 1825, Sarah Wilson, who bore him four children. She was a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Blakey) Wilson, and was born 7 mo. 9, 1799. and died 7 mo. i, 1866. The children of Jeremiah W. and Sarah (Wil- son) Croasdale were: Mary W.. born 8 mo. 2, 1826, married Moses Pax;on : John Wilson, born 5 mo. i, 1829; Hannah, born I mo. 28, 1831, married Charles W. Kirk- bride; and Robert Morris, born 10 mo. 14. 1834. John Wilson Croasdale. the father of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in Middletown township, and remained on the farm with his parents until 1853, when he removed to Newtown and embarked in the mercantile business, which he followed until his death, i mo. 19. 1894. He married in 1862 Elizabeth B. Parry, daughter of Thomas Fell and Mary (Eastburn) Parry of Langhorne, whose ancestry is given in another part of this work. Their children are: Robert M., the subject of this sketch; Thomas P., also of Newtown; and Mary E., married R. B. McKinney, of Philadel- phia ; she died February i, 1905. Robert M. Croasdale was born and reared in Newtown, and received his education at the local schools, and at an early age be- came a clerk in his father's store, where he was employed until thirty, years of age. After his father's death he was clerk in different stores in Newtown until 1903. On July I, 1903, he was appointed United States revenue collector for the first district of Pennsylvania, which position he still fills. Mr. Croasdale is an ardent Republi- can, and has always taken an active in- terest in the councils of his party, serving for several years as a member of the county committee. He has served as chief bur- gess of Newtown for three years, as borough auditor for seven years; and is the present president of the town council. He married, October 9, 1902, Helen Cast- ner, of New Jersey. ARMITAGE B. QUICK, of Northamp- ton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Hunterdon county. New Jer- sey, on June 10, 1848, and is a son of Joseph G. and Cornelia (Blackwell) Quick, both of whom are representatives of the oldest families in Hunterdon, that have been prominent in the affairs of that county since its first settlement. Tunis Quick, the ancestor of all of the name in America, was of Holland descent, and probably a native of the Low Countries. In 1713 he and his widowed mother, Romora Quick, purchased a very large tract of land in Hunterdon county, where he has left num- erous descendants. He married. October 30. 1689, Vroutje Haring. born March 3, 1663, daughter of Jan Petersen Haring, who was born in Holland, December 26, 1633, and married Grietje Cosyn in 1662, Ezekiel Quick, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in the county of Hunterdon, where he followed farming all his life, in con- nection with the distilling of apple whiskey, a common industry among the farmers of Hunterdon county two generations ago. Ezekiel Quick, son of the above, was also born in Hunterdon county, and was like- wise a farmer and distiller, residing on a farm about six miles from Flemington. He was the father of four children as follows . Charles. Ezekiel. Richard, Joseph G. Joseph G. Quick, fourth son of Ezekiel (2), was born on the old homestead in Hunterdon, and on arriving at manhood de- voted his attention exclusively to the cul- tivation of the soil, and followed that voca- tion during life. He was one of the earliest peach growers of Hunterdcm county, and an extensive and successful fruit grower for many years. He was an active mem- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 547 -ber of the Presbyterian church at Larri- son's Corners, and in politics was a Demo- crat. He was active in the local afifairs of his locality, and filled the office of school director for several years. He married Cornelia Blackwell, and was the father of seven children, as follows: William B., a farmer of that locality; Elizabeth, who married William B. Praul ; Elijah, de- ceased ; Jane Ann ; Randal ; Mattie V. ; and Armitage B., the subject of this sketch. Armitage B. Quick was born and reared on the farm in New Jersey, and at the age of twenty-two years began farming for him- self. In 1873 he removed to Lansdale, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and took charge of a farm belonging to Charles Jenkins, where he remained for four years. He then returned to the old homestead in Hunterdon county, which he conducted for his father for two years, after which he purchased a portion of the homestead and farmed it for a number of years. In 1892 he removed to his present farm in Northampton township, Bucks county, where he has since resided, giving his en- tire attention to agricultural pursuits. Mr. Quick married Syndonia Martindell, daughter of Charles and Margaret (Newell) Martindell, whose ancestors have been residents of Bucks county and vicin- ity for many generations, being descendants •of John Martindell, born 8 mo. 24, 1676, who married Mary Bridgman, daughter of Walter and Blanche (Constable) Bridgman, both of whom came from England in 1684, Mr. and Mrs. Quick have been the parents of five children: Charles G., born April 15. 1872, married Lida A. Fetter, who died January 28, 1889; Alfreda M., born April 19, 1874, married Harry Shorday : Susan M., born August 21, 1878, married Edgar HufT; Charity B., born April 4, 188 1 ; and Armitage B., Jr., born June 10, 1887. VICTOR HUGO FELTY, a successful young farmer of Buckingham township, Bucks county, son of William and Mar- garet Felty, was born in Buckingham, Jan- uary 5, i'88i. William Felty, the father, was born in Buckingham in 1844, and died July, 1899. He was a veteran of the civil war, serving in a New Jersey regiment dur- ing nearly the whole war. After the war he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and became one of their most trusted and efficient engineers, running their fast express on the Belvidere division for a number of years. The strain and re- sponsibility of his position preyed upon his health, and in 1877 he abandoned the rail- road and purchased a small farm in Buck- ingham, at Bean's Corner, where he spent his remaining days, respected by all who knew him. In politics he was a Republican. His widow and two children survive him. Ida, married Walter Wiley, and lives on the homestead. Victor H. Felty was reared on the farrn, and received his education at the public schools. On arriving at manhood he took charge of the farm on which he now lives, then recently purchased by his father, and has remained there ever since, his widowed mother residing with him. He was mar- ried, July, 1900, to Mary Ann Carver, an adopted daughter of S. Carey Gordon, of Solebury, and they are the parents of one child, Walter Leon. In politics Mr. Felty is a Republican. He is a member of St. Tammany Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle. WILFORD L. SCOTT, of Buckingham, farmer, was born in Upper Makefield town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1858, son of Joseph M. and Mary A. (.Tor- bertj Scott. John Scott, the great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was a prominent farmer in Newtown township, where his son Joseph Scott was born. Jo- seph Scott was also a prominent farmer in Newtown. He married Sarah Mathews, and lived and died in Newtown township. Joseph M. Scott, son of Joseph and Sarah (Mathews) Scott, born in Newtown, in 1825, was reared on a farm in Newtown township, received a good education, and was a school teacher for a number of years in Bucks county. He later purchased a farm in Upper Makefield township, where he made his home until 1895, since which time he has resided with his daughter at Rich- boro. He was for several years engaged in the lumber business, owning a large planing and saw mill at Portland, North- ampton county, Pennsylvania. In 1876 his mills and lumber yard were consumed by fire, and, his insurance having expired, he was financially ruined. In politics he is a Democrat, and has always taken an active interest in the councils of his party. He was for several years a justice of the peace in Upper Makefield. He married Mary A., daughter of James M. and Mary W. (Simpson) Torbert, whose great-grand- father, Samuel Torbert, came from Car- rickfergus, county Antrim, Ireland, in 1726, and settled in Newtown, where he was a tanner for many years, settling later in Makefield township. The children of Jo- seph M. and Mary A. (Torbert) Scott were seven in number, six of whom sur- vive, viz. : Frank, a hardware merchant of Trenton, New Jersey, residing in Yardley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; Sallie, wife of Harry Luff, of Richboro ; George, engaged in the creamery business at Frenchtown, New Jersey; Joseph, of Trenton, in busi- ness with his brother Frank ; Belle, wife of Watson Hunter, of Montgomery county ; and Wilford L. the subject of this sketch. The subject of this sketch was born in Upper Makefield, and reared on the farm, acquiring his education at the public schools and at Newtown Academy. On arriving at manhood he took charge of his father's farm, conducting it in partnership with his father. He married November 17, 1892, S. Jennie Williams, daughter of John and 548 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Martha Williams, of Dolington, and pur- chasing his present {v:m of 125 acres in Buckingham, removed thereon the fol- lowing spring. In politics Mr. Scott is a Democrat, and in religion a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Scott are the parents of six children: Char- lotte, Martha, Mary, Sarah, Emma, and Laura. DR. ISAAC J^EALL WOODMAN, of Morrisville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, 8 mo. — , 1869, and is a. son of Henry and Margaret M. (Neall) Wood- man, and grandson of Henry and Mary (Smith) Woodman, who settled in Buck- ingham in 1828. Edward Woodman, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Chestertown, Maryland, on Christmas day, 1749. His parents were natives of England ; his father, a sea captain, died at sea before the birth of his only child, and the widow landed at Chestertown, where Edward was born. His mother died- also while he was yet a child, and the orphan was left to the care of his guardian, William Clayton, of Chestertown. His guardian died when Ed- ward was in his thirteenth year, and he remained with the widow and family until fourteen years old. Mr. Clayton owned a coasting-., vessel that traded between the Barbadoes and points on the American coast, and it was still owned and run by the widow and heirs. Witnessing its arrival and departure at Chestertown, young Woodman had felt for some time a longing for a life on the sea, and in 1764. by the connivance of some of the crew, succeeded in secreting himself on board until the ves- sel was out at sea. He went with the ship to Barbadoes, after which they brought a cargo to so.me port in Virginia, where they took on a cargo of contraband goods for the use of the French, with whom England was then at war, and sailed _for Halifax. Shortly after leaving the port they were captured .by • a yessel in charge, of bucca- neers, or a species - of pirates that were preying on the merchant vessels oflf the coast of Virginia and the Carolinas. and their cargo seized, and young Woodman was carried off by the pirates, with whom he was forced to remain for four- years. While their ship was laid up for repairs in a North Carolina port he succeeded in making his escape, and found employment among the planters near Hillsborough. North Carolina, where he remained until the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. At the first organization of the soldier yeo- manry he joined a military company under Colonel Caswell, and was drilled in the art of war as a mounted minute man. Early in 1776 Colonel Caswell summoned his men to join him at Fayette, North Carolina, and they hastily marched to join General Moore, who was ordered by the committee of safety to intercept a force of fifteen hundred Tories under Brigadier General MacDonald and Major General MacCloud, who were marching to join Sir Henry Clinton's fleet at Wilmington. Col. Caswell and his com- mand met the Tories at Moore's Bridge, one day's march from Wilmington, and com- pletely routed them. From this time on Edward Woodman was with the American army. He assisted in building Fort Moul- trie, and in the defense of Charleston, after which his regiment was ordered to join General Washington near New York, and marched the whole distance, arriving in time to participate in the disa.strous battle of Long Island. Private Woodman re- mained in the army until 1782, participating in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Ger- mantown and Brandywine, and other en- gagements, in all twenty-four battles, and suffered the hardships of the camp at Val- ley Forge. While at the latter place he was detailed to assist Abijah Stephens, a Quaker farmer residing near the camp, in caring for the sick and wounded. Friend Stephens possessing some skill at surgery and the concoction of simples, did much to relieve the suffering troops. Through this asso- ciation he became acquainted with the family of Friend Stephens, whose daugh- ter he eventually married. His first invita- tion to the Stephens home was due to the fact that he had known William Thomas, the brother of Mrs. Stephens, when a resi- dent of New Garden, North Carolina. Dur- ing one of the winters of Trooper Wood- man's service in the north, under General Sullivan, he was one of a small scouting party who were, surprised and surrounded by British- cavalry, and on -orders of the captain they scattered and ran each one for himself. Woodman escaped through the lines and after a night in the woods found shelter in a farm house with the family of an American soldier who was serving in a distant army. He was persuaded by the helpless women and children to remain with them -until hostilities opened in the spring, and spent the remainder of the winter in cutting firewood and fencing and caring for the family, believing that his comrades thought -him dead, and that he could be of more use there than in the winter quar- ters of his command. In the spring he rejoined his command, and, obtaining a personal interview with General Sullivan, told his story, and was received kindly. He served with the North Carolina Line until August. J782. when, the term of his second enlistment having expired, he was, with a number of his old neighbors, hon- orably discharged, while in the neighbor- hood of New York, and they started on their homeward journey to North Carolina.' Being badly worn out from the privations of the long war, and miserably clad, hav- ing received but two pairs of shoes in his seven years' service, he suggested that they go by the w'ay of Valley Forge an-ment among the farmers. On January I, 1789, he married Sarah Stephens, daugh- ter of his benefactor, Abijah Stephens. She was of Welsh origin, a descendant of Evan ap Evan, who was the original owner of the Valley Forge tract, on which she was "born. Abijah Stephens conveyed to the which was in Tredyffryn township, Chester young couple thirty acres of land, part of county, and part in Upper Merion, Mont- gomery county, where they spent the re- mainder of their lives. Edward Woodman was killed by a fall from a mow in his barn, December 22,, 1820, and he was buried at the Valley Friends' burying ground on his seventy-first birthday. Edward and Sarah (Stephens) Woodman were the parents of seven children : William, Ruth, Abisha, Rebecca, Henry, Edward and iMary. Henry Woodman, the fifth child, was born December 20, 1795. He obtained the rudiments of an education in an old log school house near King of Prussia, and at the age of fourteen entered Benjamin Moore's boarding school, where he was taught surveying and the higher branches ■of mathematics. Two years later he began teaching school, which he followed for three years, and then went to Philadelphia, where "he was employed for five j-ears, and then returned home. On 9 mo. 12, 1827, he was married in Wrightstown Meeting House, Bucks county, to Mary Smith, daughter of Benjamin and Mary ( Worthington) Smith, and granddaughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Eastburn) Smith, who had settled on a five hundred acre farm in Buckingham, along the Wrightstown line, just east of Wycombe, part of which has remained the property of his descendants to this day, and was the birthplace of the subject of this sketch. Henry Woodman had joined the Society of Friends prior to his marriage, and at the age of twenty-four entered the ministry and continued a recommended min- ister of Wrightstown Meeting during his long life. He followed surveying and con- veyancing in connection with farming. He was an intelligent and prominent man in the community, and a great friend of educa- tion ; was a member of the first board of public school directors of Buckingham, and served as its secretary for many years. He ■died on the old homestead in Buckingham December 24, 1879, at the age of eighty- four years. The children of Henry and Mary (Smith) Woodman were: Benjamin S., born 8 mo. 22, 1828. residing in Middle- town, near Langhorne ; Edward, born 8 mo. 19, 1830, died at the age of twenty-two years ; ]\Iary S., born 3 mo. 29,- 1833, un- married, residing at Rushland ; Henry, Jr., born 8 mo. 16, 1835 (see forward) ; Will- iam, born 7 mo. 24, 1838, a merchant and postmaster at Buckmanville ; Comly, born 12 mo. 30, 1840, a farmer in Buckingham ; and Wilson M., born 10 mo. 3, 1845, resid- ing on a portion of the old homestead. Henry Woodman, Jr., born on the old homestead in Buckingham, August 15, 1834, was educated in the public schools of the neighborhood. He was a man of quiet, studious habits, and a deep religious nature. He was reared on his mother's farm, and on his marriage purchased an adjoining farm, part of the original Smith homestead, and lived thereon until 1895, when he took up his residence with his son, Dr. Wood- man, at Morrisville, where he died in the spring of 1904. He was a school director of Buckingham township for sixteen years, ten of which he was secretary of the board. He was also a trustee of Wrightstown Friends' school, of which meeting he was a consistent member. In politics formerly a Republican, he was for the past ten years a Prohibitionist, but seldom voted a "straight ticket." He married, 3 mo. 13, 1862, Margaret Neall, of Philadelphia, daughter of Isaac and Rebecca (Miller) Neall, by whom he had five children ; Ed- ward A., residing on the old homestead ; Agnes, wife of Professor Gregg, of Lincoln, Virginia; Isaac N., the subject of this sketch ; Lewis S., deceased ; and Edith Roberts. ISAAC N. WOOD^IAN, M. D., was born on the old homestead in Buckingham, and received his education at the Concord public school, Langhorne Friends' school and Doylestown English and Classical Sem- inary, after which he taught school in War- wick and Warminster townships. He en- tered Hahnemann Medical College, from which he graduated in 1893, and located at Morrisville. where he has since prac- ticed his profession. He was a member and secretary of the Morrisville board of health for five years, when he resigned on account of the press of his professional duties. He is also a member of the Morrisville school board, in which position he has served for seven years, four years as the president of the board. He is a member of Wrightstown Friends' Meeting, and was for many years active in First Day school work there as a teacher and superintendent. He married, on August i, 1896, Matilda Blaker, daughter of Achilles and Rachel Anna (Twining) Blaker. Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother fifteen years later married Stephen Tripp, of Atlanta, Nebraska. She was edu- cated at the Wrightstown Friends' school, Doylestown Seminary, and West Chester Normal School, and taught school for sev- eral years, beginning at the age of sixteen years. They are the parents of four chil- dren, all born at Morrisville, viz. : Henry, Jr., born April 30, 1897; Rachel Anna, born November 21, 1898; Isaac Neall, Jr., born 550 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. December 9, 1900; and Agnes Gregg, born March 4, 1902. Margaret M. (Ncall) Woodman, the mother of Dr. Woodman, was born in Easton, Maryland. One of her brothers, Isaac J. Neall, was a member of the Penn- sylvania legislature before he was twenty- two years of age. He was also captain in Colonel Baker's cavalry regiment, and died while district attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio. Another brother, Alfred, was also a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and died while collector of the port of Philadelphia. Another brother, James, was a magistrate in Philadelphia for twenty years. Two sis- ters, Annie Woolston, and Lidie R. Smith, were residents of Bucks county. Another sister, Fanny Moor, lives in Tacony. married. His first wife, Etta Earl, of Os- wayo. Potter county, Pennsylvania, died in 1891, leaving two children, Edith V. and Thomas Lee. He married (second) in 1894,. Helen Sunderland, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ru?hmore) Sunderland, of Tioga, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, by whom he has one child, Robert H. THOMAS CLARENDON, of Bucking- ham, was born at Orange, New Jersey, July II, 1866, a son of Thomas and Margaret (Jackson) Clarendon. His father, Thomas Clarendon, was born in the north of Ire- land, and came to America when a young man, located in New York, and learned the trade of a tanner. Later he engaged in the wholesale leather business, with offices at 76-78 Gold street. New York city, where he conducted a large business tor many years. He acquired a large tract of land where Clarendon, Warren county, Pennsyl- vania, now staitds, which was sold by his estate less than two years before the dis- covery of oil thereon, and it is now worth millions. He died in 1872 in Nice, Italy, his body being brought home for burial. His wife, Margaret Jackson, was born in Scotland, and died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1880. The children of Thomas and Mar- garet (Jackson) Clarendon are: Margaret L., wife of George G. Cookman, of Ger- mantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Robert H., of Tioga, Tioga county, Penn- sylvania ; Anna A., wife of Guerard Van Nestern, of Berlin, Germany; and Thomas, the subject of this sketch. Thomas Clarendon, the subject of this sketch, was born in Orange, New Jersey, but his boyhood days were spent prin- cipally in Brooklyn, New York, where his parents then resided. He acquired his edu- cation at Swarthmore College and at the Bryant & Stratton Business College, Brook- lyn. At the age of twenty-five years he went to Niles Valley, Tioga county. Penn- sylvania, and engaged in the mercantile business. Five years later he sold out and came to Bucks county and bought the old Beans farm in Buckingham, where he now resides. In politics Mr. Clarendon is a Re- publican, but has held none but local offices and has been a member of the Buckingham school board for three years. He is a member of Oswayo Lodge, No. 317, F. and A. M. ; Tioga Chapter, No. 194, R. A. M. , and Tyagathfon Commandery, No. 28, K. T. He and family are members of the Episco- pal church. Mr. Clarendon has been twice SERUCH TITUS KIMBLE, of Buck- ingham, was born in that township on February 17, 1849, and is a son of Abel and Sophia (Strickland) Kimble. The paternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were among the early settlers -in Buckingham. Matilda Kimble then a widow^ inherited from her brother Thomas Morrey,. in 1735, 400 acres of land on the Neshaminy in Buckingham, adjoining the Wrightstowu and Warwick lines, which descended to her children : Anthony and William Kimble ; and daughters: Ann Bewley, wife of John; Rosa, wife of Josiah Wilkinson; and Mary,, wife of Charles Hickst. In addition to the 400 acres, Richard Morrey, the father of Matilda, and Humphrey Morrey, her uncle, conveyed several additional tracts to the children of Matilda Kimble at about the same date. The Kimbles were the first settlers on this land, a large tract of which is still owned and occupied by Charles. Kimble, a brother of the subject of this sketch. Humphrey Morrey, the grandfather of Matilda Kimble, was the first mayor of Philadelphia. William Kimble, son of Anthony and Matilda (Morrey) Kimble, born about 1720, was the great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. He settled in BucKing- ham on land conveyed to him by his grand- father, Richard Morrey, in 1746, and subse- quently purchased of his nephew Thomas Hickst 92 acres, and received as his por- tion of his mother's estate in 1750 another tract of land until his holdings amounted, to about 275 acres. He died in 1812 at an advanced age, leaving nine children. Richard Kimble, second son of William, on arriving at manhood married and set- . tied in Moreland township, Montgomery- county, Pennsylvania, where he resided un- til the death of his father, when he re- turned to Buckingham and purchased the old homestead of 264 acres and spent the rest of his life thereon. He died in 1845, leaving a widow Mary and seven children : Abel, Isaiah, Chalkley, Sarah, Owen, Will- iam and Rachel. Abel Kimble, the father of the subject ai this sketch, was born in Moreland in 1807, and removed with his parents to Bucking- ham in 1815, and was reared on the old Kimble homestead, where he died Novem- ber 29, 1896, aged eighty-nine years. The children of Abel and Sophia Kimble were : Amanda, wife of David R. Heckler, now deceased ; Charles, living on the old home- stead; Chalkley, living with Charles- Re- becca, wife of Samuel Heckler of Hatfield, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 551 Montgomery county, Pennsylvania : Evan T., of Willow Grove; Seruch T. ; Abi, wife of Joseph Baldwin, of Warwick township ; and Sarah J., deceased, who was wiie of Harry S. Knight, of Buckingham. The earlier generations of the Kimble family were members of the oociety of Friends, but, through marriages without the consent of the Meeting, most of the present family have ceased to be members. Abel Kimble was born and reared in the faith. In politics he was a Democrat, but took little interest in political affairs. His wife was a native of Montgomery county. She died when the subject of this sketch was a child. Seruch T. Kimble was reared on the old homestead in Buckingham. At the age of twenty-two years he left home and worked as a farm hand in the neighborhood. In 1877 he married Sallie Fell, daughter of Cress Fell, of Buckingham. She died in 1890, and their only child died in infancy. Mr. Kimble married (second) in iSgS, Ida Applebach, of Lambertville. He purchased in 1886 his present farm in Buckingham, and has resided thereon ever since. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Kimble have no children. EDWARD R. KIRK, justice of the peace and a prominent business man of Lower Buckingham, was born in Buck- ingham, on the farm on which he now resides, January 22, 1869, and is a son of Amos W. and Mary H. (Mahan) Kirk. The pioneer ancestor of the Kirks of Buckingham was John Kirk, who migrated from Alfreton, Derby- shire, England, in 1687, and settled in Upper Darby, Chester (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania. He married at Darby Meeting, in 2 mo., 1688, Joan Elliot, daughter of Peter Elliot, by whom he had eleven children: Godfrey;^ John; Samuel; Mary, ^narried John Warner; Elizabeth, married John Twin- ing; Joseph; Sarah, married Nathaniel Twining; William; Isaac; Thomas, and Anne. Isaac Kirk, tenth child of John and Joan (Elliot) Kirk, was born in Darby, 2 mo. 23, 1703. and on arriving at man- hood settled in Buckingham township, Bucks counti% Pennsylvania, where he made his first purchase of one hundred acres of land in 1729. He subsequently purchased considerable other land in that township, a portion of which is now in the tenure of the subject of this sketch. Isaac Kirk was twice married, his first wife being Elizabeth Twining, daughter of Stephen and INIargaret (Mitchell) Twining, the former a native of New England, and the latter of Mars- den Lane, Lancashire, England. Eliza- beth Twining was born at Newtown, 9 mo. 4, 1712, and was married to Isaac Kirk at Wrightstown, 10 mo. 9, 1730. They were the parents of six children: ]\Iary, who died unmarried in 1755; Isaac, who died unmarried in 175D ; Stephen, who married Phebe Fell; Mar- garet, who married John Scarborough; William, who married Mary Malone; and Joseph, who married Patience Doan. ' Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk died in 1744, and Isaac married 9 mo. 4, 1746, Rachel (Fell) Kinsey, widow of John Kinsey, of Buckingham, and daughter of Josepu Fell, the pioneer ancestor of the tamily by his second marriage with Elizabeth Doyle. Isaac Kirk died in 1780. Thomas Kirk, only child of Isaac and Rachel (Fell-Kinsey) Kirk, was born in 1748 on the old homestead in Bucking- ham, a portion of which he inherited at his father's death, and lived thereoli his whole life, dying 4 mo. 15, 1815. He was twice married, lirst in 1781 to Ocea Kin- sey, who died 7 mo., 1793, and (second) on March 24, 1794, to Mary Rice, daugh- ter of John and Rachel (Worthington) Rice, by whom he had five children. Amos Kirk, only surviving child of Thomas and Ocea (Kinsey) Kirk, was born on the old homestead in Bucking- ham, 2 mo. 10, 1782, and died 9 mo. 24. 1863. He married, September 29, 1803, Charity Doan, who bore him six children and died in 1837. Charles Kirk, eldest son of Amos and Charity, was born 5 mo. 11, 1804, and died 5 mo. 10, 1856 in Buckingham. He married, 12 mo. i, 1825, Mary Walton, born 9 mo. 3, 1802, in Moreland town- ship, son of Amos and Cynthia (Kirk) Walton, the former being a lineal de- scendant of John and Joanna (Elliot) Kirk, tefore mentioned, and of William Walton, one of four brothers who landed at New Castle in 1675, and later settled in Byberry, Philadelphia county, and the latter being a granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, above mentioned. Charles and Mary (Walton) Kirk had four children: Amos Walton, George D., Miranda S. and Ellen Walton Kirk. Amos W. Kirk, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Upper Make- field township, 2 mo. 2, 1827. His pa- rents settled in Warwick township when he was a child, and he was reared on a farm in that township. When he was about twenty years of age his parents removed to the present residence of the subject of this sketch, where Amos W. has since resided. He has been twice married, first on 10 mo. 19, 1859. to Jane S. Worthington, who died the following year, and (second) to Mary H. Mahan, daughter Cornelius and Mercy (DePuy) Mahan, by whom he has two children — Edward R. and Anna W. residing with her brother. The Kirk family have been members of Wrightstown Meeting of Friends for many generations, Isaac Kirk having become a member of that meeting on his settlement in lower 552 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Buckingham. He was for many years an overseer of the meeting. Edward R. Kirk was born and reared on the Buckingliam farm, and acquired his elementary education at the public schools. He later became a student at Doylestown Seminary, where he also took a course in surveying and civil en- gineering. He took his first prac- tical lessons in surveying under Charles F. Meyers, of Doylestown, and has since done considerable work in that line in middle and lower Bucks. He served as county surveyor from 1895 to 1901. In 1896 he was appointed and commis- sioned a justice of the peace and has served in that position ever since. In connection with his profession and of- ficial duties he took up conveyancing and a real estate and general business agency, and, these duties absorbing his entire time, he abandoned farming five years ago and devoted himself entirely to pro- fessional and official duties, though still residing on the farm. In politics he is a Republican, and has taken an active in- terest in his party's councils. He is a director in the Doylestown National Bank, and in the Wrightstown and New- town Turnpike Company, and president of the Pineville Protective Association. He married, January 22, 1891, Anna Holcombe, daughter of Oliver H. and Cynthia (Scarborough) Holcombe, of Wrightstown, and they are the parents of three children, Amos, Harold and Hannah. DR. HOWARD A. HELLYER, of Penns Park, was born in Wrightstown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. October 22, 1845, and is a son of William and Lydia D. (Twining) Hellyer. Tradi- tion takes the ancestry of the Hellyer family back to Sir William Hellyer, an English baronet, whose sons William and Bernard came to America in the early part of the eighteenth century, the former set- tling in Pennsylvania and the latter in New Jersey. Bernard Hellyer, above referred to, was the. great-grandfather of Dr. Hellyer. He was a farmer and spent most of his life in central Bucks county. He was twice married, and had a large number of chil- dren. The name of his first wife and the ancestress of Dr. Hellyer is unknown. He married a second time, on December 24, 1795. Sarah Walton. William Hellyer, son of Bernard, was the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. He was a farmer in Upper Makefield township, where he died in 1833. He was the father of seven chil- dren— Phineas, Hester, Hannah, Alice, Elizabeth. William and Frances. William Hellyer, father of Dr. Hellyer. was born in Upper Makefield, in 1812, and died in Newtown township in 1885, at the age of seventy-three years, three months; eighteen days. He was a farmer first in Upper Wrightstown and later in Upper Makefield. He filled the position of school director in the latter township, and occu- pied many other positions of trust. In re- ligion he was a member of the Society of Friends, and in politics was a Republican. He married Lydia D. Twining, daughter of Jacob and Phoebe (Tucker) Twining, of Wrightstown, the former a lineal de- scendant of William Twining, a native of. England who came to America about 1640 and settled in Massachusetts, from whence he removed to Newtown, Bucks county, in 1695, with his son Stephen ; the latter being the ancestor of the Twinings of Bucks county. Phoebe (Tucker) Twining was a daughter of John and Phoebe (Beal) Tucker, of Buckingham, and a grand- daughter of Nicholas Tucker, one of the earliest settlers in Buckingham. John Tucker, the father of Mrs. Twining, was a tax coJlector during the revolution, and. it becoming known to the Doan outlaws that he had a considerable sum of money in his possession, they entered his house, near Buckingham Station, and demanded the money. While Mr. Tucker was parleying with them in the lower story, Mrs. Tucker tossed the bags of coin out an upper story window into the garden. After a fruitless search, and the torturing and abuse of their victim, the robbers departed, and the money was eventually recovered intact. Lydia D. (Twining) Hellyer was born in Wrightstown in 1814, and died May 26, 1856. She was the mother of five chil- dren, of whom but two survive — the sub- ject of this sketch, and Hannah, wife of David K. Harvey, of Middletown. Bucks county. Another son, Harrison, enlisted in Company E, Twentieth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, equipped in Philadelphia, during the Civil war, and died from typhoid fever contracted in the service. Dr. Hellyer was born in Wrightstown, in the same house where his mother was born, his father at that tiirie being engaged in farming his father-in-law's farm. He was reared on the farm and obtained his elementary education in the public schools, later taking a course in the Excelsior Normal Institute at Carversville. Bucks county. He began the study of medicine in 1866 with Dr. Benjamin Collins, of Penns Park, and in the autumn of the same year entered the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, graduating from that institution in 1868 in the class known as "the Centennial Class." After his gradu- ation he located at Forest Grove. Buck- ingham township. Bucks county, where he practiced his profession for two years. In the spring of 1870 he succeeded to the practice of his old preceptor, Dr. Collins, who removed to Virginia, and located in Penns Park, where he has since practiced, building up a large and lucrative practice. He is a member of the Bucks County and Pennsylvania Medical Societies and takes an active interest in their proceedings. In politics Dr. Hellyer is a Rcpulilicau. but has never sought or held other than local office. ^a^roC (W. ASTO- TILDi:\' HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 553 He has been a member of the local school "board for nineteen years, and has recently been re-elected for a term of three years, acting for many years as secretary of the hoard. He is one of the trustees of the Forest Grove Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, having acted as president and secretary of the board of trustees continu- ously since 1868. He is a member of North- ern Star Lodge, No. 54, I. O. O. F., at at Richboro ; of Curtis Encampment, No. 77, of Newtown ; and of Penns Park Council, No. 973, Jr. O. U. A. M. Dr. Hellyer married, June 28. 1868, Fanny E. Olmstead, daughter of Silas C. and Elizabeth T. ("Squires) Olmstead, of Niagara county. New York. Mr. Olmstead was a well known farmer and merchant miller, operating for many years a large mill near the Suspension Bridge, Niasara Falls, and shipping his product to the New York markets via the Erie canal. Mrs. Hellyer is a graduate of Ingham Univer- sity, and was for several years a teacher of music, teaching at the Carversville Normal Institute and at the Bellevue Female Semi- nary at Langhorne, Bucks county. To Dr. and Mrs. Hellyer have been born eight children, of whom five survive : Edwin F., now a druggist at Newtown. Pennsyl- vania ; Grace E., wife of Edwin Naylor, of Warwick, Bucks county, Pennsvlvania ; H. Arthur, an instructor in a Philadelphia business college; Harold, who fills a like position in Philadelphia; and George W.. principal of the Richboro High School. All these children are graduates of the West Chester Normal School, and have received every advantage in the way of a first-class English education. of the Warwick Creamery. On April i, 1904, he purchased his present home in Forest Grove, where he is living a re- tired life. Mr. Kunser was never mar- ried. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Presbyterian. HENRY KUNSER, of Forest Grove, was born in Warwick township, Bucks county, December 14, 1844. being a son of Michael and Susan (Fly) Kunser, and a grandson of Andrew Kunser, a Penn- sylvania German, who resided, for many years on the York road between Bridge Valley and Jamison, where he died in 1863, aged eighty-three years. Michael Kunser was reared in Buckingham, and learned the trade of a weaver, which vocation he followed all his life in con- nection with the care of his little farm of sixteen acres at Bridge Valley. He was born November 19, 1809, and died December 23, 1891. His two children were Andrew S., deceased, and Henry. Henry Kunser was reared in Warwick township, acquiring his education at the public schools. At the age of sixteen years he left home and lived for two years with his grandfather, Andrew Kunser, and then went to live with John B. Opdycke, of Warwick, which he con- tinued to make his home for over forty years, twenty years of which were em- ployed in working upon the farm, and the last twenty years as superintendent JOSEPH H. PAIST, of Mechanics- ville, Buckingham township, Bucks county, was born in Buckingham town- ship, December i, 1862, and is a son of James Monroe and Elizabeth (Connard) Paist, and a grandson of Jonathan and Sidney (Bradshaw) Paist. Jonathan Paist married in 1805 Sidney Bradshaw, daughter of David and Eliza- beth (Carver) Bradshaw, of Bucking- ham, and lived for two years in Plum- stead township. On April i, 1808, he purchased the farm in Buckingham where the subject of this sketch was born, and spent the remainder of his life there, dying in 1870. His wife Sidney, who was born in Buckingham 4 mo. ID, 1784, died ten years earlier. They were the parents of four children: Minerva S., who married George W. Scott; David Bradshaw. who was a blacksmith at Me- chanicsville for some years, and later re- moved to Iowa, where he died in 1881; J. Monroe; and Eliza, who died unmar- ried. James Monroe Paist was born on the farm where he spent his whole active life, February 5, 1819, purchasing of his father, April 8, 1861. This farm was part of 500 acres purchased by William Cooper in 1700, and the first Friends' meeting in Buckingham was held there, prior to the erection of the meeting house at its present site. It was later the residence of Jacob Holcomb, a prom- inent member of Buckingham Meeting. J. Monroe Paist married Elizabeth Con- nard. daughter of Andrew and Mary (Seiner) Connard and they were the pa- rents of five children, three of whom sur- vive, viz.: Andrew C. ; Mary R., wife of George McKinstry, of Buckingham; and Joseph H., the subject of this sketch. Both the father and grandfather were members of the Society of Friends. Elizabeth Connard Paist died Septem- ber 5, 1898 aged sixty-seven years. After her death J. Monroe retired from active life, and lived with the subject of this .-sketch on an adjoining farm recently purchased, where he died. Joseph H. Paist was born and reared on the home farm, and- acquired his edu- cation at the public schools and at the Hughesian School. On January 8. 1887, he married Emma F. Keller, daughter of Isaac and Lucy Ann (Fluck) Keller, and the following spring took charge of the farm upon which he still resides, then the property of his father, but since pur- chased by him. In politics IMr. Paist is a Republican, but has never held or sought 554 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. other than local offices; has been a mem- ber of the school board of his native township for several years, being at present the president of the board, and has filled other local offices. He is a member of Buckingham Lodge, No. 208, A. O. K. of the M. C. To Mr. and Mrs. Paist have been born five children: Newlin Fell, now a student at Banks' Business College; Stanley Scott; Ida Marion; Harry Monroe; and Evelyn, all of whom reside at home. ANDREW C. PAIST, of Buckingham, was born and reared on the farm he now owns and which had been the property of both his father and grandfather, on February 14, 1855. He is the oldest son of J. Monroe and Elizabeth (Connard) Paist, and grandson of Jonathan and Sid- ney (Bradshaw) Paist, of Buckingham. He remained on the farm with his pa- rents until 1889, when he went to Illi- nois, where he spent two and a half years on a farm in McHenry county, re- turning to Buckingham in October, 1892. The next six j^ears he spent on the home farm with his parents, until after the death of his mother in 1898, when he en- , tered the employ of William Watson, of Buckingham, for one year. On Decem- ber 25. 1899, he married Mary Riniker, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Riniker, of Buckingham, both natives of Switzer- land. Having purchased their present home, they removed thereon the follow- ing spring, and have since resided there, devoting their attention to agricultural pursuits. In the spring of 1903 he pur- chased the homestead farm where he was born and reared. He is a member of Kittatinning Lodge, No. 88, I. O. R. M., of Danboro, and in politics is a Re- publican. Mr. and Mrs. Paist have no children. THOMAS KITCHIN FLOWERS, of Langhorne, was born in that town De- cember II, 1835. and is a son of William and Mary (Kitchin) Flowers. The Flowers family have been residents of Bucks county since 1774. when James Flow^ers, son of Charles and Catharine Flowers, of Long Island, came to Bristol township and married Rebecca Gosline, daughter of John Gosline, of Bristol. He was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that occupation for many years in Bristol township, just outside of the borough, where he had purchased a home in 1775. His son, John Flowers, born in 1780, lo- cated in Middlctown township, where he followed the trade of a butcher in con- nection with farming, until his sudden death from heart disease on January 9, 1836. His wife. Phoebe Hibbs. was born in 1781, and was a daughter of Abraham Hibbs. John and Phoebe were the pa- rents of seven children : Thomas ; Han- nah, who married Samuel Stradling; Mary, who married Levi Boileau; Will- iam; Amos; John; and George. William Flowers, second son of John and Phoebe, was born and reared in Middletown township, and was an active business man, following the vocation of a butcher, merchant and farmer, suc- cessively, being for a number of years the proprietor of the principal general merchandise store in Langhorne, and also owned and operated a farm of sev- enty-four acres in Middletown. He died December, 1872. His wife was Mary Kitchin, daughter of Thomas and Eliza- beth Kitchin, and a great-granddaughter of William Kitchin, who settled in Sole- bury early in the eighteenth century^ where he died in 1727. He was a pro- tege of John Wells, the first proprietor of the ferry at New Hope, and married in 1713 Rebecca Norton, a niece of Mrs. Wells, who bore him five children: Thomas, William, Ruth, Olive and Mary, w^ho have left numerous descendants. Rebecca, the widow, later married Thomas Phillips, and from her are de- scended the Phillips family of Solebury, for several generations proprietors of the mill that bears their name. Thomas Kitchin inherited his father's real estate in Solebury, but sold it soon after his marriage and removed to Philadelphia county. William and Mary P. (Kitchin) Flowers were the parents of five chil- dren: Thomas K., the subject of this sketch; John, and three daughters. Thomas Kitchin Flowers, eldest son of William and Mary, was born and reared in Middletown township, and ac- quired his education at the Newtowr» academy and at boarding schools at Pen- nington and Mt. Holly, New Jersey. On finishing his academic education he en- tered his father's store at Attleboro (now Langhorne) as a clerk, and after a few years succeeded his father as its proprietor, and conducted it for many years. Subsequently he sold out the store and entered the employ of Peter Wright & Sons, of Philadelphia, agents for the American Steamship Company, as a clerk, where he remained until the company w^as merged into the Interna- tional Navigation Companj% and with the latter company until it was absorbed by the International Merchant Marine, the great steamship trust which now controls the principal steamship lines sailing from the ports of Philadelphia and New York. Mr. Flowers is a Re- publican in politics, and while at the Langhorne store was appointed post- master of that place by President Lin- coln, and served several years in that position. He still retains his clerical position with the steamship company, remaining in Philadelphia until the last consolidation above referred to. when he was transferred to the offices of the new HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 555 company in New York city. He is well known in marine circles, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his employers and associates. He married December 30, 1858, Sarah Scott, daughter of Amos V. and Elizabeth (Hellings) Scott, of Bensalem, and granddaughter of Jacob and Esther Scott. This union was blessed with the birth of five children: William, born June 26, i860, died in in- fancy; Amos Scott, born July 4, 1862, see forward; John Wilmot, born Janu- ary 9, 1864, died young; Albert G., born October 31, 1868, deceased; George Rus- sell, born November 30, 1871. Amos S. and George R. were educated in the Friends' school at Langhorne. Amos Scott Flowers was married Oc- tober 9, 1884, to Frances Robinson, daughter of William Massey and Frances (Perry) Robinson, who was born in Eng- land and came to Bucks county with her parents when quite young. In 1884 Amos Scott Flowers bought a farm near Woodbourne, upon which he took up his residence, and has since followed the vocation of a farmer. He and his wife have been the parents of two children — ■ William Massey, born September 22,, 1885, died March 21, 1898; and Elizabeth Ann, born August 27, 1887. THOMAS BUTLER CLAXTON, of Lower Buckingham, was born on the farm upon which he still resides, in Buckingham township, June 6, 1852, a son of John Bankson, and Sarah W. (Thompson) Claxton. George Claxton, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of the West Indies, and was for many years captain of the ship "Providence," plying between the West Indies and ports of the United States. The declining years of his life were spent at the home of his son, John Bankson Claxton, on the Buckingham farm. John Bankson Claxton was born in Philadel- phia. His younger days were spent in the employ of the publishing house later known as J. B. Lippincott & Company, in that city, the present members of the firm being fellow employees with him. At the age of fifteen years, on the ad- vice of the family physician that he seek an outdoor life, he came to Buck- ingham and found employment on the farm where the remainder of his life was spent, then owned and conducted by Thomas M. Thompson, whose daughter he subsequently married. At the death of his father-in-law he acquired the farm, and spent the remaining years of his life in agricultural pursuits. He was an ac- tive and influential man in the commun- ity, and a member of the local school board for a number of years. In relig- ion he was a staunch Presbyterian, a member of the Thompson Memorial Church of Lower Solebury, which was rebuilt and named in memory of his father-in-law, Thomas M. Thompson, who was for thirty-four years an elder of the church and one of its most active supporters and workers. Mr. Claxton died in 1875, at the age of fifty-two years. The Buckingham farm had .been the property of the maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch for nearly a century prior to its acquisition by his father, having been purchased by his ■ great-grandfather, John Wilson, Esq., whose home it was for a half century. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, his father, John Wilson, a native of the north of Ireland, having settled in Lower Buckingham, in 1737, on the farm now comprising the farms owned by Harry F. Molloy and Warner C. Thompson.* John Wilson, Jr., was a justice of the peace in Buckingham for twenty-five years, and one of the most prominent justices of his day, doing an immense amount of official business, as his docket,, now in possession of the writer of this sketch, will testify. His home seems to have been a favorite "Gretna Green," as he married over four hundred couples during his term of office, many of them coming a considerable distance to have the nuptial knot tied. He died in 1811. Of his five daughters, three married Thompsons, one of them, Elizabeth, be- ing the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. The Union school house, located at the north corner of Mr. Claxton's farm, was originally built on land dedicated for that purpose by Thomas M. Thompson, and the title still vests in the successors to the trustees then appointed, though it has long been under the control of the Buckingham school board. John Bankson and Sarah (Thompson) Claxton, were the parents of four chil- dren, two of whom survive: Thomas B.; and William Neeley Claxton, of Hale count3% Texas. Thom.as B. Claxton was born and reared on the home farm, acquiring his education at the public school, at the Ex- celsior Normal Institute at Carvers- _ ville, and Doylestown English and Class-' ical Seminary. On the death of his father he assumed control of the farm, and after his mother's death acquired the title thereto. He was married Oc- tober 12, 1876, to Mary Lester Fell, daughter of David and Margaret (Atkin- son) Fell, who died in 1899. They were the parents of two children: Lewis Fell, and Frances Elizabeth, wife of Justus W. Kirk, who now conducts the home farm. Mr. Claxton married (second) Martha C. Elv, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Magill) Ely of Solebury. In politics Mr. Claxton is a Republi- can but has never held other than local *Warner C. Thompson, who is a preat-great-grand- son of John Wilson, Sr., has the original deed from John and Richard Penn to John Wilson, dated Decem- ber 15, 1737. 556 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. offices, having filled the position of towiTship auditor for twelve years, and occupied other local positions. He is a life member of the board of trustees and directors of the Hughesian P>ee School, and an assistant secretary and surveyor of the Farmers and Mechanics' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Bucks county, to the duties of which latter position much of his time is de- voted. He is a member of Mountain Lodge, No. 31, Shield of Honor. JOSEPH H. SIDDALL, Jr., of Buck- ingham, was born in Philadelphia, June 28, 1857, and is a son of John Edward and Anna H. (Hampton) Siddall. Joseph H. Siddall, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of England, and came to Philadelphia in 1810. He was a surveyor and con- veyancer, and served as city surveyor for over fifty years. He married in 1819, Mary Charles, of Philadelphia, who was also a native of England, having come to America in 1816. They had twelve children, of whom only two survive: Frank Siddall,, the celebrated soap man- ufacturer of Philadelphia; and Mary F., wife of John Thurman, of Mechanics Valley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. John Edward Siddall, son of Joseph H. and Mary (Charles) Siddall, was born in Philadelphia, September 25, 1827. He learned his father's profession and as- sisted him in the conduct of a large bus- iness, and succeeded to it at his father's death. He married Anna H. Hamp- ton, of Bucks county, and had four chil- dren, of whom but two survive: Joseph H. Siddall, the subject of this sketch, and Ellen, wife of J. Livezey Johnson, formerly of Bucks county, residing in Philadelphia. The subject of this sketch was reared in Philadelphia and received his educa- tion at the Friends' schools of Philadel- phia, and on attaining manhood entered his father's office and took up the busi- ness of a surveyor and conveyancer, fol- 'lowed by his father and grandfather for nearly a century. The business has been successful, and Mr. Siddall has been trustee and executor of a great number of estates, -in addition to the routine bus- iness of the profession. He has ottices at 822-823, Girard Building, and a city residence in Germantown. In 1902 he and his faniilj^ removed to Bucks county for the summer, and, being pleased with the country, have since made it their per- manent residence. He purchased the old homestead of his maternal grandfather Joseph Hampton, in Buckingham. Jo- seph Hampton, the grandfather of Mr. Siddall, died there in September, 1875, at an advanced age. He was a member 01 Wrightstown Meeting, and a direct de- scendant of Joseph Hampton, who ac- companied William Penn to America. WILLIAM BONHAM CLAYTON, of Buckingham, is a representative of one of the oldest families in Bucks county, being a lineal descendant of James Clayton, of Bolton, Lancashire, England, who with his wife and six children took passage with many other residents of Bolton, who later became prominent residents of Bucks county, in the ship "Submission," sailing from Liv- erpool 7 mo. 5, 1682, and arriving at Choptank, Maryland 9 mo. 2, 1682, "be- ing brought thither through the dishon- esty of the Maste^r James Settle. The party, which included Phineas Pem- berton, the first clerk of the courts of Bucks county, his wife, father and father-in-law, James Harrison, made their way overland to Bucks county, stopping for a time at Appoquinimink, Delaware, where another son, Joseph, was born to James and Jane Clayton in 1683. The children who accompanied, them from Lancashire were James, Sarah, John, Mary, Joshua, and Lydia. James Clayton settled in Northampton township, where some of his descend- ants still reside, though many others are widely scattered over the United States. Amos K. Clayton, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Mont- gomery county, January 20, 1816. His parents dying when he was quite young, he was reared by his uncle, Clayton Knight. He learned the carpenter trade, which he followed several years, but later engaged in farming. He was of a somewhat roving disposition, living for a time in l^ewtown, Wrightstown and Solebury townships. About the close ot the war he removed to Nodaway county, Missouri, where he purchased a farm of 160 acres on which he resided about six years. He then sold his farm to his son Jacob, who still resides there, and re- turned to Bucks county. He died in Ewing. New Jersey, in 1881, aged sixty- five years. Amos K. Clayton was twice married, his first wife being Deborah Cadwallader, by whom he had seven chil- dren, three of whom survive: Jacob C, of Missouri; Joseph C: and P. Ella, a single woman residing at Trenton, New Jersey. He married (second) Elizabeth Briggs. by whom he had five children, three of whom survive: William B., the subject of this sketch; Elwood L., a car- penter of Trenton, New Jersey; I. Harper, a carpenter of the same place. The family were members of the So- ciety of Friends. Amos K. Clayton died February 23, 1881, aged sixty-five years, one month and three days. William Bonham Clayton, the subject of this sketch, was the oldest son of Amos K. and Elizabeth Briggs Clayton, and was born in Wrightstown, June 30, 1863. He acquired his education at the public schools and at Trenton Business College. At the death of his fath&r he HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 557 entered the store of George W. Metlar, at Doylestown, as clerk, and a year later accepted a position in the store of Henry Beidler at Lansdale. An indoor life proving detrimental to his health, he was advised by his physician to seek an out- door occupation, and, returning to Bucks county, he worked on the farm of his uncle, Simon Brooks, at Rushland, for one year. On December 25, 1886, he married Carrie K. Atkinson, daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Kepler) Atkin- son, of Buckingham, and the following spring located on his father-in-law's lot near the Roller flour mill then operated by E. B. Cox, and drove the mill team for five years, since which time he has followed farming. In 1893 he purchased the J. Comly Kirk farm in lower Buck- ingham, and still resides there, his wife'^ father, Abraham Atkinson, residing with him, Mrs. Atkinson being deceased. Mr. Clayton was reared in the Friends' faith, and attends their meeting. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. and Mrs. Clay- ton are the parents of four children: Edward, born May 7, 1888; Frank W., born March 12, 1891; Harry P., born July 25, 1897; and Roland N., born November 20, 1899. HUGH BOYLE WEBSTER, a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and who dur- ing a lono- and active life has borne a most useful part in the community among whom his years have been passed, is ,an honored representative of a family which has been identified with the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the earliest days. His immigrant ancestor was John Gilbert Webster, who came from England in 1682 to escape persecution visited ugon him and his co-religionists, and to make their homes in a land where they might worship God after the dictates of their own conscience. (See Gilbert Family). Hugh Boyle Webster was born in Ben- salem township, December 29, 1838. son of Jesse Gilbert (5) and Sarah (Williams) Webster ; a grandson of David and Eliza- beth (Gilbert) Webster in the paternal line; and of Joshua (4)- and Mary (Ran- dall) Gilbert in the maternal line; a great-grandson of Benjamin (3) and Sarah (Mason) Gilbert; a great-great- grandson of Joseph (2) and Rachel (Livezey) Gilbert ; and a great-great-great- grandson of John Gilbert (i) the immi- grant. Jesse Gilbert Webster was born and reared in Montgomery county, and was the youngest in a family of seven children, six of whom came to maturity, and all of whom he outlived. He settled in Bucks county in 1825, engaged in farming, and during his later years was an auctioneer. He was a man of liberal education, ex- cellent character and pronounced public spirit. For fifteen years he was a justice of the peace, a school director for a like period, and served one term as county com- missioner. He was a man of most humane disposition and strong convictions, and these traits found exhibition in his earnest labors in opposition to slavery and his zealous conduct in aiding in the operation of "the underground railroad" — the route traversed by the fugitive slave in his flight towards a land of freedom. His wife was Sarah Williams, a daughter of Terrell Williams, of Frankford, Philadelphia coun- ty. She was of English descent and was brought up in the Society of Friends. Jesse Gilbert and Sarah (Williams) Webster were the parents of six children : i. Isa- bella, born December .27, 1830, widow of William Hillbourn (mentioned elsewhere in this work). 2. Tacy, born August 10, 1834, died February 3, 1838; 3. Pemberton, born April 17, 1836, died Aug- ust 23, 1867; 4. Hugh B., the immediate subject of this sketch; 5. Elizabeth Emma, born May 29, 1841, died July 30, 1842; 6. Milton, born March 13, 1844. Hugh Boyle Webster, fourth child in the last named family, was brought up upon the paternal farm in Bensalem township, where he also received his education. After leav- ing school he remained on the home farm for two years, and then went to Blooming- ton, Illinois, where he remained for a year. In 1857 he returned to Hulmeville and en- gaged in the butchering business, which he followed industriously and successfully for the long period of twenty-seven years. He had meantime purchased considerable real estate, both agricultural and residential, and added to his means by breeding high grade cows and rearing fancy poultry. His pub- lic services were in the capacity of mem- ber of the borough council of Hulmeville, and director of the poor, for one term in the former office and for three in the latter. He was reared in the Society of Friends, to which he has consistently adhered throughout his life. He is a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Abra- ham Lincoln. As a member of the state militia he was sworn into, the service of the United States, July i, 1863, with Com- pany G, Forty-third Pennsylvania Regiment, and was discharged August 13, following. He would have been engaged in the battle of Gettysburg had it lasted a few days longer. He is an old member of Neshaminy Lodge, No. 422. I. O. O. F., and has passed all the chairs in that body. He has ever been regarded with confidence and esteem, and known as a safe and sympathetic ad- viser to the young. Mr. Webster took for his wue, Febru- ary 22, 1876, Sarah Eliza Maitland, of Sads- bury township, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, a daughter of Richard Hoskins and Rachel (Marsh) Maitland. and a grand- daughter of James Grier. Of this marriage were born three children: i. Jesse Gilbert, born April 18, 1879 ; he was educated in the public schools ; he married May Flowers Hibbs, of Middletown township, daughter of Samuel H. and Hannah Flowers, and 558 HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY. they are the parents of one child, Hugh Boyle, born February 7, 1897. 2. Rachel Ella, born January 10, 1881 ; she attended the public schools in Hulmeville, and grad- uated from the West Chester Normal School, June, 1899. She is an accomplish- ed teacher, now teaching in Wyoming, near Sundance ; while on her way west she visited the World's Fair in St. Louis. 3. Mary Elva, born August 6, 1890, who was edu- cated in the public schools. Mrs. Webster is a member of the Octararo Presbyterian church. Mr. Webster is now living in pleasant retirement, in his comfortable home on the banks of the historic Neshaminy river, at Hulmeville. HIEL G. QUINN, of Pineville, was born in Buckingham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1848, and is a son of John and Mary Quinn. His parents dying when he was a child, he was reared in the family of Joshua A. Kirk. In his seventeenth year he be- came infected with the western fever, and took a trip through Illinois and other states of the middle west with the intention of settling there, but returned two months later to Bucknigham and apprenticed himself to the butcher busi- ness, wbich he has since followed. His emplover was William VanPelt, and at the end of a year Mr. Quinn and Joseph Van Pelt purchased the business, devot- ing their attention more particularly to pork butchering, and have built up a large business. Mr. Quinn is a prom- inent Mason, being a member of Ken- sington Lodge, No. 31^ of Philadelphia; Kensington Chapter, No. 233, R. A. M.; and Pennsvlvania Cpmandery, No. 70, K. T., of Philadelphia. He married, in 1881, Maria T. Hamp- ton, of Penns Park, daughter of H. El- well and Elizabeth (Phillips) Hampton, by whom he has two children: Cyrus G., with the Fraternal Accident Insurance Company of Philadelphia; and Florence, a bookkeeper with the Marion Hosiery Company of Philadelphia; both are grad- uates of Pierce's Business College of Philadelphia. THE CROUTHAMEL FAMILY. The pioneer ancestor of the Crouthamel family of Bucks county was Andreas Krauthamel. who emigrated from Ger- many in the ship "Edinburg." arriving in Philadelphia, on September 30, 1754, and settled in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. Henry Crouthamel. son of An- dreas, accompanied his father from Ger- many when a lad, and on arriving at manhood settled on a tract of land in P.edminster township. Bucks county, which he subsequently purchased of William Allen, Esq. He died in 1816 leaving a widow Catharine and nine chil- dren: Andrew; Catharine, wife of Jacob Nace; John; Henry; George; Elizabeth wnfe of Michael Rush; Abraham; Jacob and Samuel. George Crouthamel, fourth son of Henry, was born in Bedminster town- ship, and spent his whole life there, dy- ing in 1855. He married a Rush, and reared a family of five children: Cath- arine, Nancy, Tobias, Henry and Peter. He was a farmer and lived on a portion of the old homestead in Bedminster, pur- chasing later the Jacob Yost farm near Keller's Church. Peter R. Crouthamel, youngest son of George, was born in Bedminster town- ship in the year 1812. He was reared on his fathers farm, and early in life learned the trade of a shoemaker, but not taking kindly to an indoor life, learned later the trade of a carpenter, which he followed in Bedminster for twenty-five years, in connection with the conduct of a small farm conveyed to him by his father in 1834, upon which he lived until 1841, when he purchased of the estate of his father-in-law Frederick Ott, a farm of fifty acres.- In 1856 he sold his Bedminster farm and purchased one in Hilltown township, upon which he lived until 1865. when he sold out and removed to Illinois, where he resided for one year, and then removed to Boone county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm on which he resided until his death in 1892. aged seventy-eight j'ears, six months ahd two days. He married Cath- arine Ott, daughter of Frederick and Eve Ott. of Bedminster, and granddaughter of Peter and Catharine Ott, the former of whom, as well as his father, Henry Ott, w^as a soldier in the Revolutionary w-ar. Pefter R. and Catharine (Ott) Crouthamel were the parents of ten chil- dren: Jonas, who married Elizabeth Yost, and reared a family of six children; Isaac, who married (first) Eliza Loux, who bore him four children, and (sec- ond) Sarah Winner, by whom he had five children: Eli, who married Barbara Sherm, and has a family of four chil- dren; William, who removed to Iowa wnth his parents, married and reared a family; Noah O.. of Perkasie, ex-recorder of deeds of Bucks county, a sketch of whom follows: Philena. who died in Illi- nois; Ephiah died in Iowa: Mary, who died in Hilltown, Bucks county, at the age of twelve years; Titus and George, who died in childhood. NOAH O. CROUTHAMEL. Among the successful business men of South Perkasie is Noah O. Crouthamel, cigar manufacturer. He w^as born in Bedmin- ster township, Bucks county. October 12, 184T. son of Peter R. and Catharine (Ott) Crouthamel. Noah O. Crouthamel was reared and educated in Bedminster township. Early HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 559 in life he learned the carpenter trade with his father, and followed that voca- tion for five years. In 1865 he went to the city of Philadelphia, where he filled the position of a clerk in a cigar store for one year. In 1866, he started the manufacture of cigars in Philadelphia. In 1875 he removed to what is now South Perkasie, where he purchased a property which he still owns, and started a cigar factory there. In 1898 he built himself a fine residence on. Market street, Perkasie, where he still resides, and has a cigar factory on Arch street, Perkasie. In politics Mr. Crouthamel is a Repub- lican, and has always taken a lively in- terest in the councils of his party, and has served as delegate to district, con- gressional and state conventions at dif- ferent periods. In the fall of 1893 he was elected to the office of recorder of deeds of Bucks county, and filled that office with ability for three years. He •was census enumerator for his district in 1890. He has always taken an active part in the affairs of his town and neighborhood. He is a director of the Quakertown Trust Company. Relig- iously, he is a member of the Evangeli- cal Church of Perkasie. He is affiliated with Perkasie Lodge, No. 671, I. O. O. F., and Perkasie Council, No. 359, O. U. A. M. Mr. Crouthamel married in 1865 Re- becca Freed, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Cufifel) Freed, and they have been the parents of eight children, viz.: Mary Catharine, born January 5, 1867, married Horace H. Texter, of Hatfield, and has five children — Naomi, Florence. Susa R., Laura C. and Sarah; Sallie, born April 24, 1868, and Maurice, born July II, 1870. both deceased: Laura, born July 29, 1872, married Isaac Rosenberger, who •died October 13, 1896, leaving one child, Esther Rebecca; Joseph, born August 16, 1874. married Tillie Deibert, and has one child, May; Albert, born October 16, 1876, married Theresa Kresge, and has. one son Ralph: Forest, born June i, 1880. married Edna Bowen; Arthur, born April 4, 1882, died in infanc}^ HARRIET LUKENS WORTHING- TON. The name Worthington is de- rived from the locality whence the fam- ily came. Its etymology is three Saxon words. "Wearth in ton," that is. "Fprm in town." Twenty miles northeast of Liver- pool, in Leyland hundred, parish of Standish, county of Lancaster, England, is the town of Worthington. Here and in the adjacent manors resided the fam- ily of Worthington for many genera- tions, being established, from the time of the Plantagenets, in high repute. The main stock can be traced in the public archives back to Worthington de Worth- ington, in the reign of Henry III, 1236-7, who was the progenitor of all the Worthingtons of Lancashire. The old Hall of Worthington, where the family lived for seven hundred years, was pulled down less than fifty years ago. In the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury, there was resident in Byberry, Phil- adelphia county, Pennsylvania, three brothers, John, Thomas, and Samuel Worthington, said to have been natives of Lancashire. The date fixed by tradi- tion for their arrival is 1705, but since at that date they were mere children, it is probable that they were accompanied by parents, or the date of their arrival is incorrectly given. Elisha Worthington, the husband of the subject of this sketch, born near Mo- zart, in Buckingham township, in March, 1819, is a descendant of John Worthing- ton, of Byberry, who was married in 1720 to Mary, daughter of Thomas Walmsley. His wife Mary died 4 mo. 18. 1754, and John died i mo. 14, 1777, aged about eighty years. They were the pa- rents of eleven children: i. Elizabeth, born I mo. 15, 1721; married in 1744 Jo- seph Tomlinson. 2. Mary, born 12 mo. 9, 1723-4, died single. 3. Thomas, born 2 mo. 2, 1726, married Hannah Duncan. 4. Hannah, born 12 mo. 7, 1727-8. 5. John, born 2 mo. 17, 1826. died 1744. 6 William. born 7 mo. 20, 1732, married Esther Homer. 7. Isaac, born 6 mo. 13, 1735, married Martha, daughter of John Car- ver, of Buckingham. 8. Joseph, born 6 mo. 12, 1837, a sketch of whom follows. 9. Martha, born i mo. 19, 1740. 10. Ben- jamin, born 12 mo. 19, 1742-3; married Sarah Malone. 11. Esther, born 12 mo. 2, 1749. Of these, William, Isaac and Jo- seph settled in Buckingham, though Isaac removed later to West Chester, Pennsylvania. Joseph Worthington, eighth child of John and Mary, born in Byberry, 6 mo. 12, 1737, married (first) Esther Carver, in 1767, and two years later purchased 125 acres of land in Buckingham, on the east side of the Durham road, south of Buckingham mountain, where William Doan lately lived. This continued to be his home until his death in 1822, though he later purchased several large tracts of land in Buckingham, among them 205 acres purchased of his brother Isaac in 1783, lying along the Neshaminy and ex- tending across it into Warwick. He owned nearly if not quite 500 acres in Buckingham, i;nost of which he either conveyed or devised to his children. Jo- seph and Esther (Carver) Worthington were the parents of two children: Jo- seph, who removed to Virginia; and John, who removed to Ohio. After the "death of Esther. Joseph married, in 1773; Sarah Malone. by whom he had two chil- dren— -Abner and Sarah, the latter of whom married a Tomlinson. He mar- ried (third) Esther, daughter of Anthony 56o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Kimble, and a great-granddaughter of Humphrey Morrey, the hrst mayor of Philadelphia. By her he had nine chil- dren: Anthony; William; Joel; Elitha; Amy, married Evan Thomas; Hannah, married James Shaw; Martha, married Carlile; Jesse, and Esther. Joseph Worthington died in June, 1822, and his widow Esther in July, 1828. Elisha, son of Joseph and Esther (Kimble) Worthington, was born in Buckingham township, and on arriving at manhood married Ann Barr, of Buck- ingham, and settled on land conveyed to him by his father. He died in 1828, and his wife two years later. They were the parents of five children: Margret; Thomas; Elisha, and Ann, who grew up; and Esther, who died young. Elisha Worthington, son of Elisha and Ann, was born in Buckingham, in March, 1819. Left on orphan at the age of nine years, he was reared in the fam- ily of Evan Thomas, who had married his aunt, Amy Worthington, and re- ceived a good common school education. At the death of Evan Thomas he became a clerk in the store of his cousin, John Worthington, near Bridge Valley, and soon afterwards became a partner in the firm under the name of E. Worthing- ton & Co. They built up a fine business, but by reason of incompatibility of tem- perament of the partners the firm was dissolved, and Elisha opened a store at Bridge Point (now Edison) in 1856, where he did a successful business for ten years, when he removed to Bucking- ham, where he conducted the store very successfully until his death in 1872, building up a large business. Mr. Worth- ington was a man of unquestioned in- tegrity and high standing in ,the com- munity. In religion he and his family were members of the Society of Friends. In politics he was a Republican. His widow, the subject of this sketch, was Harriet Lukens, daughter of Peter and Isabella (Hallowell) Lukens. She was born in Philadelphia, where her parents spent the greater part of their married life. Her father, Peter Lukens, of Horsham, Montgomery county, later of Philadelphia, was a carpenter and millwright, and followed his trade in Philadelphia, removing to Bucks county but nine weeks before his death, which occurred in 1849 at the age of forty- seven years. His wife, Isabella Hallo- well, was a daughter of George Hallo- well, of Jenkintown, of an old and prom- inent family in that vicinity. Mrs. Worthington's two grandfathers were the founders of the Horsham Library. Benjamin Hallowell, who represented the government among the Indians and was otherwise prominent in public life, was a nephew of George Hallowell. The Lukens were of German descent, being descendants of Jan Lucken, one of the original settlers of Germantown. The children of Elisha and Harriet (Lukens) Worthington are: Evan T., a prominent merchant of Newtown, Bucks county; Emma Clara, wife of Lewis W. Fell, who now conducts the store owned by Mr. Worthington at the time of his death, a sketch of whom appears in this work; and Isabel L., living with her mother in Buckingham. George Lukens, another son, was drowned when a small boy. For several years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Worthington was associated with her son, Evan T. Worth- ington, in the conduct of the store, imder the firm name of H. L. Worthington & Son, but soon after the marriage of her son retired from the firm and built a handsome residence in the village, where she still resides. She and most of her family are members of the Society of Friends. FRANK WEBER. Among the active and prosperous business men of the thrifty and growing town of Perkasie is Frank Weber, brick manufacturer. Mr. Weber is of German parentage, and was born in Kulpsville, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, October 12, 1855, being a son of George -and Sophia (Nicholas) Weber. George Weber, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Germany and emi- grated to America and settled at Kulpsville about 1848. He was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that vocation in connection with farming near Kulpsville for many years. He married Sophia Nicholas, and they were the parents of six children, viz : Peter, who married Lizzie Henkenroth, and has a family of five children ; Annie, wife of Henry O. Moyer ; Kate, who died at the age of eighteen years ; Lizzie, wife of Christian Kugler ; George; and Frank, the subject of this sketch. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm in Rockhill township, and acquired his education in the public schools. He learned the trade of a brick moulder, and was the manager of a brickyard for several years. He began the manufacture of brick at Perkasie in 1895 in partnership with Henry O. Moyer for two years. In 1897 he started his own plant and has since carried on the business himself, doing a large busi- ness, turning out as high as a million brick per year. In 1899 he built his present handsome residence at the corner of Third and Market streets. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and politically is a Demo- crat. He married in 1878 Lizzie Moss, daughter of George and Catharine (Nich- olas) Moss, and they are the parents of four children; Hannah, born July 20, 1879; Andora, born IVIarch 7. 1881 ; Sallie, born February 10, 1883 : and Harry, born October 2, 1885. Hannah, his eldest daughter, married April 3, 1903, William Crout. son of Reuben Crout. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 561 ISAAC H. DETWEILER. The Bucks county families bearing tlie patronymic of the subject of this sketch are descendants of several different German emigrants bear- ing that name who arrived in Pennsylvania at different periods, and who bore no known relation to each other, though set- tling practically in the same section. The first Detweiler to own land in Bucks coun- ty was Hans Jacob Detweiler, who arrived in Philadelphia in the ship "Winter Galley," September 5, 1738, and who settled in Frau- conik township, now Montgomery county. He obtained by patent dated September 8, 1740, two tracts of land in Bedminster town- ship, of about 175 acres each. Nearly the whole of one of these tracts has remained in the tenure of his descendants to this day. ' MARTIN DETWEILER. the paternal ancestor, was, however, a later arrival, com- ing from Germany in the ship "Crown," Captain Michael James, which arrived in Philadelphia, August 30, 1749. He also lo- cated in Franconia township, where he mar- ried Maria Meyer, born November 30, 1738, daughter of Christian and Magdaiena Meyer, the former of whom is supposed to have accompanied his parents, Christian and Barbara Meyer, to Pennsylvania when a mere infant, having been born about 1705 ; he died in 1787. He purchased land in Franconia in 1729. Martin Detweiler pur- chased in 1774 a farm adjoining that of his father-in-law. Christian Meyer, containing 159 acres, and lived and died there. Martin and Maria (Meyer) Detweiler were the parents of twelve children, viz. : Christian, Isaac, Samuel, Hannah, Susanna, Maria, Abraham, Sarah, Barbara, Joseph, Benja- min and Jacob. CHRISTIAN DETWEILER, eldest son of Martin and Maria, was born in Franconia, August 3, 1772, and died there August 20, 1843. He pur- chased the homestead farm of I59 acres of his father, on May 28, 1798, and spent his whole life there. He married Elizabeth Reiff in 1796, and had by her seven children: Joseph; Elizabeth, who married Michael Young; Mary, who mar- ried Benjamin Landis ; George; Sarah, who died unmarried in 1884; Ann, who mar- ried John M. Hangey; and Hannah, who married Abraham L. Moyer. JOSEPH DETWEILER, eldest son of Christian and Elizabeth (Reiff) Det- weiler, was born in Franconia, Oc- tober 26, 1797, and died in Hilltown township, Bucks county, July i, 1861. March 9, 1826, he purchased a farm of forty-six acres in Hilltown township, Bucks county, one mile west of Dub- lin, and settled thereon, subsequently pur- chasing two tracts aggregating twenty-one acres adjoining, and lived thereon until his death in 1861. He married Elizabeth Alderfer, who survived him, dying in 1875. They were the parents of nine children, 36-3 two of whom died young; those who sur- vived were as follows : Mary, who married Aaron Godshalk; John A.; Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Bishop; George A., of Rockhill, who married Esther Eckert ; Joseph A., of Hatfield, who married Sarah George; Sarah, who married Gideon S. Stover; and Jacob A., of Hilltown, who married Han- nah George. JOHN A. DETWEILER, eldest surviv- ing son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Alderfer) Detweiler was born in Hilltown township, March 9, 1823. Early in life he learned the carpenter trade, and followed that voca- tion in Hilltown for several years in con- nection with the tilling of the soil. He purchased in 1847 a small lot in that town- ship, and resided thereon until 1849, when he purchased a farm of forty-two acres on which he resided until 1858, when he sold it to his brother-in-law, Aaron Godshalk, and removed to Bedminster township, where he purchased a sixty-acre farm on which he lived until 1873, when he conveyed it to his brother-in-law, Gideon S. Stover, and returned to Hilltown. He married Maria Leatherman of Bedminster, who was born February 5, 1826, and died April 7, 1898. Five children were born to them : Jacob L.,. Elizabeth G., Albert L., Joseph L., and Granville L. JACOB L. DETWEILER, eldest son of John A. and Maria, was born in Hilltown township, February 5, 1847, and was reared and educated in that and Bedminster townships. He learned the carpenter trade with his father, and removed to Philadelphia, where he followed stair building for a few years, and then removed to Perkasie, Bucks coun- ty, and erected the home in which he has re- sided for the past thirty years. He has fol- lowed contracting and building in that thriv- ing town during all that period, and is one of the leading builders of the town. He, like all his ancestors, is a Mennonite, being a member of the Blooming Glen congre- gation. In politics he is a Republican. He married December 1^,1869, Elizabeth Huns- berger, daughter of Isaac Hunsberger, who was born November 25, 1846, and died October 22, 1895, and they were the parents of two children : Mary Ann, born August 20, 1870; and Isaac H., the subject of this sketch. ISAAC H. DETWEILER, only son of Jacob L. and Elizabeth (Hunsberger) Det- weiler, was born in Bedminster township, June 28, 1872. He was reared and educated, however, in Perkasie, where he has liv^fl from a small child. Early in life he learned the cigar making trade, and has always followed that business. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of tha town, and is the present assessor of the borough, having been elected to that office in February, 1904. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. He is affiliated with Mont Alto Lodge, No. 246, K. of P., and in politics is a Repub- 562 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. lican. He married December 5, 1896, Lizzie Nungcsser, daughter of Jacob Nungesser, of Perkasie. ABRAM K. SLACK, a retired farmer residing in Lower Makefield, traces his an- cestry back to an early epoch in the settle- ment of Bucks county. Of Holland lineage, his ancestors upon their arrival from the old world located in Lower Makefield town- ship, the progenitor of the family in Amer- ica being Abraham Slack, w'ho was born ■^ in Holland in 1722 and crossed the Atlantic ' in 1750. Cornelius Slack, his son, and the grandfather of Abram K. Slack, was born, lived and died in Bucks county, and throughout his entire life followed farm- ing. He held membership in the Presby- terian chtirch of Newtown, Pennsylvania. His children were: John; Benjamin; Abraham ; Aaron ; Cornelius, who married Eliza Brown; Joshua; Ann, who became the wife of Wesley Stackhouse ; Sarah, wife of Amos Johnson; Mary, wife of Isaiah Balderston; and Rachel, wife of Charles Young. Abraham Slack, son of Cornelius Slack, was born near Yardley, Pennsylvania, in 1794, and in early life became familiar with the labors of the farm, which occupied his attention throughout his remaining days. He, too, belonged to the Presbyterian church of Newtown, and his influence was a potent element for good in the com- munity. He married Frances Gurtin, and they became the parents of eight children : Washington, who died in infancy: Aaron, who died in early manhood ; Samuel and James, also deceased; Abram Kinsey, of ~~ this review; Mary Ann, wife of Cyrus Slack; Elizabeth, wife of James Haines-; and Sarah, wife of Joseph Moon. Abram K. Slack, born at the ancestral home in Upper Makefield township, in April, 1828, is indebted to the public-school system of Bucks county for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He assisted his father in the cultivation of the fields through the months of summer, and after leaving school gave his entire attention to the further improvement of the home farm until twenty-five years of age, when he en- tered upon an independent business career by renting the old Kirkbright farm, upon w'hich he lived for ten years. He then re- moved to the George Justice farm, where he spent another decade, and on the expiration of that period, because of the careful hus- banding of his resources, he was enabled to nurchase the farm upon which he now resides. For many years he was a most active and able representative of agricul- tural interests in Bucks county, making steady advance in keeping with the progress displayed along agricultural lines. The years added to his income, and in 1889. with a comfortable competence, he retired from Inisines-s life and is now enjoying a well earned rest. Since age gave to him the right of franchise he has supported the Democratic party, and has held the office of school director for three years in Lower Makefield township, but has never sought political preferment, desiring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, wherein he has gained creditable success. ' Mr. Slack married Miss Caroline Cad- wallader, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Cadwallader, and they became the parents of seven children : Mary Emma, the de- ceased wife of Henry Path; William, who occupies a position in the Mechanics' Bank, of Trenton, New Jersey; Morris; Cryus ; J. Cadwallader, also of the Mechanics' Bank of Trenton; Flora, who died in childhood; and Anna, wife of Abram Beekman Con- over, of Chicago, Illinois. DAVID HOWELL. The members of the Howell family have been residents of Bucks county since the early part of the eighteenth century. Timothy Howell, who was born in this county, August 7, 1762, became, in 1812, the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and forty-three acres in Lower Makefield township. This is still in possession of the family, being now the property of his granddaughter, Mrs. Mary E. Ely. He continued his farming operations there up to the time of his death, July 29, 1831, when the property was di- vided between his two sons, John and David. In early manhood he married, and had two sons, Levi and Asher. He afterward wedded Rebecca Margerum, and they had six children: John, who was born July 29, 1803, and married Elizabeth Richardson; David, born De- cember 17, 1804; Sarah, born March 25, 1807, and became the wife of Mr. Fen- ton, and after his death married Lewis Moore; Mary, born August 10, 1809, and died September 17. 1836; Susan, born June ID, 1813, and married Mr. Hoag- land, and after his death became the w'ife of John Temple ; and Martha, born July 3, 1815. and married Samuel G. Slack. David Howell, second son of Timothy Howell, remained upon the homestead farm until fifty years of age. In 1855 he purchased from the' George Yardley estate a tract of land bordering on the Delaware river, and resided there until his life's labors were ended in death, Au- gust 2. 1864. He was a prominent farmer, enterprising and progressive, and his personal traits of character com- .manded the respect of all with whom he was associated. He married Harriet I. Sandoz, who died August 6.. 1899, a daughter of Francis and Mary E. (Schmit) Sandoz. the former a native of France, and the latter of Germany. Her parents settled in Philadelphia in 1795- David and Harriet I. Howell be- came the parents of seven daughters: Mary E., Ellen A., who died in child- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 563 hood; Martha A., Emma; Caroline; Wil- lielmina, who died in infancy; and H. Amelia, who died June 25, 1901. Martha A. married Joshua Maris, and .had three daughters: Bertha H., who died in 1891; Dela H.; and Elma H. Caroline married Samuel W. Throp and had three children: Helen A., who died in infancy; Russel R. and Ethel N. Mary E. married Edward N. Ely, and had one son, Howell, who died in in- fancy, and two daughters: Carrie Howell and Harriet Sandoz; Carrie Howell, who married William Stanley r\IacLewee, has one daughter, Dorothy. Harriet Sandoz married George K. Robinson. Edward N. Ely died June 13, 1899. The homestead, now known as "Alaple- wolde," is cccupied by Mary E. (Howell) Ely, her daughters, and their families. HARRINGTON B. ROSENBERGER, of Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, October 27, 1869, and is a son of Isaac R. and Harriet (Brunner) Rosen- berger, of Colmar, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. The pioneer ancestor of the subject of this sketch was Henry Rosen- berger, who came to Pennsylvania from Zweibrucken, Germany, about the end of the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and settled in Indian Creek Valley, Montgom- ery county, then Philadelphia county. He purchased a farm in what is now Fran- conia township in 1729, and died there, date unknown. He was of the Mennonite faith, and without doubt left the father- land i'n search of religious freedom denied him there. The first Mennonite meeting house of Franconia was erected on a part •of his plantation, and his youngest son. Rev. Henry Rosenberger, was a minister there for many years. He married before com- ing to America and most of his children were born in the Fatherland. He had at least four sons, Daniel, Benjamin, John and Henry, all of whom have numerous de- scendants in Bucks county. Daniel, John and Benjamin settled in Hatfield township, near the line 'of Bucks county, at Line Lex- ington. The original plantation of Henry Rosenberger in Franconia still remains in the tenure of his descendants by the name of Swartley, two of the daughters of Rev. Henry, who inherited the homestead, hav- ing married two of the pioneer ancestors of that family. Daniel Rosenberger, probably the eldest son of Henry, the pioneer, was born in Ger- many in 1715, and accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania. In 1740 he purchased a farm in Hatfield, and later purchased addi- tional land adjoining. He died there in September, 1771. His wife's name was Fronica, maiden name unknown, and their -children were, David, Isaac, Ann and Mary. Isaac Rosenberger, second son of Daniel and Fronica, born in Hatfield, November 30, 1751,. inherited from his father 160 acres in Hatfield, and subsequently purchased considerable other land there and m Bucks county. In 1790 he purchased 100 acres in Hilltown township, Bucks county, wnicn he conveyed to his son Henry in 1803, and it is still in the tenure of the descendants of the latter. Isaac Rosenberger died July 30, 1830. He married Christiana, an adopt- ed daughter of Rev. John Funk, of Hatfield, and their children were: Henry, of Hill- town, born October i, 1775; Jacob, who married Catharine Rickert, and settled in Hilltown; Isaac, Jr.; Ann, who married a Swenk, of Bedminster; and Elizabeth, who married Henry Wireman, of New Britain, Bucks county. Isaac Rosenberger, Jr., son of Isaac and Christiana, born 17S2, on his marriage in 1806 settled on a farm in Horsham town- ship, where he resided until 1833, when he purchased the old homestead in Hatfield and spent his remaining days there. He died May I, 1853. He married Susan Detweiler, and they were the parents of eight children; Martin, who lived on the Hatfield home- stead until 1833, and then located on a farm on Broad street, Hilltown township; Isaac D., of North Wales; Joseph, see forward; William, who died m Philadelphia; John; Elizabeth, who married (first) John Eckert, and (second) Alichael Snyder; Sarah, wife wife of Jacob Ruth-; and Mary, who mar- ried Michael Snyder. Joseph Rosenberger, son of Isaac and Susan (Detweiler) Rosenberger, born in Hatfield, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, September 15, 181 1, settled early in lite in Hilltown where he was a farmer, merchant and lumber dealer, being the pro- prietor of a store and lumber yard at Mt. Pleasant for many years. He was prom- inently identified with the affairs of the community in which he lived, and was one of the well known and popular men always looked up to, loved and respected by all who knew him. He served as justice of the peace, and was one of the directors of the Doylestown National Bank for many years, prior to his death, March 31, 1877. He mar- ried Mary Ruth, born February 4, 1815, daughter of Henry Ruth, of New Britain. She died July i, 1881. They were the pa- rents of ten children, seven of whom lived to maturity, viz. ; Susanna, wife of Henry Alderfer, of Hilltown ; Emeline, married (first) Abraham Hunsberger and (second) William Souder ; Anna Mary, wife of Mah- lon Myers, of Perkasie ; Isaac R., see for- ward ; Joel, who married Sarah Moyer, daughter of Dr. Joseph Moyer, removed to Philadelphia ; Elizabeth, wife of Edwin Jones, of Newtown, Bucks county ; Charles R., of Colmar ; who married Amada Fluck, of Hilltown. Isaac R. Rosenberger, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Hill- town, July 15, 1846, and acquired his edu- 5^4 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. cation at the public schools there. As a boy he was employed about his father's farm, store and lumber \ard, and on arriv- ing at manhood farmed on his own account for six years. In 1872 he located at Col- mar Station, on the Doylestown branch of the N. P. R. R., and engaged in the flour, feed, hay, coal and phosphate business. In 1881 he took as a partner in the business his younger brother, Charles R., and they continued to carry on the business there un- til the spring of 1905, and both still re- side there. In addition to building up a very large busuiess at Colmar, they in 1885 erected a hay press and warehouses at Doylestown, where they handled large quantities of hay and straw. Two years later they established a like plant at Buck- ingham Station, to which was later added a cider making plant. Both the last named plants, (Doylestown and Buckingham) are still in succe'ssful operation. The two brothers, Isaac R. and Charles R. Rosen- berger, are well and favorably known in central Bucks and Montgomery counties as business men of high standing and cour- teous and broad maided gentleman. , Isaac R. Rosenberger was with Harry J. Shoemaker, Esq., of Doylestown, the pro- jector of the Doylestown and Easton Elec- tric Railway, and it is due to their untir- ing zeal and personal sacrifice of time and money that the road was built, and Mr. Rosenberger was the first president of the company. He was married December 4, 1866, to Harriet Brunner, daughter of Will- iam Brunner, of Chalfont. She was_ born February 16, 1848. Her grandfather, Henry Brunner, was a farmer near the county line in New Britain, and her maternal an- cestors, the Clymers, were prominent resi- dents of the same locality. The children of Isaac R. aiid. Harriet (Brunner) Rosen- berger were; Mary Alice, born April 12, 1868, died September 29, 1881; Harring- ton B., the subject of this sketch; Flora Estella, born June 4, 1871, died June 20, 1876; Ella Blanche, born March 4, 1873, now the wife of Wilson H. Godshall, of Lansdale ; Charles Grant, born December 4, 1874; and William, born September 20, 1878, both now in the employ of a ~con- tracting firm as engineers, and located at Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Harrington B. Rosenberger was reared at Colmar, and acquired his education at Doylestown Seminary, West Chester Nor- mal School, and the College of Commerce, Philadelphia. He came to Doylestown in 1891 and took charge of his father's busi- ness established there, or bailin"- and ship- ping hay and straw, and continued to man- age it for his father until March, 1905, when he purchased the plant and now conducts the business for himself. Mr. Rosenberger married, June 6, 1900, Elizabeth H. Moore, daughter of John S. Moore, now of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Their only child, John, was born September 25, 1901. Mr. Rosenberger is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F and A. M., and Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. F., of Doylestown. JOSEPH' ANDERSON ELLIS, of Buckingham, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, in May, 1836, a sort of Charles and Martha (Conrad) Ellis, the former of Welsh and the latter of German descent. The Ellis family were among the earliest settlers in Chester county. The ancestors of the suliject of this sketch re- sided for several generations in the neigh- borhood of Bryn Mawr, which is said ta have derived its name from their home in Wales. Rowland Ellis, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a son of William Ellis. He married Lydia. daughter of David Gilbert, of Buckingham, and at the death of the latter in 1802 they became the owners of 108 acres of land, part of 500 acres whereon Joseph Gilbert, the great-grandfather of Lydia, had settled in 1702, near the village of Buckingham, now owned by Joseph L. Shelly. Rowland Ellis was a tailor by trade, and prior to settling on the Buckingham farm followed his trade in Philadelphia. Charles Ellis, father of Joseph A., was born in Buckingham, October 30, 1801, and died there August 17, 1874. He was a tenant farmer in Buckingham for thirty-one years, and then purchased a farm in lower Buckingham, where he died. He married ^lartha Conrad, of Buckingham, whose an- cestor, Tuneis Kunders, came from Krei- sheim. on the upper Rhine, over two centu- ries ago. Eight children were born to this marriage, of whom only three survive ; John C, of Trenton, New Jersey ; Henry, of White Earth. North Dakota; and the subject of this sketch. William Ellis, another son, who was for many years a resident of Buckingham, died a few years since. The subject of this sketch was reared on the farm in Buckingham, and acquired his education at the public schools. On January 26. 1871. he married Caroline, daughter of James C. and Mary Elizabeth (Garges) Fell, of Buckingham. He resided on his father's farm for four years, and for six years each on the farms of John Rich, in Upper Buckingham, and the William Staveley farm in Solebury. In 1887 he re- moved to his present farm, where he has since resided. Mr. and I\Irs. Ellis have been the parents of two children. Charles Howard, deceased ; and G. Thompson, who resides with them and conducts the farm. G. Thompson Ellis .married Helen Yerkes, daughter of Jonathan and Anna Mary (Goss) Yerkes. of Buckingham, by whom he has one child, Anna. In politics Mr. Ellis is a Democrat. The family are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a member of Neshaminy Lodge. No. 139, Knights of the Golden: Eagle. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 565 SAMUEL BLOTTER, of South Perka- sie, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1844, and is a son of John F. and Mary (Landis) Slotter. Johannes Schlotter, the pioneer ancestor of the family, was a native of Ger- many, who settled in Bucks county and reared a family, among whom were three sons ; Christian, Abraham and Daniel. Christian settled in New Britain, where he died in 1822, Abraham and Daniel lo- cated in Haycock. Abraham Schlotter, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, learned the trade of a fuller with Joseph Fretz, who had a fuUmg mill on the Tohickon, in Haycock township, and at the latter's death in 1806 purchased the fulling mill and one hundred acres of land lying on both sides of the Tohickon, in Haycock and Bedminster townships, which he continued to operate until his death in 1820. He married Su- sanna Fretz, daughter of his old preceptor, who was several years his junior, being born April 6, 1792. Her father, Joseph Fretz, was born in Bedminster, May 9, 1761, and died at the old fulling mill in Haycock, March 29, 1806. He had married, Novem- ber I, 1781, Maria Krout, who was born in Bedminster, February 11, I/62, ancf they were the parents of eleven children ; Eliza- beth, who died young ; Christian and Bar- bara, who also died young; Anna, who married Jacob Bishop; Maria, who died young ; Susanna, who married Abraham Schlotter ; Agnes, who died at an advanced age unmarried ; Rachel, who married Abra- ham Zetty ; Joseph, who died young ; Sarah, who died in 1884, aged eighty-five years; John and Veronica. Joseph Fretz was a son of Christian and Barbara (Oberholtzer) Fretz, and a grandson of John Fretz, the pioneer ancestor of the family in Bed- minster. The children of Abraham and Susanna (Fretz) Schlotter were: John F., born November 28, 1815, and Samuel, who died young. After the death of Abraham Schlotter, his widow Susanna married his brother Daniel Schlotter, and they had one son, Daniel F. Slotter, born March 26, 1822, who married Amanda Ruth, October 27, 1844, and settled in Centre Valley, Springfield township, Bucks county, where they reared a family of ten children. John F. Slotter was 'born in Haycock, November 28, 1815. After the death of her second husband, Daniel Schlotter, in 1824, his widow removed to Milford township, Bucks county, where her son John F. was reared and educated. He learned the trade of a shoemaker, which he followed for several years. About 1840 he removed to Rockhill township, where he purchased a small farm and lived until his death on December 4. 1879. He married, July 28, 1839, Mary Landis, daughter of Abraham and Barbara (Bergy) Landis, who was born February 12, 1813, and died June 6, 1876. The children of John F. and Mary (Landis) Slotter were: Abraham L., born March 5, 1842, married October 17, 1865, Susanna Allebach, and has two children; Samuel, the subject of this sketch; Mah- lon L., born August 26, 1846, married June 29, 1866, Hannah Rouchenberger, and has eight children; Kate S., born August 28, 1848, married October i, 1870, Henry F. Ott, and resides in Philadelphia; John L., born December 15, 1859, married Emma Willauer, and resides in JPennsburg, Mont- gomery county; and Mary, born December 2, 1852, died Alarch 13, 1881, married, June 17, 1880, Henry Moyer. Samuel Slotter, second child of John F. and Mary Landis Slotter, was educated in the public schools of Sellersville. When a lad he learned the trade of a cigar maker, which he followed for eighteen years. In 1871 he removed to his present farm in Hilltown, near South Perkasie, where he has since lived, having purchased the farm in 1890. His farm has since been included in Perkasie borough. He served as town- ship assessor for three years, and has been a member of council in Perkasie borough for three years. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and politically is a Re- publican. He married, August 6, 1866, Amanda Wambold, daughter of Noah Wam- bold, and they were the parents of six chil- dren : James Irwin, born September 26, 1867, married Emma Strohmoyer, and has four children; Josiah C, born October 29, 1873, married Sallie Stout, and has three children ; Emma, born October 26, 1868, married Henry Kramer, of East Rockhill, and has one child ; Matilda, born November 15, 1870, married Jacob Hoff, and has two children ; Henry, born August 20, 1872, died September 29, 1872 ; and Edith Jane, born December 21, 1878, wife of Eugene Holland. His wife Amanda died November 20, 1887, and Mr. Slotter married a second time, November 30, 1889, Matilda (Cope) Fretz, widow of John S. Fretz, by whom he has one child, Hanna. WILLIAM PAULIN WINNER, a member of the firm of Roberts, Winner & Co., stove founders, of Quakertown, and, an ex-member of the state legisla- ture of Pennsylvania, was born on a small farm about two miles north of Wrightstown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, August 26, 1852, son of Samuel and Sarah Ann (Wood) Winner, the latter passing away when her son, William P., was two days old. He was taken to Philadelphia by a maiden aunt, Elizabeth Winner, with whom he made his home until his elev- enth j^ear, in the meantime attending the public schools of that city. He then re- turned to Bucks county and was em- ployed on the farm of Daniel M. Hibbs, near Newtown, he being considered one of the best and most progressive farm- 566 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ers of lower Bucks county, and the five years of his residence with Mr. Hibbs he always recalls with pleasure. At the expiration of this period of time he re- turned to Philadelphia, this time to be- come an apprentice at stoveplate mould- ing in the foundry of Stuart, Peterson & Co., founders, who were then located at Broad and Noble streets. He remained at this place as an apprentice for four years, and thereafter as a journeyman until i8So, with the exception of eight months during the year 1S76. when he was employed by Schantz & Keeley, stove founders, of Spring City, Penn- sylvania. During the year, 1880. he as- sisted in organizing the firm of Roberts, Rogers, Scypes & Co., at Quakertown, a party of moulders who took over the works of the stove foundry of Thomas, Roberts. Stevenson & Co., of that place. Although the firm has had many changes in its membership, the three men who composed the firm of Roberts, Winner & Co., consisting of William Penn Rob- erts. William Paulin Winner, and Fran- cis Moore Cavanaugh, have clung to the plant which they helped to place, build up and nourish with their intelligence and energy. Mr. Winner has always taken an ac- tive part in th-e local affairs of Quaker- town. In politics he has been actively engaged with the Republican party, serv- ing as chairman of two committees of the second ward, and developing the strength of that organization ; until final- ly, in 1898, Mr. Winner was nom- inated and elected by the Republican party to the state legislature, over his opponent, George F. Rush. Democrat, by a majority of four hundred and twen- ty-eight. During this session, although an untried and inexperienced member, Mr. Winner was appointed on the com- mittees of appropriations and apportion- ments, most important committee, which was an exceedingly great honor. This session will be ever memorable in Penn- sylvania state politics as the year when Matthew Stanley Quay, as candidate for United States senator, put to the test the personal fealty to him of the peoo'e's rep- resentatives as against party fealty and independence. In this fight Mr. Winner, though tremendous influences were brought to bear upon him to change his vote and influence from against Mr. Quay to favorin.g him with his vote, stood nut the fight in the interests, as he believed then, of the people who elected him, and the credit of the com- monwealth, and so well were his services appreciated by his constituents that in 1900 he again became his party's stand- ard bearer for the legislature, and on the platform of opposition to Quay, and was this time elected by a majority of seven hundred and eighty-three over his opponent. David S. Harr, Democrat. During the session of the legislature of 1900-02 Mr. Winner, by the manner irr which he had upheld what he thought to be right during his previous tenure of office, found that he had created many enemies in his own party. But it was to- no man's credit to stand by and uphold the actions of the dominating party in the session of that legislature. In no history of local self-government (sup- posedly free) were things generally car- ried with so high a hand. Bills and ap- propriations were rushed through that legislative body in a manner that de- stroyed every evidence of selfishness and venality. The so-called Ripper bills were pushed through, trolley car fran- chises were grabbed, and no fair show was offered any man who did not bow and stand in with the so-called Republi- can ring. Such was the condition of things that "every man was supposed to have his price." From being on com- mittees of repute and worth during his first term, Mr. Winner was relegated to- so-called five wheel committees. How- ever, he performed his duty as he found it. and retired at the end of his term with clean hands. Mr. Winner "married, December 23, 1879. Mary Magdalene, daughter of Philip and Abigail (Ash) Simons, of Spring City, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania. Mrs. Winner was one of three- children. She attended the Spring City public schools and high school, complet- ing her studies at the latter institution. ' She has always taken an active interest in music and art, especially the latter^ and the work she has done as a painter in oils has received special commenda- tions. She is a member of the Oratorio- Society of Quakertown, in which she takes an active part, and is a participant in all the worE connected therewith. ADDISON C. COPE, of Perkasie, Bucks- county, Pennsylvania, was born in Hill- town township, Bucks county, June 14, 1871, and is a son of Tobias G. and Hannah Cope, and is a descendant both in paternal' and maternal lines from early German set- tlers in Bucks county, who, fleeing from religious persecution in the fatherland. found homes in the then wilderness of upper Bucks county, where they and their worthy descendants have contributed much to the material wealth and development of our beloved county. "Joost Coope" (other- wise Yost or Joseph Cope), the paternal ancestor of the family in Hilltown, emi- grated to Pennsylvania in the good ship^ "Adventurer," arriving in Philadelphia on October 2, 1727, and, after taking the oath of allegiance to the British crown, estab- lished a home in Penn's colony, just over the western borders of Bucks county, in what is now IMontgomery county, removing later to Hilltown, where his sons Abraham and Adam purchased land in 1759. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 567 Adam Cope, second son of Yost and Dor- othea Cope, became a large landholder and prominent citizen of Hilltown, owning at the time of his death over three hundred and tifty acres of land in that township. He married Margaret, daughter of Henry Hartzel, one of the earliest and most prom- inent German settlers in Rockhill, near the present site of Perkasie. Adam Cope died in 1800, and his wife Margaret sur- vived him a few years. They were the pa- rents of live sons, viz. : Jacob, Abraham, Henry, John and Paul. John Cope, third son and seventh child of Adam and Margaret (Hartzell) Cope, was born in Hilltown township on the old homestead purchased by his father in 1759, a part of which he mherited, and lived there all his life. He married Susanna Sa- vacool, daughter of William and Eliza- beth (Miller) Savacool, of Hilltown, and granddaughter of Jacob Sabelcool, born in Germany m 1713, who came to America in 1731 in the ship "Brittannica,"' and in 1742 settled near Sellersville. His son William settled in Hilltown in 1772 on a farm pur- chased for him by hjs father, and still oc- cupied by the family near South Perkasie. John Cope died in 1862, and his widow in 1873. They were the parents of six chil- dren, of whom William S., the grandfather of Addison C. Cope, was the eldest. William S. Cope was born in Hilltown township and resided there and in the ad- joining township of Rockhill all his life, dying in the latter township February 7, 1899, at an advanced age. He married Leanna Gerhart, and they were the parents of seven children : Tobias G. ; Eliza, wife of William Harr ; Monroe G. ; Henry G. ; Amanda ; Jane ; and Leanna. Tobias G. Cope was born in Rockhill township in 1845, and acquired his educa- tion at the common schools of that locality. He was a farmer and followed that vo- cation during life, first in Rockhill town- ship, and later in Hilltown. He was an active and successful business man and ac- quired a competence. He married Hannah Cope, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza- beth Cope, of Hilltown, who was also a descendant of Adam and Margaret (Hart- zell) Cope. She inherited from her father a fine farm in Hilltown in 1865, she being his only child. Tobias G. Cope died in Hilltown in 1884. He was the father of four children; Ella, who died young; Will- iam Henry, Addison C, and Emma. ADDISON C. COPE was reared on his father's farm, and acquired his education at the Pennville school. He remained on the farm until the age of eighteen years, and then entered the harness making establish- ment of H. B. Lapp, at Pricks, and learned the trade of harness making, which he fol- lowed until 1896, when he removed to Perkasie. In 1901 he erected his present handsome residence at the corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. He is a member of Trinity Lutheran church, and has served as deacon of that church for the past three years. In politics he is a Republican. He married March 18, 1896, Mary Alice Bean, daughter of David B. and Mary G. (Mo- yer) Bean, and they are the parents of one child, William Washington, born February 22, 1897. The paternal ancestors, of Mrs. Cope have been residents of Rockhill township for many generations. On the maternal side she is a descendant of Rev. Peter Meyer, who was born in Switzerland in the year 1723, and came to Pennsylvania in 1741 with his widowed mother and three brothers, William, Jacob and Henry. In 1752 he purchased a farm in Pleasant Val- ley, Springfield township. William Meyer, son of Rev. Peter, was born in Springtield township, June 17, 1764, and died there February 18, 1843. He married Mary Overholt, and their youngest son, Abraham O. Moyer, was born in Springfield on the old homestead purchased by his grandfather in 1752, and which is still in possession of his descendants, on June 6, 1798, and died there September 15, 1871. He married in 1832, Mary Geisinger, of Upper Milford, Lehigh county, and had four children; Will- iam G. Moyer, of Chalfont; Fannie G., who married Nathaniel Bechtel, of Berks county; Mary, the mother of IMrs. Cope, who was born February 15, 1838, and mar- ried David B. Bean, September 30, 1865 ; and Abraham G. Moyer, residing on the old homestead in Springfield. GARRET B. GIRTON. One of the oldest and most respected citizens of Newtown, is Garret B. Girton, who for over sixty years has followed a success- ful career as carpenter and builder in Newtown. He was born at Greensburg, near Scudders Falls, on the New Jersey side of the Delaware, February 20, 1831, and is a son of James and Mary (Mar- tindell) Girton, the ancestors of the former having been residents of New Jersey for several generations, while those of the latter had been residents of Bucks county from the date of the founding of Penn's colony on the Dela- ware. Her paternal ancestor, John Mar- tindell, was born in England, 8 mo. 24, 1676, and was an early settler in Bucks county. Fle married Mary Bridgman, daughter of Walter and Blanch (Con- stable) Bridgman, "both of Neshaminah in the County of Bucks." who were mar- ried at the house of Stephen Sands, 6 mo. 26, 1686. John and Mary (Bridgman) Martin- dell, were the parents of six children of whom John, born 6 mo. 22, 1719, married 2 mo. 9, 1746, Mary Strickland, and had twelve children. Jonathan, the* ninth, born 7 mo. 19. 1763. married Rachel Mor- gan and had ten children of whom Mary, 568 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. the sixth, married James Girton. James and Mary (Martindell) Girton were the parents of twelve children: James, of Palmyra, New Jersey; William A., of Bristol township, Bucks county; Mary Elizabeth, widow of Wilson McClanen, living in Newtown; Hutchinson J., of. Newtown: Samuel, deceased; Sophia, wife of Edward Reeder, of Newtown; Rebecca, single; Francenia, wife of Win- field Ellis, of Newtown; and Garret B., the subject of this sketch. The subject of this sketch was reared in Bucks county, having lived with his uncle, Isaac Martindell, in' Newtown township, from the age of nine years to the age of sixteen. He worked on the farm for his uncle and enjoyed very lim- ited advantages in the way of an educa- tion, attending school from two to three months during the year. At the age of sixteen he apprenticed himself to Mi- chael Furman, of Newtown, to learn the carpenter trade, his term of apprentice- ship expiring at the age of twenty-one, and he was to receive one month's schooling per year. On attaining his ma- jority he brought his father to Newtown and lived with him, working as a jour- neyman carpenter for about four years. He then established himself in business as a carpenter and builder, and has suc- cessfully pursued that vocation to the present time. His old preceptor was a competitor for the business of the neigh- borhood for a time, but for over thirty years prior to 1895 there was scarcely a building erected in Newtown or vicinity that he did not build or superintend its building. He employed a large force of hands, but gave his personal attention to the work, of which he always did his " share and is still an expert with the tools of his handicraft. He made a close study of the more improved methods of the craft and has always kept abreast of the times. He taught his craft to a large number, having among his apprentices A. Britton, G. Tomlinson, H. Enright, L. Moore, H. Clark, Ed Carter, I. Ben- net, W. Ellis, S. Creely, E. Brennen, C. Tomlinson, J. Degroot, D. J. McClanen, H. E. Girton. M. R. Girton. W. C. Eyre, Leo Wharton, Ed Short, Justus Slack and Isaac Pownall. Mr. Girton has been a member of the Presbyterian church of Newtown for upwards of twenty-five years, and is a . member of its board of trustees. In pol- itics he is a Prohibitionist, and has been for many j^ears an earnest worker for the cause of temperance. He is a mem- ber of Siloam Lodge, No. 265, I. O. O. F., of Newtown, of which he is a past grand. He married, in January, 1854, Maria Smith, daughter of John Smith, of Penns Park, and (second) Emma C. Saunders, of Brooklyn, New York. His children are: ^nsan, wife of Robert Krusen: Car- oline, wife of George Worrell: Ida, wife of John Short, of Solebury; Wilhelmina, wife of George Kemler, of Brooklyn; Harry E., Maurice, and Albert E., of Newtown; Clara, wife of John E. Mas- ten; and Anna R. Girton. He has twen- ty-seven grandchildren: Harry, Hugh, Garret and Alma Krusen; Anna, Amelia, Mary, Caroline, George, William, John and Albert Worrell; Harry, Edward, Sara, Marion, George, Alice, Nellie, Frederick and John Short, and Mabel, Horace, Helen, Marion, Clarence and Garret B. J. Girton. Mr. Girton also has one great-grandchild, Ethel Short. Mr. Girton, though in his seventy-fifth year, is one of the active business men , of Newtown. OLIVER J. RICE. Among the enter- prising and successful young business men of Buckingham is Oliver J. Rice, proprietor of the "Lower Mill," at Mechanics' Valley. Mr. Rice was born in Buckingham town- ship, and is of English and Irish descent, being a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Wat- son) Rice. His paternal ancestor, Edward Rice, was a native of Killeman parish, county Tyrone, Ireland, and brought a certi- ficate of character from the rector and church Wardens of that parish with him to America, dated June 12. 1736. He married Elizabeth Wilson, 6 mo. 10, 1742, and settled in Buckingham township, where he purchased 153 acres of land comprising the present farms of Edward Swartz and Gilbert Percy, near Bridge Valley on the old York Road. He died there in 1761, leaving seven sons and one daughter, viz; James; John; Edward ; George ; Mary, who married John Kinsey; Joseph and Thomas. His widow married Mathew Beans, and the younger children were reared in Buckingham, on the old Beans homestead, near the Solebury line on the Mechanicsville road. George Rice, fourth child of Edward and Elizabeth (Wilson) Rice, born in Bucking- ham about 1750, was the great-grandfather- of the subject of this sketch. On arriving at manhood he married Elinor, born Sep- tember 12. 1749, daughter of Robert Skelton, of Buckingham, September 21, 1771, and set- tled on a tract of 164 acres of land in Plum- stead, owned b}' his father-in-law. He was a wheelwright by trade, and after several years on the farm returned to his trade. His children were : Robert. Ann, Susanna, George. Sarah, Mary, Moses, and Elias. George Rice was a soldier in the revobition, being a member of Captain William McCalla's company. Robert Rice, eldest son of George and Elinor (Skelton) Rice, was born in Plum- stead township about 1774. He learned the wheelwright trade with his father, and followed it for many years in Plumstead, Solebury and adjacent parts of New Jersey. He married a Miss Burke, and had three children: Joseph; a daughter who married and removed to New York early in life; and Charles. The wife of Robert Rice .^^ THE NEW York] V ' "' r TRPA DV LIBRARY HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 569 '; and Elizabeth, wife of Elmer John- son. The mother of these children is still living, at the age of eighty years. Joseph B. Schaffer. eldest son of Got- frey Schaffer, pursued his education in the common schools, and through the periods of vacation assisted his father in the cul- tivation of the home farm. He remained at home until twenty-three years of age, when he began farming on his own account, and the occupation to which he was reared has been his life work. In 1882 he pur- chased the property on which he now re- sides, a tract of eighty-one acres, situated near Oxford Valley. This is rich and productive land, constituting one of the best farms of Falls township, owing to the excellent improvements which Mr. Schaf- fer has placed thereon and the splendid condition in which he keeps his land through careful cultivation. On the 6th of April, 1882, Mr. Schaffer married Miss Mary E. Hohmann, a daughter of John H. 576 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and Anna (Collopp) Hohmann. Their chil- dren were four in number : Bertha L., born January 29, 1883 ; Anna, born June 10, 1S34, died same month, the 13th ; Joseph Got- frey, born January 6, 1888; and Jennie Thompson, born September 27, 1891, died July 14, 1892. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Schaffer is a Republican in politics. SPENCER BUCKMAN HIBBS. One of the largest real estate owners in Bucks county is Spencer Buckman Hibbs, of Hulmeville borough. He was born near Hulmeville, in Middletown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1843, a son of James Guyon Hibbs, and Martha (Cox) Hibbs, his wife. William Hibbs, great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was an early settler in Byberry. By his marriage with Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of John and ^Margaret Johnson, he had three children Jacob, Jonathan and Phebe. Jacob married Elizabeth de Guyon, of French descent, in 1761. Jonathan married Sarah de Guyon, a sister of Elizabeth, and Phebe married Joseph Smith of Wrightstown, and later George Kinsey, of Buckingham. John Johnson was a son of "Jan Clauson, par Cooper," a Hollander, who settled on the Neshaminy, in Bristol township, in 1678, on a tract of land patented to him by Edmund Andross, captain-general of New York, and confirmed by patent from William Penn in 1684. He left six children, all of whom took the name of Johnson. John Johnson purchased of his brothers and sisters 520 acres, patented to his father on the Neshaminy, and at his death in 1721 devised it to his seven children, his wife Margaret to have the use of it for life. She died in 1751, and two years later the land was parti- tioned between Benjamin Brittin, who had married Mary Johnson, a granddaughter of John and Margaret, and Elizabeth Kelly, widow, the mother of Jacob, Jonathan and Phebe Hibbs. Mrs. Kelly conveyed the ninety-six acres, her share of her grand- father's estate, to her son Jacob Hibbs. Jacob Hibbs died in Bristol township in 1773. leaving a widow and children \ Jemima, who married Michael Ring; Jacob; Keziah, who rnarried William Stack- house; John G. ; Stephen and Samuel. John Guyon Hibbs, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a mason by trade, and later a farmer, and became a consider- able land owner in Middletown and Bristol townships. He married Mary Searle, a descendant of Arthur Searle, an early settler in Bensalem township. The children of John G., and Mary (Searle) Hibbs, were; Walter M., Mahlon G., Charlotte, John G., James G., Mary, Samuel, Jacob, Joseph G. and Daniel B. Hibbs. John G. Hibbs died in 1832, and his widow several years later. James Guyon Hibbs, father of the subject of this sketch, was a practical and success- ful l)usiness man, and of more than prdinary intellectual ability. In early life he learned the trade of a mason, and followed it for a few years. Having received a good educa- tion he abandoned his trade and taught school at Milford (now Hulmeville) for seventeen years, and in other schools in Middletown township for eight years. He was elected prothonotary of Bucks county on the Democratic ticket in 1844, and served three years with eminent ability. He was for one year proprietor of the Hulm.e- ville Hotel, and lived one year in Newport- ville. The last thirty years of life were spent on his farm in Middletown township. He was a successful business man and left his family in affluent circumstances. He married Martha, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Cox, who died December 25, 1890. James G. Hibbs died December 17, 1882. James G. and Martha (Cox) Hibbs were the parents of two children, James Guyon, born January 31, 1838, died August "17, 1902, unmarried, and Spencer B. Spencer B. Hibbs, the subject of this sketch, spent his boyhood days on his father's farm. He was educated at the public schools, at Millersville State Normal School, the Tennent School at Hartsville, and at Rev. Samuel Aaron's Seminary at Mt. Holly, New Jersey. After finishing his education he was employed in a grist mill for two years, and then filled the position of baggagemaster for the Camden & Amboy Railroad for six years, and was also assis- ant superintendent at the Kensington Rail- road yard. In 1870 he came back to the old farm and worked for the family, and later followed butchering for a few years. Mr. Hibbs is a Presbyterian in religion, and in politics is a Democrat. He has always taken an active interest in the success of his party, but has never held other than local offices. At the death of his brother he be- came the owner of much additional prop- erty, and owns fourteen farms in Bucks county, one in New Jersey, a fine grist mill, two hotels, and twenty-five dwelling houses. Mr. Hibbs was married on July 24. 1869, to Catharine Hawk, of Morrisville. by whom he had four children ; Henry Chap- man, born May 24, 1870; Olive- Martha, born June 13, 1876; James Carl, born December 6, 1881 ; and Arthur Chapman, born November 26, 1884. These children have all been well educated. Henry C. attended Rider's Business College at Trenton, New Jersey ; James C. and Arthur C. attended Pierce's Business College of Philadelphia, and Arthur C. also attended the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. All three are now in the employ of their father, Henry C. as bookkeeper, and James C. and Arthur C. as engineers. Henry C. mar- ried June 13 1900, Viola, daughter of Samuel A. and Maria (Stackhouse) Rich- ardson, a descendant of two of the oldest families in Middletown. They are the parents of one child, Olive Lenora. born November 20, 1901. Olive Martha Hibbs was educated at the public schools and the ejyr' /3-'/^Zu^ ' 1- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 577 West Chester State Normal School, gradu- ating in 1895, after which she taught school in Hulmeville for eight years. She was married September 23, 1903, to John H. Geil of Rutledge, Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, a solicitor for the Land ritle and Trust Company of Philadelphia. WILLIAM H. SHERM, a retired farm- er residing in Chalfont, was born in New Britain township, November 30, 1839, and is of German lineage. His paternal grand- father was John Sherm. His father also bore the name of John Sherm, and was born in Germany in 1806, crossing the At- lantic from that country to America in 1823, at which time he took up his abode in Plymouth, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. A few years afterward he estab- lished his home near the Henry Fretz mill in Bucks county, and learned the milling trade under the direction of Mark Fretz. He followed that business for six years, after which he married and located upon a farm in New Britain township, carrying on agricultural pursuits throughout his remaining days. He was a member of the Lutheran church, active and influential in its work, and doing everything in his pow- er to extend its influence. For twelve years he served as a member of the church coun- cil. His political allegiance was given to the Democracy. He married Miss Barbara Rickert. William H. Sherm, son of John and Barbara (.Rickert) Sherm, was educated in a private school in Quakertown, Pennsyl- vania, and after his graduation engaged m teaching, being thus identified with the in- tellectual development of the county for some time. He taught at Sellersville for four years, was in charge of the Newville school for three years, and at the Foun- tainville school for one year. Following his marriage he concentrated his energies upon agricuhural pursuits, settling on a farm in New Britain township, where ne lived for a third of a century. He then removed to another farm in the same town- ship, and has since been identified with agricultural interests, having a good tract of land well developed. Mr. Sherm has been actively interested in community af- fairs, and his efforts have proved an ef- fective factor in promoting the general good He served as school director for fifteen years, and the cause of education ever found in him a warm friend. A Re- publican in his political views, well in- formed on the questions and issues of the day, he has always given to the party stanch support.- He was judge of elec- tions for many years, and was elected county auditor, filling that position for three years. A devoted member of St. Peter s Lutheran church, he has acted as both- dea- con and elder, and thirty years ago was elected a trustee of the church and has since acted in that capacity. He is also 37-3 treasurer of the cemetery company con- nected with the same church, and is in- terested in everything relating to the pub- lic good and to the development and im- provement of his locality. Mr. Sherm was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth BOnd, a daughter of Neri and Hannah (Lutz j Bond, the latter a daughter of Frederick Lutz. Four chil- dren have been born of this marriage: 1. Maggie, born June 21, 1S67, became the wife of Frank S. Hartzell, a son of Will- iam and Leah (Sheets) Hartzell. There are eight children by this marriage : Will- iam Henry, J. Stanley, Frank S., Elizabeth, Neri R., Leah Gertrude, Percy and Leroy. 2. Alice, born December 27, 1869, is the wife of Aaron S. Overpeck, and they have two children, Elizabeth and Blanche. 3, Neri, born February 26, 1872, deceased. 4. Hannah, born November 12, 1881, is the wife of Arthur B. Sheip, a son of Francis P. and Mary Margaret (Swartley) Sheip. DAVID N. KRATZ. Among the fertile and productive farms which abound in Doylestown township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, which section was embraced in tne lands conveyed to the Free Society of Traders by William Penn in 1681, may be mentioned the one owned by David N. Kratz, who was born in Plumstead town- ship, same county, June 23, 1843. The first of the name of whom there is any authen- tic information was John Phillip Kratz (great-great-grandfather), born in 1707. His son, John Valentine Kratz, (great- grandfather) was born in 1732 and died m 1812. John Kratz (grandfather) was born No- vember 22, 1765, in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, where he resided all his life, his active career having been devoted to farming. He was an earnest and consist- ent member of the Mennonite church. He was twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name was Anna Fried, bore him four children : Abraham, born March 7, 1791 ; Solomon, born May 8, 1792; Debor- ah, born November 6, 1793; and Susanna, born February 18, 1796. His second wife, a Swartzlander, bore him eight children : David, born May i, 1801, died in infan- cy; Philip, born November _ 2, 1802, men- tioned hereinafter; Joseph, born June 25, 1804; Anna, born September 28, 1805, be- came the wife of James Stover; Isaac, born September 10, 1807 ; Catherine, born May 2, 1809, became the wife of Enos Stout; Rachel, born January 6, 181 1; and John, born February 24, 1813. Philip Kratz (father) was born in Plum- stead township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, November 2, 1802. This region of valley, plain and winding creeks is now al- most one hundred and eighty years old ; the lower an-d middle parts were settled mainly by Friends, and the upper part by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and later by 5/8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Germans. Having been reared upon a farm, he was thoroughly familiar with the details of farming, which occupation he followed until his death, July i, 1855. By his marriage to Catherine Newmaker nine children were born, three of whom died in infancy, the surviving members of the fam- ily being: David N., mentioned hereinafter; Rosanna, born in 1844, died in 1895, who became the wife of Tobias N. Myers; Irv- ing, married Laura Jacoby first and (sec- ond) a German lady; he died in Septem- ber, 1902; Emma, wife of Theodore Hol- comb; Phillip, born July 19, 1853, married Emma Dudbridge and died November 12, 1904. David N. Kratz attended the common schools of his neighborhood, but his edu- cational advantages were 'limited owing to the death of his father when he was bui twelve years of age. He remained on the homestead farm with his mother until he was thirty years old, and during this time managed the affairs in a thoroughly satis- factory and successful manner. After a residence of one year in Doylestown he purchased the farm where he now resides, located one and a half miles south of Doylestown, and has since given his at- tention to agricultural pursuits and slate roofing. The esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens is evidenced by the fact that he was elected school director in 1898, which office he held three terms, performing the duties to the satisfaction of all concerned. He is a Republican in politics. In 1873 Mr. Kratz married An- nie Selver, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Selver, and one child was born of this union, Mary Jane, October 13, 187S. CALEB SCATTERGOOD, actively and successfully engaged in agricultural pur- suits, has also been the promoter of busi- ness enterprises of importance to his lo- cality and is prominent in social affairs. Although his ancestors in early generations were not residents of Pennsylvania, they re- sided in this part of the country, the grand- father, Caleb Scattergood, being a native of Columbus, New Jersey, born on the loth of April, 1768. He followed farming and surveying throughout his entire life, and was active in business circles in his locality. He married Sarah Atkinson, who was born February 8, 1772, and they became the pa- rents of eleven chldren : Ann, who became the wife of William Wright, and after his death married William Cooper; Joseph; Jonathan; Mary; Sarah, wife of Robert Wright; Caleb and Nathan, both deceased; William A.; Martha, wife of Aaron Mid- dleton; Hannah, wife of Joseph Rogers; John, who died in childhood. William A. Scattergood, son of Caleb Scattergood, was born February 17, 1806, in Columbus, New Jersey, and entering upon his business career in early life learned the tailor's trade, which he followed for a number of years on Fourth street, in Phila- delphia. Later he established his home near Trenton, New Jersey, where he carried on farming for six years, and then removed to Salem, that state, where he was engaged in farm work for twelve years. He after- ward established his home at Rancocas, where he purchased a tract of land, giving his attention to its further development and improvement for twenty-four years. His careful management of his business inter- ests and his unflagging energy brought to him a competence sufficient to enable him to live retired, and, putting aside the active duties of the farm, he established his home in the village of Rancocas, where he passea the evening of life, his death occurring De- cember 7, 1878. He married Miss Rebecca Heaton, and they had ten children ; Ellen, wife of Benjamin Hilliard; Hannah Ann, wife of David Ford ; Catherine ; Sarah ; Rachel, wife of Mahlon K. Hendrickson ; William W. ; Caleb ; Heaton and Harvard, who died in infancy; and Rebecca, wife of Alexander Thompson. Caleb Scattergood, son of William A. and Rebecca (Heaton) Scattergood, was born in Salem, New Jersey, October 20. 1841. His preliminary education, acquired in the common schools, was supplemented by three terms attendance at the Trenton Academy. He was reared to the occupation of farming and remained with his father until thirty-one years of age, when he pur- chased his father's land within two miles of the city of Trenton, and there carried on farming on his own account for ten years. On the expiration of that decade he re- moved to the farm upon which he now re- sides, situated about two miles from Tren- ton, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He has here ninety acres of land lying along the river, this being one of the best farms in Lower Makefield township. The property is well improved with modern equijjments, the fields are very highly cultivated, and every facility of a model farm of the twen- tieth century is there found. Mr. Scatter- good, being a man of resourceful business ability, has likewise extended his efforts to other lines. He conducts a commission business, and loaded the first carload of potatoes that was ever shipped from Yard- ley Station. He was also one of the or- ganizers of the Yardley Water and Power Company, of which he is still a director, and is a member of the board of directors of the Building and Loan Association of that place, his enterprise proving of a char- acter that promotes public prosperity as well as individual success. Mr. Scattergood married Miss Emma Reeves, who died November 24, 1896. They were the parents of three children: Mary and Nellie, who died in child- hood ; and David T., who is with his father upon the home farm. Mr. Scattereood married March 23, 1905. Miss Lizzie Ellett Smith, daughter of Samuel T. and Lydia S. Smith, of Salem. New Jersey. The members of the family all belong to the HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 579 Friends' Meeting. Mr. Scattergood has been prominent and popular in the social circles of his locality, and was one of the organizers of the Pastime Club, of Yard- ley, of which he served as president for eight years. HENRY H. MOORE, of Perkasie, Bucks county, was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 26, 1870, and is a son of Jesse H. and Sophia (Hedrick) Moore, of New Britain. Jesse P. Moore, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a black- smith by trade and lived during his whole manhood in New Britain township, where he reared a family of four children — Jo'nn H. ; Jesse H. ; Sarah, who married Abra- ham Hunsberger; and Eliza, who married Daniel Nyce. Jesse P. Moore died June 20, 1893, his wife Mary surviving him. Jesse H. Moore, the second son, married Sophia Hedrick, and is a farmer in New Britain township. Henry H. Moore was born December 26, 1870, in New Britain township, Bucks •county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and acquired his education at the public school. During his early manhood he fol- lowed various occupations, and in 1895 pur- chased a farm in New Britain township, where he resided for five years, selling it and purchasing a farm of seventy-two acres in Hilltown in 1900, where he now resides. He is a member of the Mennonite church at Blooming Glen, and politically is a Re- publican. He married, February 6, 1892, Mary Ellen R. Moore, born July. 26. 1873, in New Britain township, daughter of John M. and Sarah Jane (Rosenberger) Kulp. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are the parents of four children: Sarah Gertrude, born April 4, 1893; Mary Sophia, born August 30, 1894; William Harvey, born September 25, 1900; and Henry Franklin, born Septem- ber 30, 1904. DAVID D. CRESSMAN, ©f Sellers- ville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in that borough February 13, 1877, and is a son of Abraham S. and Hannah (Derstine) Cressman, the former for near- ly half a century one of the leading busi- ness men of the town. The Cressman fam- ily is one of the very oldest German- American families in Bucks county. The pioneer ancestor of the family was George Cressman, who settled in Franconia town- ship about 1729. Soon after this date he purchased a tract of land in Rockhill town- ship, which he conveyed to his son Jo- hannes (or John) Cressman in 1747. Jo- hannes Cressman was probably also a na- tive of Germany, and was born about the year 1700. After residing for some years in Rockhill township he returned to Fran- conia township, where he died in the sprmg of 1786. His children were Anthony, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Catharine and Hannah. Anthony Cressman, eldest son of Johan- nes, was born May 9, 1731, and died in Rockhill township, Bucks county, March 3, 1789. He was a farmer and considerable landowner in Rockhill, and he and his wife jNIagdalena were the parents of seven chil- dren, four sons : Jacob, Abraham, John, and Adam ; and three daughters : Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Schleffer ; Catharine and Sarah. Jacob Cressman, eldest son of Anthony and Magdalena, was born in Rockhill town- ship, October 27, 1755. At his father's death the homestead farm of 139 acres was adjudged to him by the orphans' court and he purchased several large tracts ad- joining, becoming one of the largest land- owners in Rockhill township. He died June IS, 1832. He married Elizabeth Nace, of Rockhill, and they were the parents of twelve children, viz. : Samuel ; Magdalena, who married Henry Kerr ; Catharine, who married Peter Roudenbush ; Elizabeth ; Margaretha, who married (first) Charles Leidy, and (second) Per Demigh; Susan- na ; Jacob, who married Magdalena Hart- zell ; Maria, who married Abel Kerr ; Abra- ham ; Henry; Philip and Hannah. Henry Cressman, tenth child of Jacob and Elizabeth (Nace) Cressman, was born in Rockhill township, December 15, I'^QS, and died April 5, 1884. He was a farmer in Rockhill township, and actively iiu^..- ested in the affairs of that locality. He mai- ried Mary Stout, and they were the pat- ents of ten children, viz.: Livy, born i'cb- ruary 15, 1820; Maria, born November 15, 1821 ; Magdalena, born July 17, 1823; Saui- uel, born July 21, 1825; Abraham S., born August 2, 1827; Henry, born February ix, 1830; Elizabeth, born January 12, T832; Enos, born May 26, 1834; Aaron, U^^rn Au- gust 16, 1837; and Jacob, born Augusi 8, 1844. ABRAHAM S. CRESSMAN, son 01 Henry and Mary (Stout) Cressman, born August 2, 1827, was reared on his father's farm in Rockhill township, and was edu- cated at the public schools of Branch Val- ley. In early life he learned the black- smith trade with his uncle Jacob, and fol- lowed that vocation for about three years. After a few years spent on the larm, he started the manufacture of cigars at Branch Valley in 1861, and was engaged in that business until 1869, when he removed to Sellersville and purchased the Washing- ton House, but not finding the business of keeping a hotel congenial, he sold out at the end of one year and built and op- erated a general merchandise store oppo- site the Sellersville railroad depot. In 1873 he purchased the feed, . coal* and lumbe? business of Joseph A. Hendricks, which he carried on for twenty years, doing a large business. In 1892 he sold out to Fos- benner & Lewis, and retired from active business, living a quiet life in his hand- some residence erected in 1874, until his death on May 30, 1905. Mr. Cressman lived 58o HJSrORV OF BUCKS COUNTY. a life of business activity, and had the re- spect and conlidencc oi i.A who knew him. He was always actively niterested in all that pertained to the best interests of the town in which he lived, and filled many positions of trust and honor. From the time that Sellersville was incorporated into a borough in 1874, for many years he was almost constantly an official of the borough and actively interested in the im- provement of the town. He was appointed in 1874 by the court as judge of the elec- tion for the first officers of the borough; was for many years chief burgess; served repeatedly in the borough council ; and also filled the position of school director for several years. He was a charter member of St. Michael's Evangelical church at Sel- lersville, a member of the building com- mittee having- charge of its erection in 1870, and served as trustee, elder and deacon of the church for many years. He mar- ried, November 6, 1862, Kate Cressman, daughter of James Cressman, and they were the parents of two children — ^James Richard, born January 17, 1854; and Henry Howard, born August 20, 1867. His wife Kate died November 10, 1869, and he mar- ried (second) November 25, 1873, Hannah Derstine, , daughter of Michael Derstine, of Rockhill, and their only child was David D., the. subject of this sketch, who was born February , 13, 1877. DAVID D. CRESSMAN was born and reared in Sellersville, and acquired his education at the Sellersville high school, - graduating in 1895. He began the print- ing trade in the office of the "Sellersville Herald," and is still employed there, fin- ishing his trade, however, in a Philadelphia job office. He is now devoting most of his time to the closing up of his father's business afiiairs, with which he is thorough- ly familiar, Slaving had charge of most of his fathers -private business for a num- ber of years. In politics I\Ir. Cressman is a Democrat, and a member of the stand- ing committee. He takes an active part in the affairs of the town, and is now serving as borough auditor. He is a member of the Lutheran church. EDWIN WARREN MARTINDELL, a man of rare literary attainments, and a well known educator of Hulmeville, Bucks county, traces his ancestry to John Martin- dell, who was born in England, August 24, 1676, and who was united in marriage to Mary Bridgmont. Among their children was a son John, who married Mary Strick- land, and among their children was a son Miles, who in 1780 was united in marriage to Susannah Harvey. Thomas ]Martindell, son of the last mentioned couple, married Mary Warner in 1819, and among their children was a son, Jonathan Warner, who was born September 5, 1820, died 1S88. He resided in Wrightstown all his life, and served as school director for several vears. In 1851 he married Mary H. Addis, who was born October 18, 1830, died June 11, 1899, a daughter of Amos and Amy (Carver) Addis; in 1845 she joined the Southhampton Baptist church, of which she remained a member up to the time of her death. The children of Jonathan W. and ]\Iary H. (Addis) Martindell are as follows : Thomas H., born October 5, 1852, died , 1854. Miles M., born October 29, 1853. Amy Anna, born Septem- ber 29, 1855, died ■■ , 1883. Artios Addis, born March 19, 1857. Edwin Warren, born in Wrightstown township,. January 3, 1859, mentioned at length here- inafter. Isaiah M., born December 25, i860. Benjamin C, borh October 5, 1862, died September 12, 1863. Jonathan Warner, Jr., born February 6, 1865. Mary M., born February 22, 1867, became the wife of Amos Tomlinson. Emma J., born August 27, 1872, became the wife of Monroe Hartman. Edwin W. "Martindell was educated in the public schools of his native township and the State Normal School, graduating from the latter Institution in 1890. In i88a he began teaching in the schools of Rockhill, Wrightstown and Southampton, and im- mediately after his graduation came to ]MiddIetown, where he has remained up to the present time (1905), actively engaged as a teacher and organizer. In 1890 Mr. Martindell suggested that a Central High School be .established at Hulmeville, the school building at that place to be enlarged to meet the requirements at a slight expense to the district. It was with cc)nsiderable difficulty that he succeeded . in gaining public sentiment in favor of such plans, as it was maintained that there were insuffi- cient pupils to warrant such an undertaking. By personal visits to the houses^! the boys and girls w-ho had gone througli the lower schools, Principal Martindell, with his un- tiring energy and enthusiasm, soon in- creased the enrollment of piipijs until it was necessary to enlarge the building and secure additional teachers. The success of this pioneer experiment at Hulmeville opened the eyes of the people of-.the county so that they could, see what an advantage a township Central High Schoql would be .to the children. The school .directors of Middletown soon provided free conveyance to the pupils, who were sufficientlj' ad- vanced in their studies to attend, and who lived at a distance from the school. The first class to graduate was in 1892, the graduates numbering nearly sixty, many of whom continued their studies in various states and graduated from schools of bus- iness, law, art, medicine, thereafter engag- ing in the various professions. Not only was Middletown township, under the lead- ership of Mr. Martindell, the first in the county to convey pupils to the Central High School that they might have the ad- vantages of higher education, but it was also the first township to issue a printed catalogue containing the course of study, rules and regulations of the school, to- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. -.Si gether with the names of the school board, teachers and akmini. The course of study outlined by Mr. Martindell has been re- vised and extended a number of times by him. The Hulmeville High School Cir- culating Library of Middletown District was started with a fund donated by Prin- cipal Martindell, and by a special act of legislature .the public schools in which he labors are under the concurrent jurisdic- tion of Hulmeville borough and Middle- town township. In connection with his school work he has been allied with the University of Pennsylvania, and is still ■doing university work. In 1898 Mr. Martindell was appointed a member of the committee on teacher's permanent certificates, receiving this ap- pointment from Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. "The Bucks County Teacher's Institute Journal," published monthly from 1891 to 1894, was a publication in the interests of the public schools of Bucks county, and Mr. Mar- tindell served in the capacity of treasurer of the publishing committee. He has taken an active part in the local history work of the county, and is a member of the Bucks County Historical Society. In politics he is a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party. In 1891 he was ■elected auditor of Hulmeville borough, re- elected to the same office in 1903, in which Tie is now serving, and in 1900 was elected a member of the council of the borough. Principal Martindell's personality has won for him many friends both in and out of the lines of pedagogy. December 31, 1896, Mr. Martindell mar- Tied Ida Elizabeth Brown, of Middletown, daughter of Andrew Jackson and Char- lotte Mildred (Vandergrift) Brown, grand- daughter of Israel and Sarah (Hellings) Brown, and great-granddaughter of John Brown. Israel Brown (grandfather) was •commissioned in 1842 by Governor David E.. Porter major of the Second Battalion ,of the Forty-second Regiment of the mil- itia of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the First Brigade of the Second Division, for the counties of Bucks and Montgomery. JONAS GOTWALS, of Plumstead, Pennsylvania, is the son of Daniel and Sarah (Fretz) Gotwals. and was born July 25, 1850, at Dublin, Pennsylvania. The an- cestors of the Gotwals family came from Switzerland several generations ago. His mother's family were of German descent. His grandfather was a shoemaker and also carried on farming. He lived in Montgom- ery county until his marriage, when he re- moved to Plumstead township, where he carried on his trade. He was supervisor of liis township for nearly twenty years. He and his wife had five children : Mary, T)aniel. Esther, Catherine and Sarah. Their ■son Daniel at nineteen years of age began ■school teaching, continuing for four years, ■when he married. In 1845 he engaged in mercantile business, and was so engaged until 1884, when he gave it over to his son Jonas. In 1880 he bought the letters patent for the perfection spring bed, and made a great success of it. He was a director in the Doylcstown National Bank for more than a quarter of century. He married Sarah Fretz, February 29, 1844, by whom he had nine children, including . Franklin, Jonas and William. Daniel Gotwals, the father, died in 1895. Jonas Gotwals was educated in the Ex- celsior Normal School at Carversville, and upon reaching manhood engaged in mer- cantile business with his father at Garden- ville. In 1888 the father retired and Jonas has continued the business, also the business ai Danboro from 1875 to 1880. In 1892 he established the creamery business at Garden- ville, and four years later built and estab- lished what is known as Curry Hill Cream- ery, operating both until 1901. H^ mar- ried Miss Martha, daughter of Samuel Lowder, in 1871. They have three chil- dren: Florence, Daniel and Samuel. Politi- cally Mr. Gotwals is a Republican. JOHN B. MOLLOY, an enterprising and successful farmer of Buckingham, was born in Northampton township, Bucks county, April 29, 1854, a son of Nicholas E. and Fannie J. (Stradling) Molloy. Nicholas E. Molloy was born on the ocean when his parents were on the way to Amer- ica from Ireland, in 1817. At the age ox six years he was taken charge of by David Shipps, of Northapmton township, and was reared in his family. Soon after arriving at manhood he purchased a farm in Nor'^h- hampton, near Richboro, on which he re- sided for a number of years, and then sold it and removed to Wrightstown, where nt resided for two years, and then removed to the old Lacey farm, in Buckingham, on the Wrightstown line, the birthplace of Gen- eral John Lacey, living in the house erect- ed by the Lacey family about 1706, now torn down. He purchased this farm in 1878, but had previously purchased and removea upon an adjoining farm, now occupied by his son Harry F. Molloy, where k« died in August, 1880, aged sixty-three years. Mr. Molloy was an industrious and successful man and was highly respected in the com- munity. For over thirty years he ran a commission wagon to Philadelphia, carry- ing his own and his neighbor's country produce to the Philadelphia market. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge and encampment. Nicholas and Fannie J. (Stradling) Molloy were the parents of three children : Harry F., the present re- corder of deeds of Bucks county, and a popular merchant at Pineville: Anna, wife of W. Harry Rockafellow, of Buckingham; and John B. Molloy. John B. Molloy was reared on the farm and attended the public schools. At the age of nineteen years he apprenticed him- self to Aaron Kratz, at Plumsteadville, to 582 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. learn the wheelwright trade. After serv- ing his apprenticeship of three years he purposed gunig to Philadelphia to follow the trade, but, his parents objecting, nc settled down on the farm. In 1879 he re- moved to the Lacey farm which his father had purchased a year previous, and where he has since resided, purchasing the farm of his father's estate in the winter of 1880. Mr. MoUoy has in his possession the deed given to William Lacey by William Penn in 1703, and it is in a fine state of pres- ervation. Mr. MoUoy is a member of Northern Star Lodge, No. 54, L O. O. ¥., at Richboro, and Penns Park Council, No. 793. Jr. O. U. A. M. He was married in November, 1880, to Ella Twining, daughter of Elias and Nellie (DeCoursey) Twining, of Wnghtstown, both of whom are still living. To this marriage has been born four children : Bertha Twining, residing at home ; Edwin Worthington, assistant auditor for the Virginia Railroad Com- pany, at Philadelphia ; Frances Stradling and Eleanor DeCoursey, residing at home. NEWTON MYERS. Among the many extensive and productive farms in Doyles- town township, the seat of justice of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is the one owned and cultivated by Newton Myers, formerly the property of his father. The township of Doylestown is situated within a mile of the geographical center of the county, and the land formerly belonged to the Tree Society of Traders. Christian Myers, grandfather of Newton Myers, was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He lived all his life and followed agricultural pursuits in Plum- stead township, which is a region of val- ley, plain and winding creeks. He was a member of the old Mennonite church, an upright and conscientious citizen, who en- joyed the contidence and respect of those with whom he was brought in contact. He was the father of three children : Sarah, who became the wife of Francis Fretz, and after his death was married to Stout Sto- ver; Hannah, whose first husband was Paxon Hough, and her second husband Orange M. Owens ; and Jacob, mentioned hereinafter. Jacob Myers, father of Newton Myers, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August i, 1830. Af- ter completing a common school education he gave his entire attention to agricul- tural pursuits, which line of work he fol- lowed throughout his lifetime. In 1875 he purchased the farm in Doylestown township upon which Newton Myers now resides, and by dint of hard and unremit- ting labor succeeded in gaining a comfor- table ^livelihood and a competency for his declining years. He was a member and deacon of the Baptist church of New Brit- ain, to the support of which he contrib- uted liberally. lie was a Repliblican in politics, and held the office of school .di- rector in Plumstead and Doylestown town- ships. By his marriage to Susan Overholt the following named children were born : Newton, mentioned hereinafter ; Ella, whi> became the wife of Frank Riale, and after his death of Otlo Remhold; Laura, wife of John Vantoon ; Lizzie, wife of Harvey Magargal ; Harry, a real estate and insur- ance agent of McKeesport, married Mamie L. Mayncs, and they are the parents ot two children — Clarence and Howard Newton; and Dora, wife of John Naegele. Jacob Myers (father) died May 25, 1890. Newton Myers was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,. March 28, 1857. He is indebted to the common schools of Bucks county for his educational advantages, which prepared him for a life of activity. He remained on the home farm with his father, and af- ter the death of the latter purchased the same, and has since given his entire atten- tion to farming and dairy business, running a milk route to Doylestown for a period of seven years. He has been very suc- cessful in this enterprise, and is now class- classed among the representative farmers of that section of the county. He holds mem- bership in the New Britain Baptist church, in which he holds the office of deacon. Mr. Myers was united in marriage to Mar- garet P. iViathews, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Mathews. Their children are : Elizabeth M., born July 2y, 1886, a student of the West Chester State Normal School; and Carl, born May 13, 1891, resides at home. JOHN J. STOVER. The Stover fam- ily was founded in this country by an emi- grant from Rhenish Germany, who settled near Skippack, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania. His son, Jacob Stover, joined the revolutionary army when quite young, driv- ing a four-horse team belonging to his fath- er, with stores for General Sullivan, and. remained until the close of the war. Af- ter his marriage he settled on the larm m. Plumstead township, Bucks county, and re- mained thereon until his death. He was twice married. His second wife, Cather- ine, bore him among other children a son Henry S. Henry S. Stover was born October 17, 1786, and died in 1S73. He was a miller, and built the grist and saw-mill at Point Pleasant, later the property of Ralph Stov- er. In 1831 he purchased a property witn mill site at Erwinna, from Thomas G. Ken- nedy, which property was formerly owned by William Erwin, Esq. The following year he moved with his family upon the prop- erty and erected extensive flour and saw mills upon the same. He married Barbara Stout, daughter of Isaac Stout, of Will- iams township, Northampton county, and their children were: Salome, Ann, Eliza,. Catherine, Emelline, Jacob, Isaac, Henry HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 58, and Jordan H. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1862, aged seventy-three years. Jacob Stover, eldest son of Henry S. and Barbara (Stout) Stover, was born at Point Pleasant, October 19, 1817. At an early age he was taken into his father's busi- ness, remaining with him until he was thirty-three years of age, when he with his brother Isaac, rented the saw-mill of their father, and engaged extensively in sup- plying hardwood lumber for the California trade. In i860 he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, but four years later again went into the lumber business with his brother, continuing in the same until 1879. In 1886 he purcliased from his broth- ers, Henry and Jordan H., "The Stover Flour Mills," and up to the time of ' his death conducted an extensive business in the manufacturing of flour and feed. Mr. Stover was an enterprising man, was rec- ognized as one of the leading men of the community, and served up to the time of his death, for a period of twenty years, in the capacity of president of the Alexan- dria Delaware Bridge Company, in whicn he was a large stockholder. In June, 1854, Mr. Stover married Mary E. Capner, daughter of Hugh and Matilda Capner, of Flemington, New Jersey. Their children are as follows : Matilda C. ; Carrie C. ; Hugh C, who is now practicing law in California; and John J., who succeeded his father in the operation of the mill known as the Stover Flour Mill until Jan- uary I, 1902, when he leased the same to C. C. Bryan & Son, and from then to the present time (1905) has lived retired. Ja- cob Stover (father) died at his home in Erwinna, October 30, 1897. His widow sur- vived him seveial year.-; passing away Feb- ruary 26, 1904. HENRY H. SNYDER, one of the prom- inent and successful farmers of Hilltown township, was born December 10, 1842, on the farm upon which he still resides and which has been the property of his direct ancestors for over a century, having been purchased by Jacob Schneider, June 0, 1795. The Snyder family (originally spelled "Schneider") were among the earliest set- tlers in Hilltown and the "Manor of Per- kasie," which included a part of Hil'town township and the Rockhills. The pioneer ancestor of this branch of the family was Michael Schneider, probably a native of Germany, and certainly of German par- entage, who with sons Jacob, Michael, Con- rad, and Christian; and daughters: Han- nah, wife of Frederick ShuU ; Catharine, wife of Jacob High, and Rebecca Snyder, settled in Hilltown township, prior to the" Revolution. Both he and his two eldest sons became extensive landowners there prior to 1779. Michael Snyder died in Hill- town in 1806 and devised his plantation, purchased ;n 1777 of the Penns, to his son Conrad, the great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch. Michael Jr. died in 1822, and also devised his farm to his brother Conrad. Jacob Schneider, the grandfather of Henry H. Snyder, was the son of Conrad and Catharine Schneider, and was born in Hilltown about the year 1770. He married Elizabeth Yost, and in 1796 purchased 112 acres near the source of the west branch of the Neshaminy, one-half mile west of Leidytown, where he resided until his death in 1822. He was a saddler by trade, and followed that business in connection with the conduct of his farm. The chil- dren of Jacob and Elizabeth (Yost) Schneider, were : George ; Michael, who married (first) Mary Rosenberger and (second) Elizabeth Rosenberger; Enos; Elias ; Christian; Catharine, married John L. Shellenberger ; Hannah, died unmar- ried; Lydia, married Jacob Savacool; Ame- lia, married Levi Sellers; and Elizabeth, who married Charles Eckhardt. The fam- ily were members of the Lutheran church, and were among the founders of St. Peter's Lutheran church of Hilltown. George Snyder, eldest son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born on the old Hilltown homestead, and at his father's death in 1822 became its owner. He erected a mill thereon, now conducted by his grandson, Isaiah S. Snyder, which he operated for a number of years. In 1850 he conveyed the lower half of the homestead with the mill to his son Francis, and in 1872 conveyed the remainder to his youngest son Henry H., the subject of this sketch. He later purchased the Peter L. Snyder farm ad- joining, and lived thereon until his death, January 10, 1884. He was a member and trustee of St. Peter's Lutheran church of Hilltown, and was one of the prominent business men of Hilltown, and interested in the local enterprises of that section. In politics he was a Democrat, and took an active part in the councils of his party. He was a director of the poor for Bucks county for the term 1868- 1871, and like- wise filled many local offices. He was mar- ried four times. He married (first) July 4, 1824, Mary Wittig, born March i, 1803, died November 16, 1837, who bore him five children — Francis, who died in Jlill- town several years ago, leaving a large family ; Jacob B., for many years a promi- nent merchant at Plumsteadville, Bucks county ; Ephraim ; Sarah Ann ; and Mary Ann. He married (second) Lydia Hart- zell, born July 3, 1807, died January 18, 1858; their only child was Henry H., the subject of this sketch. His third wife was Elizabeth Martin, born March 5, 181 1, died September i, 1873. Mr. Snyder married a fourth time, February 12, 1876, Caroline Woodring, who was born April 14, 1814. No children were born to the last two marriages. HENRY H. SNYDER, born Decembei 10, 1842, was the only son of George by his second marriage, with Lydia Hartzell, ;84 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. who was a descendant of an old and prom- inent family of Rockhill and Hilltown. lie was reared on the old homestead and as- sumed control of it on arriving at man- hood, becoming the owner in 1872. His life has been one of industry and business ac- tivity. He has followed the commission business for many years with success, mar- keting his own and his neighbor's produce in Philadelphia, and is one of the active and progressive men of his section, and has taken especial pride in giving his chil- dren the benefit of a good education. He married November 30. 1865, Amanda R. Reiff. daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Reitif) Reiff, of Hilltown, and they have been the parents of three children, Elmer R., Sallie E., and Anna Mary. Elmer R. Snyder, born August 21, 1866, graduated from the University of Pennsyl- .vania, in 1889, and practiced medicine in Philadelphia for nine years. He died March 16, 1898, after undergoing a surgical opera- tion in the University hospital. Sallie E. Snyder, born November 19, 1867. married June 12, 1894, Rev. Charles C. Snyder, (son of Sim.on and Lydia Sny- der) pastor of the Lutheran church at Dub- lin, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where they reside. Anna Mary Snyder, born November 3, 1870, married November 21, 1893, Rev. William O. Fegely, pastor of the Lutheran church at the Trappe, Montgomery coun- ty, where he has officiated for seven years. Rev. William O. and Anna Mary (Sny- der) Fegely are the parents of four chil- dren : Byron Snyder, Grace Amanda, Alma M. and Florence E. Henry H. Snyder is an elder and deacon of St. Peter's Lutheran church, and has been a trustee of the church for twenty years. He still conducts his farm, and carries on the business of a commission merchant. EZRA MICHENER, of Solebury town- ship, for many years one of, the prom- inent farmers and stock breeders of central Bucks, is a representative of one of the old' families of Bucks county. He was born in Buckingham township, near his present residence, October 4, 1839, and is a son of Dr. Isaiah and Esther (Good) Michener. and a lineal descendant of John and ?^Iary Michener. who brought a certificate from Friends in England to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting about 1687. William Michener. third child of John and Mary, born to mo. 14, 1696. married at Abington Meeting, (where his parents had located in 1715,) 4 mo., 1720, Mary Kuster (or Kester, as the name came to be spelled later), a grand- daughter of Paulus Kuster, who came from the Upper Rhine to Germantown in 1687. In 1723 William Michener settled in Plum- stead township, where he became a large landowner and a prominent citizen. After the death of his first wife, who was the mother of his ten children, he married a widow, Ann Schofield, who survived him. He died in 1782. His eighth child, Mes- chach, born 4 mo., 22, 1737, died i mo., 9, 1826, was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch. He married, 11 mo., 24, 1761, Mary Trego, of Wrightstown, and lived and died in Bucks county ; he was an exten- sive landholder in Plumstead and Buck- ingham townships. Mcschach and Mary (Trego) Michener were the parents of eleven children, of whom Thomas, the grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch, was the eighth, being born. I mo. 21, 1778. He was a shoemaker by trade, and followe'd that occupation dur- ing the active years of life. About 1825 he removed from Buckingham to Horsham, Montgomery county, where he died at the age of nearly ninety years. His wife was Sarah Bradshaw, daughter of James Brad- shaw, of Warrington, Bucks county, and they were the parents of ten children, of whom Isaiah was the fifth. Isaiah Michener was born in Bucking- ham township, Bucks county. January 25, 1812. He was reared in Buckingham, and removed with his parents to Horsham, but returned to Buckingham in 1830, and re- sided for several years with his uncle, Isaiah Michener, on the farm, which be- came his at the death of his uncle and was his residence for many years. Soon after his return to Buckingham he took up the study of veterinary surgery, and began to practice that professiort in 1836. and be- came very eminent in the profession, fol- lowing it for sixty-three years. He was one of the founders and the sponsor of the U. S. Veterinary Medical Association. He was a man of great force of character, and enjoyed the esteem and respect of the com- munity. He was devoted to his profes- sion, and did much to advance and increase its usefulness; a man of indomitable in- dustry, he acquired a competence, but kept up the practice of his profession until his death in 1899, at the age of eighty-seven years. He married Esther Good, daughter of John and Sarah C Smith) Good, of Plum- stead. Dr. Isaiah IMichener was active in all that pertained to the best interests of the community in which he lived, and filled many positions of trust. He was for twen- ty-one years president of the Doylestown Agricultural and Mechanics' Institute, and was a familiar figure at its annual county fair. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and politically a Republican. He married a second time, late in life. Rebecca Scott, whose maiden name was Brndshaw. Dr. Isaiah and Esther (Good) Michener. were the parents of ten children, eight of whom lived to maturity, viz: Ezra, see for- ward; Sarah B., wife of Charles S. Pax- son, of Solebury ; Dr. J. Curtis, a prom- inent veterinarian of Colmar, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania ; Mary Ellen, widow of Dr. Asher M. Fell, of Doylestown; Hor- ace, of Doylestown ; Clarissa, wife of J. ^. >^^2<:e-^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 585 Willis Neeld, of Richboro. Bucks county; Charles, deceased, who was a prominent veterinarian in New York; and Anson B., of Solebury. Ezra Michener was the eldest son, and was reared on the farm in Bucking- ham, and acquired his education at the public schorls and at the first State Nor- mal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania, and at the Excelsior Normal Institute at Carversville. On January 21, 1864, he mar- ried Margaretta Smith, daughter of Joseph and Sarah _ (Twining) Smith, o* Bucking- bam, and in the following spring located on the farm in Solebury, where he has ever since resided, purchasing it of his father ten years later. He has been for many years a breeder of thoroughbred Guernsey cattle, has bred many famous cows, and always has a fine herd on his farm, in which he takes great pride. He was one of the or- ganizers and is now a member of the execu- tive committee of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. This club was organized at the Astor House, New York city, February 7. 1877, by Dr. Charles R. King, S. W. Comly and Ezra Michener, of Pennsyl- vania; Silas Betts and Mason C. Weld, of New Jersey ; James P. Swain, of New York, Charles M. Beach and Edward Nor- ton, of Connecticut; and E. F. Bowditch and James M. Codman, of Massachusetts. Of these only the last mentioned and Mr. Michener are now living. Mr. INIichener is also a member of the Guernsey Breeders' Association. In politics he is a Republi- can ; he has been a member of the school board of Solebury township for thirty years, and is now a member of the board of county auditors. He is the postmaster of Michener postoffice, established at Cottage- ville in 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Michener have been the parents of six children : Thomas, a farmer in Buckingham ; M. Alice, resid- ing at home ; Edwin J., deceased : Lois W., a conductor on the Willow Grove Trolley line ; Isaiah, who conducts the farm ; and Edith B., residing at home. JACOB L. SHELLY, who is interested in agricultural pursuits in Bucks county, and in the produce business in Philadelphia, was born in Buckingham township, this county, December 24, 1866. His paternal grandfather was Samuel Shelly. His father, Henry S. Shelly, was born December 25, 18.37. at Brick Tavern, Steinsburg, Bucks county. For many years he successfully followed farming in the county of his nativity, having a rich tract of land which he placed under a high state of cultivation. In religious faith he was a Mennonite, and served as deacon of the church at Deep Run. He wedded Miss Mary Leatherman. a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Bishop) Leatherman. Jacob L. Shelly, son of Henry S. and Mary Shelly, attended the public schools of New Britain township, Bucks county, and in his boyhood assisted in the work of the home farm. Following his marriage he engaged in farming for a year in Bed- minster township, and then removed to the Joseph N. Gross farm in New Britain township, where he continued the tilling of the soil for seven years. He took up his abode in 1897 on the J. L. Gross farm, where he has since resided, and in con- nection with its cultivation he is engaged in the produce business in the Philadelphia markets. He does an extensive business in raising hogs, poultry and vegetables, and finds a good sale for these in the city. He has led a busy and useful life, his business cares making heavy demands upon his time and energies, and yet he has found time to foster measures for the public good. He served for six years on the school board in New Britain townshio, and is inspector at the present time. He is also a mem- ber of the Mennonite church, and in his political views is a stanch Republican. Jacob L. Shelly was married February 9, 1888, in Bedminster township, to Miss Liz- zie Rosenberger, a daughter of Jacob D. and Hannah (Barns) Rosenberger. Her parents had ten children: Daniel. Mary, Isaiah, Lizzie, Emma, Fannie, Maggie, John, Etta and William. Of this number Mrs. Shelly was born October 23, 1862, and by her marriage she has become the mother of six children : Edith R., born October 25, 1888; Howard R., born September 6, 1890, and died November 22, following; Henry R., born November i, 1891 ; Jacob Arthur R., born October 19. 1894; Annetta_ R., born September 11, 1898; and George R., born March 16, 1904. LLOYD RIDGE, who carries on gen- eral farming and dairying in Lower Make- field township, belongs to one of the old and honored families of Bucks county. His paternal great-grandparents were resi- dents of this county, and his grandfather, Daniel Ridge, lived and died in Bensalem township, near Trevose. He gave his at- tention to general farming throughout his entire life, and the property which he owned is still in possession of the Ridge family. His wife bore the maiden name of Rachel Staats, and they became the par- ents of eight children : Jonathan ; William W. ; Hiram : James : Charles ; Elizabeth, wife of Spencer Tomlinson; Emeline, wife of John Comly ; and Daniel. William W. Ridge, son of Daniel and Rachel (Staats) Ridge, was born in Ben- salem township, September 12, 1817, and in early life began farming on his own ac- count, after which he gave his entire at- tention to agricultural pursuits until his life's labors were ended. In 1853 he pur- chased a farm in what is now the Thirty- fifth ward of Philadelphia, and continued to reside thereon until his death, which oc- curred May II, 1903. An unfaultering advo- cate of Republican principles, he was prom- 586 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY inent in local political circles and held the office of Alderman a number of years, lie held other mnior positions, and further po- litical honors awaited him, for in 11^85 he was elected to the state legislature. He married Miss Sarah A. Johnson, and they became the parents of children : Lloyd ; Emma, the widow of Luther li. Cornell ; Annie, deceased, wife of Newton Myers. Lloyd Ridge, the eldest son of William W. Ridge, was born in Bensalem town- ship, July 10, 1847, and was a student in the public schools of Philadelphia, after which he spent one term in the jNlillers- ville State Normal school. He was trained to habits of industry upon the home farm, and remained with nis father until twenty- six years of age, at which time he took up his abode upon the farm that is now his home. He has made all of the improve- ments here, and it is one of the best equip- ped farm properties of Lower Makeheid township, having splendid buildings, the latest improved machinery, highly cultivat- ed fields and good grades of stock. In con- nection with general agricultural pursuits he has conducted a dairy business, and for the past thirty years has made a daily de- livery of his dairy products in Trenton, New Jersey. His success has come as the direct result of diligence, perseverance and sound judgment. Lloyd Ridge was married to Miss Mary Wilson, a daughter of Jesse S. and Martha C. Wilson, and they have a wide and favorable acquaint- ance in Lower Makeheld township. HARVEY S. KULP, senior member of the tirm of Kulp Brothers, Perkasie, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born at Pleas- ant Valley, Springfield township, Bucks county, July 25, 1862, and is a son of Abra- ham M. and Elmira (Slifer) Kulp. The emigrant ancestor of the Kulps of Bucks and Montgomery counties was Diel- man Kulp, a native of Germany, who came to America in the ship "Mortonhouse," ar- riving in Philadelphia, August 17, 1729. He settled in Montgomery county on the Skip- pack creek, and is buried in the old Skip- pack Mennonite burying ground. Dielman Kulp, Jr., settled in Bedminster township, Bucks county, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty-two acres in 1754. He died there in October, 1789, his wife Elizabeth dying some years previously. They were the parents of three children — Henry ; Elizabeth, who married Henry Rosenberger ; and Jacob Kulp. Jacob, son of Dielman Kulp, was born in Montgomery county, April 16, 1737, ana married May 22, 1760, Elizabeth Fretz, born in 1739, daughter of John Fretz, the pioneer ancestor of the Fretz family who had settled in Bedminster in 1738. In 1761 Jacob Kulp purchased of the London Com- pany 211 acres of land in Tinicum town- ship, and lived thereon until 1774, when he purchased a farm of 162 acres in Hill- town township, near Dublin, and later pur- chased considerable other land in that vi- cinity. He died in Hilltown in May, 1816. The children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Fretz) Kulp, were ten in number, viz.: I. Isaac, born March 3, 1762, married Mary Clymer, and left nine children. 2. John, born September t>, 1764, married Barbara Funk, and had one son Jacob, and two daughters. 3. Gertrude, born February 8, 1767, married Jacob Hunsberger of Hatheld, Montgomery county. 4. Jacob, born April 29, 1769, mai- ried Catharine Delp, and removed to Holmes county, Ohio, where he organized a Mennonite church of which he was pastor. He was ordained as a Mennonite minister at Doylestown Mennonite meeting in i8i8» and preached there until 1831, when he re- moved with his family to Ohio. 5. Abra- ham Kulp, born April 19, 1771, married Sarah Hunsicker; see forward. 6. Deilman, born July 23, 1773, married Hester Leicy, and lived and died on the old homestead near Dublin, had a son Henry and a daugh- ter Anna, married Samuel Angeny. 7. Hen- ry, born January 28, 1776, married Anna Hunsicker, lived and died on the Hilltown homestead ; had children Isaac, Jacob, Jo- seph and Elizabeth. 8. Elizabeth, born De- cember I, 1778, married Jacob Silvius; lived near Doylestown. 9. Barbara, born May 4, 1781, died June 26, 1783. 10. Cath- arine, born November 14, 1783, married Simon Musselman. Abraham Kulp, son of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Fretz) Kulp, born in Tinicum town- ship, Bucks county, April 19, 1771, was reared on the old homestead in Hilltown, near Dublin, where his father settlea when he was three years of age. He mar- ried in 1796 Sarah Hunsicker, and in the spring of 1805 removed to Bedminster township, where he had purchased a farm of 114 acres near the Deep Run Mennon- ite Meeting of which meeting he soon af- terward became minister. He died in 1848. His children were: i. Elizabeth, born 1797, died 1876, married Samuel Gayman. 2. Abraham, born 1802, died 1876, married Catharine Shoemaker. 3. Anna, born 1804, died 1885, married Martin Overholt. 4. Ja- cob, born March 8, 1806; see forward. 5. David H., born 1816, married (tirst) Eliza- beth Detwiler, and (second) Elizabeth Al- lebach. 6. Isaac. 7. Henry, died unmar- ried in 1889. 8. Sarah, married Jacob High, and 9. Barbara, born 1818, married Jacob Moyer. Jacob H. Kulp, son of Rev. Abraham and Sarah (Hunsicker) Kulp, born in Bed- minster, ]\Iarch 8, 1806, married November I, 1827, Mary ]\Ioyer, born in Springfielo township, October 15, 1802, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Angeny) Meyer, and granddaughter of William Meyer, a native of Switzerland, who with three brothers and a sister migrated to America about 1742 and settled in Springfield, near Pleasant Valley. Jacob H. Kulp on his HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 587 marriage settled in Springfield township, where he purchased a farm and lived to a good old age. His children were : Eliza- beth, born June 7, 1S30, died December 21, 1864, unmarried; and Abraham M., born May 13, 1838. Abraham M. Kulp was born and reared at Pleasant Valley, Springfield township, and married there, October 27, i860, Elmira B. Slifer, daughter of Joseph B. Slifer, and purchased and conducted his father's farm. Ihey were the parents of eight chil- dren, viz.: I. Harvey S., the subject of this sketch. 2. Mary A., born September 12, 1864. 3. Jacob S., born September i, 1866. 4. Willis S., born November 28, 1869, married Minnie Moyer and is the partner of the subject of this sketch. 5. Lizzie S., born November 2;^, 1871, married Harvey W. Moyer. 6. Ella A., born March 20, 1873, married William M. Geisinger. 7. Abra- ham, born September 30, 1875. 8. Carrie, born November 14, 1878, single. Harvey S. Kulp was born and reared at Pleasant Valley and graduated from the Pleasant Valley high school. He remained on the farm with his parents until twenty- one years of age, and then entered a gen- eral store where he was a clerk for eight years. In 1891 he and his brother Willis S. purchased the business at Chalfont, where they conducted a general store under the firm name of Kulp Brothers, for eight years. In 1899 they sold out to John Swart- ley, and, removing to Perkasie, opened their present store, the largest of its kind in Perkasie, and are doing a fine business. Mr. Kulp and family are members of the Mennonite meeting at Souderton. In poli- tics he is a Republican, but has never sought or held other than local oftice, and was a school director at Chalfont for four years. He married, May 25, 1887, Mary E. Moyer, daughter of John H. and Sarah Moyer, who has borne him five children, as follows: Erma, born April 2, 1888; Ja- cob Harold, born September 17, 1890; Wil- lis M., born April 4, 1892; Walter S., born August 9, 1895; and Laura, born March 21, 1897. LEIDY FAMILY. The American pro- genitor of the Leidy family of Hilltown was Jacob Leidy, who emigrated from Germany, arriving in Philadelphia in the ship "Adventure," from Rotterdam, Octo- ber 2, 1727. The name has been various- ly spelled Leidich, Leidigh and Leidy. They were among the early German fam- ilies to espouse the Protestant religion, and after years of persecution for conscience sake sought religious freedom in Penns colony on the Delaware. Jacob Leidy set- tled in Franconia township, now. Mont- gomery county, and was the organizer of the Indian Creek Reformed church near Telford, since known locally as "Leidy s Church." His eldest son Jacob and his daughter Magdalene, who married Colonel Jacob Reed, a prominent officer of militia in the revolution, were both born in Ger- many. He had several other children, most of whom on arriving at manhood settled in other localities, most of them moving westward, assisting in forming new settle- ments, and spreading the gospel of Christ in the new colony. Carl Ludwig Leidy, the first American born son of the pioneer, Jacob, was born in Franconia township, December 30, 1729, and is the ancestor of the Hilltown (.Bucks county) branch of the family. He set- tled near the present site of Leidytown, in Hilltown, soon after attaining manhood, and died there February 25, 1785. His wife Ursula was born February 8, 1734, and died April 8, 1786. Their children were Jacob, who married April 17, 1777, Cath- arine Conover ; Margaret, who married Adam buzzard; Eve, who married Conrad Shelienberger ; Hannah, who married Charles Fluke; Mary, who married Philip Miinibower ; Charles ; Elizabeth ; George ; Catharine and Henry. Among his distin- guished descendants was the late Professor Charles Leidy, of the University of Penn- sylvania. Henry Leidy, youngest son of Carl Lud- wig and Ursula, married April 3, 1781, Anna Barbara Raudenbush. He was born in Hilltown, October 8, 1755, and died Sep- tember 2, 1844. His wife, Anna Barbara,^ was born September 29, 1762, and died May 2T„ 1838; both are buried at the old Hill- town Reformed church of which they and the whole family were among the earliest and most prominent members. They were the parents of three sons, George ; Henry ; and Samuel. George Leidy, the eldest son, was born in Hilltown, October 16, 1784, and died there October 5, 1831 ; his wife Mary Wambold, was born December 16, 1791, and died Alay 22, 1841. Henry, the second son of Henry and Anna Barbara (Raudenbush) Leidy, was born in Hilltown on the old homestead purchased by his grandfather, November 29, 1791. On arriving at manhood he pur- chased the old homestead of his grand- father and resided there all his life, dy- ing October 28, 1881. Like his ancestors he was a member of the Reformed church, and is buried in the old graveyard of the Hilltown church. He married Sarah Ger- hart, daughter of Abraham Gerhart, who was born in 1794, and died September 11, 1857, and they were the parents of six children, viz.; Jonas (deceased), married Eliza Cressman and left one child ; Eliza, born November 27, 1827, died January 30, 1838; Samuel G., see forward; Sophia (de- ceased), married Isaac Heinly; Elizabeth,. married Frederick Fluck ; Leah, married William Shull. SAMUEL G. LEIDY, of Hilltown town- ship,, second son of Henry and Sarah (Ger- hart) Leidy, was born in Hilltown town- ship, November 28, 1832, and has always 588 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. resided there, being one of the prominent and successful farmers of that section. He married November 5, 1859, Sarah Ann Fluck, daughter of Jesse Fluck, of Hill- town. H. FRANK LEIDY, only son of Samuel G. and Sarah Ann (Fluck) Leidy, was born in Hilltown, October 24, 1862. He was educated at the local schools and reared to the life of a farmer, and has never followed any other vocation. Fie has always been actively interested in all that pertains to the best interests of the community in which he lives, and has held a number of posi- tions of trust. He is a director and treas- urer of the Unionville and Hatfield Turn- pike Company, and director of the Hill- town Cemetery Association. In politics he is a Democrat, but has never sought or held other than local offices. He married De- cember 19. 1885, Lydia Leidy, daughter of Samuel Leidy, and they are the parents of one child, Sarah Andora, born July 8, 1897. GEORGE S. CADWALLADER. The Cadwallader family, to which George S. Cadwallader belongs, was founded in America by one of three brothers, natives of Wales, who emigrated thence to the new world, locating in Chester county, Pennsylvania, another in Montgomery county, this state, while the record of the third is lost. All of the Cadwalladers through successive generations have been members of the Society of Friends. One of these brothers, Jacob Cadwallader, was a direct ancestor of George S. Cadwal- lader. His son, Jacob Cadwallader, was born in Montgomery county, and became a resident of Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, where he followed farming and reared his family. Jacob Cadwallader, son of Jacob Cad- wallader (2) was born in Lower Make- field township in 1804. He was at one time a resident of Upper Makefield township, where he resided for two years, and later spent two years in Buckingham township. In 1841 he removed to Solebury town- ship, purchasing the farm now owned by George S. Cadwallader from the old Beans estate. He was active and successful in business, leaving to his heirs a good prop- erty. On the organization of the Repub- lican party he became one of its most stal- wart members, never failing to cast his ballot for the men and measures of the party. He belonged to the Friends' Meet- ing, and died in that faith in 1886, when about eighty-two years of age. His wife, Mary Leland, was a daughter of Joseph Leland, who piloted Washington across the Delaware when he captured the Hessians on Christmas day at Trenton. Jacob ana Mary (Leland) Cadwallader had two chil- dren: Franklin; and Anna, wife of Howard M. Betts, of Solebury township. Franklin Cadwallader was born in Upper Makefield township in 1837, and when he was in his fouth year his parents removed to the farm which had formerly been a part of the Beans estate, and where he re- sided until his death, succeeding to the ownership of the property on his father's demise. He always followed farming, and, like his father, sustained an excellent repu- tation as a business man and citizen. Al- though he, too, was a Republican in prin- ciple and voted with the party on national questions, at local elections where no issue was involved he frequently cast an inde- pendent ballot. He married Rachel Slack, and of their six children two survive : Elizabeth, wife of J. Titus Slotter, of Sole- bury township ; and George S. George S. Cadwallader was born on the old family homestead once the property of his grandfather, January 6, 1873. Hav- ing acquired his education in the public schools he worked with his father on the farm until the latter's death in 1897, when he assumed the management of the prop- erty for his mother, who, however, died in May of the following year. He then purchased the farm, and has since _ con- tinued its cultivation, the result of his la- bors being highly satisfactory as his meth- ods are practical and modern. He is ac- counted one of the progressive young farm- ers of Solebury township. George S._ Cad- wallader married Miss Sarah Smith, a daughter of A. Jackson Smith, of Bucking- ham township, and by this marriage there is one son, Frank T., born November 10, 1897. Like the others of the family Mr. Cadwallader is a Republican, his study of the questions of the day leading him to en- dorse the attitude of the party on vital issues. ADEN H. BRINKER. Among the representatives of that class of men known as practical and progressive agriculturists the name of Aden H. Brinker occupies a prominent place. He has gained success in that occupation by close application and ceaseless activity, and his reliable trans- actions have contributed in a large meas- ure to his prosperity. He was born in Warrington township. Bucks county. Penn- sylvania. r^Liy 4, 1848. Aden Brinker, grandfather of Aden H. Brinker, lived and died in Bucks county, and his son John, father of Aden H. Brinker, was a native of the same county, where his whole life was spent, his active career having been devoted to farming. He married Miss Amelia Hibbs, and their children were: Edward. John, Aden H., mentioned here- inafter: Jacob, who wn? killed in tho army: and Susan, wife of Albert D. Wilgus, of Chalfont. a farmer. Aden H. Brinker acquired in the com- mon schools of his neighborhood an edu- cation which prepared him for the active duties of life. In early life he gained a HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 589 thorough knowledge of farming on the homestead, and he continued this occupa- tion after attaining manhood years, there- by providing his family with all the neces- saries and many of the luxuries of life. He is an active and public spirited citizen, taking an interest in all measures calculated to benefit his township and county. Mr. Brinker was married twice. His first wife, whose maiden name was Anna Younge, bore him one child, Daniel, now engaged as a dry goods merchant in Tampa, Florida. His second wife, whose maiden name was Sallie Worell, daughter of Elisha and Margaret Worell, bore him nine children, namely: Elisha, born August 29, 1874; J. Hunter, born March 21, 1878; Aden G., born April 19, 1880; Oakford, born May 12, 1882; Flora, born May i, 1884; Lester C, born October 8, 1885; Albert W., born October 25, 1886; Addie L., born May 23, 1891 ; and Samuel, born October 31, 1894. EDWIN J. JACOBY. Perseverance, thrift and industry have been the chief characteristics in the career of Edwin J. Jacoby, a prosperous agriculturist, who was born on the old homestead in Doylestown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1855, a son of John and Sarah (Clymer) Jacoby, and grandson of John and Maria Magdalena (Shifler) Jacoby: John Jacoby (grandfather) was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, one of the three original counties of the state, which is bounded on the northeast and south- east by the Delaware river, southwest by Philadelphia and Montgomery county, and on the north by Lehigh and Northampton counties. About the year 1824 he pur- chased a farm in Doj'lestown township, adjoining the farm now owned by his grandson, Edwin J. Jacoby, and conducted extensive operations thereon up to the time of his death, thereby providing a comfort- able home for his family, which consisted of his wife, Maria Magdalena (Shifler) Jacoby, whom he married in 1808, and his children — Elizabeth, who died unmarried ; Susan, who became the wife of Samuel Halderman ; Mary, who died unmarried ; Isaac, a farmer in New Britain township, near New Galena ; Levi, a farmer of Fount- ainville, New Britain towmship ; Emanuel, a farmer of Doylestown township ; Peter, a farmer of Doylestown township ; and John. John Jacoby (father) was born in Doy- lestown township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1828. From the completion of his school studies until his death, in August, 1902. he engaged in the quiet but useful calling of agriculture, and his practical and progressive methods brought to him a large degree of prosperity. He was an act- tive member of the Baptist church of New Britain during the greater part of his life, served in the . capacity . of trustee for a number of years, and at the time of his demise was a deacon. He married Miss Sarah Clymer, daughter of Henry and Mary Clymer, and their children were : Henry F., a resident of Doylestown township; Edwin J., mentioned hereinafter ; Mary, E. Jennie, Carrie M., the three last named being deceased. The educational privileges enjoyed by Edwin J. Jacoby during his boyhood days were obtained in the common schools of his native county. He assisted with the manifold duties of the home farm until he was about twenty years of age, and the following three years he resided with his brother Henry F., in New Britain town- ship. In 1877 he purchased from his father the farm upon which he now resides. The farm consists of fifty acres situated about two and a half miles from Doj'lestown, and is one of the finest and most oroduc- tive in Bucks county, and this, for a period of twenty-seven years, Mr. Jacoby has cul- tivated to a high state of perfection. As a citizen he is active and public-spirited, and the esteem in which he is held by his neighbors is evidenced by the fact that he was elected to the office of school director in 1896, and has been re-elected three suc- cessive terms. He is a member of the Baptist church of New Britain, in which body he holds the office of trustee. He supports the candidates of the Republican party, with whom he has cast vote since attaining majority. Mr. Jacoby was united in marriage to Kate Wagoner, daughter of William and Mary (Williams) Wagoner. Four children were the issue of this union : William H., born March 26, 1882, died December 16, 1884; Cora L., born March 25. 1885; John Wesley, born April 22,, 1888; and Florence A., born September i, 1891. GEORGE G. MILL, a retired agricul- turist of Buckingham township, Bucks count}', Pennsylvania, having given up ac- tive business pursuits in 1885, was born December 4, 1823, in Durham township, which is at the extreme north point of Bucks county, the last of the original town- ship to be organized, but one of the earl- iest in the upper end to be settled. Solomon Mill (grandfather) lived and died in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, w-here he followed farming as an occupation. He married a Miss Deemer, a'nd their children were : Tranther, who married a Mrs. Dean ; John ; George, mentioned herein- after; and Solomon. George Mill (father) was born in Durham township, Bucks county, and his entire time and attention, after completing a common school educa- tion, were given to agricultural pursuits. During the war of 1812 he displayed his patriotism by enlisting as a private, and throughout his term of service he served valiantly and well. He was a member of the German Reformed church. He mar- ried Miss Citherine Good, and eleven chil- dren, two of whom dif^d in infancy, were 590 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY born to them : The surviving members of the family are: Sarah, wite of Sanmcl Jacoby; Catherine, wife of Isaac Jacoby; Solomon G. ; George G., mentioned herein- after; John G. ; Magdaline, wife of Ellory Loux; Susanna, wire of Isaac Laubacii ; Mary, • wife of Ely Cauley ; and Amanda, wife of Samuel Gahman. George G. Mill was indebted to the com- mon schools of his township for a practi- cal education. He remained home, assist- ing his father with the management of the farm, until he was twenty years of age, and the following two years worked tor his uncle, Solomon Mill. He the returned home and worked for his father on the farm for four years, and at the ex- piration of this period of time began farm- ing on his own account on the old home- stead farm, where he remained six years. Having accumulated sufficient capital, he purchased a farm in Warrington township, which is the upper of the three rectangular townships that border the Montgomery county line, which he cultivated for nine years. He then disposed of this and pur- chased a farm in Buckingham township, where he gave his entire attention to farm- ing until 1885, since which time he has lived a retired life, enjoying the fruits of his many years of arduous toil. In 1880 he was instrumental in the organization of what is known as Cold Spring Dairy Association, and acted in the capacity of superintendent for almost twenty years, and treasurer for about ten years. For the long period of thirty-nine years he has held membership in the Reformed church of Doylestown, during which time he served terms as a member of the board of elders and treasurer. Mr. Mill married Miss Madame Baron, daughter of Jacob and Susanna Baron, of Bucks county. Their children are: Mary, born January 8, 1852, wife of Reuben Kohl ; Emma, born Sep- tember 10, 1853, wife of Joseph Ruos; Isaiah B., born May 25, 1858; Catherine, born February 25, 1861, deceased; Elmer, born October 14, 1866, deceased ; and Clara, born July 15, 1869, deceased. Mr. Mill is one of the venerable citizens of the town- ship, honored and esteemed by all who come in contact with him. Mrs. Mill died Aug- ust 8, 1893, at the age of sixty-four years. CHARLES FOULKE STRAWN of Quakertown, is a representative of one of the oldest Pennsylvania families. He is a great-grandson of Jacob and Christine (Purcell) Strawn, who were residents of Pennsylvania in its early colonial period. Daniel Strawn. son of Jacob and Christine (Purcell) Strawn, was born near Apple- bachsville, in Haycock township, and was a farmer and also a teacher in the sub- scription schools. He was an active mem- ber of the Society of Friends. He was thrice married, and was in all the father of eighteen children, sixteen of whom grew to maturity and reared families. His sec- ond wife was Margaret Purcell, by whom he was the father of a son, Thomas, men- tioned at length hereinafter. There were no children by the third wife. Thomas Strawn, son of Daniel and Mar- garet (Purcell) Strawn, was born July 4, 1789, and received his education in the subscription school presided over by his father. He learned the cabinetmaker's trade and also the carpenter's, carrying on the business of a builder in conjunction with the labors of a farmer. He married Mary, daughter of Casper and Jane John- son, and after her death he married, April 30, 1829, Jane Foulke, who belonged to a tamily which is traced through the following generations : Hugh Foulke, born July 6, 1685, son of Edward Foulke of Penllyn, married Anna , born in 1693, and they were the pa- rents of a son, Theophilus. Hugh Foulke died May 21, 1760, and his widow passed away in 1793. Their son Theophilus, mentioned above, was born December 21, 1726, married Margaret Foulke, who was born April 3, 1734, and he died Novem- ber 4, 1785, the death of his wife occurring March 30, 1802. Their son Benjamin was- born August 16, 1766, and married. March 26, 1789, Martha Roberts. Their daughter Jane became the wife of Thomas Strawn, as mentioned above. Benjamin Foulke died February 28, 1821, at Harrisburg, being then in his second term as a member of the legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Strawn were the parents of the following children : i. Rachel Foulke, born July 30, 1831, died October 14, 1885. 2. Martha F., bom July 4, 1833, died 1841. 3. Charles Foulke, men- tioned at length hereinafter. The death of Mr. Strawn occurred January 11, 1857. Charles Foulke Strawn, son of Thomas and Jane (Foulke) Strawn, was born April 9, 1836, on the homestead in Richland town- ship, which was situated two miles south of Quakertown, on the Bethlehem turn- pike. He attended the Friends' meeting school and also a subscription school, after which he learned the cabinetmaker's trade and also the carpenter's, at the same time rendering assistance on the home farm. After the death of his father he conducted the business for six years, and took up more land adjoining the farm. In the spring of 1890 he sold the estate to Edward N. Conn. During the civil war he was an enrolling officer, and served in that capacity during the war, for Richland township, and subsequently held office for six years in the postoffice. He is a Republican in politics and has always taken an active in- terest in party aflfairs. Mr. Strawn mar- ried, April 7. T862, Mary S.. daughter of Charles F. and Margaret (Schultz) War- wick, of Philadelphia, and they were the parents of two sons and a daughter: i. Harry Warwick, born June 9. 1863, died June II, 1904. unmarried: 2. Frederick Percy, born April 16. 1S67. engaged in the livery business at Quakertown, and died HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 591 July 20, 1891. 3. Jane Foulke, born October 2, 1869, married, May 25, 1904, David H., son of David H. and Dorothy (Bones) Thomas, of Philadelphia, and resides in that city. ROBERT BLANK SNYDER, son of Amos Hinkle and Mary Ann (Blank) Sny- der, was born April 17, 1S63, in Quaker- town, Pennsylvania. He is a direct descen- dant of Andrew Snyder, who was among the early settlers of Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Andrew Sny- der was the eldest son of a noble family of the Duchy of Deux Fonts, of Rhenish Bavaria, where he was born in 1739. In ■order to obtain money to come to Amer- ica he sold his title to the immunities of nobility to his younger brother. He ar- rived in Philadelphia in 1759, at the age of twenty years, and apprenticed himself to Benjamin Chew, with whom he remained three years. At the expiration of this time the Chews assisted him to purchase four hundred acres of land in Richland town- ship. At the breaking out of the Revolu- tionary war, he entered the army, and was present at Trenton, Germantown and other battles, and at the end of five years' ser- vice was paid therefor in worthless cur- rency. He was appointed collector in Richland township after the war, and was rendered penniless by going security for ■others, but his old friends, the Chews, came to his assistance again. In 1765 he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Ja- •coby, and eleven children were born to them, five sons and six daughters, among them being John Snyder. Andrew Snyder passed away after a well-spent life, October 26, 1815, at the advanced age of seventj'-six years. John Snyder, the son of Andrew Snyder and grandfather of Robert B., was married to Miss Matilda Hinkle, and among their children was Amos Hinkle Snyder. Amos Hinkle Snyder, the father of Rob- ert Blank Snyder, was born Dej:ember 13, 1821, on the Snyder homestead on the Tohickon, in Richland ■ township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. His early education "was acquired in the subscription schools of that section, and in the summer months he assisted on the home farm. Immediately after leaving the school-room he engaged in farming and droving, and later invented and patened the Snyder creamery vats, and from 1880 to 1883 was engaged in fitting up creameries, and finally settled on the farm which is now owned and occupied l)y his son, Robert Blank Snyder. In 1841 Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Mary Ann Blank, who was born Novem- ber 19, 1822, the daughter of ,John and Mary Blank, of Rockhill township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania. The following chil- dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Snyder : Monroe Benjamin. March 17, 1842. married Miss Susan C. Berry, daughter of Benja- man L. Berry, of Philadelphia, professor of astronomy at the Boys' High School ; 2. Oliver B., born INIarch 18, 1845, died March 14, 1880; 3. Clementina B., born 1847, died March, 1872: 4. Mary B., born October 15, 1855, died 1866; 5. Ellen, born April 10, 1858; 6. Warren B., born May 5, 1S60, married Flora Fellman, daughter of Man- assah and Alamanda (Heddman) Fellman. Her father was a farmer of Rockhill town- ship, and was later a merchant of Quaker- town, and resides at 4405 Haverford avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 7. Robert Blank, born April 17, 1863; 8. George B., born April 22, 1865, married Minnie Appel, daughter of Reuben and Hannah (Hess) Appel, of Springfield town- ship, and lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Amos Hinkle Snyder died May 23, 1901, and his wife passed away August 3, 1894. Robert Blank Snyder, seventh child and fourth son of Amos H. and Ann (Blank) Snyder, at the age of seven years moved with his parents to the village of Cali- fornia, which was situated a few miles northeast of Quakertown. Here he at- attended the district school, and in the sum- mer months assisted his father on the farm. In 1875 his father purchased the Joseph Evans farm, on Allentown pike, below Quakertown, which contains eighty-two acres, and where Robert now resides. Robert Blank Snyder's time was occupied chiefly in operating his farm, which he named "Locust Grove Stock Farm," and he was also actively engaged in the real estate business for some time. He is actively and prominently Identified with all local affairs, and is considered a valuable factor in his community. In politics Mr. Snyder is a stanch Republican, and works earnestly toward advancing the interests of that organization. He was at one time candidate for the clerk of the orphans' court. In religious affairs he and his fam- ily affiliate with St. John's Lutheran church at Quakertown, Pennsylvania. December 30, 1896, Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Hopper Palmer, the daughter of Edward and Marie M. (Frache) Palmer, of Philadelphia. Ed- ward Palmer was born in Philadelphia, May II, 1826, the son of Jonathan and Sarah (Hopper) Palmer. His maternal grandfather, Isaac T. Hopper, was a noted abolitionist and a promoter of what was known as the "underground railway" for the safe conduct of runaway slaves. He was also a prominent; Quaker and exhorter. Edward Palmer married Miss Marie Mada- line Frache, a native of Shuttaway, Alsace- Lorraine province, France, who came to this country and settled in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania. For a time Mr. and Mrs. Palmer engaged in farming, and later conducted a milk business. The following children were born to them: i. Henry B., July 5, 1849; married Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Ab- ner and Mary (Pabst) Reeder, of Quaker- town, and they reside on Broad street, Quakertown, Pennsylvania ; 2. Charles B., born April 11, 1854. married Mary Beans, daughter of Mathias and Lucetta (Hinkle) 592 HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY. Beans, of Philadelphia ; 3. Harriet Jack- son, born May 24, 1862, died March i), 1876; 4: Sarah Hopper (Mrs. Robert Ela.ik Snyder), born August 30, 1868. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Snyder : Amos Harrold, September 16, 1897; and Marie Madaline, July 14, 1899. THEODORE CORSON SEARCH, of Philadelphia, who for the past thirty-five years has been eminent in the manufactur- ing and business circles of that city as well as of the country at large, was born in Southampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1841, and is a son of Jacob Miles, and Nancy (Corson) Search, both of whom are deceased. Christopher Search, the grandfather of Theodore C, was born in Bucks county in 1764, and died in Southampton in 1842. In early life he was a blacksmith in Northamp- ton township, but in 1797 purchased the old Banes homestead in Southampton, and fol- lowed the vocation of a farmer until 1838, when he retired to a lot in Southampton, where he died. He was twice married, his first wife being Amelia Tolbert, daughter of James and Hannah (Burleigh) Tolbert, of Upper Makefield. by whom he had five children, viz.: William; James T. ; Sam- uel ; John, and Sarah T., who married Will- iam H. Spencer. His second wife was Ann (Miles) Banes, widow of William Banes of Southampton, who was born August 4, 1776, and died December 23, 1865. The children of the second marriage were : Miles, born July 5, 1807, died young; George W., born March 20, 1809, died in Newtown, IBucks county; Jacob Aides, born December 2, 1810, died October 11, 1893; Margaret Mv, born September 22, 181 1, mar- ried Elias Lefferts ; Anthony T., born Au- gust 16, 1814 ; Christopher, born February 3, 1816; Ann Miles, born March 22, i8r8, married Casper G. Fetter; and Griffith Miles, born April 2, 1822. Jacob Miles Search was born and reared in' Southampton township. He pur- chased the homestead farm upon which he had lived some years prior to his father's decease, and conducted it until 1879, when he erected a house on part of the farm near Southamptonville, where he lived retired until his death on October 11, 1893. He was always actively interested in educa- tional matters, and served for many years in the school board of Southampton town- ship. He was for many years trustee of the Southampton Baptist church. He mar- ried in 1837, Nancy Marplc Corson, born • in Southampton, September 29, 1818, died April 6, 1898. She was the third child of Richard and Elizabeth (Bennett) Corson, the former of whom was born in Bucks county, December 4, 1768, and died October 29, 1845, and was the fifth son of Benja- min and Sarah (Dungan) Corson. Benja- min Corson was born March 6, 1743, and was a son of Benjamin and Maria (Suy- dam) Corson, both natives of Long Island, the former being a son of Benjamin and Nelly Corson, who came to Bucks county in 1726, when their son Benjamin was seven years of age. The children of Jacob Miles and Nancy (Corson) Search, were: El- wood, born September 22, 1838 ; Theodore C, the subject of this sketch; Henry Lott, born September 8, 1846, living near Yard- ley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania; Erasmus N. M., born March 7, 1851 ; and Ann Eliza- beth, who married Edwin W- Roberts. Theodore Corson Search was born and reared on his father's farm in Southamp- ton, and attended the country school there until his seventeenth j'ear, when he en- tered the First State Normal School at Millersville, Pennsjdvania, and afterward entered the Crozier Normal High School, from which institution he graduated after taking a three years' course. He served one season as a teacher at Fallsington, Bucks county, and resigned to accept the position of principal of the high school at Middle- town, Dauphin county, Pennsjdvania, which he filled for two years, and later filled a similar position in the Middletown Acad- emy at Middletown for two years. In i866 he came to Philadelphia and was for two years an instructor in the Quaker City Business College, and one year principal of the National Commercial Institute, and then began his business career in the employ of Davis, Fiss ■& Banes, wholesale wool mer- chants. Four years later he became a junior partner in the firm under the name of Fiss, Banes, Erben & Co., manufacturers of worsted and woolen yarns. In 1883 the firm became Erben, Search & Co., and took a high rank as manufacturers. The busi- ness capacity of Mr. Search was univer- sally recognized, and his advice and serv- ices were sought by mercantile and finan- cial institutions. He became a director of the Bank of North America, a position which he has filled for over twenty years. He was elected president of the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and has filled many other responsible positions. It was, however, in the organization and per- petuation of associations for the protec- tion, development and improvement of American manufacturing interests that Mr. Search has been especially prominent. He was for many years a member and presi- dent of the Philadelphia Textile Associa- tion, and a director of its successor, the Manufacturers' Club ; was vice-president of the National Association of Wool Manu- facturers, of Boston ; and of the American Protective Tariff Association of New York. As president of the National Manu- facturers' Association, for five years he did effective _ work in the molding of public opinion in favor of and shaping legislation for the protection and fostering of Amer- ican manufacturing interests. He was the originator of the Philadelphia Textile School, later merged into the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, to whicli he has given much time and attcn- f F'st'^'a J-fisici.-!Ca7 .^:hip. They had six children : John; Abraham; Absalom; David, who died in 1821 ; Samuel and Inglish. (IV) Absalom Knight, son of Jonathan; and Grace Knight, was born September 17, 1754. and died in 1818. His wife was Anna Winder, and they had eight children : Benjamin, who was born April 16. 1785,. and married Mercy E. Martindale ; Amos, who wedded Mary Clayton; Moses, who- married Rose Tomlinson ; John, who mar- ried Hester Knight; Grace, who married Joshua Paul; AiDel; and Samuel. (V) Amos Knight, son of Absalonv and Anna Knight, wedded Mary Clayton and had five children: Clayton married a Miss Warner, and their children were Mary, Amos. Sarah, Ellena and Joseph ; he after- ward married again, removed to Kansas, and had several children, including Eva. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 599 Rebecca and Grace, daughters of Amos Knight, died in childhood^ Ann became the wife of Goforth Hibbs, and had two children, Mary and Bedell. Her second husband was David Cornell, and their chil- dren were Amos, Rebecca, Samuel, Jona- than and Annie. (VI) Jonathan Knight, youngest child of Amos Knight, was born in Southampton township, Bucks county, near Feasterville, on the old hoiiiestead farm, January lo, 1810, and wedded Alary Vansant, a daughter of Charles G. Vansant. They had nine children, of whom the eldest is Charles. The others are as follows: William (2), who died in 1876, married Elizabeth Fenton, and had five children : Eva, Annie, Byron ; and two sons deceased. Jane (3), died at the age of thirteen years. John (4), a phy- sician and surgeon, who died April i, iSho, married Louisa Cornell and they had three children: Joseph Ryers; Charles Garrison and George R. Amos (5), who died in December, 1881, married jane Dubois, and they had three children, Amos, Li.y and Mary. Mary Ann (6), who died in Jan- uary, 1882, was the wife of William Robb, a son of Casper Robb, and their children were Theodore, Kate, Elsie, John and Clarence. Emma J. (7), died in child- hood. Jonathan (8), married Mariha Tomlinson, and they have three children, Russell, Watson and Ellen. David (9) who died in December, 1881, wedded Mary Cornell and had no children. Charles Garrison Knight, eldest son of Jonathan Knight, was born September 2, 1835, in Southampton township, near the boundary line between Bucks and Mont- gomery counties. He was reared upon the old home farm in that township, and ob- tained his education in the public schools there. He continued to live with his father until twenty-two years of age, when his father purchased for him a farm of one hundred and thirty acres in Northampton township, near Rocksville, to which he then removed. Though now residing in Church- ville he still owns the farm, and has cul- tivated it to the present time, having it now under a very high state of cultivation. In addition to this he owns considerable land in Southampton itownship. and his property interests yield to him a good financial return. Since his removal to Northampton township Mr. Knight has been continuously and actively interested in Re- publican politics, and h-as held various pub- lic positions of trust and responsibility, be- ing chosen to both township and countv offices. He was school director for eighteen years, justice of the peace for seven years and supervisor for two year?, while at the present writing he is serving as county treasurer, his incumbency extending from 1902 to 1905. No public trust reposed in him has been betii'ayed in the slightest de- gree, and his Entire official career has been in harmony with the record of the family, characterized by devotion to the general good at all times, and desirous of the sub- stantial upbuilding of the county. At the present time he is regarded as the leader in the Republican ranks in his township. Mr. Knight wedded Elizabeth Cornell, a daughter of James C. Cornell, of Holland, and their children are as follows : Lincoln, who married Clara Tomlinson, and has one child, Charles G. ; Emma, the wife of Dr. Markley, of Hatboro, and the mother of five children-^Mary, Eilen, Amelia, Emma and Ella; and Theodore, who wedded Mary E. Parry, a daughter of John Parry, of Langhorne; they have one child, Helen Knight. WILLIAM D. YOCUM, a -farmer of Hilltown township, Bucks county, was born in Worcester township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1839. His paternal grandfather, Jonathan Yocum, married a Miss Diehl. Their son, Israel Yocum, was also a native of Montgomery county, and throughout his business career followed farming. He held membership with the Mennonite church, and was a Re- publican in his political views. He mar- ried Margaret Diehl, and they became the parents of five children, of whom one died in infancy. The others are Mary, who died at the age of fourteen years; William D. ; Jonathan, who married Lizzie Clymer ; and Eliza, wife of Henry Nace. William D. Yocum obtained his educa- tion in the public schools of Montgomery and Bucks counties, and has always fol- lowed farming.' He assisted his father in the labors of the fields through the period of his youth, and thus gained the practical experience which has enabled him to carry f 01 ward to successful completion wiiatever he has undertaken in the line of agricul- tural pursuits. In 1869 he purchased the farm in Hilltown township upon which he has since resided, and through his unfalter- ing energy and unremitting diligence has placed this under a high state of cultiva- tion. His political views are in accord with the principles of Republicanism. In 1883 he was elected on that ticket to the office of supervisor of Hilltown township, to which position he has since been frequently re- elected, until his incumbency in the office covers altogether fourteen years. He be- longs to the Reformed church. Mr. Yocum was married January 13, 1866, to Miss Mary Gulick, who was born October 20, 1844, a daughter of Merami and Christinna (Swartz) Gulick. They have seven children, namely : Merami G., born July 31, 1866, and married Ella Yoder, by whom he has one child. Alma; Maggie G., born January 13, 1869, and is the wife of Andrew Benner; Anna Mary, born Septeni- ber 25, 1871, and is the wife of Calvin Hunsberger,' and had five children — Grace, Willie, Margaret (deceased), Calvin (de- ceased), and Paul; William G., born No- vember 25, 1873, and married Ida ]\Ior- gan, by whom he has two children, William 6oo HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Lloyd and Pearl ; Ervin G., born July 28, 1879 ; John G., born December 24, 1881 ; and Stella G., born September 29, 1885, and now teaching school in Hilltown township. ROBERT REED, deceased, was a worthy representative of that class of men, born in foreign countries, who after their emi- gration to a new clime become loyal and faithful citizens of the same, aiding to the fullest extent of their power in the pro- motion and development of enterprises calculated to improve the commercial, poli- tical and moral welfare of the community in which they reside. He was born in county Derry, Ireland, in 1827, a son of David and Jane (Hunter) Reed, natives of Ireland, whom he brought from their home to the United States, also his broth- ers George, James and David, and sisters Mary and Sarah, having come here prior to their emigration, accompanied by his sister Katherine, in order to earn the requisite means for this purpose. Robert Reed was reared and educated in his native land, remaining there until he was seventeen years of age. His first em- ployment after his arrival in this country was farming for Frank Paul, with whom he" remained a number of years. He then went to work for Charles Randall, remaining with him until 1850, the year of his mar- riage, aiter which he rented land for a per- iod of time, thereby accumulating sufficient capital to purchase the old Swift farm. Subsequently he purchased other farms which he cultivated and Tmproved and m due course of time became one of the prom- inent landowners of Bensalem township, his holdings being very extensive and valu- able. The esteem in which he was held by his fellow townsmen was evidenced by the fact that he was elected a director of the school board, and served in the capacity of treasurer of the same for a number of years.' He held membership in the Protestant Episcopal church, and is poli- tical affiliations were with the Democratic party. In 1850 Mr. Reed was united in marriage to Angeline V. Stevens, daughter of John and Sarah (Thatcher) Stevens. Their chil- dren are : William, who married Harriet Berry, and their children are : Lavinia and Elsie. Robert, who married Mary Louisa Dyer, and thier children are Raymond, Will- iam and Robert. Harry, who married PJenie Worthington, and they are the parents of four children : Lulu, Joseph, Curtice and Annie. Angeline, who became the wife of John N. Shriner. and one child has been born to them : Mable A. Robert Reed, father of these children, was buried on Thanksgiving day, 1896, having died four days before. He was an industrious, honest and honorable man, and his decease was sincerely mourned by his family and a wide circle of acquaintances. LENDRUM STOCKTON traces his ancestry back to John and Sarah (Brear- Icy) Stockton, the former of whom was the owner of a large tract of land near Princeton, New Jersey, and was a brother of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. John Stockton, however, was in sympathy with the English cause, and went to New York, after which his property was confiscated by the American authorities. - His son John, grandfather of Lendrum Stockton, came with his mother to Lower Makefield town- ship, Bucks county, at the close of the war, and they purchased a small tract of land on the eastern end of the farm now owned by Isaiah, V. Stockton. Arriving at years of maturity, John Stockton wedded Alary Vansant, a daughter of Gabriel Vansant, and settled on the farm now owned by Joseph Flowers. Subsequently he removed to the farm which is now the property of Mrs. A. P. Search. He was a noted horse fancier and veterinary surgeon, and was the owner of some of the finest horses seen in eastern Pennsylvania in his day. He had ten children : Nancy, Joseph, Sarah, Eliza, Mary, John, Charity, Ellen, Elijah and Isaiah V. Isaiah V. Stockton, youngest son of John and Mary (Vansant) Stockton, was born in Lower Makefield township, September i, *i8i7, and became the owner and occupant of a part of his father's homestead, includ- ing all of the tract which his grandmother had purchased when she removed from New Jersey with her son John and sought a home in Bucks county. Isaiah Stockton married Sarah Thackery, a daughter of Amos and Nancy (Carson) Thackery, of Lower Makefield township, and they had two sons, Lendrum and John B. Lendrum Stockton was born February 26, 1844, in Lower Makefi'eld township, on a farm adjoining that upon which he now resides, and which is a part of his grand- father's original tract of land. He obtained his early education in the common schools, and continued his studies in the Carvers- ville Seminary. During his youth he as- sisted in the operation of his father's land, remaining upon the home fariri until his marriage, when he began farming on his own account on a tract of land adjoining the home place. After his mother's death he purchased in 1890 the old homestead farm, and has since given his entire atten- tion to its further improvement and de- velopment. He has here a splendid prop- erty, and the rich and productive soil an- nually yields an excellent harvest. In his political views Mr. Stockton is a Repub- lican, and while never an aspirant for office, he has served as school director of Lower IMakefield township for twenty-four years ; the cause of education finding in him a warm friend, whose efforts in behalf of the schools have been practical and bene- ficial. He belongs to Lodge No. 159, A. O. W YOR UDRARY '->■'. I 13. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 60 1 U. W., of Yardley, Pennsylvania, and has filled all of the chairs. On the 17th of December, 1868. Lendrum Stockton married Miss Abbie White, and they have three children : Charles, who married Aliss Frances Balderston, a resi- dent farmer of Lower Makefield township; Anna, at home; and Sarah T., the wife of William Buckman, a son of Henry Buck- man, of Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. PETER HOGELAND MORRIS. The family of which Peter Hogeland Morris, of Newtown, is a representative, is of Welsh origin, and has been resident in Bucks and Montgomery counties since a very early period, and in these counties the name of Morris is very frequently met with. The founders of the family were Baptists. William Morris settled in Plumstead town- ship about 1790. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in 1798 purchased a tract of twenty acres on the Durham road above Gardenville, where he followed his trade and trained his sons to cultivate the soil. In 1805 he removed to a tract of two and a half acres which he purchased of Jona- than Smith, on the Ferry road between Gardenville and Point Pleasant. He subse- quently acquired thirty acres of land in the same neighborhood. He married Han- nah , by whom he was the father of the following children : Elizabeth ; Zebulon ; Alice; Enos; Catharine; Elias; William; Theodore, mentioned at length hereinafter ; Mary; and Sarah Ann. Mr. Morris died on his farm in November, 1835. Theodore Morris, son of William and Hannah Morris, was born in 1814 in Plum- stead township, and received such meagre education as the time and place afiforded to lads who were expected to contribute their share of labor toward the support of a large family. In 1833, on the occasion of his marriage, he moved to Gwynedd, Montgomery county, and in the autumn of 1835 purchased his father's thirty-acre farm in Plumstead. On the death of his father in November of the same year he took up his abode on the homestead, and the re- mainder of his life was spent in that vicin- ity. He married in 183^ Hannah Layman, of New Britain township, and they were the parents of the following children : Evan J., who lives in Doylestown ; Mary, who became the wife of Andrew Jackson Case; William T.. mentioned at length herein- after ; Mathias. deceased ; Charles, who is a resident of Philadelphia : Catharine, who is the wife of Edward Smith, of Doylestown ; John A., who lives in Plumstead ; Jemima, who is the widow of George i:±ultz ; and Belle Martin. Mr. Morris, the father, died April 19, 1896. William T. Morris, son of Theodore and Hannah (Layman) Morris, was born in 1841, in Plumstead township. He was twice, mjirried, his first wife being Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Hogeland, of Upper Makefield; a descendant of Dirk Hogeland, who emigrated from Holland to Staten Island in 1653. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were the parents of a son, Peter Hogeland, men- tioned at length hdreinafter. After the death of his wife Mr. Morris married Nellie Dimmick, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Peter Hogeland Morris, son of William T. and Elizabeth (Hogeland) Morris, was born March i, 1868, in Plumstead town- ship, and at the age of thirteen entered the service of Charles M. Shaw, of Lahaska, at the same time attendixig the Buckingham Friends' School, obtaining a thorough edu- cation. At seventeen he became a clerk in the general store of Frank L. Worthing- ton, at Doylestown, and in 1886, when Mr. Worthington opened a clothing store, Mr. Morris was transferred to that department. In 1887 he entered the employ of Wilmer W. Carr, at Ivyland and in 1892 under the firm name of Carr & Morris, opened a gen- eral store at Richboro, which he conducted for three years. In 1895, in partnership with his former employer, Frank L. Worth- ington, he opened a clothing and furnish- ing store at the corner of State street and Washington avenue, in Newtown, Penn- sylvania. Five years later he purchased his partner's interest therein, and has since con- ducted the business in his own name. By industry and thrift and a careful attention to business principles he has built up a flourishing trade. In 1904 he bought of Henry M. Pownall a lot on the east side of State street, and has erected thereon a fine three-story store and dwelling. Mr. Morris married, March 3, 1892, Lillian, daughter of William and Anna (Coon) Hampton, of Solebury. ]Mr. and Mrs. Mor- ris have no children. C. HOWARD MAGILL, express agent, Doylestown, was born in Doylestown, May 27, 1844, a son of Alfred and Jane S. (Mann) Magill, both natives of Doylestown township, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Robert Magill. the great-grandfather of C. Howard Magill, came from the north of Ireland about 1760 with his brothers Henry, William and James, and settled near Doyles- town. Robert and Henry engaged in the mercantile business at Doylestown, at the corner of State and Main streets, where Reichel's bakery now stands, as early as 1767, on land purchased of Archibald Craw- ford, comprising twelve and one-half acres. In 1773 they purchased of William Doyle, the pioneer innkeeper of the town, the seventeen acres lying between State, Main, Court and Broad streets, and in 1770 the farm now the property of John Hart. Henry removed to Bedminster in 1776 and deeded his interest in the farm and the Crawford lots to Robert. Henry died in Bedminster in 1799. leaving a widow Doro- thy, a son Henry, whose whereabouts he 602 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. did not know, and a daughter Lctitia. What became of the other two brothers, James and William, is not known ; both are mentioned in the will of Aobert in 1781 as indebted to him, and with Jane, daughter of William, are named as residuary legatees in the event of the death , of William, the minor son of Robert. Robert died on his farm in Doylestown township (then Warwick) in April, 1782. He married October 7, 1774, Martha, daugh- ter of William and Martha Doyle, who sur- vived him and married Jacob Troxel. Robert Magill also had sisters Letitia and Margaret, who are mentioned in his will. William Magill, only child of Robert and Martha, was born in Warwick town- ship (now Doylestown) in 1775. His father dying when he was but seven years old, directed that he should be educated and apprenticed to a trade, and he was ap- prenticed to a clockmaker and followed that trade for some years. He spent his boyhood days with his mother and stepfather, and received his tuition from itinerant school- masters of the day and from local teachers, among whom were John Furness, Joseph Meredith, Abraham Chapman, Joshua Jones, Naylor Childs, George Burgess, Robert Sterner and George Burgess. He followed his trade in Doylestown, and later kept a hotel at the corner of State and Main streets, a noted hostelry of the day. He was a captain in the war of- 1812, of the company known as the Bucks County Rangers, and an officer of militia until his death in 1824. His wife was Mary, daugh- ter of Benjamin Morris, who survived him. His children were : Louisa C, William D., Robert M., Benjamin, and Alfred, the father of the subject of this sketch. ALFRED MAGILL, was born in Doyles- town and always resided there. He was a school teacher in early life, and later had a marble yard in Doylestown. He died in September, 1854. His wife was Jane S., daughter of John and Martha (Grier) Mann, of Doylestown township. His chil- dren were : Laura, Theodore, Edwardine, Eugene, Charles Howard and Alfreda. C. Howard Magill, the subject of this sketch, was born and reared in, Doylestown. He attended school until eighteen years of age, when he entered the express office of Heston and Co. and managed their office until 1879, when he accepted the position of express agent for the P. &. R. Express Company, and has filled that position ever since under that company and its suc- cessors. ,He is a member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M., and of Gen- eral Robert L. Bodine Post, G. A. R. In June, 1864, he enlisted in Company E. One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers, under Captain C. K. Frankenficld and was at Chicago guarding Confederate prisoners, and later at Fort Delaware. He married in 1873 Anna J. Shemire, of Philadelphia, but has no chil- dren. In politics he is an ardent Republican. MICHAEL MARTIN. The farmers of Bucks county find in Michael Martin, of Chalfont, a worthy representative. Mr. Martin is of German descent, his father,. George Martin, having been a native of Wurtembcrg, where he was born September 14, 1820. He came as a young man to the United States and settled in Readmg. Dur- ing the civil war he fought bravely in the ranks of the Union army. Michael Martin, son of George Martin, was born December 31, 1851, at Cross Keys, Doylestown township, where he obtained his education in the public schools. For some time he followed the carpenter's trade, and for five years was employed in the New Britain gristmill. In 1873 he purchased the Messinger farm, in New Britain township,, and has since been engaged in general farm- ing. The success which has attended his endeavors is the result of long experience, a thorough and practical knowledge of the requirements of his calling, sound judg- ment, and a large amount of executive abil- ity. The confidence reposed in him by his fellow-citizens needs no other proof than is furnished .by the fact that for two years he served as supervisor of the township. Mr. Martin married, December 16, 1871, Annie Howland, and their family consists of the following children : Emeline T., who was born June 9, 1873; George W., born November 19, 1874; William H., born Jan- uary 31, 1877; Amanda, born September 30, 1881 ; Ethel, born September 2^, 1883 ; Luther, born October 3, 1888; and Stan- ley, born January 6, 1893. Mrs. Martin is a daughter of William H. and Emeline (Zearfoss) Howland, who were the parents of the following chil- dren : Annie, who became the wife of Michael Martin, as mentioned above ; Eu- gene M.; Euphemia; Mary Jane; and Bertha. CHARLES MOON was a descendant of two of the oldest families of Pennsylvania. His ancestry in the paternal line can be traced back to James (i) and Joan (Bur- gess) Moon, who resided near Bristol, England, until with their six children they emigrated to America, settling in Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, this being a very early epoch in the develop- ment of the state. Pioneer conditions existed and James Moon bore his share in the substantial improvement and upbuild- ing of his locality. Their son Roger Moon (2) married Ann Nutt, and continued to re- side in Bucks county. James Moon (3) son of Roger and Ann (Nutt) Moon, also a farmer of Bucks county, married Ann Watson, nee Satcher. Moses Moon (4) son of James and Ann Moon, was the grand- father of Charles Moon. He married Rachel Burgess. James Moon (5) son of Moses and Rachel (Burgess) Moon, wedded Jane Haines, who comes of equally remote an- cestry, the line of descent being traced HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 603 down from Richard Haines, who left Eng- land with his family but died while on the ocean on his way to America. His widow continued on the voyage to this country and here reared her family, including Richard Haines, who wedded Mary Car- lisle. Their son, Abram Haines, married Grace Hollingshead, and their son, Benja- min Haines, became the great-grandfather of Charles Moon. He married Elizabeth Roberts, and their son, Job Haines, wedded Sarah Carr. They were parents of Jane Haines, who became the wife of James Moon. Charles Moon (6) son of James and Jane (Haines) Moon, was born November 19, 1820, and pursued his education in the Friends' school at Westtown, Chester coun- ty. On laying aside his text books he as- sisted in the operation of his father's farm in a very efificient manner, thus continuing his labor until 1855, when he became the owner of a fine farm in Middletown known as the Woodburn farm. His business af- fairs were capably conducted, and in each transition stag$ of his career he found opportunity for further advancement. In 1876 he established a coal and lumber j'ard at Woodburn Station, on the New York branch of the Philadelphia & Read- ing Railroad, this station at the time of the building of the railroad having been laid out upon his farm. There Mr. Moon was continuously occupied with his business in- terests up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 23d of May, 1888. He was for many yfars a director in the Farmers' National Bank of Bristol, Pennsylvania, and his business investments were judiciously made, bringing to him a reason- able measure of success. He was also in- strumental in having the postoffice estab- lished in Woodburn, and did all in his power to promote the welfare and upbuild- ing of his community. On the 21 st of October. 1863. Charles Moon was married to Miss Mary Cadwalla- der Eastburn, of Newtown, Pennsylvania. She, too, was a representative of one of the oldest families of the Keystone state, trac- ing her ancestry in the maternal line back to John and Mary (Castle) Cadwallader, whose son. Jacob Cadwallader (2) mar- ried Magdalene Conard. Jacob Cadwalla- der (3) son of Jacob and Magdelene Cad- wallader, wedded Phoebe Radcliffe and they became the great-grandparents of Mrs. Moon. Cyrus Cadwallader (4) son of Jacob and Phoebe Cadwallader, was mar- ried twice, his second wife being Mary Taylor, and it was their daughter. Sarah, w'ho became the wife of Aaron Eastburn and the mother of Mrs. Moon. In the paternal line Mrs. Moon is descended from Robert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, who came to America in 1713 with their ten children and settled in Philadelohia. Samuel and Elizabeth (Gillingham) East- burn are the representatives of the family in the second generation in America in the line of direct descent. They were pa- rents of Joseph Eastburn, who wedded Mary Wilson. Amos Eastburn, son of Joseph and Mary (Wilson) Eastburn, married Mary Stackhouse and their son, Aaron Eastburn, became the husband of Sarah Cadwallader. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moon had two children : Anna Jennie, born September 12, 1864; and Charles Henry, born August 15, 1866. The former was educated in the Friends' select school at Philadelphia, and the latter in the Westtown boarding school. The daughter was married August 2, 1893, to Edward Randolph, of Philadelphia, a son of Edward T. and Mary (Sharpless) Randolph. They have one child, Jane Chace, born September 13, 1902. Charles Henry Moon was married March 14, 1895, to Mary Louisa Sharpless, of Chester coun- ty, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Benjamin and Sarah C. Sharpless. They have three children : Emma Walmsley, born March 26, 1897; Sarah Cook, born October 2, 1898; and Marian Jane, born March 31, 1902. Charles Moon was a Republican in pol- itics, and was for many years an elder in the Society of Friends. He traveled ex- tensively in England and in his own coun- try, and was a very loveable man, of genial, kindly nature. Those who knew him — and he had a wide acquaintance — recognized that he was a true friend and devoted hus- band and father, and thus he commanded the confidence and good will of all with whom he was associated. MILLARD F. TERRY, a highly re- spected citizen of Travose, Southampton township, where his entire life time has been spent, is a lineal descendant of Will- iam Terry, probably a son of Daniel Terry, who married for his first wife Mary Heil- man, and the issue of this union was three children : Charles, born December 23^ 1812; John, born 1810, settled in Illinois; Nancy, born 1807, became the wife of Thom.is Wright, and they settled in Ohio. By his second wife, William Terry had three children : Walter, married Maria Flood ; Emily, became the wife of James Wright ; Caroline, became the wife of John Knowles. Charles B. Terry, youngest son of Will- iam and Mary (Heilman) Terry, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, December 23, i8t2. He was united in marriage to Margaret Worthington. and their children were as follows : William, born August 26, 1839, married Margaret LaRue, and their children are William and Blanche. Amanda, born September 30, 1841, died February 25, 1S81 ; she was the wife of William LaRue, and mother of one daugh- ter, Ada T. Elizabeth W., born August 31, 1843, became the wife of Marmaduke Van- degrift, and one child was the issue of this union, Maggie. Mary H., born May 31, 1845, married (first) Edmund Wells, issue; one daughter, Lizzie Alma ; she married (second) William Ashton, no issue. Win- 6o4 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. field Scott, born August ii, 1847, married Mary States, and their family consists of four children: Harry, Ella, Herbert and Lkura. Adaline R., born September 7, 1849, married Hogeland B. Stevens, and they are the parents of one daughter, Har- riet H. Ellen G., born October 14, 1851. Charles B., Jr., born April 6, 1854. Millard Fillmore, born December 9, 1857, mentioned hereinafter. Ediivard E., born January i, 1863, married Anna Kilmer, who bore his three children : Howard K.. born Novem- ber II, 1891 ; Charles Winfield, born July 20, 1897; and Russell Everett, Ijorn March 3, 1900. Millard Fillmore Terry, fourth son of Charles B. and IMargaret (Worthington) Terry, was born on the old homestead at Trevose, Southampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1857. Upon the completion of his studies he learned the trade of blacksmith, which he has successfully followed in his native town ever since. He married Mary Wor- rell, daughter of William and Eliza Wor- rell, and their children are : Clifford F., born June 28, 1892; and Margaret, born March 11, 1900. ALGERNON S. CADWALLADER. From the time of the establishment of the colony of Pennsylvania down to the present (more than two centuries) the Cadwallader family has figured in public affairs that have moulded the history of the state, and the life record of Algernon S. Cadwallader is in harmony with that of his honorable and distinguished ancestry. He has left the impress of his individuality upon the "business and political history of his county and state, and pre-eminently a man of affairs, he has wielded a wide influence. His birth occurred in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, in 1828, and he resides in the village of Yardley in the an- cestral home, which was built by his mater- nal great-great-grandfather, Thomas Yard- ley, who came to America in 1704. He is descended in the paternal line from the Cadwalladers and Taylors, prominent fam- ilies for many years in the history of the state, and in the maternal line his ancestors were Yardleys and Staplers. These fami- lies were cotemporaries of William Penn in the early settlement of the colony, and were members of the Society of Friends. Thomas Yardle}% in December, 1706, was married to Ann, daughter of William Biles, of Bucks county, and they became the par- ents of ten children : Mary, born August 4, 1707; Jane, November 20, 1709; Rebecca, July 27, 1710; Sarah, July 30, 1712 ; Joyce, October 3, 1714; William, March 25, 1716; Hannah, November 13, 1717; Thomas, No- vember I, 1720; Samuel (i). April 16, 172;^; Samuel (2), July 13, 1729. (II) William Yardley, son of Thomas Yardley, the progenitor, married Ann Biuld, of New Jersey, and their children were: Ann, born April 10, 1749; Sarah, February 17, 1751 ; and Margaretta, De- cember 6, 1752. On the 31st of March, 1756, William Yardley was married a sec- ond time to Sarah Kirkbride, a daughter of ]\Iahlon and Mary Kirkbride. There were nine children of this union : Mary, born January 27, 1757; Hannah, October 3, 1758; Achsah, February 17, 1760; Letitia, July 12, 1762; Thomas, October 2, 1763; Mahlon, July 17, 1765 ; Samuel, February 28, 1767 ; William, June 22, 1769; and Joseph, March 19, 1771. (HI) Achsah Yardley, daughter of Will- iam Yardley, became the wife of Thomas Stapler, April 24, 1794. They had two children : Letitia, born October 9, 1795 ; and Susanna, July 2, 1797. (IV) Susanna Stapler, daughter of Thomas and Achsah (Yardley) Stapler, was married, October 19, 1819, to William Cadwallader, son of Jacob and Ann Cad- wallader, and the children of this marriage were: Thomas S., born October 3. 1820; Elizabeth, February 16, 1822 ; Achsah Ann, October 29, 1823 ; Letitia S., September i, 1825 ; Sarah Y., March 2, 1827 : Algernon S., August 27, 1828; William, February 20, 1836; David Willis, March 11, 1837; and Jacob Augustus, December 11, 1838. (V) Algernon S. Cadwallader began hit. education in the public schools, which he attended until sixteen years of age, when he was sent to a boarding school in Ches- ter county under the care of Benjamin Price. He remained in that institution for some time, and completed his education in the Attleboro Academy under the direction of James Anderson. Hfe remained upon his father's farm until he attained his majority, and then, removing to the village of Yardley, was identified with its com- mercial interests as a general merchant for several years. Though the control of his business inter- ests has claimed much of his time and at- tention, he has, nevertheless, found oppor- tunity to devote to the careful consideration of the great questions and issues which have confronted the country during the long period that has elapsed since he attained his majority and which have left their impress upon our national life. When quite a young man he was an ardent admirer of Henry Clay, stanchly supported the Whig party, and endorsed the principles of protection to American industries. Year by year his faith in this policy of the government has strengthened, and he now considers it the most important issue with which the people today have to deal. Following the disso- lution of the Whig party he became an active Republican, and was a long recog- nized leader in the party ranks in Bucks county. His public-spirited citizenship, combined with his natural ability, led to his selection by his party for the nomi- nation of state senator in i86r. and, al- though the county at that time was largely Democratic, he was defeated by a very small vote. This was the only election that -'^'-'^I'ea.^.^^rU'U^ P.Ue^ P*^-^ 7^ ^2U--<(^-r:<^c^^^^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 605 has occurred in his neighborhood since he attained his majority at which he has not cast his ballot, but, from the time of his nomination imtil after the vote was re- corded, he was confined at his home by a serious illness. He received the appoint- ment of collector of internal revenue for the fifth district of Pennsylvania in 1865, and was again honored by his party in 1878 by being made its candidate for the congressional nomination for the sixth district of Pennsylvania, comprising Bucks and Montgomery counties. He had a ma- jority in his own county, but was defeated in IVIontgomery county. In 1886, at the earnest solicitation of many members of his party in Bucks county, he was again a candidate for nomination, and had a plu- rality of delegates from the home county on the first ballot, but after that he with- drew his nomination as a candidate. In 1862, at the request of Governor Curtin, he superintended the enrollment of the Bucks county militia, and was a most earnest and helpful advocate of the Union cause throughout the period of hostilities. In 1864 he represented the fifth district of Pennsylvania in the national convention which re-nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, and he was also a delegate to the national convention of 1868, when General U. S. Grant was made its standard bearer. He has frequently been chosen as a delegate to the state convention, and his opinions have carried weight in the coun- cils of his. party. In recent years he has largely retired from business and political activities, and, in the enjoyment of a well- earned rest, occupies the old Yardley man- sion, which since 1728 has been one of the landmarks in Lower Makefield township. His interest in the welfare of his county, state and nation has been deep and sincere, . and few men outside of office have exerted a stronger or more beneficial influence in political circles in the state than has Al- gernon S. Cadwallader. Fearless in con- duct and stainless in reputation, he has stood as the champion of all that he has believed to be for public progress and im- provement, his course prompted by hon- orable motives, and guided by considerate action in all his relations with his fellow men. In 1853 ]\Ir. Cadwallader was married to Susan Josephine Yardley, the eldest daugh- ter of William and Sarah (Hart) Yardley. Their children were nine in number: Lydia Yardley, born December 11, '1853, the wife of George Warner, Jr., of Philadel- phia ; William Y., born July 28, 1855, who married Carrie E. Lansing, of Trenton, New Jersey ; J. Seymour, born November 9, 1856, died April 9, 1877, in his twenty-first year; Letitia S., born August i, 1858, the wife of Edmund R. Willets, of Trenton, New Jersey; Thomas Sidney, born January i, 1861, who married Ida R. Weeks, of Mill- ersville, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania ; Augustus J., born August 11. 1863; Sarah, born March 15, 1865, the wife of George F. Craig, of Philadelphia ; Mary Anna, born January 9, 1867, wife of Malcolm Franklin, of Philadelphia; and Helen Marr, born September 5, 1874. the wife of E. Y. Barnes, of Richmond, Indiana. ABEL G. HALDEMAN, of Line Lex- ington, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in the township of Upper Providence, [Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1858, and is a son of John and Euphro- zena (Gander) Haldeman. The Haldeman family is of German origin, its American progenitors being among the early German emigrants who settled in what is now Mont- gomery county, from whence some of their descendants migrated into Bucks county and settled in New Britain township prior to the Revolutionary war. The branch of the family to which the subject of this sketch belonged, however, remained in Montgomery county. John Haldeman, the father, was born in Montgomery county, near Slunk's mill, in 1790, and died in 1869, at the age of seventy- nine years and one month. He was for many years a manufacturer of grain cradles and, being the only one in that section, sup- plied the farmers for miles around with these useful agricultural implements prior to the days of improved harvesters. He was a skilled mechanic and operated a turning lathe of his own manufacture. John Haldeman was twice married. By his first wife, whose maiden name was Eisenberg, he had eight children: Henry, Christian, Samuel, Jacob, Joseph, Mary, Ruth, and Abraham, the latter dying in infancy. After the death of his first wife he remained a widower for twenty years, and then took a second helpmate, Airs. Euphrozena Denner, widow of Rufus Denner, who was already the mother of four children by her former husband, three girls and a boy. By this second marriage he was the father of five children; Isaac, who died in infancy; Abel G., the subject of this sketch; Lydia, Annie, and Reuben. ABEL G. HALDEMAN was reared in Upper Providence township, and acquired his education at the public schools of thav township. At the close of his school days he learned the trade of a tinsmith with Isaac H. Tyson, in Skippack township. On closing his apprenticeship he went to Spring City, Chester county, where he fol- lowed his trade as a journeyman tinsmith until 1879, when he located at Centre Square, Montgomery county, erected a building and started into business for him- self. Five years later he purchased the gen- eral merchandise store there of J. R. Yost, whiph he conducted for nine years, filling the position of postmaster for that period. In 1894 he rented the property, which he still owns, and removed to Line Lexington, Bucks county, and opened a tin and stove store, which he has since successfully con- ducted. He is a member of the Reformed 6o6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. church, and politically is a Republican. Mr. Haldenian has been twice married. His first wife was Anna Croll, daughter of AlichaeJ Croll, by whom he had one son, Edgar C, born July 17, 1881. He married (second) Margaret Kcybold Ruoff, and they have been the parents of three chil- dren; I. Mabel, who died in infancy; 2. John R., in 1S86, married February 6, 1904, Eva Albright, daughter of Dr. litus Albright, of Hatfield, Pennsylvania, by whom he has one child Margaret ; 3. Eu- gene, born in 1894. Mr. Haldeman is one of the active and progressive business men ■of Line Lexingtgn. FRANCIS CAVANAUGH, one of the foremost and enterprising business men of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and a member of the hrm of Roberts, Winner & Company, was born February 22, 1849, in Philadel- phia, at what is now Sixth and Locust streets. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and also attended school at New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whither he had gone to reside with his uncle, Francis Moore, and his grandmother, Catherine Moore. After residing in New Hope for a time he returned to Philadelphia, where at the age of twelve years he entered into his first regular employment as errand boy in a grocery store, receiving in compensation for his services the munificent sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per week. He remained in this employment for about a year, and, believing that he could better himself in a financial way, at least, he es- tablished himself with an ice company, where he remained for some time. At the age of fourteen years he entered the foundry of Lawrence Myers, at Twen- ty-sixth and Lombard streets, where he was employed for a year and a half, break- ing pig-iron, working at the cupola, clean- ing cast-iron, and other work, hard and heavy, at a salary of four dollars a week. He was then helper on an ice wagon for a season, and, desiring to learn a trade, he apprenticed himself to the firm of Stuart & Peterson, founders, to learn stove-plate moulding. When his term of service had expired, and when he was about twenty- one years of age, Mr. Cavanaugh removed to Pittsburg, entering into the employment with the firm of Smith & Sons, founders of water-pipes, where he remained for three years. In 1873 he returned to Philadelphia and re-entered the service of his former cmplovers, Stewart & Peterson, and was there "engaged until the time of the great panic which overspread the eastern United States and threw many people out of em- ployment. However, being of a resourceful and energetic nature, INIr. Cavanaugh ■ was not discouraged by this set back, but imme- diately became engaged as driver of an ice- wagon until such time as he could find employment at his trade. Five years later (in 1878) he removed to Quakcrtown, where he worked at his trade m the firm of Thomas, Roberts & Stevenson, stove manufacturers, where he remained until the plant was destroyed by fire in 1880, when he returned to Philadelphia, residing there with his mother. He again estab- lished himself with Stuart & Peterson, where he remained but a short time, when his former employers, Thomas, Roberts & Stevenson, whose works had been destroyed by fire, as above referred to, rented the American Stove Foundry at Second and Mifiiin streets, and Mr. Cavanaugh resumed his connection with them, remaining until 1881. He then entered into a copartnership with George Rogers, Harry Rogers, his son, George S. Scypes, William S. Rob- erts, William P. Winner, Ezekiel Thomas and Charles A. Klump, and purchased the ruins of the old foundry at Quakertown, rebuilding the same, and in February, 1882, commenced operations under the firm name of Rogers, Roberts, Scypes & Com- pany, Mr. Cavanaugh working as moulder. In 1883-84 the Messrs. Rogers retired from the firm, and the firm then stood Roberts Sc\'pes & Company. Immediately after this change took place Mr. Cavanuagh be- came salesman for the establishment, and during the four years that he occupied that position he built up an extensive and profit- able trade in southern New Jersey, Dela- ware, Maryland, and the District of Col- umbia. In 1886 he retired from the posi- tion of salesman, and became foreman of the foundry, which position he held until 1900 and he also had charge of the finances, acquitting himself with credit and profit to the firm. Since 1900 he has been treasurer and general manager. The mem- bers of the firm are William P. Roberts, William P. Winner, and Francis Cavan- augh, and the firm name is Roberts, Winner & Company. In politics Mr. Cavanaugh is a strong advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and takes a lively interest in the welfare of that organization. He is very active in local afi'airs, has served as member of the Quakertown council, and worked earnestly for the introduction of the water and electric light systems. He is held in the highest esteem by the people of the community, demonstrated by the fact that he served as president of the town council for two years, in 1900 was elected borough treasurer, and has recently been elected to his fourth term to that office of trust and responsibility. April 28, 1886, Francis Cavanaugh wa» united in marriage to Ellen, daughter ot Charles and Elizabeth (Leidy) Kemmerer, of Philadelphia. The Kemmerers and Leidys were old Montgomery and Bucks county families of German origin. Henry Kemmerer, the grandfather of Mrs. Cava- naugh, came from Montgomery county to Quakertown in 1816 to attend the Friends' school, while there made the acquaintance of Lydia Bartholomew, and married her in HISrOKV OF BUCKS COUNTY. 607 1817, and located in Richland township, engaged in farming. He was a Democrat ni politics, and was largely interested in local affairs. He was a Lutheran in religion, and donated the ground upon which the Lutheran church of Quakertown was built. ABEL LODGE. The Lodge Family claim descent from three brothers who came to this country from England and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. These were respectively Thomas, William and Je- hosaphat. It may be assumed that Abel Lodge was descended from the hrst of these three. He had a brother Thomas. Abel Lodge married a woman of Swedish de- scent, and their children were : Elizabeth, who became the wife of John Hoopes, and they reared a family of five children; John Hoopes and his four sons served in the Civil war. Kate, who became the wife ot Azariah Banes, and five children, three sons and two daughters, were born to them. John, mentioned at length hereinafter. Fanny. Abel, who married (first) Susan Brant, who bore him three children : Ida, Frank, and Walter; he married (.second) Sallie Dehart; he married Cthird) Annie Kryder, who bore his one son, Claude. Henry, married Elizabeth McClennen, and three children were born to them : Sallie, Ella and Henry, Mary, became the wife of Aleck Crozers. Susan. John Lodge, second son of Abel and Magdalena Lodge, married Caroline W. Green, daughter of Abel Green. John Lodge was born in Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, August 28, 1825. Their children were as follows : Emmor E., born in 1848, married Hannah Mary Eachus, daughter of Homer Eachus ; issue : Corina, ilda. Carrie, Lydia, Sadie, Arthur and Lewis. Matilda, born in 1851, became the wife of William Eachus, and mother of five chil- dren: George, Walter, Marion, Juanita, and Florence Irene. Abel, born December 18, 1853, mentioned hereinafter. Elizabeth, who became the wife of Franklin Baldwin, and their children are : Matilda, Emma, Harrison, Anabel and Charles. Thomas, born December 8, i860, married Hettie Stinson, who bore him three children : Byron, Lillian and Reba. John, born in July, 1864, married Annie Henderson, and one child was born to them, Anabel. Abel Lodge, second son of John and Caroline W. Lodge, was born in Provi- dence, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 18, 1853. He was reared in that county and educated partly in that and Chester county, attending the Westtown Union School in the latter county. He learned the trade of wheelwright with his uncle Croser, but after following the same lor one year turned his attention to agricul- tural pursuits, which have proved both pleasant and remunerative. In 1888 he lo- cated in Bucks county, and during the in- tervening seventeen years has gained the the confidence and respect of his neighbors by his honorable life. At the present time (1905) he is serving in the capacity of manager of the Mercur farm, the general appearance of which testifies to the skill and ability displayed in the management there- of. Abel Lodge was united in marriage to Anna M. Hall, of Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, born March 16, 1855, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hampton) Hall, and granddaughter of Joseph and Lydia (Mius- treth) Hall. Their children are as follows: William T., born March 16, 1879, married, March 20, 1901, Laura Markly, daughter of George Markly. Abel, Jr., born De- cember 27, 1880. Mary H., born February 13, 1883. Harvey F., born June 3, 1884. Sarah G., born January 6, 1887. Alice, born jNIarch 21, 1889. Elsie, born March 21, 1892. Caroline L. born March 15, 1894. J. Paul Maule, born August 17, 1897. JACOB H. COURTER, who is engaged in the marble business at Leidytown, was born October 15, 1852, in New Britain township, Bucks county, his parents being Jacob and Gaynor (Lewis) Courter. The father was a carriage trimmer by trade, and worked at Chalfont for many years. He afterward conducted a restaurant in Nor- ristown for a long period, and lived a very busy and useful life. He held membership in the Baptist church at Hilltown, belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics was a Democrat. In 1861 he fell from a chestnut tree and was instantly killed. He had three brothers, John, Peter, and George, but otherwise no record of the family is obtainable. Jacob Courter married Gaynor Lewis, a daughter of Henry and Margaret Lewis, and they became the parents of six children: Peter L., who married Rebecca Haney; Marg&ret J., the wife of John Harr; Uriah D., who mar- ried Emma Wampole, and after her death wedded Maria Fluck; Jacob H. ; George W., who married Sarah Jane Wack; and Daniel H., who married Mary Lessick. Jacob H. Courter, having mastered the common English branches of learning taught in the public schools, learned the marble-cutting trade at Bedminster, Bucks county, and afterward worked as a journey- man. In 1877 he embarked in business on his own account at Leidytown, Bucks coun- ty, where he conducted his establishment until 1885, when he sold out and removed to Philadelphia. There he worked at his trade until 1892, when he returned to Leidy- town and again resumed business. He still engages in marble-cutting, and has a liberal patronage accorded him in recogni- tion of his honorable dealing and his skill. Aside from his business he is interested in local affairs concerning the welfare of the general public, and endorses all progres- sive movements. He votes with the Demo- cracy, holds membership in the Baptist 6o8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. church, and belongs to Sonderton Lodge, No. 612, I. O. O. R, at Souderton. On the 28th of June, 1879, Mr. Courter was married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Rice, who was. born October 7, 1855, a daughter of William H. and Matilda Rice. Jrler grand- parents were George and Margaret (Hill) Rice, and they were parents of four sons and a daughter, namely : Haimah, Will- iam, Charles, Moses H. and James. Will- iam H. and Matilda Rice had eight chil- dren, as follows : James Henry, who mar- ried Emma Albright; Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Courter; Elma Lucinda, wife of Lemuel T. Jones ; Mary Etta ; Margaret Jane; William Sanderling, who married Melvina CroU ; Joseph Jones, who married Annie Staley; and Emily H. Mr. and Mrs. Courter have become the parents of five children : William Win- field, who was born August 21, 1880; Abi- gal Christian, born April 16, 1882 ; Lora May, July 23, 1884; James Henry, February 2, 1886; and Emily Matilda, March 26, i8go. The eldest daughter is now the wife of Wallace .Slifer. ISAAC W. HOLCOMB, of Lambertville, New Jersey, who has been for many years one of the active, enterprising business men of that city, is a native of Bucks county, having been born in Plumstead township in 1844. He is a son of John and Rachel (Walter) Holc'omb, and a lineal descendant of John Holcomb and Elizabeth Wool- ridge, who settled in 1705 on a large tract of land on the Deldware, a portion of which is now included in the city of Lambertville. Both were of English parentage, and mem- bers of the Society of Friends. John died in 1743, at which date he was one of the largest landholders in Amwell township. He was one of the first justices of Hunter- don county court. Of his three sons, Rich- ard, the youngest, married a second time, late in life, Ann Emley, of an old Jersey family, and had a son John, who lived near Lambertville and died in 1851 at an ad- vanced age. John, son of the last named John, was born near Lambertville, New Jersey, but when a young man removed to the upper part of Bucks county and learned the trade of a stone mason, which he followed during the active years of his life. He married Catharine Trollinger, of German parentage, who bore him fourteen children — six sons : Samuel, who died in Trenton about 1892 ; George, for nearly fifty years an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad at Lambert- ville, died in 1902 ; Jonathan, who died young; John, see forward; Isaac, for many years a resident of Buckingham, now a resi- dent of Doylestown ; and Joseph, who died in Plumstead, about 1889. Of the eight daughters, four still survive ; Susan, widow of Miles Chambers, of Doylestown ; De- lilah, widow of Jeremiah Black, of Phila- delphia ; Catharine, widow of Charles Hen- dricks, of Philadelphia; and Salome, a widow living in Trenton, New Jersey. John Holcomb, the father of the above children, died in Plumstead about 1845, at the age of sixty-two years. His widow, Catharine, survived him many years. John Holcomb, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Plumstead town- ship about 1820, and died in Philadelphia. He was a farmer, and followed that occu- pation in Plumstead during the active years of his life. He was twice married, his first wife being Rachel Walter, a daughter of Michael Walter, of Plumstead, a promi- nent farmer, and for many years a justice of the peace in Plumstead township. She died in 1854, leaving five children, Cath- arine, still living in Philadelphia; Isaac, the subject of this sketch ; Hannah, widow of Abel Atherholt of Philadelphia; Theodore, now street commissioner of Doylestown ; and Mary, who married Harry Walton, of Warwick township and died about ten years ago. John Holcomb married (second) Pamela Hann, of Plumstead, and had two sons and four daughters, who are residents of Philadelphia. Isaac Walter Holcomb was the oldest son of John and Rachel (Walter) Holcomb, and was born in Plumstead township in 1844. He was reared on the farm, attending the public schools in the winter season. In 1862 he went to Lambertville, New Jersey, as an apprentice to the milling trade under John Groman, for many years a prominent miller of that city. In September, 1864, Mr. Hol- comb enlisted in Company B, Thirty-eighth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. Return- ing to Lambertville, he entered Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, in October, 1865, and after his gradu- ation returned to the mill as bookkeeper and manager of the mill. In 1869 he entered into partnership with Mr. Groman, which continued until the death of the latter in the spring of 1876. In July of that year he formed a partnership with William B. Niece, under the firm name of Holcomb & Niece, and operated the mill until 1883, when they formed a co-partnership with F. F. Lear, who owned and opejated another mill in Lambertville, under the firm name of Lear, Holcomb & Niece, and the new firm remodeled the Lear mill, with the latest improved machinery for the manufacture of flour, etc., and operated it on a large scale until 1896, when the firm dissolved. In July, 1896, Mr. Holcomb purchased a half- interest in the flour, feed and grain business of the Risdon Milling Company, of Ti;en- ton. New Jersey, and remained with that firm until January, 1900, when he purchased the fiour flour, feed and saw mills of J. Simpson Betts, in New Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, which he has since successfully operated. For over twenty-five years one of the active and leading business men of Lambertville, he took an active inter- est in all that pertained to the city's best interest ; was for a number of years a mem- wMrawnrNHVu^. ^< ^n'^f^^f^.dTA^y^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 609 ber of city council, and at one time its president. He is a member of Amwell lodge, F. & A. M., and of Wilson Chapter, No. 13, R. A. M., and has served as treas- urer of the former for fifteen years. He is a member of the Lambertville Baptist church, of which he has been trustee and treasurer for twenty years. His wife was Annie E. Hunt, daughter of J. Wesley and Hannah (M. Hunt) Hunt, of Lambertville. They have no children. JACOB D. WOLFINGER, a mason of Silverdale and a veteran of the civil war, was born in Nockamixon township, Bucks county, on the loth of February, 1841. His grandfather, Jacob Wolfinger, was like- wise a native of Nockamixon township, which indicates that the" family was es- tablished in that locality in colonial days. He always followed the occupation of farm- ing. He married Elizabeth Sassaman and their son, Reuben S. Wolfinger, was born September 15, 181 1, on the home farm in Nockamixon township, while in the public schools of that locality he acquired his education. On putting aside his text-books he learned the stonemason's trade, which he followed until his later years, when he purchased a small, farm in Haycock town- ship and devoted his remaining days to the tilling of the soil. Upon that place his death occurred December 13, 1889. He married Sarah Diehl, born November 7, 1813, died September 8, 1886, daughter of John Diehl. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Samuel Stahr, April 12, 1835. Reuben S, and Sarah (Diehl) Wol- finger were the parents of ten children: William, who married Lavinia Croutham- mel; Frank, who wedded ^Mary Shearer; John D.. whose first wife was Susan Walp, and whose second wife was Amanda Schroy; Edwin, who married Hannah Yeake'l ; Lucy Ann, who married Henry Agney; Lizzie, who married Frank Myers; Emma, widow of Jacob Booz : Sarah, wife of Joseph -Musselman; and Catharine, de- ceased. Jacob D. Wolfinger was a student in the Nockamixon public schools, and later learned the mason's trade under the direc- tion of Henry Angeney, in Hilltown town- ship. He worked at his trade until^ 1863, and then, responding to his country's call for further aid to crush out the rebellion in the south, he enlisted as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Colonel Davis, of Doylestown. Jrle met his regiment at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and participated in two engagements, the battle of Charleston and the battle of Cedar Creek. Virginia. He was also in several skirmishes, and was honorably discharged .from the service at Portsmouth. Virginia, August 25, 1865. Following his military service Mr. Wolfinger settled at Dublin, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, where he fol- 39-3 lowed his trade until 1890, and then built a home at Silverdale, where he has since lived. For many years he has been identi- fied with building operations in this portion of the county, and is an excellent workman. He belongs to the Bethlehem Grand Army Post, and is a member of the Dublin Re- formed church, while his political support is unfalteringly given to tne Democratic party. Mr. Wolfinger was married to Miss Cath- arine Benner, in Nockamixon township, June 29, 1867. She is a daughter of Abra- ham and Mary (Wilson) Benner. There are four children of this marriage : Emma J., born September 15, 1870; Anna Mary, June 29, 1874; Frank, October 18, 1879; and Walter, who was born February 15, 1887 and died January 9, 1888. The elder daughter married Damon Myers, a son of Jacob and Maria (Myers) Myers, and they have one child, Anna Myers. FRANCIS D. HARTZEL. Among the most honored of Bucks county's venerable citizens is Francis D. Hartzel, of Chalfont. Mr. Hartzel is a son of Abram G. Hart- zel, who was a farmer at Rockhill, and married Catharine Deitz. They were the parents of five children. Among their three sons was Francis D., mentioned at length hereinafter. Two daughters completed the family. Francis D. Hartzel, son of Abram G. and Catharine (Deitz) Hartzel, was born June I, 1824, and received his education in the public schools of his native town- ship. At the age of eighteen he went to live with his uncle, Jesse K. Deitz, in Upper Sal ford township, Montgomery cobnty, in order to learn the milling trade. At the expiration of his time he tooi^ entire charge of the mill and operated it successfully for nine years. In i860 he moved to Chalfont and purchased a mill which he enlarged and rendered extremely profitable. This mill was unfortunately destroyed by fire, but Mr. Hartzel, with undaunted courage, erected another, constructed after a more modern plan, which is now operated by two of his sons. Mr. Hartzel has always been a useful, active and public-spirited citizen, ever seeking to promote by every means in his power the best interests of the com- munity and the welfare of his neighbors. Mr. Hartzel married, November 16, 1850, at Rockhill. Catharine A., daughter of John C. and Catharine (Snyder) Shellenberger, and they were the parents of the following children: i. James Monroe, who was born August 2T,, 185 1, married Isabella, daughter of John Frick, and has three children. 2. Leidy, born July 19, 1853. 3- Benjamin Franklin, born January 9, 1856, married Madora, daughter of Joseph Moyer. and has six children. 4. Levi Morgan, December 5, 1859, married Christiana, daughter of John Sowers, and has two children. 5. Wilson, born October 30. 1862, married Margaret Drake, and has one child. 6. 6io HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Emma Ida, horn February 20, 1867, and married (first) George Murphy, and had one child ; Mr. Murphy died in 1892, and in 1903 she became the wife of Albert G. Hinds. 7. Harvey S., born March 13, 1869, married Mary Radclift, and has two chil- dren. Two of these six sons, James Mon- roe and Benjamin Franklin, are engaged in operating their father's mill. Francis D. Hartzcl died October 2, 1888. He had been a member of the Reformed church at Hilltown for a number of years, and was for several years an elder of the church. WILKINS HOBENSACK, of Norris- town, Pennsylvania, was born near Davis- ville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1872, and is the youngest son of the late Isaac C. and the late Joanna (Hoge- land) Hobensack, and a grandson of Isaac and Emily (Fetter) Hobensack. Isaac Hobensack, the elcier, was a farmer in Southampton township, Bucks county, until 1830, when he purchased a farm in War- minster township and lived there the re- mainder of his life, rearing a family of seven children, viz. : Margaret, wife of Will- iam L. Craven; Rachel, wife of James Hart; Isaac C, above mentioned ; John, who re- moved to Ohio ; William ; Mary Ellen, wife of Thomas Mayberry; and Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Hellings. Isaac C. Hobensack wa.s born at Church- ville, Southampton townsfiip, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, February 4. 1828, and died at Davisville, January 9, 1904. He was a well known and prominent farmer, and took an active interest in publi'' affairs. In politics^ he was a stanch Republican, and served as county commissioner of Bucks cotmty for the term 1884-86. A more com- plete account of his life and services is given in the sketch of his sons, B. Frank and William Hobensack, of Ivyland. His wife, Joanna Hogeland, was born at Cor- nell, Southampton township, Bucks county, June 29, 1832, and was a daughter of Abra- ham and Mary Ann (Fenton) Hogeland, and her ancestry is given at length in con- nection with The Hogeland Family. She died at Davisville. Apni 17, 1905. Wilkins Hobensack is the youngest son of Isaac C. and Joanna, and was reared on the farm near Davisville, and acquired his education at the Davisville Seminary and Pierce School, Philadelphia. After leaving the latter institution he was employed for a short time with Messrs. Coale, Jobson & Co., lumber dealers, and later with Dr. W. A. Drysdale. electrical consulting en- gineer. Philadelphia. In October, 1894, he became private secretary to Hon. Irving Price Wanger, of Norristown, representa- tive in congress from the then seventh (now eighth) district, comprising Bucks and Montgomery counties, and has since filled that position. In addition to serving as secretary to Congressman Wanger in the 53d, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th Con- gresses, he served as clerk to the commiuee on expenditures in the postoffice department in the 55th, sGlh, 57th and 58th Congresses. Believing thoroughly in the principles of the Republican party, Mr. Hobensack has al- ways labored zealously for its success. He is a member of the First Baptist church, Norristown, having taken his letter from the Davisville Baptist church. He is a Free and Accepted Mason, as well as a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, Patriotic Order Sons of America, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Han- cock Chemical Fire Engine Company, No. 5, of Norristown. On September 23, 1896, Mr. Hobensack was married in the Davisville Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. D. W. Sheppard, to Anna Heaton (born April 24. 1873), youngest daughter of the late William and Joanna (Dean) Heaton, a playmate of his youth, and a descendant of Robert Heaton, who came to Pennsj-lvania with William Penn in the "Welcome" in 1683, and set- tled in Southampton. In the spring of 1897 they removed from Southampton to 223 East Elm street, Norristown, and in the fall of 1904 Mr. Hobensack purchased a home at 927 West Marshall street, Norris- town, removing thereto November 9, 1904. His wife, who had been in ill health for several months, did not live long to enjoy her new home, dying March 21, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Hobensack were the parents of two children : Harry Stout Hobensack, born at Southampton, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, March 31, 1898, and Ethel Carrell Hobensack, born at Norristown, Montgom- ery county, January 20, 1904. FARRELL MacKENZIE. Farrell Mac- Kenzie, who following farming in New Britain township, has here made his home since 1898, was born in county Sligo, Ire- land, in 1834, his parents being Richard and Mary (Lyden) MacKenzie, in whose family were the following named children : Alice, Farrell, Thomas, John, Richard, Alexander and Mary Ann. Farrell MacKenzie received only such ad- vantages in his youth as were common to people of moderate means. Having arrived at 3-ears of maturity he" wedded Miss Frances Burns, who was born April 9, 1846, a daughter of William and Elizabeth { Mc- Ginn) Burns. Mr. and Mrs. MacKenzie were married in England on the 5th of De- cember, 1862, and two days later they went aboard a ship to sail for America, but the vessel did not leave for the new world until a week later. They landed at Castle Gar- den, New York, on the 2d of February, 1862, and alrnost immediately afterward went to Philadelphia, where Mr. MacKenzie secured employment in the Morris and Tas- cus Iron Works. A year later he removed to New Jersey, where he followed farming for fifteen years. Removing to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, he purchased of -U STORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 6ii Wynn James the farm in New Britain township upon which he now re-ides, and to the further development and equipment -of which he has since devoted his energies with good results. Mr. and Mrs. MacKenzie have become the parents of nine children : Alice, born " February 27, 1865 ; Richard, who was born March 2, 1867, and wedded Mary Dobbs. by whom he has three children ; John, wdio was born July i, 1871, and married Laura Sheridan, by whom he has one child ; Lizzie, who was born February 11, 1869, and is the wife of John Wilson, and the mother of three children; Tom, who was born September 15, 1873, and married Cora Mor- gan, and has one child ; George, born Janu- ary 6, 1876; Annie, born May 31, 1880; Fred, born May 21, 1883; and Alexander, who was born September 10, 1878, and died in infancy. The parents and children are all members of the Episcopal church. CHARLES CHRISTIAN HARING is of the second generation of the Harmg family in America. His father, Charles Christian Haring, Sr., was a native of Kirchheim, in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany. He came to this country with his wife, who bore the maiden name of K. Frederica Mamele, in 1849, landing in New York City, whence they went to Phila- delphia. It was the intention of JNIr. Har- ing to go to California, but circumstances prevented his carrying out this plan, so nt remained in the city of Philadelphia, where he followed his trade of cabinet making for many years. He afterward removed to Shelly Station, in Richland township, Bucks county, where he purchased a farm. In his family were the following named: Louisa Frederica, born December, 1849, and is the wife of Adolph Jaekel, of Phila- delphia; Charles C. ; Emil W., who married Sarah Wetzel, and is teller for the Quaker- town Trust Company of Quakertown, Penn- sylvania; and Henry Gottlieb, who is liv- ing at Terrell, Texas. Charles Christian Haring, whose name introduces this record, was born in the tarn- ily home at the corner of Tenth and Mar- ket streets, Philadelphia, March 17, 1852. His father was engaged in cabinet making for the firm of Moore & Campion of that city for many years, and the son attended the public schools of Philadelphia until the spring of 1861, when the family removed to the vicinity of Shelly Station, in Rich- land township, Bucks county. There he continued his education in the district schools, and when not engaged with his text books he assisted his father in the oper- ation of the home farm until his seven- teenth year, when he entered the employ ol E. T. Ochs, in the general store at Quaker- town. There he remained for three and a half years, when in the fall of 1871 he ob- tained a position as teller in the newly or- ganized Quakertown Savings Bank, of which Dr. Joseph Thomas was cashier. Mr. Haring continued to act in that ca- pacity until 1877, when the savings bank went into liquidation, and the Quakertown National Bank was soon afterward organ- ized with Dr. Thomas as its president and Charles C. Haring as cashier. In this po- sition Mr. Haring has since continued to serve, and the success of the institution is attributable in large measures to his ef- forts. Such has been the capable manage- ment of the bank that it today ranks twen- ty-sixth among the seven hundred national banks in Pennsylvania, and is certainly a credit to a city of the size of Quakertown. ]\Ir. Haring occupies an enviable position in financial circles, bearing an unassailable rep- utation, and wherever he is known com- mands the respect and confidence of his fellow men. In politics Mr. Haring is a stalwart Republican, deeply interested in the success of his party, yet not seeking or desiring the honors or emoluments of onice. He prefers to devote his time aside from his office and business to his home and fam- ^ ily. He has, however, held the position of member of the Quakertown board of health, also auditor of the borough for two terms. On the 20th of October, 1875, -Mr. Har- ing was married to Miss Annie Lott, a daughter of Dr. Charles F. Lott, and his wife, Eliza (McMichael) Lott, of Quaker- town. Her grandparents were Peter and Mary Heyer Lott. The grand- father served as a quartermaster in the continental army, and resigned in 1780. He lived at Princeton and at Woodbridge, New Jersey, and died in 1787. He married Mary, daughter of Colonel Jacob Heyer, who commanded a regiment in the Continental army at Tren- ton, at Princeton, and at Monmouth, thus participating in some of the important en- gagements in the war for Independence. Her father was born in Princeton, INe\> Jersey, in 1781, and died July 8, 1866. He . attended school at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and afterward studied medicine under the direction of Dr. Moses Scott. He began practicing as physician and sur- geon in 1803. He served as assistant sur- geon with the rank of captain in the New Jersey militia under Major Reed, in the war of 1812. He was married in 1809 to Edith Newbold Lamb, of Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey, and after her death was married in 1848 to Eliza ]\IcMichael. By this marriage was born the daughter Annie, on the 29th of March, 1852. She attended the public schools at Quakertown, alsq the Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem, and «»fter readying womanhood gave her hand in marriage tc Mr. Haring. jNIr. and Mrs. Haring are the parents of the following named : Nellie Lott, who is the wife of George Echart Ozias. D. D. S.. a son of John Albert Ozias of Quaker- town : Grp-^e, Fredrica Lott. Florence. Clara, Myrtle, Gertrude, and Rachel. 6l2 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. AMOS BURGESS HEADLF.V. de- ceased, was a descendant of one of the early pioneer families of Bncks county, Pennsylvania, who emigrated thence from their home in England. He was born in Bristol township, Bucks county, March 30, 1842, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Brown) Headley, grandson of Joseph J. and Edith (Burgess) Head- ley, and great-grandson of Joseph Headley. Amos B. Headley acquired an ex- cellent education, having been a pupil in the public schools, Carversville Acad- emy, and Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He resided with his parents and assisted in the work of the large saw-mill which was owned by his father, who was exten- sively engaged in the lumber business in Bristol for many years. Amos B. Headley succeeded his father in the ownership of this plant, and from 1865 to 1880, a period of fifteen years, con- ducted an extensive and flourishing busi- ness. In the latter year he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, con- ducting his operations on a farm in Tul- lytown, and this line, of work he fol- lowed up to the time of his decease. He served a term as jury commissioner of Bucks county, during which time he per- formed his duties in a thoroughly efficient and competent manner. He was a staunch supporter of the candi- dates and measures of the Republican party, to whom he gave his allegiance upon attaining his majority. All the en- terprises which had for their object the business, political and social growth of the community in which he lived found in him an earnest advocate. Mr. Headley was married December 10, 1868. to Emma Taylor Ivins, of Penns Manor, Bucks county, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Ann (Hendrickson) Ivins, and granddaughter on the pater- nal and maternal sides, respectively, of Isaac and Patience (Middleton) Ivins and Amos and Sarah (Folwell) Hendrick- son. Her parents were of English or- igin, her father having been for many years a retired citizen of Bristol bor- ough. She was born December 14, 1847. Their children are: Irene, born August 22, 1870, attended the private schools of Bristol and completed her education in the schools of Philadelphia; on No- vember 24. 1894. she became the wife of William H. Skirm, Jr., of Trenton, New Jersey, and they are the parents of two children: Katharine Irene, born August 23, 1894, and and William Henry (3), born October 7, 1895. Edith, born May 2, 1878, attended the private schools of Bristol, and completed her education at Trenton. New Jersey: on April 27, 1899, she became the wife of Stanford K. Runyan, of Bri.stol, and they are the parents of one child. Elizabeth Head- ley, born September 29, T902. The im- mediate ancestors of the family were Quakers, and Mr. Headley, during his lifetime, and family attended the Friends Meeting. Mr. Headley died No- vember 17, 1901. Mrs. Headley resides in the comfortable and substantial home left her by her husband, this being the same in which her children were born. She is beloved by a large circle of friends and relatives. SAMUEL M. KING. One of Chalfont's honored citizens is Samuel M. King, who has been for more than half a century a resident of the. borough. The great-grand- father of Mr. King emigrated from Ger- many about the middle of the eighteenth century and settled in Pennsylvania. Mor- ton King, son of the emigrant ancestor^ was a lifelong resident of Curley's Mill^ and married Elizabeth Hockman, by whom he was the father of four sons and four daughters, among the former being Peter, mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. and Mrs. King were true types of the German- American citizens of those early days. Peter King, son of Morton and Elizabeth (Hockman) King, learned the shoemaker's trade in New Britain township, and also- acquired a knowledge of the business of a mason. He helped to build the old Bucks county court-house, on the site of which the new one now stands, at Doylestown. In middle age he purchased a farm at Mount Pleasant, Hilltown township, which was his home for sixty years. He married April 18, 1812, Catharine Myers, who was born August 31, 1790, and they were the pa- rents of the following children : Annie, born. May 6, 1813 Elizabeth, born July 26, 1819; Susanna, born July 26, 1821 ; Martin M.,. born December 5, 1824; and Samuel M., mentioned at length hereinafter. The death, of Mr. King, the father of the family, oc- curred January 17, 1871, when he had reached the advanced age of eighty-six years and ten months, having been born March 17, 1784- Samuel M. King, son of Peter and Cath- arine (Myers) King, was born November 16. 1827, in Hilltown township, and learned the cabinetmaker's trade with his cousin, John F. King, in New Britain township. From 1852 to 1862 he was engaged in the undertaking business in Chalfont. In i86o- he took up his abode on the. farm where he has since resided. The estate is small but well-kept and highly cultivated. Mr. King has always been a good citizen, seeking to serve by all means in his power the best interests of his neighbors, who thoroughly appreciate his sterling qualities. He is identified with the Republican party, and is a member of the Hilltown Baptist church. Mr. King married. February 19, 1852, Annie D., daughter of Morton and Magda- lena (Delp) Swartley, and their family con- sisted of the following children: Amanda, who was born December 9, i8s2 : Oliver S., born July 22, 185= • and Milton S.. born April 2, 1857. Oliver S. King married HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 613 August 25, 1877, Susanna, daughter of Henry Bergy, of Franconia township, Mont- gomery county, and the following children have been born to them : Annie, who mar- ried George Albright; Sallie, who is the wife of Irvin Cline; Samuel B.; and Florence. HENRY HUNSBERGER SOUDER, proprietor of the Bush House, of Quaker- town, and one of the prominent and influ- ■ential residents of this part of the county, was born July 4, 1849, at Souderton, in Montgomery county, which place was named in honor of his family. His parents were Henry and Hanna Hansberger Souder. The family has been identified with this state from the earliest period of its de- velopment, an ancestor of our subject hav- ing been one of the Germantown colony that settled that place under the Penns. Christopher Souder, the grandfather of Henry H. Souder, was born March 24, 1777, in Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, and settled at what is now Souderton, Montgomery county, where he acquired a considerable tract of land, and devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits. He was married June 8, 1803, to' Elizabeth Ober- holzer, who was born January 18, 1782, and their children were as follows : Joseph, born March i, 1804; Maria, November 19, 1805; Henry, September i, 1807; Catherine, November 15, 1809; Samuel, March 23, 1811 ; Anna, January 6, 1815; Christian and Johann, twins, July 3, 1817; Enos, April \ 1819; and Elizabeth, January 20, 1824. Henry Souder, son of Christopher Sou- der, was born September i, 1807, at Sou- -derton, Pennsylvania, and died August 28, 1897, at that place. His parents were farm- ing people and were among the early set- tlers of that locality, having taken up their abode there before Montgomery county was organized. Henry Souder made the best use of his educational opportunities, tut his advantages in that direction were limited. However, his experience and ob- servation in later years added largely to his knowledge and made him an enterprising and successful business man. Following his marriage he settled at Souderton, where he had previously learned the carpenter's trade and eventually became one of the most prosperous builders of his day in that lo- •cality. Saving his money, he soon estab- lished a coal and lumber yard and became one of the principal business men in the northern part of Montgomery county. His political support was given to the Whig party, and later he endorsed the principles of the Republican party, but took little active interest in politics as an office seeker. He held membership in the old Mennonite church. He was married November 2, 1834, to Hannah Hunsberger, who was torn October 11, 1814, and died at Souder- ton August 25, 1898. They were the pa- rents of nine children : William, born September 19, 1835; Edmund, April 27, 1838 ; Elizabeth, January 30, 1841 ; Maria, November 7, 1845 ; Frederick, August 2j, 1846; Henry, July 4, 1849; Catherine Ann, December 21, 1851; Ellis, August 11, 1858; and Milton, July 12, 1S63. Four other chil- dren died in early life. Henry H. Souder was the sixth in this family of thirteen children. In his early years he attended a private German school conducted by a Mr. Gehman, and was also a student in the public school of his dis- trict until his twentieth year. In the mean- time, during the periods of vacation, he found plenty to do, for his father did not believe in letting young people remain idle. He himself was a man of great en- ergy, and had large business interests, in- cluding a general store, a sawmill, and a coal and lumber yard. He likewise dealt in hay and grain, and his son Henry largely assisted him in these various lines of busi- ness activitj'. He remained at home in his father's employ until twenty-two years ot age when, desiring to enter upon an inde- pendent business career, he formed a con- nection with his sister's husband, Henry Hemsing, at Souderton, where they con- ducted a planing mill. Following his mar- riage he began his domestic life at Souder- ton, where he continued to engage in busi- ness, prospering in his milling enterprise. In 1876 he embarked in the coal trade, and in the meantime extended the field of his operations by becoming a general contractor and builder. His business in that line be- came very extensive in Montgomery and Bucks counties, and for a number of years he was recognized as one of the leading representatives of the commercial and in- dustrial life in this part of the state. Pub- lic affairs have also felt the stimulus of his efforts, and, while conducting his business interests, he likewise became actively con- nected with measures for the general w'el- fare. He is a stalwart Republican and has done much for the welfare of his party, yet has never sought or desired the honors and emoluments of public office for himself. In the fall of 1884 he purchased the Bush House, the leading hotel in Quakertown, from William Bush, and took possession in. the spring of 1885. He has since conducted this hostelry and has been as successful as a hotel proprietor as he was in his former business ventures at Souderton, He has made extensive improvements in the property by enlarging the house, making a stone addition, crowned by an observa- tion tower. He has also beautified the in- terior with appropriate decorations, and is regarded as one of the leading hotel men of this part of the state. He has also built Souder's Block, the principal business block of the town, likewise Citizens' Hall, which is the principal lodge hall and place of entertainment in Quakertown. He is largely interested in real estate holdings, and is one of the proprietors of Lulu Park and of the baseball grounds. He is a char- ter member and vice-president of the Mer- chants' National Bank. Mr. Souder be- 6i4 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. longs to the Masonic lodge of Quakertow::, and he and his family are members of the old Blue Church (Mennonite) of Rockhill township. He was married in 1873 to Miss ^lary Ruih, a daughter of ir^eter and Mary (,Delp) Ruth. Her father was one of the settlers of Rockhill township, and a rep- resentative of one of the oldest families of Bucks county. The young couple began their domestic life at Souderton, where they remained until establishing their home at Quakertown. Their children are as fol- lows : Preston Ruth, who married Lillian Hohein, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by whom he has two children : JMuriel and Jennieve. They reside at Schuylkill Haven, in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, where Preston R. Souder is conducting the Grand Hotel. The younger members of the family are Lillian and Mabel Souder. THE BURSON FA^IILY. Bucks coun- ty cherishes with, faithful affection the names of her founders and pioneers, and when, as sometimes occurs, their descend- ants have migrated from the ancestral home and amid other scenes and different surroundings have maintained and increasea the traditional reputation of the race, the old county still follows their fortunes and rejoices in their success. Such has been the case with the Burson family, which traces its history through the following generations : Joseph Burson (i) was born in London, England, and was a member of the So- ciety of Friends. In order to escape the persecution to which the followers of George Fox were then subjected, he emi- grated with his wife to Pennsylvania in 1681, and made his home in Bucks county, where he became a landowner. He was one of the founders of Quakertown and assisted in organizing the Richland Meeting. Joseph Burson (2), son of Joseph (i), married Mary Potts, in honor of whose family Pottstown received its name, and they were the parents of the following children: i. Sarah; 2. Benjamin, men- tioned at length hereinafter; 3. James, who married Sarah Price, and was the father of seven children; Isaac, David, Josepn, Edward. James, Mary Ann and Sarah. Benjamin Burson (3), son of Joseph (2), and Mary (Potts) Burson, was born in Bucks county. He married Sarah Dickey, and they were the parents of a son, James Burson (4), who married Jane Oilton. Their son Joseph Burson (5), married his second cousin, ^largaret Burson, whose ancestry is traced as follows. Edward Bur- son, mentioned above as the fourth child of James and Sarah (Price) Burson, was born in September, 1756. in Bucks county, and in 1778 married Elizabeth Blackledge, a member of an old Pennsylvania family, the genealogy of which is traced as fol- lows :■ William Blackledge was born in Oxford, England, was a Friend in relig- ious belief, and with his wife emigrated to- Pennsylvania in 1682. He settled in Bucks county, and was one of those instrumental in building up Quakertown. He and his wife were the parents of four children: Isaac, Thomas, William, and Elizabeth. Of these, Thomas married Margaret Wright, and they were the parents of seven children : Enoch, Levi, Isaac, Thomas, Elizabeth, Martha, and Margaret. Of this number, Elizabeth, who was born Octo- ber 26, 1758, became the w^ife of Edward Burson, as mentioned above. Edward and Elizabeth (Blackledge) Burson went in 1778 to Greene county, Pennsylvania,, where they made their future home. The following children were born to them : James, David, Levi, Joseph, Isaac, Abra- ham, Sarah, Thomas, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Dinah. Margaret, the eighth of these eleven children, becam° the wife of hei second cousin, Joseph Burson (5), as men- tioned above. Mr. Burson, the father of the family, died February 9, 1841, and his- wife on July 26, 1853. Like her husband, she was a native of Bucks county. Joseph Burson (5) and Margaret (Bur- son) Burson, emigrated to Ohio, and in 1826 settled in Noble county. Their means were large and they were the owners of one of the most spacious and beautiful resi- dences in the state. This old home is sit- uated near Kennonsburg, and remains much the same as it was seventy-five years ago, being now occupied by Stephen and Minerva (Burson) Williams, daughter and son-in- law of the original owners. Mr. and Mrs. Burson were the parents of the following children : Edward, mentioned at length hereinafter, and James, twin sons ; Thoma,s, Jane, Elizabeth, Minerva, mentioned above, and ^Margaret. Edward Burson (6), son of Joseph (5) and ^Margaret (Burson) Burson, was born September 30, 1824, in Jefferson county, Ohio, and was a member of the Society of Friends. He married Patience Ann Mc- Burney, born in 1823, in Belmont county, Ohio, and their family consisted of five- daughters: Isabel, Margaret. Rachel, Mary and Elizabeth. These children were early deprived of their mother's care, Mrs. Burson dying June 16, i860, at the age of thirty-seven. She w?."^ a member of the United Presbyterian church. The death of Mr. Burson occurred June 12, 1900. He and his wife are both buried in the church- yard at Kennonsburg. Margaret, the sec- ond of their five daughters, was born Janu- ary 16, 1851, at Terre Haute, Indiana, and became the wife of John Sellers Braddock. John Sellers Braddock is a lineal descend- ant' of Raphael Braddock, of Maryland, who served in the French and Indian war under the command of his cousin, Gen- eral Edward Braddock, and afterward m in the American Revolution. John Sellers Braddock was born December 13, 1844, in ]\Iount Vernon. Ohio, where he received his education in tlic public schools. He is HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 6i; engaged in the real estate business, and is the owner of one of the largest granite quarries in the United States. He takes an active part in public affairs, and has served two terms in the legislature of Ohio, on* in the house of representatives and one n^ the senate. He was nominated for congress in the I7th-28lh district of Ohio, but was defeated by a narrow margin. His po- litical principles are those upheld by the Democratic party. He is a member of the Congregational church. Mr. Braddock married, March 4, 1869, in Fredericktown, Ohio, Margaret Burson, as mentioned above, Mrs. Braddock is seventh in descent from Joseph Burson, the emigrant ancestor. She is a" member of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Braddock are the parents of five children : Katherine, men-' tioned at length hereinafter; Edward Bur- son, who is a lawyer and unmarried; Wal- ter David, who is a Rock Island Railway official, and married Christine, daughter of Commander Houston, of the United States Navy; Margaret ]Mae, who is the wife of Hale, son of Henry Hale Sturges, a banker of Mansfield, Ohio; John Sellers, Jr., who married Katherine, daughter of Hon. Dan- iel McCoy, of Grand Rapids, state treasurer of ]\Iichigan. A striking proof of Mr. Braddock"s public-spirit is furnished by the fact that he has laid out two additions bear- ing his name in Mount Vernon, Ohio; and two additions, one for white and the other for colored citizens, in Little Rock, Ark- ansas. Katherine Braddock, daughter of John Sellers and Margaret (Bursonj Braddock, and eighth in descent from Joseph Burson, the emigrant ancestor, was born September 19, 1870, in 3>lount Vernon, Ohio, and grad- uated from the Mount Vernon high school, also from the H. Thane .Miller School, of Cincinnati, Ohio, class of 1889. She has studied art extensively, and also music, and during her residence in Cincinnati belonged to the May Festival Chorus of 1896 under the direction of Theodore Thomas. She is a member of the United States Daugh- ters of 1812, by virtue of lineal descent from Nicholas Headington, of Maryland, who served with distinction in the war of 1812. She is also regent of the Little Rock Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being a lineal descendant of Raphael Braddock, of Maryland, mentionea above. She is also a member of the Aesth- etic club ; president of the Tuesday Musical Club; and one of the directors of the Musical Coterie. She is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, having been confirmed in 1894 in St. Paul's church. Mount Vernon, and being now connected with Christ church, Little Rock, Arkansas. She belonged to the choir of the former church for more than ten years. Since January, 1899, she has been a member of the Daughters of the King, of the Protest- ant Episcopal church, inid also belongs to St. Cecelia's Guild, in which until recently she held the office of secretary. She was married at Christ church, Little Rock, Ar- kansas, December 7, 1898, to John Barrow, mentioned below. John Barrow was born 'n 1868, and is 'lie son of Judge J. C. Barrow, a retired lawyer and capitalist, who was a slaveholder prior to the Civil war and throughout that con- flict served on the Confederate side. His wife was Jean, daughter of Elijah Frmk Strong, of Connecticut, the founder of llie; family, John Strong, having come over m 1630 and helped to found Dorchester, Massachusetts. Mrs. Barrow's mother be- longed to a Huguenot family of the name of Barrineau. John Barrow is a graduate of the Little Rock high school and the Bap- tist College, Russellville, Kentucky. He spent one year at the United States ]\Iili- tary Academy, West Point, New York, and then entered the law school of the Uni- versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, grad- uating in 1890. He has practiced law in Little Rock ever since, and at one time rep- resented" Pulaski county in the Arkansas legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Barrow have had two sons ; the elder, born October 8, 1899, died in infancy; the yo'unger, John Council Barrow, Jr., was born December 5, 1900. ALEXANDER CHRISTY, of Bridge- water, Bensalem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is a man of undoubted integrity, greatly esteemed in the community, and his success in busi- ness is entirely due to his industry and ability. He was born in Belfast, county Antrim, Ireland, November 10, 1830, a son of Henry and Mary (Macelvenna) Christy, who were the parents of nine children, Alexander being the only sur- vivor. Mr. Christy is a lineal descen- dant on the maternal side 01 General Montgomery, of the American army, who was killed in the storming of Que- bec, during the revolutionary war, and whose remains are buried at St. Paul's church, New York city. Alexander Christy obtained his edu- cation in the common schools of his na- tive county, and at the age of sixteen years emigrated to the United States, hoping thus to secure greater business opportunities and also to enlarge his sphere for usefulness. His first em- ployment in the new world w^as as a farmer, but shortlj- afterward he en- gaged in the business of a cattle dealer, continuing in the same up to the pres- ent time, and achieving great prosperity. In 1886 he purchased a farm in Bris- tol township, consisting of one hundred and forty-six and a half acres, which he conducts in the most approved and scientific manner, residing thereon dur- ing the summer months, and in his home in Philadelphia during the winter sea- son. H[e is an extensive ownef of real estate in the city of Philadelphia, from which he derives a goodly income, and 6i6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. in point of service is the oldest man engaged in the cattle business in that city. In the earlier years of the busi- ness, James Christy (a brother of the subject) was a member of the firm. He died in 1896, and Mr. Christy took into partnership his two nephews, Alexan- der and Henry Christy, who have be- come valuable assistants in the rapidly increasing business of this enterprising firm. During the early years of his manhood Mr. Christy cast his vote with the Democratic party, but since i860 has been identified with the opposing organization, the Republican party, the principles of which he firmly advocates. As a man of good standing and sub- stance Mr. Christy wields, an influence for good in the community in which he has resided so long. !Mr. Christy was united in marriage, April 19, 1852, to Margaret Daniels, who was born in Ireland, in 1832. Two chil- dren were the issue of this union : one who died in infancy, and Mary Eliza- beth, born October 26, 1864, educated in the private schools of Philadelphia, and the Northwest Institute, 'from which she was graduated; she resides with her father, endeavoring to the best of her ability to fill the place of her mother, whose death occurred February 28, 1889. i\Ir. Christy and his daughter are mem- bers of Cohocksink Presbyterian church of Philadelphia. AUSTIN E. GRIFFITH. Griffith Grif- fith, the progenitor in America of the branch of the family to which belongs Austin E. Griffith, a retired agriculturist of Chalfont, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, accompanied by his brothers William and John, emi- grated from Wales in 1720 and settled in East Nantmeal township. Chester county, Pennsylvania. By his marriage to Given Thomas the following named children were born: Abel. William. Evan, David, Amos,/ Levi and Rebecca. The line of descent is traced through Abel Griffith, eldest son of Griffith and Given Griffith, who was born February 28. 1723, in Chester county, Penn- sylvania. He married, and among his chil- dren was a son, Amos Griffith, who was adopted when a child by his uncle, Amos Griffith, a brother of his father, who had no children of his own. Amos Griffith (uncle) located in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and settled on a tract of land which has since been in the possession of members of the family. Amos Griffith, son of Abel Griffith, was born in Chester count3% Pennsylvania, in 1771. He was reared and educated by his uncle as aforementioned, and after com- pleting his literary studies pursued a course of medical reading under the preceptor- ship of Dr. Benjamin Rush, the founder of the Rush Medical College. Subsequently he established an extensive practice extend- ing from the Delaware to the Schuylkill river, being the only phj^sician in that sec- tion of the county at that time. He per- formed his round of visits on horseback, and when traveling great distances his son would bring him fresh horses as relays. He possessed an exceptionally good education for that day. In his intercourse with the sick he was kind and sympathizing. and in an eminent degree secured the confidence and respect of the entire community in which he moved. On June i, 1797. he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Weber, who was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1776, a daughter of Captain Christian and Elizabeth Weber, the former named having been an officer in the Penn- sylvania line during the Revolutionary war. Their children were : Jesse W., Charles M., Sarah, Elijah. Elizabeth, Amos, Abigail, Abel M., John W., and Ann. Dr. Griffith was a member of the Baptist church, and a Democrat in his political affiliations. He was prominent in military affairs, taking an active interest up to the day of his death, November 17, 1863, when he lay down and expired, after remarking that he would take a last look at the world. His wife died June 3, 1843. John W. Griffith, youngest son of Dr. Amos and Elizabeth Griffith, was born at North Wales, Montgomery county, Penn- sylvania, May 3, 1812. He attended the pub- lic schools of New Britain township, after which he settled on the farm and succeeded to the property. ' He was a model farmer, his well-tilled fields and plentiful crops af- fording ample evidence of this fact. He took a deep and active interest in public affairs, contributing to the best of his ability in every enterprise that had for its object the general welfare of the com- munity. He was a member of the Baptist church, and for a quarter of a century served in the capacity of trustee. In April, 1840, Mr. Griffith was married to Susan Harrar, a daughter of William and Ann (Todd) Harrar, of Montgomery county. Four children were the issue of this union, namely : Abel M., Austin E., Eleanor, who died in infancy ; and A. Judson. John W. Griffith died in October, 1887. having sur- vived his wife a number of years, her death having occurred February 25, 1875. Austin E. Griffith, eldest son of John W. and Susan Griffith, was born on the Griffith homestead in New Britain township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1845. His boyhood days were spent in assisting with the labors of the farm and acquiring an education, the latter being gained at the New Britain Seminary. He then engaged in farming on the homestead in conjunction with his brother Abel ]M., this connection continuing until the year 1900, when Austin E. retired from active duties although re- taining his interest in the farm, and changed his place of residence to Chalfont, where he has since resided. In that year he was one of the organizers of the borough of Chal- font, and was appointed its first burgess. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 617 which office he still holds. He has served as president of the Farmers' Creamery Company of Philadelphia. He holds mem- bership in the Montgomery County Baptist Church, in which body he served as secre- tary of the board of trustees, and his politi- cal allegiance is given to the Democratic party. On April 5, 1894, Mr. Griffith was mar- ried to Eva Anna Funk, who was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1854, a daughter of Joseph Funk, a sketch of whom appears €lsewhere in this work. GEORGE DOUGLASS, postmaster of Hulmeville, whose duties have been discharged in a faithful and efficient manner, receiving and meriting the ap- proval of all loyal citizens, since his ap- pointment by the late President McKin- ley, May i, 1899, to the present time (1905), was born March i, 1840, a son of George and Edith (Dunlap) Doug- lass, and grandson of James and Sarah (Bowden) Douglass. Both his father and grandfather followed the trade of a carpenter, but during the latter years of his life the former turned his attention to the butchering business, which yielded him a livelihood and the means of laying by a comfortable competence. George Douglass received his edu- cation in the public schools of Hulme- ville, and after completing the same served an apprenticeship at the trade of blacksmith, which he followed for the long period of forty years. When the Union was in peril the call to arms could not have met with a more pa- triotic response than that given by Mr. Douglass, who served with distinction during the civil war as a member of Battery D, Second Pennsylvania Light Artillery, participating in nearly a score of engagements, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, and the surrender at Vicksburg. As a soldier he was courageous; as a citizen, active and alert; as a husband and father, faithful and devoted; as a friend, firm and true, and throughout his long and useful life he has been respected and beloved by a wide circle of friends and relatives. He is a Republican in poli- tics, and for many years has been an active worker in the ranks of that great organization. He served several terms in the borough council, and filled the responsible position of burgess of the borough. He is a member of Neshaminy Lodge. No. 422, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hulmeville, and of Hugh Martindell Post, No. 366, Grand Army of the Republic. ■Mr. Douglass married December 27, 1865, Elizabeth E. Goslin. of Newport- ville, Pennsylvania, daughter of Ran- dall and Ellen Goslin, and granddaugh- ter of John and Martha Goslin. Their family numbered six children, as fol- lows: I. George, born February 3, 1868, married, March 2, 1892, Mary Elizabeth Brown, of Oxford Valley, a daughter of J. Jennings, and Amanda E. Brown, and they have one child, Ethel May, born INIay 24, 1893. 2. Howard Meredith, born November 13, 1871, married, March 2, 1893, Sarah Vansant Force, born June 25, 1870, and they are the parents of three children: Verna Meredith, born January 3, 1895; George Durell, born May 15, 1899, and • Howard Meredith, born September 7, 1903. 3. Margaret Barclay, born November 27, 1873; she was twice married, (first) March i, 1894, to John H. Magill, wdio died No- vember 25, 1901, and (second) to John H. Moore, of Lambertville, New Jersey, wdio had a daughter Bessie by a prev- ious marriage: ISIr. and ]Mrs. Moore are the parents of a son, George Douglass Moore, born October 3, 1904. 4- Alfred W., born June 11, 1876, died November 13, 1876. 5. Elizabeth May, born July 6, 1878. 6. John Jerry, born September 28, 1882, died February 29, 1884. HORACE T. SMITFL One of the representatives of a numerous and noted family is Horace T. Smith, of Upper Makefield township. The branch of the family to which ^Ir. Smith belongs is traced through the following genera- tions: Robert Smith (i) came from England early in the eighteenth century. Tradi- tion says that his father, who sailed for Pennsylvania accompanied by his wife and children, died on the passage and was buried at sea. His widow, with the children, proceeded to their destination, and there is reason to believe that Makefield was their adopted home. The mother married again. The name of Timothy Smith, a brother of Robert, re- peatedly appears on the records of the Friends' Meeting from 1710 to 1768. He was one of a special committee appointed to build Makefield meeting house in 1752, and w^as six times sheriff of Bucks countj'. His residence was on land orig- inally owmed b}^ Joseph Milnor, in Make- field, betw^een Dolington and Wrights- town. Robert Smith, soon after his mar- riage, moved to a farm in Buckingham, on the southeastern line, adjoining the Windy Bush farm of William Smith, where he lived during the remainder of his life. In 1738 he built a stone addi- tion to his log house, ruins of which were still standing a few years ago, this house being used as a dwelling by the sixth generation of the family. He was a highly esteemed member of Bucking- ham Friends' meeting. The first meeting was held October 6. 1720, and he was soon after appointed one of the over- 6i8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. seers. He married, in 1719, Phoebe Canby, and their children were: Thomas, mentioned at length hereinafter; Tim- othy; Robert; John; Joseph; Joseph (sec- ond); IJenjamin; Samuel and Jonathan. Robert Smith died June 26, 174S, and his widow subsequently married Hugh Ely. Thomas Smith (2), son of Robert (i) and Phoebe (Canby) Smith, was born June 13, 1720, and was the first of the family to own the Smith homestead in Upper jNIakefield, although his having lived there is uncertain. He married Elizabeth Kinse3\ and the following chil- dren were born to them: Robert; . Phoebe; Edmund, mentioned at length hereinafter; Thomas; Elizabeth; Sarah; Eleanor; John; Martha, and David. Edmund Smith (3), son of Thomas (2) and Elizabeth (Kinsey) Smith, was born in 1745. and about 1780 tore down the old log house and built the brick house which is still standing. He was thrice married, his first wife being Sarah Daw- son, and his second Deborah Fell. By the latter he was the father of the fol- lowing children: Saul; Edmund; Benja- min; Joshua, mentioned at length herein- after; Jesse; and Deborah. After the death of his second wife he married Mary, widow of James Briggs. Joshua Smith (4), son of Edmund (3) and Deborah (Fell) Smith, was born in 1782, and married Rachael Briggs, by whom he had three children: Deborah; Thomas Storey, mentioned at length hereinafter; and Elizabeth. After the death of his wife he married Susanna Smith, and two children were born to them: Kinsey and Martha. Mr. Smith died on the homestead, February 3, 1853. Thomas Storey Smith (5), son of Josh- ua (4) and Rachael (Briggs) Smith, was born September 20, 1815, on the home- stead, and at the time of his marriage the portion of the estate which forms the present farm of his son, Horace T. Smith, was allotted to him. On this land he erected the present buildings and spent his life. In politics he was a Whig, and later a Republican. He married Han- nah Fell, and four children were born to them, two of whom survive: Horace T., mentioned at length hereinafter; and Albert, who is a resident of San Fran- cisco, California. The death of Mr. Smith occurred where his son Horace T. now resides, March 31, 1870. Horace T. Smith (6), son of Thomas Storey (5) 'and Hannah (Fell) Smith, was born December ig, 1853, on the homestead, and received his education in the common schools. Although but six- teen years old at the time of his father's death, the responsibility of the manage- ment of the farm devolved chiefly upon him. and soon after his twenty-first year he had full control of the estate. Soon afterward he purchased the farm, his mother making her home with him dur- ing the remainder of her life. For nine years he was a member of the school board. Like his father, he is a Republi- can in politics. In matters of religion he adheres to the traditions of his ancestors, and is a member of the Friends' Meeting. Mr. Smith married in 1877, Rebecca, daughter of John S. and Martha (Hill- born) Eastburn, of Upper Makefield town- ship, and they are the parents of the follow- ing children : Story Wilfred ; Lester L ; Clarence H. ; Howard E., who is a student at Purdue College, Lafayette, Indiana ; and Fnuna H.. who attends the George School. ■The three elder sons reside at home. It is worliiy of note that two of the grandsci:^ oi Robert Smith, the emigrant ancestor, namely, Robert and Joseph Smith, brothers, made the first plow ever con- structed with an iron mouldboard. a patent for the plow being granted to Robert Smith. The mechanical genius exhibited by Joseph Smith in the construction of an article so important to agriculturists led to a personal acquaintance with Thomas Jef- ferson and a number of other distinguished men of the day. Joseph Smith, in addition to his genius as an inventor, was the first person in Bucks county to succeed in using anthracite coal for fuel. JOHN CASPER BACHOFER, a prosperous business man of Hulmeville, whose success proves conclusively what can be accomplished by strict attention to business and. by a steadfast determin- ation to advance, is a native of Wurtem- berg, Germany, born June 27, 1850, a son of John Casper and Elizabeth (Meomy) Bachofer. His educational advantages were obtained in the schools of his native land, and these he im- proved in such a manner as to be well qualified to enter upon the duties and responsibilities of life. After thor- oughly mastering the details of the trade of wood turner he worked at it for six years, and then, attracted by the possibilities ofifered to young men in the business world of America, he crossed the Atlantic in 1870, settling in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, where he contin- ued working at his trade for eight years. He then engaged in the grocery busi- ness, which he conducted during the re- mainder of his thirty years residence in Philadelphia, and the large measure of success he achieved was the direct re- sult of his own ambition and effort. In 1900 he located in Hulmeville, where he is held in high esteem by all who know him, anfl he has been honored by elec- tion to the borough council, in which he is now .serving. During his residence in Philadelphic. Mr. Bachofer was a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has twice revisited his native land to visit his parents and friends. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 16, 1873, i\Ir. Bachofer was united HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 619 in marriage to Laura Elizabeth Reetz, of that citv. daughter of Ferdinand and Amelia (Fudeka) Reetz, the former named, in connection with his son, hav- ing been very successful in the manu- facture of ha"ircloth, this being a very unique process in this section of the country. Seven children were the issue of this union: Ewald Ferdinand, born August. 1874, died December, 1875. Law- rence George, born August, 1876, died September, 1878. John Casper, born August 15, 1880, is emplpoyed as a letter carrier in the city of Philadelphia. Louis Henry, born June, 1882, died December,' 1895. William Frederick, born Sep- tember 23, 1885, now employed in the cotton mill in Hulmeville. Laura Eliza- beth, born December 9, 1888. Ferdinand Henry, born March 23, 1893- These chil- dren received their education in the public schools of Philadelphia and Hulmeville. J. HARRIS CARTER. One of the progressive citizens of Upper Makefield ■ township is J. Harris Carter. He comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his great- grandfather having emigrated from England. ■ William Carter, the son of this emigrant ancestor, was born in Bucks county, and for many years lived on what was later known as the Harvey Southwaite farm, in Falls township. His wife was Rachael Headley. James Carter, son of William and Rachael (Headley) Carter, was born March 15, 1800, in Middletown, Bucks county, and in early life was a farmer, but later moved to LIulmeville and en- gaged in business as a butcher. After his retirement he moved to Oxford, where he lived for ten years, and then went to reside with his daughter, Mrs. Hellings, in Taylorsville, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a life- long Democrat, and in religion was a member of the Adventists, to which com- ' munion his mother had belonged, his father having been an orthodox Friend, and his brother David a preacher of the Society. He married Rebecca, born July 2, t8io. in Middletown. daughter of Jon- athan Hibbs. and they were the parents of nine children, of whom the following survive: James, who lives in North Da- kota- Rachael. who married Wilson Ash- more Kimball, of Trenton, New Jersey; Susan who is the wife of Lafayette Homer, also of Trenton. New Jersey; Lurania, who married Edwin Hellmgs. of Mercer county, New Jersey: Clara, who is the wife of George Brooks, of War- ren Ohio: and J. Harris, mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Carter died No- vember 23. 1863. at the home of his daughter. 'Mrs. Hellings. and Mrs. Car- ter, who is wonderfully well preserved at the extraordinary age of ninety-five. resides with her daughter, Mrs. Brooks, in Warren, Ohio. J. Harris Carter, son of James and Rebecca (Hibbs) Carter, was born Alarch 15, 1848, in Fallsington, Falls township, and received his education in the common schools. At the age of four- teen he apprenticed himself to learn the business of a butcher with his brother James at Dolington. He was then em- ployed by his brother-in-law, Edwin Heilings, in Taylorsville, working during the summer months and attending school during the winter. For thirteen years he was employed by Mr. Heilings, and in 1875 engaged in business for himself at Dolington. At the end of twenty-nine he is one of the substantial and highly esteemed men of this section. He is a Democrat in politics, but has never been an office-seeker. Mr. Carter married, Feb- ruary 18, 1874. Rosa A., daughter of George \V. Slack, of Dolington. and three children were born to them, of whom the sole survivor is Florence, now the wife of Frederick Sernberger, of Hopewell. New Jersey, and the mother of one child, Harris C. ISAAC M. LANDIS, a representative of the quiet but useful calling of agricul- ture, conducting his extensive operations on a ninety-two acre farm in New Britain township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, it being one of the best cultivated and most productive in that section, is a native of that county, born in Springfield township, November 13, 1844. His parents were Jacob S. and Barbara (Moyer) Landis. Jacob S. Landis (father) was born ir» Springfield township, in 1817. He was reared on a farm, educated in the com- mon schools of that day, and up to the time of his marriage assisted his fatlier in the work of the old homestead. He then purchased a farm and also erected a mill, and both these enterprises he conducted suc- cessfully until he was sixty-five years of age, W'hen he disposed of his property and took tip his place of residence in nilltown- township, w'here he resided until his retire- ment from active pursuits. He was a mem- ber of the Mennonite church, and a Re- publican in politics. By his marriage to Barbara Moyer, a daughter of Peter ]Moyer, the following named children were born: Henry. Isaac M. ; Helena, who died at the age of ten years; Abraham, and two who died in infancy. Mr. Landis died at the home of his son. Isaac M. Landis. in 1901. He survived his wife twenty years, her death having occurred in the year 1881. Isaac M. Landis was reared under the parental roof, and was educated in the pub- lic schools of the neighborhood, one of his teachers having been William G. Moyer, a well known instructor. He left the home of his parents upon attaining his majority, and from that time until his marriage in 620 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 1871 he earned a livelihood by working out among the farmers. The five j-ears follow- ing his marriage he resided in Plumstead township, and in 1877 purchased the old Martin Myers homestead of ninety-two acres, which he cultivated to a high state of perfection and which yields him goodly harvests in return for his labor. He makes a specialty of dairying, and the quality of his products may be inferred from the fact that he has sold to one man for the past twenty years, a very creditable record in- deed. He is a member of the Mennonite church, and his political support is given to the Republican party. In 1871 Mr. Lan- 3f Society, and the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium. He studied law with Judge A. V. Parsons and Eli Kirk Price, of Philadelphia. He died in August, 1902, at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, and is buried in the family lot at Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, where his father, brother Lafayette, and sister Eliza F. (Myer) Bir- key are buried. RIGGS FAMILY. Edward Riggs, Puritan, settled at Roxbury, Massachu- setts, 1630, and was made a freeman. He was a member of the Anglician Church when in England (Anglo-Saxon origin). He was married, in 1618, to a Miss Holmes, born before 1590, in Nanzing Parish, Waltham Abbey, Essex county, England. The Riggs family have their coat of arms. Edward Riggs had one son, Edward Riggs, who fought against the Pequod Indians in 1637, and was made a sergeant on the field of battle for bravery and for saving the lives of his captain and companions from an In- dian ambuscade. Sergeant Edward Riggs went from Roxbury to New Mil- ford, Connecticut, where he purchased land and built a palisade house near the present town of Derby, and therein hid Generals Gofif and Whally, known as the "Regicides." He had one daughter, Mary, and sons Joseph, Edward, and Samuel, who was known as Ensign Riggs. Sergeant Edward Riggs with his wife Elizabeth went to Newark, New Jersey, about 1666, and settled it, there- after being known as the funder ot Newark, New Jersey. His daughter, Mary, and sons, Joseph and Edward, aided in the settlement thereof. His wife Elizabeth was the only woman who stayed over the winter, and for her brav- ery she was voted a double portion of land. Sergeant Riggs kept a wolf pit for his own amusement. Ensign Samuel Riggs did not accom- pany his parents upon their removal to New Jersey. His daughter married the Rev. Humphrey, whose son was Gen- eral Washington's bosom friend during the Revolutionary war, his private sec- retary before and after it, who carried the colors by special orders from York- town to Philadelphia to Congress and was voted an elegant sword by them for bravery. He was minister to Spain and Portugal, and introduced the culture of Merino sheep into this country. He was a noted literary man in his time, and his portrait by Trumbull is at Yale, and another by Gilbert Stuart is in the state house at New Haven or Hartford. His mother, formerly Sarah Riggs, was a very elegant woman in her time, and was always known among her contemp- oraries as Lady Humphreys, and the Chapter of Daughters of "the Revolu- tion at Derby, Connecticut, was named in her honor. Joseph Riggs, of Newark, New Jer- sey, took an active part in the beginning of the Revolution, and his writings may be found in a number of places in Force's "American Archives." He left Newark, New Jersey, and took up his residence in New York. Benjamin Myer, great-grandfather of Henry W. Birkey and Isaac Myer Birkey, M. D., married Sarah Riggs, daughter of Jo- seph Riggs. MAHLON C. DETWEILER, of Quakertown, is one of the most enter- prising and progressive business men of the communitj% and has contributed his share toward the building up and main- tenance of its reputation, and to him it is indebted for the position it holds among the wealthy and prosperous towns of the county. He was born in Milford township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, March 24, 1846, and is a son of Henry and Annie (Clj^mer) Det- weiler. The Detweiler family is one of the oldest German-American families in America, and is descended from several different German emigrants vvho came to Pennsylvania and settled in Mont- gomery county at dififerent periods from 1715 to 1750. Hans Detweiler, the an- cestor of the subject of this sketch, was one of the earliest settlers on the Skip- pack, and was also an early landowner in Bucks county. His son Jacob lived and died in Upper Hanover township, and had two sons, Jacob and John, and two daughters. Jacob, the son, owned and occupied at the time of his death in 1791 a tract of land extending across the county line into IMilford township, where his widow Catharine and five chil- dren took up their residence, after his decease. Jacob Detweiler, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, on arriving at manhood located in Upper Saucon, Lehigh county, where he followed the life of a farmer for many years, remov- ing later to Milford township, Bucks county. He married Magdalena Heist, of an old family of upper Bucks, and they were the parents of seven chil- dren— Samuel. Henry, Charles. Jacob, Daniel. Catharine and Elizabeth. Henry Detweiler, son of Jacob and iMagda- lena, was born in Upper Saucon, Le- high county, April 24, 1817. Early in life he learned the shoemaker trade, which he followed for a few years, but the most of his life was devoted to ag- ricultural pursuits. He married, No- vember ID, 1839, Anna Clymer, daugh- ter of Henry and ]\Iary (Shaffer) Cly- mer, of Milford township, Bucks county, and soon after his marriage took up his residence in Milford. On April 4, 1846, he purchased seventy acres of the old Clymer homestead, between Milford Square and Quakertown, which he \ 6?>^ HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY owned until January, 1893. Shortly before his death he removed to Quakcrtown, where he died December 21, 1893. Henry and Anna (Clymer) Detweiler were the parents of nine children, viz. : Mary, wife of Jacob Clymer; Aaron, of Quaker- town; Mahlon C, the subject of this sketch; William, deceased; Henry, of Hagersville, Bucks county; Susan, de- ceased; Annie, wife of A. Stciner, de- ceased ; Catharine, wife of Samuel Sleif- fer; and Frances, who died at the age of two years. Mahlon C. Detweiler spent his boy- hood days working on the farm, and at- tended the district school of the neigh- borhood, where he acquired a liberal ed- ucation. He then worked with John Barnes, of Milford, serving an appren- ticeship to the carpenter's trade, and following that vocation as journeyman in Richland and Quakertown for many years. Upon discontinuing that line of work he engaged in the meat and pro- vision business, and successfully fol- owed that occupation twelve years at Richland Center and Quakertown. He pur- chased the Simon Sacks estate, but shortly after taking possession of the property its buildings were destroyed by fire and our subject immediately replaced them with new ones. Later he bought the Jacob Cress- man property which he remodeled and en- larged into a commodious market and shop. He employed many men, had several delivery wagons, and it is said that he was the largest meat dealer ever in the place. His honesty was never doubted, and he is held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens for his many sterling' qualities. In Sep- tember, 1895, he was appointed postmaster of Richland Center, a fourth-class office, but in October of the same year it was advanced to the third- class. As postmaster he filled the position with ability and credit to himself for foui^ years, and was con- sidered the last and most efficient post- master Richland Center has ever had. He built a large tenement- house in 1898; he also purchased the Dr. Lott estate of fifty acres, located on the west side of Strawn street, and later sold a half interest to Henry H. Souder. They cleared part of the land, which was covered with a dense forest, and built a half mile race track, fifty feet wide, a ball ground, grand stand, pavilion 50x100 feet, and placed through the grove many seats along the drive ways. The park is known as Lu Lu Park, and is a popular pleasure resort in the vicinity. In 1897 Mr. Detweiler sold his interest to T. C. Leeland. president of the Quakertown Electric Railway. He subsequently built and equipped a new bak- ery with all the modern appliances, and engaged in the bakery business. Beginning without any trade, through his energy and business tact he in a comparatively short time built up a large and lucrative business which he conducted for three years, and then sold out to William B. Kaehler, of Lansdalc, but in June, 1905, he repurchased the plant and is now doing an extensive business, consuming thirty barrels of flour per week, and furnishing steady employment to several hands. He was one of the few men engaged in the bakery business who received a certificate from the inspector of the district complimentary to the cleanli- ness and sanitary condition of his plant. In July, 1904, he also engaged in the coal business, and in this, like all his busi- ness ventures, he -has ijiade a success. Mr. Detweiler is in every sense a self- made man. By his industry, careful atten- tion to business and strict integrity in all his dealings, he has acquired a competence and won the esteem and confidence of the people with whom he associates. He has always taken an active interest in the town in which he lived, _and has filled several positions of trust and honor. In 1880, prior to engaging in the meat business, he served for six years as supervisor in Rich- land township. In February, 1903, he was elected to the officfe of chief burgess of Quakertown borough for a term of three years, and has made a popular and efficient official. He and his family are members of Trinity Lutheran church, in which he has held the office of deacon since 1901. Mr. Detweiler was one of the active pro- moters of the organization and erection of Trinity, church, being prior to that time a member of Christ church, at Trumbauers- ville. He was acting chairman and treas- urer of the building committee. He is a member of Pennsburg Lodge, No. 449, I. O. O. F. : Secona Tribe, No. 863, I. O. R. M., and has been for over thirty-seven years a member of Lodge No. 149, O. U. A. M., the only lodge in Quakertown that did not forfeit its charter during the civil war. Mr. Detweiler married May i, 1869. Eliza- beth Trumbower. daughter of Samuel and Catharine (Deily) Trumbower, of Rich- land township. WILLIAM L. WALKER, of Newtown, was born in Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 5 mo. 31, 1837, and is a son of Holcombe and Saralr Ann f Long- shore) Walker, and a representative of several of the old families of Bucks county. The family of Walkers to whom William L. Walker belongs have been members of the Society of Friends since coming to America, and were early settlers in Salem county, New Jersey, and in Moreland, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. George Walker was one of the earliest members of Abington Meeting, and one of its overseers for many years. Joseph Walker, the direct ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was at the time of his marriage in 1722 a resident of South- ampton township, Bucks county. August 21. 1722. he purchased 319 acres of land in Middletown that had been the property of his wife's ancestors, the Heatons. for two generations, and lived and died thereon, his X' ■ ■ £W YORK I ;..... .LIBRARY Tl'. -. LP^'OX AND ^ATI-^NS. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 633 death occurring in September. 1759. He was married at ]Micldletown Friends' Meet- ing in IT mo. (January), 1722-3, to Sarah Heaton, daughter of Robert and Grace (Pearson) Heaton, of Middletown. the for- mer of whom was born in Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1671, and came to America with his parents, Robert and Alice Heaton, in the "Welcome," with William Penn, in 16S2. The children of Joseph and Sarah (Heaton) Walker were: George, born 11 mo. 23, 1723-4; Joseph; Sarah, who married (first) John Palmer, and (second) John Thorn- ton ; Robert, born 6 mo. 8, 1731 ; Grace, who married Benjamin Scott, of Southampton ; Emanuel, who married Ann Carey ; and Margaret, who married Samson- Carey. Sarah Walker, the mother, survived her husband and died in August, 1768. Robert Walker, third son of Joseph and Sarah (Heaton) Walker, was born and reared in Middletown township. Early in life he learned the carpenter trade and fol- lowed it in INIiddletown and Newtown town- ships until March, 1762, when he purchased of his mother-in-law, Mary Linton, three hundred acres of land in Solebury town- ship that had been taken up by his wife's grandfather, Nehemiah Blackshaw, in right of his father. Randal Blackshaw.in 1700. and moved thereon. The tract included the present village of Carversville. and extended to the line of Plumstead and Buckingham townships, forming the extreme northwest- ern corner of Solebury township. Robert Walker spent the remainder of his life on this farm, dying there October 22. 1806. He was twice married. His first wife was Mary Linton, whom he married January 8, 1761. daughter of Joseph and Mary (Blackshaw) Linton, of Northampton township, and granddaughter of Nehemiah Blackshaw, who came to America with his parents Randolph and Alice Blackshaw and the Pembertons and Harrisons in the ship "Submission," of Liverpool, in 1682. (See "Pemberton Family" in this volume). The Walker homestead in Solebury was devised by Nehemiah Blackshaw in 1743 to his daughter Mary, who had married Joseph Linton in 1725. Phebe Blackshaw. sister of Nehemiah, was the first wife of Joseph Kirkbride, the ancestor of all the Kirkbrides of Bucks county. The children of Robert and Mary (Linton) Walker were ten in number, of whom but five lived to mature years, viz.: Robert, born 10 mo. 3, 1761, married Susanna Shaw, of Plumstead, and died in Buckingham, soon after his father, without issue ; Joseph, born 9 mo. 27, 1763, died unmarried in 1790; ^lary, born i mo. 13, 1766, married John Townsend in 1787 ; Phineas, born g mo. 18, 1776 (see forwardV; Benjamin, born 3 mo. 12, 1779. married Hannah Hartley, and died on the home- stead in Solebury, leaving a large family of children who have numerous descendants in Bucks county. Mary (Linton) Walker died I mo. 30. 1790, and 4 mo. 13, 1791, Robert married Asenath Beans, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Paxson) Beans, who sur- vived him and died in 1831. They were the parents of five children, Ann, Amos, Stacy, John, and Elizabeth, none of whom left descendants, though all lived to old age, John dying in Doylestown, April 29, 1898, in his one hundredth year. Phineas Walker was the eighth child and seventh son of Robert and ]Mary (Linton) Walker, four of his elder brothers (Randal, Mahlon, Jesse and David) having died in childhood. He was born and reared on the old Solel)ury homestead and remained there until his marriage. At the death of his father in 1806 he elected to take the home- stead of his maternal ancestors in North- ampton township, Bucks county, consist- ing of about 160 acres, which his father had purchased in 1787, and lived thereon until his death, February 10, 1848, in his seventy- second 3'ear. His wife was Sarah Hol- combe, daughter of John and !vlary (Green) Holcombe, of Solebury, granddaughter of Samuel and Eleanor (Barber) Holcombe, of Hunterdon county. New Jersey, and great granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Woolridge) Holcombe, natives of Eng- land, who were early settlers near the pres- ent site of Lambertville, New Jersey, and an account of whose descendants is given in this volume. The children of Phineas and Sarah (Holcombe) Walker were: Mary, married Amos Smith ; Robert, who never married ; Susan, married James Worstall ; Asenath, died unmarried ; Hol- combe ; and Phineas, married Deborah Mitchell, and had children : Augustus Mitchell Walker, of Trenton ; Anna, wife of Joseph Smith, of Trenton ; Margaret, wife of Levi Risdon, of Trenton ; William H., president of the Newtown National Bank ; Phineas, of Yardley ; Sarah, wife of Theodore Vansant, of Bristol; Elizabeth, wife of Levi Risdon : Susan : and Le- titia, wife of William H. Van Horn. Holcombe Walker, son of Phineas and Sarah (Holcombe) Walker, was born in Northampton township, Bucks county, and was reared on the old homestead farm of his ancestors. On arriving at manhood he lo- cated in Solebur}^ where he followed farm- ing until his early death in 1847. He mar- ried Sarah Ann Longshore, daughter of Abraham Longshore, who survived him many years. Their children were: William Longshore Walker, the subject of this sketch ; Abraham L., now living in Cali- fornia ; Sarah Jane, widow of Frederick Beans, of Makefield ; and Elizabeth H., who died in 1893, the wife of Samuel H. Walton. William Longshore Walker was born and reared in Solebury township, Bucks county, and on attaining manhood began farming in Upper Makefield township, where he resided for three years. He then purchased a farm in Falls township, where he resided until the spring of 1879, when he removed to New Jersey, near Pennington, where he followed farming until 1888, when he re- moved to Newtown, Bucks county, where he has since conducted the milk business. Mr. 634 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUX'JV Walker has been twice married. I lis first wife, wliom he married 3 mo. 14, 1859. was Lizzie Hellings. born in Middletown. 9 mo. 5, 1838, daughter of Jared Hellings ; she died in Falls township, 5 mo. 19, 187 1. They were the parents of six children, all o'f whom died in infancy. Mr. Walker mar- ried 3 mo. 14. T873, Deborah T. Cadwallader, daughter of Timothy and Julia A. (Leland) Cadwallader; she died October 25, 1905. Their only child is Frank E. Walker, who was born 7 mo. 22, 1877. He married June 7, 1899, Harriet Brown, daughter of Benja- min Brown, of Binghamton, New York. Mr. Walker is a Republican in politics. He has always taken an interest in the affairs of the community in which he lived. He has served two terms as chief burgess of Newtown, from 1892 to 1896, and 1899 to 1902, and is at present a member of the town council. In religion he conforms to the faith and principles of the Society of Friends as have all his ancestors. He be- came affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, as a charter member of Hermes Lodge. No. 109, of Bristol, in 1868, and is now a mem- ber of Defiance Lodge, No. 135. of New- town, and has passed all the chairs. He was formerly connected with the Red Men and Knights of the Golden Eagle. CHARLES J. SMITH, of Buckingham, one of the enterprising and progressive- farmers of that vicinity, is a representative of two of the oldest families of Bucking- ham. He is a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Johnson) Smith, and was born in Buck- nigham, on the farm on which he now re- sides, September 15, 1865. The pioneer ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Robert and William Smith, both natives of Yorkshire, England, though not known to be of common ancestry, botn of whom settled near Wrightstown, Bucks county. William Smith was the first to arrive, coming in 1684 in a ship which landed its passengers at New Castle, now Delaware, from which point William Smith, then a young and unmarried man, engaged passage on a boat up the river, and was entertained for some time at the house of Phinehas Pemberton, a native of Yorkshire, who was at that time one of the most prominent men of the little Quak- er colony on the Delaware. On 9 mo. 20, 1690, William Smith married Mary Croas- dale. daughter of Thomas and Agne^ Croasdale. who had come from Settle, in Yorkshire, in 1682, in the "Welcome." They were married at the house of John Chapman, the pioneer settler of Wrights- town, from whom William Smith made his first purchase of land, adjoining Penn's Park. Mary (Croasdale) Smith died in 1716. and in 1720 William Smith married a second wife, Mercy, by whom he had seven children. He died in 1743. Of the eight children of the first marriage, Thom- as Smith was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch. He married in 6 mo., 1727, Elizabeth Sanders, and took up his resi- dence at '"Windy Bush," in Upper Make- field township, near the point where the four townships of Bijckingham, Wrights- town, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, on a tract of land surveyed to his father in 1709 by Penn's land commissioners. He died in 1750. Samuel Smith, the second of the eight children of Thomas and Elizabeth (San- ders) Smith, was born at Windy Bush, i mo. 17, 1729-30 (March 17, 1730), and died there 2 mo. 14, 1812. He married in 1750, at Buckingham Friends' Meeting, Jane, the daughter of John and Ann (Lenoir) Scho- field, of Solebury, who died 10 mo. 29, 1815, at the age of eighty-nine years. Anr» Smith, the third of the ten children of Samuel and Jane, was born 11 mo. 15, 1754, and died in 1854 at the age of ninety-nine years, ten months and twenty-seven days. She married at Wrightstown Meeting, 11 mo. 19, 1774, Joseph Smith, a grandson 01 Robert Smith, the other pioneer of the name. Robert Smith is said to have come from England with a brother Timothy and two or three sisters, the parents dying on the passage to America. He was a resident of Makefield in 1710, when he witnessed the marriage of his sister Ruth to Joshua Cheesman. His brother Timothy marn'ed Rachel Milnor in 1716, and became a prom- inent man in the community. Robert Smith married, 7 mo. 30, 1719, Phebe Can- by, daughter of Thomas Canby, one of the most prominent men of his time, a preacher among Friends, and many years a member of colonial assembly. Robert Smith set- tled on a farm in Buckingham, adjoining the Makefield farm of William Smith, and died there 6 mo. 26, 1745. The house built by him on this tract in 1738 was the home of his descendants for six generations. He was an overseer of Buckingham Meeting, and his wife was an approved minister among Friends. She married in 1753, Hugh Ely, of Buckingham, and died i mo. 19, 1774- Timothy Smith, the second of the nine children of Robert and Phebe (Canby) Smith, was born i mo. 29, 1722, and died 5 mo. 14, 1798. He married at Bucking- ham Meeting, 2 mo. 17, 1745. Sarah Kin- sey, daughter of Edmund and Sarah Og- burn Kinsey, early settlers at the site of Buckingham meeting house, where Ed- mund was an approved minister. Sarah Kinsey Smith died 5 mo. 17, 1812. Joseph Smith, fourth of the seven chil- dren of Timothy and Sarah (Kinsey) Smith, was born in Buckingham, 7 mo. 7, I753j and died at Smithtown, in Tinicum township, Bucks county. 9 mo. 28. 1826. He was the inventor and patentee of the first plow with an iron mouldboard, and in con- nection with his brother Robert engaged in their manufacture in 1800. In 1802 he removed to Smithtown and erected dwell- ings and shops, and carried on the mana- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 63: facture of plows until his death in 1826. It was in these shops that anthracite coal was first successfully used for fuel about 1812. He married, as above stated, Ann Smith, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Schoheld) Smith, of the other branch of the family. William Smith, the third of the twelve, children of Joseph and Ann Smith, was born in Buckingham, 6 mo. 3, 1779, and married, in 1804, Margaret Worthington, daughter of Mahlon and. Mary (Paxson) Worthington, and granddaughter of Rich- ard Worthington, one of the earliest set- tlers ni lower Buckingham, where Mahlon was born 12 mo. 19, 1750. JONATHAN SMITH, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the youngest of ten children of William and INIargaret Smith, and was born in Wrightstown township, 5 mo. 31, 1826, and died in Buck- ingham, May 23, 1889. "He was reared on the farm, and acquired his education at the local schools. In January, 1853, he pur- chased the farm upon which the subject of this sketch now resides, and on the third day of ]March following married Sa- rah C. Johnson, and took up his residence in Buckingham. He was an active worker in the Prohi- bition party and in all branches of tem- perance work, being one of the organizers of the Good Templar's Lodge. His home was always the headquarters of the lodge in this section. Many of his relatives were also active in temperance work, and he was wont to 'say that he had seventy-six first cousins, of whom fifty were boys, not one of whom used either tobacco or in- toxicating drinks. His team of four black horses, carrying banners, etc., was a feature at many temperance and prohibition dem- onstrations. His wife, Sarah C. Johnson, was born July 31, 1830, and died October 26, 1888. They were the parents of six chil- dren, the three eldest of whom died in in- fancy. Elizabeth P. married, 10 mo. 18, 1888, Hon. William W. Griest, of Lancas- ter, for many years a county official of Lan- caster county, and secretary of the com- monwealth, under Governor William A. Stone. George A. Smith, the oldest sur- viving son, removed to Chicago in early life, and married Frances A. Kerr, of that city. He died in Chicago, 8 mo. 6, 1892, leaving one child, Esther. Charles J. Smith was the youngest child of Jonathan and Sarah Smith. He was born and reared on the farm upon which he still resides, and acquired his education at the Hughesian School and at the Doyles- town English and Classical Seminary. From early life he was active in the manage- ment of the farm, and is considered one of the best farmers in the. valley of Buck- ingham. At the death of his father he purchased the farm, and never has resided elsewhere. He and his family are mem- bers of the Society of Friends. He is one of the trustees of the Hughesian Free School, having been elected in 1899. He married in 1888, Mercy Lovett, daughter of Edmund and Clara (Weaver) Lovett, of Penn's Manor, who celebrated their golden wedding on October 31, 1904; both are hale and hearty. To Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been born four children — Willis W., Milton L., E. Lovett, and Eliza- beth. MRS. NAOMI A. PADDOCK belongs to a family long resident of Bucks county. Her parents were Phineas and Deborah (Mitchell) Walker, and they had thirteen children, namely : Augustus ; Annie, the wife of Joseph Smith; Margaret, the wife of L. B. Risden ; William H. ; Sarah, the wife of Theodore Vansant ; Susan, the wife of Allen Neil; Phineas; Naomi; Mary, the wife of Edward Twuiing; Eliza- beth, the wife of Charles Risden; James; Lottie, the wife of William Van Horn; and one that died in infancy. Naomi Walker, reared in the parental home and educated in the public schools, was married (first) to Edward Burns, and there were five children by that union : J. Walker and Robert W., who are partners in a wholesale grocery business in Will- iamson, West Virginia; Edward, who is a railroad engineer in West Virginia; Mary, the wife of L. H. Phitteplace, who is as- sistant superintendent of the Northwestern Railroad Company, of Virginia; and Will- iam W., who is still at home with his moth- er. She is a member of the Friends' So- ciety. For her second husband Mrs. Burns married George H. Paddock, who is also deceased. ■ He was a civil engineer and a coal operator of West Virginia, and after his death Mrs. Paddock returned to Yard- ley, settling near the place of her nativity. Here she owns and occupies one of the best homes in Yardley, and has good prop- erty interests. SYLVESTER H. STONEBACH, a prosperous farmer of Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, was there born July 18, 1854, on a farm in the southern part of Richland township. He is of German descent, the grandson of John and Elizabeth (Tr'esler) Stonebach, and son of Jacob T. and Chris- tiana (Hartzell) Stonebach, the daughter of John and Eva Hartzell. Sylvester H, is one of seven children born to his parents : Kitian, deceased; John Henry; Sylvester, mentioned at length hereinafter; Amanda, the wife of William Saylor ; Lucinda. wife of Quinton Jordan; Anna Marie, married Allen Treisback; and Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. Ahlum. Sylvester H. Stonebach acquired what education the district schools of that day afforded, which he attended until his six- teenth year, meanwhile assisting his father with the farm work. In 1874 his father purchased the farm where Sylvester now lives, about a mile and a half south of Quakertown, on Bethlehem Pike, where 636 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY Sj^lvester continued to work with him. About 1878 S. H. Stonebach settled at Quakertown, remaining there for a year, wlien he remuVed to a farm of Mr. Fuhnar, in the lower part of Richland township. In 1S80 he removed to the Aaron llarring farm, in Richland township, which he con- ducted for two years. For the next thirteen years he was engaged in cultivating the Martin farm in Richland township. He purchased his father's farm in 1896, and two years later removed to it, where he continues to reside and which he conducts as a general farm. Air. Stonebach"s politi- cal belief accords with the doctrines of the Democratic party, and he has always taken a lively interest in the prosperity of that organization. He. is a consistent member of St. John's Lutheran church' at Quaker- town. In 1878 Mr. Stonebach was united in marriage to -Amanda, daughter of Jonas and Mary (Gross) Graver, of Quakei- town. She was born December 13, 1858, in Milford township, where her father con- ducted a farm and grist-mill near Trum- bauersville. The following children were born to Air. and Airs. Stonebach: i. Alabel, died in infancy; 2. Harry, died April 17, 1878; 3. Sallie, born February 15, 1884, is unmarried and lives at home; she at- tended the district school of Richland township and is employed at Quakertown. 4. Warren, born January 11, 1886, attended the district school, and is at present en- gaged with his father on the farm; 5. Florence, born February 3, 1889, attends the public school at Quakertown, and lives with her aunt, Mrs. Quinton Jordan. 6. Nellie, born November 9, 1890, attends the district school and lives at home ; 7. Fred- ■erick, born August 20, 1898, attends dis- trict school. JOEL LEVI HEACOCK. Through sev- eral centuries the Heacock family has been represented in Bucks county. Jesse and Tacy (Thompson) Heacock, his grand- parents, were residents of West Rockhill township, where the former owned and operated a farm. It was upon that farm that Joel Heacock, father of Joel L. Heacock, was born in 1794. He at- tended school in Milford township, Trum- . "bauersville, and afterward engaged in farm- ing and in the general milling and lumber business. He was married in 1842 to Aliss Abigail Roberts, the daughter of Levi and' Phoebe (AlcCarthy) Roberts, the eldest of a family of twenty-two children. After his marriage Joel Heacock located on the old family homestead farm and devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits and milling. In his political views he was a Whig, and his religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Society of Friends. The old homestead is one of the oldest farming properties of Bucks county, it hav- ing been acquired by ancestors of Joel Levi Heacock from Thomas and Richard Penn through a charter grant. This farm was situated in West Rockhill township, and long remained in possession of the family. .Joel Levi Heacock attended the public schools in his home district through sev- eral winter seasons, and in the summer months worked on the farm assisting in the labors of the fields. His father died Alarch 17. 1853, while on a business trip to German- town, and the family continued on the home farm until 1858, when Airs. Heacock, the widow, rented the place, for she realized that her son required better educational advantages, and removed to Quakertown in order that he might enjoy educational opportunities that were in advance of those afforded by the community schools. There he continued his studies in the Friends' school, and later became a student at what was known as the Bucks County Normal Classical School, conducted by A. R. Home, ■ a native of Springfield township, Bucks county, and a graduate of Pennsylvania col- lege, located at Gettysburg, this state. Following the 'completion of his normal and classical course, Air. Heacock assisted as a teacher for one year in that institution, after which he joined James Brunners in the conduct of a school for the training of teachers that they might be prepared for the work of the public schools in the townships. Later Air. Heacock became principal^ jn the Friends' school, occupying that position for a year. He next entered into partnership with Rev. George AT. Lazarus, pastor of St. John's Lutheran church, and for a time conducted -a school in the basement of that church. Alany of the boys and young men who pursued their studies under his direc- tion afterward became active, prominent and influential in various departments of busi- ness life. Air. Heacock has ever been deeply interested in the welfare and progress of his home locality, and has done everything in his power to promote its- upbuilding, but has never aspired to office outside of Quak- ertown. He served as chief burgess for six years, and as a member of the town council labored effectively and honorably for the improvement of the borough along substan- tial lines of progress. Interested in the advancements that would make Quaker- town an attractive place of residence and also a good business center, he did every- thing possible to secure the lighting of the town by electricity. With this end in view he visited different places in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Indiana, to investi- gate conditions and plans of lighting those towns. Few men have labored so untiringly and along such practical lines for the benefit of the borough as has Air. Heacock. His efforts have ever been of the most practical character, and his fellow-townsmen recog- nizing the value of his services, in 1869 he was appointed notary public, and later be- ■ came interested in the real-estate business, which he conducted in connection with the performance of his duties as justice of the peace. In the last mentioned office he has ever been desirous of bringing to a friendly ^\ 1793. and his death occurred June 27, 1872. Jacob K. Harley, father of Jonas S. Harley, was born in Frederick township, Montgomery county, Pennsj-^vania Decem- ber 23, 1825. In early life he served an apprenticeship at the trade of harness maker, becoming an expert mechanic. This line of work he followed successfully, con- ducting a business of his own at Harleys- ville until 1897, the year of his retirement from active pursuits. He served in the capacity of director of the East Greenville National Bank, and president of the Turn- pike Company, the turnpike road extending from Harleysville to Lederachsville. He was prominently identified with local affairs, and was keenly alive to everything which concerned in any way the well being of the township and county. He was a member of the executive committee of the Dunkard church, and politically a Republican. , He married Sarah Stover, daughter of Jacob Stover, of Kulpsville, and they were the parents of nine children : James, Elmira, Jonas S., Katheryn, Jennie, Jacob, Martha, Charlotte, and Lizzie, who died at the age of nine years. Jacob K. Harley (father) died April 3, 1903, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He survived his wife several years, her death occurring in No- vember, 1896. The educational advantages enjoyed by Jonas S. Harley were obtained in the pub- lic schools adjacent to his home, and at Bruner's Academy, North Wales. In 1875 he engaged in the manufacture of saddlery at Kulpsville, remaining there until Febru- ary 7, 1878, when he moved to Quaker- town and established a business on a small scale. His trade increased so rapidly both in volume and importance that he was com- pelled to greatly enlarge his facilities, and at the present time (1905) his plant con- sists of a large factory four stories in height, the dimensions of the main building being two hundred and forty by sixty feet, and an annex eighty by sixty-five feet. It gives constant employment to one hundred and seventy-five men, all skilled mechanics, and the product is of the best quality and workmanship, which insures a ready sale. His extensive sales rooms are in New York city. The able manner in which he man- ages his affairs denotes that he possesses business talent of a high order, and at the same time the interest he maintains in all matters calculated to promote the welfare of the people proves his loyal devotion to the town in which he makes his home. He is a director of the Quakertown National Bank, and was one of the organizers of the QuakertQwn Trust Company, was appointed its first president, and is still serving in that capacity. He takes an active and prominent part in politics, and was chosen as a dele- gate to the Republican National Conven- tion in 1904. He is a warden of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a mem- ber of the Bucks County Historical So- ciety. On September 16, 1886, Mr. Harley was married to Helen Sargent Baylies, of Baltimore, Maryland. Their children are: Frederick L., who is engaged in business with his father ; and Irene, wife of J. Howard Ozias, and they are the parents of one child, Helen. HIEL GILBERT, who for many years vvas identified with industrial in- terests in Holicong, and is now engaged in farming in Buckingham township, was born in this township. May 4, 1849, his parents being Maris and Lydia Ann (Large) Gilbert. The father, also born and reared in Buckingham township, learned the wheelwright's and carriage- builder's trades, and for many years carried on business on his own account along those lines in Centerville. He afterward removed to Philadelphia, where he continued in the same business for nineteen years, after which he re- turned to Buckingham township and pur- chased the farm belonging to his father- in-law, Matthew Large. He then began the cultivation of his fields, but after three years found that he knew little about farming, and, selling the property, he purchased a residence in Holicong, where he again engaged in carriage building. He remained there for ten years, after which he returned to Phil- adelphia, where he resided up to the time of his death. To Maris and Lydia Ann (Large) Gilbert were born three chil- dren, of whom two are living: Hiel and Ella, the latter the widow of Thomas Maynes. of Philadelphia. Hiel Gilbert, spending his youth in his parents' home, pursued his education in 648 HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY. the grammar school at the corner of Eightli and Thompson streets, in Phil- adelphia. In his early manhood he ac- cepted a position with C. W. Walton & Company, mannfacturers of hats and caps in Philadelphia. He rose through successive and well merited promotions from the position of general utility boy to a place of marked trust and responsi- bility, but failing health caused him to resign, and he then returned to Bucks county and entered his father's carriage shop in Holicong. The business was there carried on extensively, and even- tually Mr. Gilbert succeeded his father in the ownership and conduct of this indus- trial enterprise, with which he was as- sociated for seventeen j'ears, meeting with very gratifying success. He then disposed of his factory and purchased a commission business which he conducted for twelve years, and in the spring of 1898 he purchased his present farm in Buck- ingham township, upon which he has since resided. He votes with the Re- publican party, and is a well known cit- izen of his native township, having the favorable regard of those with whom he has been associated. Mr. Gilbert was married, February 2, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth Lear, a daughter of Robert and Ann (McVaugli) Lear, of Bridge Point. Her father is well known as the operator of a saw mill and a man- ufacturer of rakes at Bridge Point. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have no children of their own. but have reared three, and two of them. Charles and Hiel, are now stu- dents in Cornell University. Clara, who was legally adopted, is now the wife of Ralph Oppie, a chemist of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WILLIAM D. KRATZ, a farmer of Hilltown township, was born in Rock- hill township, Bucks county, November 27, 1859. His paternal grandfather, Will- iam Kratz, was a resident farmer of this county, and in connection with gen- eral agricultural pursuits engaged in the commission business, attending the Phil- adelphia market. He wedded Mary Ros- enberger, a daughter of Henrj^ and Han- nah (Detweiler) Rosenberger. Their son, Henry R. Kratz, was born in Hill- town township in February, 1827, and he too made farming his life work, always following that pursuit in support of his family. He married Sarah Delp, a daughter of George Delp, and they had four children: Mary, who married Daniel Bright, of Bethlehem, of Pennsylvania; William D. ; Clayton, who died in Ohio; and Kate, who is the wife of Levi Fluck, of Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, and has one child. Following the death of Mrs. Sarah Kratz, Henry R. Kratz married Lavinia Fluck, and they had three chil- dren, namely: Harry, who married Car- rie Smith; Ella, deceased; and Martha, wife of James Romey. The father died in February, 1902, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He was a member of the Brethren church. William D. Kratz is indebted to the public school system of his native county for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He was reared by Joseph Wim- mer, with whom he remained until he attained his majority, and later began farming on his own account and has al- ways followed that pursuit, meeting with fair success in his business ventures. He has followed the religious teachings of his ancestors, and is a member of the Brethren church. Mr. Kratz was married January 2, 1882, to Miss Susan Rosen- berger, who was born May 16, 1866, a daughter of Jacob D. and Eliza (Swart- ley) Rosenberger. Mr. and Mrs. Kratz became the parents of nine children: Lu- cretia, who was born in 1882, and is now deceased; Jacob R., born August 29, 1884; Lavinia R., born November i, 1886; Henry C. R., November 28, 1888; Arte- mus R., December 16, 1890; Elizabeth R., February 5, 1893; Mary Ann, No- vember 17, 1894; Franklin R.. October 25, 1896; and Catharine R., October 19, 1903- CHARLES WILDMAN, who is now (1905) leading a retired life at his com- fortable home in Langhorne, Middletown township, surrounded with peace and plenty, and realizing to the full that there is no reward so satisfactory as the consciousness of a life well spent, was born in Fallsington, Falls township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1839. He is a lineal de- scendant of Martin and Ann Wildman, who in 1693, accompanied by their six children, emigrated to America, locating in !Middle- town township, Penns3dvania. Among their children was a son Joseph, who mar- ried ; John, son of Joseph Wildman, was united in marriage to Mary Tomlinson, and among their children was a son John, who married Mary Knight, and they were the parents of a son Charles, who married Susanna Shoemaker Albertson, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Knight) Albertson, the latter named being the daughter of Benja- min and Susannah (Shoemaker) Albertson. Charles and Susanna S. (Albertson) Wild- man were the parents of seven children, as follows : Chalkley Albertson, John Knight, Mary Ann, Benjamin Albertson, Charles, whose name appears at the head of this sketch ; Ellwood, and Jane, who died in infancy. Charles Wildman obtained his. early edu- cation in the public schools of Bensalem, and this was supplemented by a course at Brj-ant & Stratton's Commercial College. He gained his first practical experience in the general store of William T. Hop- kins, at Burlington. New Jersey, as clerk, remaining for a period of five vears. He then entered into the whole- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 649 sale drj' goods and wooden and willow ware business in the city of Philadel- phia, which he conducted up to 1878, in which year he and his brother opened a general store at Edgewood, Bucks county, which they conducted successfully for six- teen years and then disposed of it at an advantageous price. In 1894 ^Ir. Wildman moved to the borough of Langhorne, where he is now enjoying the fruits of his earlier activities, and the respect of his fellow citi- zens. For six years he served the borough as councilman, one year of which he was president of the council, and at the present time (1905) is serving in the capacity of borough auditor. During his residence in Edgewood, INIr. Wildman served as post- master of that village for sixteen years, being first appointed by President Ruther- ford B. IJayes. INIr. Wildman adheres to the tenets of the Friends' religion, and is a stanch adherent of the principles of Repub- licanism. On June 18, 1863, Mr. Wildman enlisted as private for three months in Company B. Thirty-second Regiment, Penn- sylvania Alilitia, later was promoted cor- poral, and received his discharge at Phila- delphia, August I, 1863. The company was under the command of Captain Charles S. Jones, and the regiment under Colonel Smith. Mr. Wildman was twice married. His first marriage, in 1871, was to Elizabeth Wellington Hawkins, of Philadelphia, by whom he had one child, Elizabeth Hawkins, born in 1872, who died in infancy. i\Irs. Wildman died in 1872. His second mar- riage, in 1879, was to Caroline Yerkes, daughter of Adolphus and Harriet (Rem- sen) Yerkes, the former named having been a son of Jacob and Mary (Banes) Yerkes, and the latter a daughter of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Severns) Remsen. WILLIAM R. STAVELEY, M. D., who in the years of an active practice was re- garded as one of the most prominent and skilled physicians and surgeons of Bucks county, was born in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, his parents being William and Margaret (Sheed) Staveley. The deed which William Staveley had in his possession at the time of his death indicates the early connection of the family with colonial interests of America. This deed for seven hundred acres of land about 1682 was granted by "Charles, abso- lute lord and proprietor of the province of Maryland and Lord Baron of Baltimore," and a part of the original tract is still in possession of the Staveley family. Repre- sentatives of the name through successive generations continued residents of Mary- land. William Staveley, father of Dr. Staveley, was born in Shrewsbury parish. Kent coun- ty, Maryland. He remained in the state of his nativity until fifteen years of age, when he went to Philadelphia and there learned the printer's trade as an apprentice under Thomas J. Stiles, publisher of the "True American." He afterward entered the service of John H. Cunningham, and, becoming the purchaser of Mr. Cunning- ham's interest in 1823, conducted a small printing business at Third and Dock streets until his property was purchased by Stephen Girard. His next location was on Pear street, near St. Paul's church, and there his business was gradually developed and enlarged. In October, 1823, he began the publication of the "Philadelphia Re- corder," after called the "Episcopal Record," and successively the "Episcopal Register and Church." His connection with this religious journal brought him into contact with many of the most prominent clergy and laymen of the Episcopal church, and his business relations proved frequently the foundation of life- long friendships. He was a believer in the Episcopal faith and long held membership with that denomination. Soon after he began the publication of the "Philadelphia Recorder" he also published and circulated throughout the United States a cheap edi- tion of the Book of Common Prayer, and, following the liberation of the Spanish- American colonies, he enjoyed an extensive and remunerative printing trade in the Spanish language for the IMexican and Col- ombian governments. Admitting James jMcCalla to a partnership, the firm style of Staveley & McCalla was assumed, and the house became one of the most prominent of the country in connection with religious publications, and the printing of convention journals, reports, tracts, etc. His connec- tion with the publishing business continued until 1854, although some years prior to this time he had become a resident of Bucks county. In 1838 he had purchased a coun- try home in Solebury township, and there continued .to reside up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 22d of March, 1877. He had throughout the entire period of his residence in Bucks county exerted a strong and beneficial influence for its de- velopment along moral lines. He was most active and earnest in his effort in behalf of the church, and for fifteen years served as vestryman and Sunday-school superin- tendent at Old Swedes church. He was also deeply interested in the Church of the Ascension, and assisted materiall)^ in re- lieving it from financial embarrassment. He was instrumental in organizing the parish at Doylestown and Centerville, and gave to the latter its parsonage, rie acted as superintendent of the Bucks Coimty Bible Society for manv years, and his influence in behalf of moral advancement was far- reaching and beneficial. He recognized, too, the obligations and duties of citizenship in connection .vith political interests, and espoused with equal earnestness the politi- cal principles which he deemed most bene- ficial to county, state and national govern- ment. In early life he was a Jacksonian Democrat and a most ardent admirer of 6!;o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNT y. Andrew Jackson, always retaining a large portrait of him in his room. He interward became a Whig, and subsequently a most unfaltering and inflexible advocate of Re- publican principles. Political preferment, however, had no attraction for him. He was likewise a contributor to the agricul- tural development of the county, and after he took possession of the family estate in Solebury township he was deeply interested in everything pertaining to progress along farm lines, and quick to introduce any im- provement that he believed would come to be of practical benefit in agricultural circles. He was the first man in Bucks county to use a mowing machine. For a number of years he was the president of the Bucks County Agricultural Society, and at the time of his death he was president of the Brownsville Horse Company, the United Horse Company, the Farmers and Me- chanics' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Bucks county and a director of the Lahaska & New Hope and Buckingham & Doylestown Turnpike Companies, and de- clined to act as president of the last named because of advanced age. On the 27th of August, 1822, William Staveley was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Sheed, a daughter of George Sheed, of the old dis- trict of Southwark, Philadelphia, and on the 27th of August, 1872, they celebrated their golden wedding. They were the pa- rents of eight children, of whom five are yet living: Mina, the wife of William Biles, of Solebury township ; William R. ; Mar- garet, the widow of E. Mitchell ; Cornell ; and Belle, the wife of James W. Jones, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. William R. Staveley was provided with excellent educational privileges. He attended the school in West Chester, Penn- sylvania, and pursued his collegiate course in the Princeton University, of which he is a graduate of the class of 1852. Having decided upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he then matriculated in the Jef- ferson Medical College of Philadelphia, completing the full course by graduation in the spring of 1855. Locating in Solebury township, he entered upon the practice of medicine, for which his thorough prepara- tion and continued private study well fitted him, making him one of the most capable practitioners that has ever represented the medical fraternity in Bucks county. He called his home "Bleak House," because of 'the fact that he built it upon an open field. However, he planted trees, and to-day has one of the best groves in the township, the trees having attained to magnificent size. In 1856 Dr. Staveley was married to Miss Julia C. Kelley, of Frankfort, Maine, and to this marriage have been born four chil- dren: Caroline, at home; Albert; Margaret; and Sarah. The son. Dr. Albert Staveley, is a noted surgeon of Washington, D. C. Completing his collegiate course at Prince- ton he^ afterward attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was grad- uated in the medical department. Dr. Staveley is a Democrat in his political allegiance, and fraternally is connected with Amwell Lodge, No. 12, F. and A. M., ot Lambertsville. Having retired from active practice some years ago, he gives his super- vision to cultivating and beautifying his fine estate covering one hundred and twen- ty-nine acres, and to-day has one of the most attractive homes of Solebury town- ship. WILLIAM PHILLIPS WRIGHT. Among those prominently and actively identified with the commercial, political and social interests of the borough of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, may be mentioned William P. Wright, a man of wide and varied attainments, up- right, sterling character, and ^business ability of a high order, whose active ca- reer has been one of marked enterprise, wherein his reliable methods have achieved for him large financial returns. He was born in the borough in which he now resides, September 27, 1847, a son of John and Rebecca (Bloomsburg) Wright, who were the parents of six children, as follow's: John Wesley, James, William Phillips, Anthony, de- ceased; Charles, deceased; and Frank, deceased. The educational advantages enjoyed by William P. Wright were obtained in the public schools of Bristol; Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport; the Pennsyl- vania State Normal School at Millers- ville; and Crittenden Commercial Col- lege. After graduation he was em- ployed in Philadelphia for a few years in the wholesale business. When, in 1871, his father bought the store adjoining the town hall on Radcliffe street, of Pierce, Scott & Pierce, William P. Wright and his brother James, joined him in the general store business at this old stand and there he remained until 1881, in which year he purchased the hardware store and busirtess of the Kin- sey estate, situated on Mill street, Nos. iig-i2i, conducting the same success- fully to the present time (1904). Mr. John Wright had for many years been in the general merchandise business in Bristol and built the building in 1857 in which store his son John Wesley has since that time done business Mr. William P. Wright is a thoroughgoing man of business, prompt and reliable in the execution of orders, and well de- serves the large patronage accorded him. The esteem in which he is held in the community is evidenced by the fact that he has served the borough as burgess for one term, and as recorder of deeds of Bucks county for three years. He is a Protestant in religion, a Republican in politics, and an honored member of Bris- tol Lodge, No. 25, Ancient York Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias, Knights of Friendship, Broth- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 651 erhood of the Union, and American Hose, Hook and Ladder Company, No. 2, of Bristol. On June 26, 1872, Mr. Wright married Levina (Doble) Lyndall, of Bristol, daughter of James and Eliza (Emmons) Lyndall. The members of the Lyndall family were prominent citizens and suc- cessful business men of this section of the state. The following named chil- dren were the issue of this marriage: George Cannel, born June 12, 1873; John Mattison, born January 4, 1875, who is now assisting his father in the manage- ment of his business; Arthur, born May 27, 1877, is also engaged likewise; Jessie Wells, born December 11, 1879, now liv- ing at home with her parents; and Hor- ace, born December 21, 1881, a graduate in electrical engineering from the Drexel Institute and now employed m the electrical department of the Cramp Ship Building Company of Philadelphia. All these children \vt.ve. educated in the public schools of Bristol. The family are prominent in the social life of the community. MICHAEL G. HANEY, of Tinicum township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, belongs to an old and honored family of the county, its members in general being industrious and lawabiding people. His grandfather, Michael Haney, lived and died in Tinicum township, and there fol- lowed farm life all his days. He was eminently successful, and before his death gave each of his sons a home. He was a member of the Roman Catholic church. He married a Miss Shaffer, by whom these children were born: i. An- thony; 2. Joseph; 3. Samuel; 4. John; 5. Michael ; 6. Susan, wife of Nicholas Buck: 7. Lena. Anthony, the father of Michael, was born in 1805, in Tinicum township, where he followed farming and milling all his days. He died in 1882. He was a mem- ber of the Roman Catholic church. He married Miss Mariah Geary, and they had ten children to bless their home: I. Isabella, died in childhood; 2. Ellen, deceased; 3. Anthony, died young; 4. Eliza- beth, wife of Jonas Yost; 5. Thomas, de- ceased ; 6. William, deceased ; 7. Hiram, a wholesale notion merchant of Philadelphia; 8. Milchael G. ; 9. Sallie, wife of John Mills ; 10. Annie, wife of Isaac Seifert. Michael was born in Tinicum town- ship, March 2, 1842, and educated in the public schools. When quite young he learned the blacksmith trade with Jonas Yost, and in 1864 bought him out at Ottsville. He successfully carried on the business at the glowing forge until 1899, since which date he has turned his atten- tion to farming. He is a member of the Lower Tinicum church (Lutheran), and politicall}^ he is a staunch Democrat. He has served as school director for six years. In 1892 he was appointed mer- cantile appraiser by the county commis- sioner. In 1869 he married Mary Ellen, only daughter of Jacob Swarts. By their union eight children were born, three of whom died in infancy. The liv- ing are: Oscar, a clerk at Ottsville; 2. Minnie, wife of David Trauger; 3. Maggie, deceased, wife of Thomas Kramer; 4. Alica, at home; 5. Ruth, at home. ALFRED MILNER WILDMAN. The progenitor of the American branch of the Wildman family was Martin Wild- man, who in 1693, accompanied by his wife and six children, came to Bucks county from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Middletown township. They were members of the Society of Friends, and brought a certificate of membership with them from the Monthly meeting of Settle, Yorkshire. England. Joseph Wild- man, third son of Martin and Ann Wild- man, born January 23, 1683, in England, married and among his children was a son John, who was born in Middletown, July 8, 1732, and was united in marriage to Mary Tomlinson. John Wildman, son of John and Mary (Tomlinson) Wildman, was born in Middletown, March 28, 1771, married Mary Knight, and among their children was a son Charles, who was the proprietor of a country store at Fallsington, who mar- ried Susannah Shoemaker Albertson, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Knight) Albertson, and they reared a family of seven children, as follows : Chalkley Al- bertson. John Knight, Mary Ann. Ben- jamin Albertson, Charles, Ellwood, and Jane, who died in infancy. Chalkley Al- bertson, the eldest child, was a mer- chant in Philadelphia, in which city he resided up to the time of his death. He married Emeline Reed Tatum, and among their children was Alfred Milner, whose name appears at the head of this sketch, who was born in Philadelphia, January 12, 1862. The public schools of ^Philadelphia af- forded Alfred M. Wildman the means of obtaining a practical education which prepared him for an active career. He then entered the employ of James M. Vance & Co., of Philadelphia, hardware merchants, with whom he remained nine years. He then located in Langhorne, and shortly afterward established a hard- ware business on his own account, which he has successfully conducted up to the present time. Although his time is so fully occupied with the varied duties of this enterprise, Mr. Wildman takes an active interest in the management of affairs in the borough in which he re- sides, and is now serving as secretary and treasurer of the Langhorne Elec- tric Light and Power Company, and sec- retary^ of th.e ^Mutual Beneficial Associa- 652 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. tion of Bucks County. He has been ac- tive and efficient in the interests of the Re- publican party, the principles of which he tirnily advocates. He is a member of the ^Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Newtown Lodge, No. 427. Mr. Wildman was united in marriage Novem- ber 19, 1890, to Josephine Schenck, of St. Louis, Missouri, daughter of Peter Voorhees and Anna (McCune) Schenck, the former named having been a gradu- ate of Princeton College, and for many years a physician of celebrity and great skill in the city of St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Wildman, who are highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends, are the pa- rents of four children: Marshall, born January 18, 1895; Ruth Anna, born Sep- tember 21, 1897; Josephine, born April 12, 1899; and Florence Marshall, born December 18, 1901. HOWARD M. GRIFFEE, M. D. For more than a quarter of a century Dr. Howard M. Griffee, of Taylorsville, has been one of the active practicing physi- cians of Bucks county. Dr. Grififee is a representative of a very ancient familj^ which traces its descent from the last king who reigned in Wales before that country became a part of the English dominion. Peter Griffee, son of John and Mary (Norton) Griffee, was born February 24, 1817, in Gloucester county. New Jersey, and as a young man was apprenticed to a book-binder in Philadel- phia. After serving his time he engaged in the business for himself, and for many 5'ears was identified with the interests of book-binding. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion a Baptist, be- ing very active in church work, and for many j^ears a deacon in the Tenth Bap- tist church, Philadelphia. He married Elenora Bell, and three children were born to them, two of whom survive: Howard M., mentioned at length here- inafter, and George, who makes his home with his brother. Mr. Griffee died in 1880, in Philadelphia, where the greater part of his life had been passed. Howard M. Griffee, son of Peter and Elenora (Bell) Griffee, was born June 10, 1850, in Philadelphia, and received his preparatory education in the Hancock grammar school, afterward attending the Kennett Square classical school, from which he graduated in 1869. In 1870 he took up the study of medicine under Dr. Mayhew Johnson, of Penn's Grove, New Jersej^ and in 1872 entered the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania, receiving from that institution in the spring of 1875 the degree of Doc- tor of Medicine. In July of the same year Dr. Griffee began practice in Tay- lorsville, where for many years he has had an extensive connection. Since 1894 he has been a stockholder and director in the Taylorsville and Delaware Bridge Company, and is now a member of the building committee having charge of the construction of the new iron bridge. He is a member of the United States pen- sion examining board. His interest in local affairs is active, and for twelve years he has served as president of the school board. He is a member of the Bucks County Medical Society and the State Medical Society, and also belongs to Newtown Lodge, No. 427, F. and A. M., and Welcome Lodge, No. 229, I. O. O. F., of Philadelphia. In politics he is a staunch Republican. Dr. Griffee married, in 1880, Sarah, daughter of Ab- ner Van Hart, of Upper Makefield town- ship. Mrs. Griffee died April 6, 1902, and on July 4, 1903, Dr. Griffee married Nellie Monta, daughter of Joseph Os- born, of Harlow, Essex, England. There are no children by either marriage. In the yard of Dr. Griffee's house stands the monument erected to mark the point of Washington's embarkation for his passage of the Delaware. This historic spot is a constant centre of at- traction for those interested in the events of the period of the revolution. JOSEPH F. CLUNN. From a list of the substantial citizens of Solebury town- ship the name of Joseph F. Clunn must not be omitted. Mr. Clunn is a grandson of Joseph Clunn, who was born in Eng- land, but when a young man came to the United States and settled in Bucks county, where he was one of Bristol's best known and most respected citizens, holding for many years the office of justice of the peace. Robert Clunn, son of Joseph Clunn, mentioned above, was born in Bucks coun- ty, and learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed but a short time, abandoning it for a seafaring life. During his trips as master of his vessel he visited many ports in different parts of the world. Later he retired from the sea and moved to North- umberland county, where he purchased a farm on which he resided for the remainder of his life. He married Rebecca, daughter of Henry Pfeister, who was for many years landlord of the Fox Chase Tavern, and three sons were born to them : Joseph F., mentioned at length hereinafter ; Robert, and George ; the two last-named are de- ceased. Mr. Clunn died at the early age of thirty-eight years, and his widow subse- quently married A. Samuel Hoovan and moved to Bucks county. By her second marriage she was the mother of the fol- lowing children: John; Morris: Henry: Rebecca A., who is the wife of Edward Emberson, of Lambertville; and Isabelle, who is the wife of Mr. Roberts, of Tren- ton, New Jersey. The three sons are de- ceased. Mrs. Hoovan died in her fifty- ninth year. Joseph F. Clunn, son of Robert and Re- becca (Pfeister) Clunn, was born April 23, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 653 1839, near Fisher's Ferry, Northumberland county, and from his early boyhood worked for neighboring farmers. When his mother and stepfather purchased a farm in Plum- stead he was called home, and thenceforth assisted in the farm work until the time of his marriage, when he became a tenant farmer. At the end of seven years he bought a farm in Plumstead, which he cultivated for three years. He then sold the property and went to Maryland, where he engaged in shipping peaches, but, the crops being poor, he returned home after a year's absence and settled at Norris- ville. After a year spent as switch and telephone tender at the bridge he went to Point Pleasant, where he was variously en- gaged for three years. Later he took up his abode in Solebury and spent some years in the commission business, since which time he has been engaged in farming. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Presbj-terian church at Carversville. Mr. Clunn married in i860, Charlotte, daughter of William Poulton, of Bucking- ham township, and two children have been born to them : George David b., deceased ; and Mary Alice, who is the wife of George H. Van Horn, a dry goods merchant of Jeannette, Pennsylvania. HANNAH G. SHADDINGER. Three generations of the Shaddinger family have occupied the old home in Plumstead town- ship. Andrew Shaddinger, the grandfather of Hannah G. Shaddinger, was born in Bucks county and continued a resident thereof until his death. He was a farmer and drover, dealing in stock and carrying on general agricultural pursuits through- out his entire life. In 1819 he built the house now occupied by Hannah G. Shad- dinger, it being the family home continu- ously since. His children were Abraham ; Henry; Jacob; Barbara, the wife of Hiram Michner; Sarah, who married Epenitos Wismer; Catherine, the wife of Andrew S. Michner ; and Esther Comly Michner. Abraham Shaddinger was born on the old family homestead in 1804, and always followed the occupation to which he w-as reared. He early learned to be a good judge of the value of cattle, and was well known as a drover as well as an agricul- turist. His life was marked by unfalter- ing industry and he continued actively in business until advanced age forced him to retire. His death occurred at Point Pleas- ant in 1896, when he had reached a very venerable age. He married Miss Mary Fretz, and they became the parents of four children : Andrew, of Point Pleasant, who followed the same occupation as his father ;' Henry F., deceased, who was a farmer on the old homestead near Gardenville; Susanna S.. the widow of John D. Walter and a resident of Point Pleasant; and Hannah G. The last named was born on the old homestead, and is of the third gen- eration that has lived in the same house. ANDREW J. GIBSON is one of the leading farmers of Upper Maketield township. The founder of the Bucks county branch of the Gibson family came from Ireland in the seventeenth century and settled in Plumstead township, where he took up a large tract of land. James Gibson, the grandfather of An- drew J. Gibson, was a farmer and lived and died in Plumstead. Andrew Gib- son, son of James Gibson mentioned above, was born in 1800, in Plumstead township, and passed his life on the homestead. During the greater part of his life he was a Democrat, although an anti-slavery man, but on the breaking out of the civil war allied himself with the Republican party, to which he ad- hered during the remainder of his life. He married Nancy Ruckman, and they were the parents of seven children, three of whom are still living: Andrew J., men- tioned at length hereinafter; Isabella, who is the widow of William Strimple, of Flemington. New Jersey; and Nancy, who is the widow of the Rev. Samuel Harrison, and resides with her sister in Flemington. Mr. Gibson, the father, died on the homestead in his eightieth year. He belonged to the church of his an- cestors, which was the Presbyterian. Andrew J. Gibson, son of Andrew and Nancy (Ruckman) Gibson, was born June IS, 1836, in Plumstead township, and received his education in the com- mon schools. As a young man he was employed as a salesman by a Philadel- phia publishing house, a position which he retained for several years and in which he was very successful. After his marriage he moved to Newtown, where he resided one year, being still employed by the publishing house, and in 1877 re- moved to the farm of his mother-in-law, in Upper Makefield township, giving from that time forth his whole atten- tion to agricultural pursuit's. In 1881 he purchased, in the same township, the farm which has ever since been his home. In politics he is a Prohibitionist. He and his wife are members of the Pres- byteran church. Mr. Gibson married, in 1876, Jennie M. Vanartsdalen, and they are the parents of two daughters, both of whom are at home with their father and mother — Nellie and Mary J. Mr. Gibson has now for twelve months suf- fered the great affliction of total blind- ness, his sight having gradually failed during the last nine years. The paternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Gibson took up a large tract of land in Northampton township, which was later divided among his three sons, who lived and died on their respective farms. These sons were John, Isaac and Simon. John was the father of two sons, Francis and John, between whom he divided his farm. John removed to Richboro a short time prior to his death. Francis mar- ried Mary J., daughter of Adrian Cornell, 654 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and among their children was Jennie M., who became the wife of Andrew J. Gib- son, as mentioned above. The Cornell family was founded in Bucks county by Adrian and Matchie (Hagaman) Cornell, who about 1735 purchased a tract of land in Northampton township from Penn- ington, a son-in-law of William Penn. Adrian Cornell and his wife came to Bucks county from Flatbush, Long Island, making the journey on a cart drawn by a team of oxen. The tract of land on which they settled was then known by the name of "Holland." They erected a log cabin and thus began their pioneer life in what was then a wilder- ness. Adrian Cornell was one of a large family, members of which are now to be found in all parts of the United States. The name has suffered many corruptions, being spelled in various ways. Not a few of those to whom it belongs use the form "Cornwall," and from this it is supposed that the family originated in England and was transplanted from Cornwall, in that country, to Amster- dam, Holland, and thence to the shores of the New World. WILLIAM MAWSON. The name of William Mawson, of Newtown, is insepar- ably identified ith the manufacturing in- terests of Bucks county. Mr. Mawson is a son of John B. Mawson, who emigrated from Yorkshire,' England, in 1870, and found employment in a wood-working es- tablishment in Philadelphia, where he re- mained until 1884. In that year Mr. Mawson removed to Bucks county and settled in Yardley, where he established a factory for the manufacture of bobbins. The enterprise proved success- ful, but in 1891 the factory was destroyed by fire, and Mr. Mawson sold the business to his sons, James, William and Charles, who in 1892' erected a large factory at New- town and began the manufacture of bobbins and spools on an extensive scale, under the firm name of Mawson Brothers. In 1900 James Mawson retired from the firm and moved to Binghamton. New York, where he operates a similar factory. Until 1904 the business was continued at New- town by William Mawson and his brother Charles, the name of the firm remaining unchanged. The industry steadily increased until the establishment became one of the most prominent among the manufactories of Bucks county. In 1904 a stock combina- tion w^s formed and chartered under the name of The Excelsior Bobbin and Spool Companj% with a capital of sixty thousand dollars. Additional buildings were erected and the latest improved machinery intro- duced, more than doubling the capacity. The wood used is largely a native growth, but hard-wood shipments are also secured from the south and west. The product finds a market in all parts of the United States, and shipments are also made to foreign countries. Mr. Mawson and his sons are good citizens, taking a lively in- terest in all that' pertains to the welfare of their town and county. In politics they are Republicans. Charles, the junior mem- ber of the firm, belongs to the town coun- cil of Newtown borough. Mr. Mawson married, before leaving England, Eleanor Battye, and their chil- dren are: John, who is employed in the United States arsenal at Frankford ; Mary, who is the wife of Edward Godfrey, of Newark, New Jersey; James, who Hves at Binghamton, New York; Agnes, who is married to Frederick Walker; Isabel, who is the wife of Frank Cassidy, a plumber of Paterson, New Jersey; 'Will- iam, mentioned at length hereinafter; Eleanor, who is married to Frederick Walker; Charles, who was born in 1873, in Philadelphia, married in A^^ril, 1895, Irene Balderston, and has two children, Edna and Clifford; and George, who is employed on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. All these children with the exception of the three last named were born in England. William Mawson, son of John B. and Eleanor (Battye) Mawson, was born in 1868, in Yorkshire, England, and was two years old when brought by his parents to the United States. He possesses a full share of the rare business qualifications which seem characteristic of the entire fam- ily, and is an active and progressive citi- zen. Mr. Mawson married, in September, 1897, Josephine, daughter of Edward Ellis, of Newtow-n. Mr. and Mrs. Mawson are without children. Mr. Mawson and wife are members of the Newtown Episcopal church. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. EDWARD M. SLACK, of Upper Make- field township, was born at Taylorsville, Upper Makefield township, January 25, 1845. and is a son of Cornelius and Sarah (Hull) Slack. Abraham Slack, the grand- father of the -subject of this sketch, was a son of Abraham Slack, one of the pioneer brothers in Makefield referred to in another sketch, and' married (first) Elizabeth Tor- bert, daughter of James and Hannah (Bur- ley) Torbert, of Lower Makefield, by whom he had five children : Esther ; James ; Joseph ; Ann. who married Thomas Cun- ningham ; and Cornelius. His wife Eliza- beth dying, he married (second) about 1810, Ann Mathews, of Dolington, and in 181 1 he sold his farm of 140 acres in Upper Makefield and removed to Ann Arundel county, Maryland. Cornelius Slack, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Torbert) Slack, was born in. Makefield in 1793, and was reared on th6 old Pfafif farm. He married (first) Elinor Brown, by whom he had eight children, all of whom are now deceased except Mercy HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 655 Ann, residing in Newtown. Early in life Cornelius Slack purchased a farm in Uppei Maketield to which he removed, and after several changes of location in that town- ship purchased the faTm known as the John Eastburn farm, where he resided for forty-two years, dying there in June, 1868. He married (second) Sarah Hull, daughter of Joseph and Cynthia Hull, of Upper Makefield, by whom he had eight children, viz.: John H., of New Hope; Cornelius, deceased ; Mary A., deceased ; Samuel, re- siding in Solebury; Edward M., the sub- ject of this sketch; Eliza, wife of Samuel C. Case, of Newtown; Elmira, single, re- siding in Newtown; and Charles, deceased. Edward M. Slack was reared on the Upper Makefield farm and acquired his education at the public schools. At the age of twenty-two years he went to Taylors- ville, where he was employed in a lumber yard for three years, and then returned to the home farm. In 1873 he married Addie Hellinger, of Edgewood, Lower Makefield, and took charge of the farm, which he con- ducted for seventeen years. In the winter of 1889 he purchased the old Beaumont farm, where he has since resided. His wife died in 1878, leaving one child, Elliot H., now station agent at Langhorne. Mr. Slack married (second) Sarah E. Hall, daughter of EUicot Hall, of Upper Make- field. Mr. Slack was reared to the life of a farmer, and takes pride in keeping- his two hundred acres up to the standard of one of the best farms in the county. He is a lover of fine horses, and breeds and owns some very fine and valuable animals. In politics he is a Democrat, and has always taken an active interest in the success of his party. He was the party nominee for register of wills in 1904, but was defeated. He has served three years as a member of the school board of his native township, being the only Democrat ever elected to that position. Mrs. Slack is a member of the Presbyterian church. FREDERICK RUMPF, whose well directed activity has made him one of the foremost factors in manufacturing circles of eastern Pennsylvania, stands as a notable example Qf the adaptability and enterprise of the German-American citizen, who leav- ing his native land, seeks the opportunities of the new world with its livelier competi- tion and advancement more quickly secured, and through consecutive business progress advances from humble financial conditions to affluence. His business interests, too, have been of a character that has promoted general prosperity as well as individual success through the stimulus which he has given manufacturing enterprises. Mr. Rumpf, now living in Attleboro borough (Eden Post Office), Pennsylvania, was born in Hornberg, Germany, March 30, 1844, his parents being Joseph Frederick and Barbara (Zimmer) Rumpf, while his grandparents were John and Katharine Rumpf. Joseph F. Rumpf came to Amer- ica in 1866 accompanied by his son Fred- erick, and settled in Philadelphia. He was a textile manufacturer in his native coun- try, where his son Frederick learned that business, serving a three years' apprentice- ship in his father's establishment. He had attended the public schools of Hornberg, had graduated from the high school there, and after spending one year as a special student in a textile school he entered the wool and worsted manufactory owned by his father, there remaining until 1866, when they came to Philadelphia. Soon afterward Frederick Rumpf entered a carpet mill, where he was engaged at weaving for a time, but in July, 1868, he began business on his own account in a small establish- ment supplied with two hand looms. He continued the business with constantly in- creasing success, adding more looms from time to time as the trade demanded. Each advance step which he made in his busi- ness gave him a broader outlook in manu- facturing circles and increased his oppor- tunity of winning prosperity and making a creditable place for himself In connection with the great productive industries of the city. In 1882 he built a mill in Philadel- phia, equipped with power looms, and thus carried on the weaving. Here, too, he also did the dyeing, bleaching and finishing of his own goods, his trade constantly grow- ing in scope and importance. An idea of the rapidity with which he progressed in his business may be gained from the fact that in 1882 the number of his power looms was twelve, and in 1892 his mill was equipped with one hundred and eight3^-six broad looms of the latest and most ap- proved patterns. In 1890 Mr. Rumpf ex- tended the field of his activity by entering into partnership with his brother Gustavus and four other gentlemen in forming a com- pany under the name of the Bown-Eberle Company, Limited, for the manufacture of full fashioned hosiery. While the weaving business has continued to yield satisfactory profits, the new undertaking, the manu- facture of hosiery, has very largely exceeded it, and has become by far the largest and most profitable of all. The hosiery mill was enlarged to meet the requirements of the increasing business, and in 1903 an addi- tion to the old mill was made so that the building covers sixty-eight thousand square feet. It is four stories in height, and is now fully utilized in the manufacture of hosiery which is favorable known through- out the United States. The quality of the product and the reliability of the house created for its product an excellent market, and the output is now very extensive, so that a gratifying dividend is annually paid upon the stock, while the enterprise has be- come one of the leading- productive indus- tries of the city. In 189s Mr. Rumpf retired from the active management of the business which 656 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. he had aided in founding and in placing upon a most substantial basis, and in 1897 removed to Eden, ^liddlctown township^ Bucks county, where he purchased a large tract of land and built upon it his present handsome residence, surrounded with ample grounds. It is, in fact, one 01 the most beautiful and attractive homes of the lo- cality, and the improvements which he made upon his own property have led to further building operations in the locality, and the consequent rise in realty values, thus prov- ing of direct financial benefit to the com- munity. Indolence and idleness being utterly foreign to him, Mr. Rumpf, with his active energetic nature, could not content himself with the absence of all aciive busi- ness interests, and in 1898 he again entered the field of commerce and manutacttire. He built in Eden a cotton mill forty toot front by four hundred and five feet in depth, there being also a dye house, fifty by sev- enty feet, together with the necessary boiler and engine house. Here are manufactured upholstery goods, fancy colored quilts, etc. This mill, with its equipments (which are in keeping with the most modern ideas and improvements in that line) was transferred in 1901 by Mr. Rumpf to his two sons, Frederick and William, who had been duly trained to this business by their father, and the factory is now operated under the firm style of Frederick Rumpf's Sons. They are doing a very successful business and their enterprise has been of marked commercial benefit to the town. Mr. Rumpf has been married twice.. His first wife was Clara Wagner, of Trenton, New Jersey, a daughter of Xavier and Paulina (Mock) Wagner, of Trenton, New Jersey. They had two sons : Frederick, Jr., born November 9, 1871; and William, born June 18, 1875. They attended the public schools of Philadelphia, and were also graduated from the Pierce Business Col- lege. In addition to this, Frederick attended for a year and a half the celebrated textile school -in Crefeld-on-the-Rhine. a school instituted by the German government. He was married June 28, 1894, to Agnes Pegge, of Philadelphia, a daughter of Henry C. and Mary Pegge. ' They have three, children : Clara Agnes, born December 17, 1895 ; Hilda Elenora, born February 26, 1901 ; and Alyse Irene, born March 30, 1903. William Rumpf was married August 24, 1897, to Miss Cath- arine Elizabeth Keller, of Philadelphia, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (King) Keller. They also have three children : William Frederick, born July 31, 1898; Francis John, born November 28, 1900 ; and Katharine Lorraine, born August 31, 1904. Frederick Rumpf lost his first wife March 6, 1879. He married (second) June 7, 1880, Elizabeth Horner, of Philadelphia, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Bas- sett) Horner. She has been a valued as- sistant to her husband and a loving mother to his children. By this marriage there is one son, Gustavus Adolphus, born August 10, 1885. He first attended the public schools of Philadelphia, and on the re- moval of the family to Attleboro he re- sumed his school duties there, and is now an advanced pupil in Pierce's Business College of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Episcopal church of Attleboro, being con- firmed by Bishop Whitaker of Philadel- phia. Mr. Rumpf and his sons Frederick and William are Republicans in politics, and are religiously of the Protestant faith. Mr. Rumpf was a member of the first borough council of Attleboro, and has been a mem- ber continuously since, his public-spirited citizenship finding tangible proof in his ef- forts to promote the public good, progress and upbuilding. He is a man of great energy, of keen discrimination in business affairs, and of marked capability in the line of his life-labor. On the other hand, he is equally progressive in citizenship, well informed concerning state and national policies, honest and intelligent in his labors for the general good, and altogether a credit to the citizenship of his adopted country. JAMES PATTERSON SAHTH. Among the respected citizens of Bucks county, James Patterson Smith, of New Hope, holds an honored place. He is the son of James Smith, an native of Baltimore, who as a boy was taken by his parents to Philadel- phia, where he learned the tailor's trade. In 1812 heabandoned his trade and enlisted in the patriot army, being one of those who helped to construct the entrenchments around Philatdelphia. Soon afterward he came to Bucks county and settled in New Hope, where for several years he worked at his trade for Thomas Thompson. Later he opened a shop for himself, which he con- ducted during the remainder of his life. He was elected to all the borough offices except that of mayor, and was a member of the Presbyterian church. He married Hannah F. Strang, and they were the parents of two children : Lydia, w^ho became the wife of James B. Stockton, of New Brunswick, New Jersey; and James Patterson, mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Smith died at an advanced age. He was distantly connected with the Jones and Matthias families of Bucks county. James Patterson Smith, son of James and Hannah F. (Strang) Smith, was born May 28, 1829, in New Hope, and received his education in the public schools of his native town. His first employment was in the capacit}' of assistant collector for the Canal Company. He remained with the company two years, and then accepted a position as clerk in the shops of the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company in Lamhertville. This posi- tion he retained a little more thari thirty- six years, and since his retirement has been extensively engaged in the real estate busi- ness. He is vice-president of the Amwell National Bank of Lamhertville. For many e£^ HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ^57 years he held the position of postmaster of New Hope, and for several years served as town clcpk of the same place. For a number of years he was a member of the town coun- cil, and also of the school board. Fur thirty-four years he has been treasurer of Unity Lodge, No. 300, I. O. O. R, of New Hope, and is past master of Amwell Lodge, No. 12, F. and A. j\L, of Lambertville. He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of New Hope, in which he holds the office of presi- dent of the board of trustees. Mr. Smith married, in 1855, Hannah C, daughter of Reuben Chamberlain, of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, and they have three children : Clara, who married Walter Balderston, of Trenton, New Jersey; Sallie V., who is the wife of Dr. Theodore Balderston, a dentist of Lambertville, New Jersey; and J. Stock- man, who lives in Trenton and is a travel- ing salesman. Mr. Smith and his children were recently called to mourn the loss of the wife and mother, who passed away August 29, 1903. WILLL\M HENRY ROCKAFEL- LOW. The Rockafellow family, of Ger- man origin, was established in New Jer- sey in colonial days, and most of its rep- resentatives in the different generations have been farmers. William Rockafel- low, paternal grandfather of W. H. Rock- afellow, married Rachel Thatcher and had a family of ten children: Aaron, William, Tunis, Samuel, Rachel, Eliza- beth. Jonas, John, Sarah and Margaret. Of these Jonas, John, Sarah, Margaret and William are ndw deceased. William Rockafellow, son of William Rockafellow, Sr., was born in Hunter- don county, New Jersey, April 9, 1816, and spent the first thirteen years of his life upon the old homestead farm in New Jersey and then accompanied his parents on their removal to Buckingham town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he continued to make his home un- til his death, devoting his energies to ag- ricultural pursuits. Through long years he resided upon one farm and developed a valuable property there. In 1841 he .wedded Mary A. Worthington, and they became the parents of seven children: Benjamin, who married Sallie Doan; Anna, wife of Charles L. Smith; Sarah, the wife of Henry Wilkinson; William H.; Fannie, the wife of Albert Wilkin- son; and Mary and Rachel, both de- ceased. The father died July 27, 1890, and his wife passed away some years previously. William Henry Rockafellow. son of William and Mary A. (Worthington) Rockafellow. was reared on the old fam- ily homestead, and his early education vas acquired in the common schools and ;upplemented by study in Doylcstown eminary. In early manhood he was 42-3 married to Miss Anna B. Molloy, their wedding being celebrated in 1880. She was born in the oldest house now stand- ing in Bucks county, it being the prop- erty at the present time of her brother, John B. Molloy, its location being in Buckingham township, between Wycombe and Pineville. Her parents w-ere Nich- olas and Frances (Stradling) Molloy, who resided near Pineville. Mr. and Mrs. Rockfellow have one child, Ed- mund Russell, who is bookkeeper for the firm of E. K. Lamont & Son, hay and corn brokers in the Bourse of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania. Soon after his marriage Mr. Rocka- fellow assumed the management of the home farm, which he rented up to the time of his father's death, and then pur- chased the property which he has con- tinued to make his home. In connection with its further development, cultiva- tion and improvement he is now a direc-- tor of the Danboro Livestock Company, and a director and secretary of the For- est Grove Creamery Company. His bus- iness affairs are capably conducted, and his keen discernment and sound judg- ment, combined with unfaltering dili- gence, have brought to him a gratifying measure of success. He is a member of the Buckingham school board, but other- wise has not sought or accepted public office. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and he is a val- ued member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, belonging to Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M.; Doylestown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M.; and Warrington Lodge, No 447, I. O. O. F. WILLIAM CLARK MAYNE, of Phil- adelphia, was born August i, i860, son of David Coombs and Pauline Clark Mayne, and a grandson of William and Sarah (Coombs) Mayne. The grandfather was a sea captain, sailing from London. The family name is derived from Roger De La Magne, who was a baron and came over to England with William the Conqueror from Normandy. Richard R. D. Mayne, of the same family, is a rear admiral in the British Navy. David C. Mayne and his wife Pauline were the parents of two children : William Clark Mayne, to be further mentioned ; and a sister Anna, born January 19, 1873, married William R. Thomson, of Phila- delphia, and they have two children, John and Eva. William C. Mayne was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and was a member of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1881 in law. He was ad- mitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1881. when but twenty-one years of age, to the supreme court of Pennsylvania, January 14, 1887. and to the supreme court -of the United States, November 10, 1892, and also 658 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. to practice in the chancery and federal courts of the state of New Jersey, includ- ing chancery at Trenton. Tlirough his man- agement the title of the Bechtold estate, involving the title of each piece of real estate in the town of Riverside, New Jer- sey, now a tionrishing manufacturing cen- ter, was cleared up. Tliis litigation ex- tended over a period of fifteen years, and was finally decided in the court of errors and appeals of New Jersey, except that of the title of the Philadelphia Watch Case plant, which was decided in the United States circuit court at Trenton, New Jer- sey. Mr. Mayne is a member of the Ma- sonic Fraternity, and associated with Bris- tol Lodge, No. 25, A. F. and A. M. ; the Royal Arcanum of Bristol ; Nonpariel •Council, No. 1037, and the Algonquin Club of Bristol, a social organization. He is a charter member of the Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia, and a member of the Law Association of Bucks county ; is also a charter member of the Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia, and belongs to Lodge No. 144, Ancient Order of United Workmen of Pennsylvania. In his political views he is a Republican, and was a leader of the Quay forces in the assembly contests in Bucks county. February 21, 1884, Mr. Mayne married Harriet Ella Greer, of Philadelphia, daugh- ter of Gideon N. and Katherine (De- Pagnier) Greer. A family tradition says the paternal ancestors of Mrs. Mayne have been traced to the McGregors, and on the maternal side to Sir Peter Parker. By this marriage the following children have been born: i. FoUen Corson, born February 28, 1885; 2. William Clark, Jr., who died in infancy. Follen C. attended the Penn Charter School at Philadelphia, also the Friends' School. ADAM MARTIN. One of the typical business men of the county is Adam Mar- tin, of Chalfont. The father of Mr. Martin was George Alartin, who was born Septem- ber 14, 1800, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and while still a young man emigrated to the United States. He made his home in Reading, and was one of those loyal citi- zens of foreign birth who took up arms in defense of the integrity of the Union. Adam Martin, son of George Martin, was born March 25, 1853, and received his education in the public schools. He learned the carpenter's trade with David High, of Hilltown, and followed it in- dustriously for twelve j'ears. In 1880 he purchased the old Jesse Garner farm, Jn Warrington tow^nship, and for eight years devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He then bought the Aaron Weisel farm, in the same township, where he lives at the present time. He added still further to his property by purchasing the adjoining estate, known as the Christian Haldeman farm. These two farms, comprising in all one hun- dred and sixty-eight acres, are culti- vated by Mr. Martin as one, and are maintained in a flourishing and highly profitable condition. Mr. Martin is a popular citizen, and in New Britain town- ship served for three years as constable, and the same length of time as charity commissioner. In Warrington township he filled for fourteen years the office of supervisor, and is nowr serving as audi- tor. In politics he is an advocate and supporter of the doctrines of the Repub- lican party. He is a member of the Hill- town Lutheran church. Mr. Martin married Addie Sherm, and they are the parents of the following children : Reu- ben A., who was born March i, 1880; Flora, born February 13, 1882; Alice, born February 8, 1884; Bertha, born April 13, 1886: Walter, born December 22, 1889; Jennie, born November 30, 1892; and Edgar Harrison, born January 18, 1894, and is now deceased. OLIVER P. ROSE, D. V. S. Dr. Oliver P. Rose, now following farm- ing in Buckingham township, was born in Solebury township, November 30, 1842. His paternal grandparents were Thomas and Letitia Rose, the former a farmer of Solebury township, where he spent his entire life. He gave his politi- cal support to the W^hig party until its dissolution, when he joined the ranks of the new Republican party. John Rose, son of Thomas and Letitia Rose, was born in Solebury township, was reared to the occupations of farming and black- smithing, and made those pursuits his life work. Like his father, he was a Whig at first, and afterward a Repub- lican, and filled several township posi- tions. He was recognized as a man of influence in his community, and his ef- forts were always exerted in behalf of progressive nieasures resulting in the upbuilding of town and county. He wedded Mary Smith, a daughter of Rob- ert Smith, of Buckingham township, one of the well known and prominent farm- ers of his day. John and Mary (Smith) Rose had a family of six children, of whom five are living: Elizabeth, the widow of John Wilkinson, of Philadel- phia; Oliver P.; Rosanna, the wife of Frederick C. Hartman, of Philadelphia; Thomas, who resides in Ambler, Mont- gomery county, Pennsylvania ; and Mary Ella, the wife of Ezra C. Hurley, of Mil- ford, New Jersey. Dr. Oliver P. Rose spent his boyhood days quietly upon the home farm, and at the usual age began his education in the public schools of Solebury township. He afterward continued his studies in New Hope, completing a course in the New Hope Academy. W'hen a young man he ~U STORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 659 studied veterinary surgery under Dr. Joshua C. Smith, of New Hope, and en- tered upon the practice of his profes- sion. After a short time spent in Yard- Jeyville and in Newtown, he returned to New Hope, where he became the succes- •sor in practice of his uncle, Joshua C. Smith. After more than four years de- voted to the practice of veterinary sur- gery, Dr. Rose turned his attention to farming in Solebury township, where he remained for twelve years, and then came to Buckingham township. F'or eight years he cultivated the farm which was owned by T. Howard Atkinson, and sold that property to accept his position as foreman of the farms belonging to Judge E. M. Paxson, of Bucks county, number- ing eight in all. He has occupied this responsible position for fifteen years, and is thus controlling extensive agricultural interests demanding splendid business and executive ability and keen discern- ment. He has thorough and practical knowledge of farming methods, and is regarded as one of the leading factors in agricultural circles in Buckingham town- ship. His political support is given to the Republican party. On the 26th of October, 1865, Dr. Rose married Miss Annie M. Walton, a daughter of William E. and Lucinda (Ely) Walton, of Sole- bury township. CHARLES J. LAUDERBACH. In- dustry, perseverance and enterprise have been the potent and essential factors in the business carer of Charles J. Lauder- bach, a prominent resident of Bensalem township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was born in the city of Philadelphia, May 24, 1850, a son of Harris Y. and Frances Ash (Pearson) Lauderbach, a grandson of Harris and Mary Jarman <_Young) Lauderbach, and a descendant of Peter Lauderbach, who came from Germanv in 1724 and settled near Swedes- boro, New Jersey. _ He brought the brick from Europe with which to build his house, which was used during the revolutionary war as a fort, first by the Americans and then by the British. The old house is still standing, being in a fair state of preservation. The family re- moved to Philadelphia about the year 1800. Harris Lauderbach (grandfather) served an apprenticeship at the trade of •carpenter and builder, and throughout his active career this line of worked proved a lucrative means of livelihood. By his marriage to Mary Jarman Young three sons and two daughters were born, -namely: Harris Y., Charles Y., James W . Sarah, and Mary. Mr. Lauderbach and his wife were honest, God-fearing people, respected in the community, and they lived to an advanced age. Harris Y. Lauderbach (father) was born in Philadelphia, December 3, 1824. He attended the common schools of his native city, after which he learned the carpenter trade and pursued a course of study in architecture, but on account of an accident he was obliged to abandon that vocation. In the meantime he gave close attention to advanced branches of study, and became fully competent to earn a livelihood at teaching. He first took charge of the Darby schools, later was given the principalship of the Wal- nut Street School, Philadelphia, then the Mount Vernon Grammar School, and subsequently the Northwest Grammar School, his duties in all of these being characterized by the utmost efficiency. His sister was also a prominent and suc- cessful teacher in the schools of Phila- delphia. He established the Lauderbach Academy, and having won a reputation of being one of the best educators in Philadelphia, this enterprise proved a success both financially and otherwise. During his life-work he had under his control over twelve thousand pupils, a majority of whom are now promment business men of the city. It was through his efforts that corporal punishment was abolished in the public schools. He was also one of the organizers of the Union League, in which he held membership, and was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, having attained the thirty-third degree in that body. He at- tended the Presbyterian church, and his political allegiance was given to the Re- publican party. Harris Y. Lauderbach was married December 27, 1847, to Frances Ash Pearson, a daughter of Joshua Ash and Eliza (Brannon) Pear- son, and the issue of this union was five children: Clara, wife of Marriott C. Smyth, and ' mother of three children : Frances L., IMarion, and Lindley Smyth; Charles J., mentioned at length herein- after; Frances and Julia (twins); Frances died in infancy, and Julia died at the age of eleven years; Frances (2). The father of these children died October 28, 1891, in the sixtj'-seventh year of his age. Charles J. Lauderbach was educated at the Northwest Grammar School, and at the Lauderbach Academy, established and conducted by his father. After com- pleting his studies he was employed in the office of a broker for a short period of time, and then assisted his father in the management of the institution of learning which was under his personal supervision, he being an expert mathe- matician. He then went to Hazleton, Luzerne county, where he was engaged in Pardee's Bank for a time, after which he went to Pittsburg and engaged in the iron business. While employed in that city he received the contract for the forgings for the East River Bridge con- necting New York and Brooklyn, and ob- tained a patent for the manufacture of the sockets used in the construction of 66o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. that wonderful structure. In 1879 he dis- posed of his iron bushics in Pittsburg, and engaged in business ni Philadelphia. In 1882 he came to i3ensaleni township, Bucks county, and purchased the old Pot- ter Hall College, which he tore down, and on the site erected the row of dwell- ings which add so materially to the beauty and attractiveness of the place. Pie also located a plant for the manufac- ture of iron and wire fences, and by close application and reliable methods has built up an extensive and lucrative busi- ness. He is a staunch adherent of the principles of Republicanism. On Oc- tober 26, 1876, Mr. Lauderbach was mar- ried to Ella Virginia Young, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1854, a daughter of Henry C. and Re- becca A. (Wilson) Young, the former named having been a native of Philadel- phia, and a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Dennison) Young, of Philadelphia. Their children are: Helen, born May 5, 1878, became the wife of Walter Lef- ferts, June 30, 1904; Edith Iredell, born August 2, 1879; Greta, born April 24, 1886; and John, born May 20, 1891. DR. JOSEPH HAMMETT SCHENCK! Joseph Hammett Schenck, of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, a representative of a Holland Dutch ancestry, who has estab- lished an international reputation through his proprietary remedies, was born in Med- ford, Burlington county. New Jersey, May 6, 181 1. The first American ancestor of the family was Roelof Martense Schenck, who upon his arrival, June 28, 1650, settled in Flatlands, Long Island, where he resided until his death in 1704. The line of descent is traced through him to his son, Roelof Schenck, who married Nelltje Geretson Van Covenhoven ; to Garret Schenck, who mar- ried Margaret Covenhoven; to John Schenck, who married Cobanche Coven- hoven ; to Courtland Schenck, who married Kitturah Hammett. The latter named were the parents of Dr. Joseph H. Schenck. The childhood of Dr. Schenck was passed in Moorestown, New Jersey, receiving his education in the common schools of that town. He early evinced a resolute de- termination to succeed, and at the death of his father, when he was but eleven years of age, began in earnest to become the sup- port of the family. He learned from an Indian woman, who resided near his home, the secret of certain herbs and roots, and from these were subsequently evolved those remedies which have given to Dr. Schenck his great success. He soon achieved a prominence in the business world in this and nearly every other country which brought him ample returns iinancially. This record of his life work clearly demonstrates the fact that he is a selfmade man, and possesses in a large degree the characteristics of success. At Flemington, New Jersey, June 4, 1835, Dr. Schenck married Catharine Haward, a daughter of Peter and Sarah (Van Nest) Haward, of Flemington, New Jersey, a granddaughter of Abraham and Catharine (Sebring) Van Nest, and a descendant of a Holland Dutch ancestry. The children born of this marriage are as follows: Sarah Jane, born July 7, 1836, became the wife of Colonel Charles Carroll Knight, and their children are : Joseph Schenck, born Decern- ber 20, 1871; Harriet West, born June 5, 1872; and Franklin Comley, born February 17, 1877. Maria Van Nest, born March 3, 1838, became the wife of William Nathan Rowland, and are the parents of one daughter, Catharine Schenck Rowland, born May 10, i860. Peter Haward died in 1871, aged twenty-seven years. Susan Blackwell, died in infancy. Ann Elizabeth Sebring, died in infancy. Catharine Haward, died aged twenty-one years. Joseph Hammett,. Jr., married Matilda Kisterbock, and their children are: Joseph Haward; Walter G.,. deceased; John, born 1851, died in infancy. GEORGE W. RADCLIFF. Buckingham township numbers among its leading farm- ers and citizens George W. Radcliff. Mr. Radcliflf is a grandson of James Radcliff,. w^liose son, also James, was born, it is sup- posed, in Horsham township, [Montgomery county. When a child his parents removed to Bucks county, -where the remainder of his life was passed. Politically he was a Republican.' He married Jane L. Hageman, and three children were born to them, two of whorn are living: George W., mentioned at length hereinafter; and Hart R., who was his brother's assistant on the farm, and who died September 26, 1904. Mr. Radclifif's later years were spent irt Buckingham, Wrightstown and Warwick townships. He died May 10, 1902, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. George W. Radclifif, son of James and Jane L. (Hageman) Radcliff, was born April 30, 1858, in Buckingham township, and obtained his education in the common schools and Doylestown Seminary. For some years after his marriage ]\Ir. Radcliff cultivated the home farm in the capacity of a tenant, and in 1901 became its owner by purchase. For fourteen years he was super- visor of the township, and in 1902 was a candidate for clerk of the orphans' court. He was elected to the office of Registrar of wills for Bucks county in 1904. He is a member of Warrington Lodge. No. 447, I. O. O. F., and Mountain Lodge, No. 31, Shield of Honor. He is an earnest advocate and supporter of the doctrines of the Re- publican partj% aiding the organization both by his voice and vote. Mr. Radcliff mar- ried, December 25, 1888, Jennie, daughter of Charles H. Clift, of Meclianics' Valley, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Radcliff are tlie parents of four children : Sarah, Mary, Emma, and Charles. ^U^.l^/CloudclUJ THE NEW YORkI 'PUBLIC LIBRARY -J HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 66 1 ALVIN JEFFERSON JARRETT. One of the most highly respected citi- zens of Quakertown is Alvin Jefferson Jarrett. Mr. Jarrett is a grandson of John Jarrett, whose son, Solomon, is mentioned at length hereinafter. The Jarretts were a pioneer family of Lehigh county. Solomon Jarrett, son of John Jarrett, was born on the homestead, re- ceived his education in a subscripton school, and was throughout his life en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. He was an extensive landowner in Mangundir township and a man of influence in the community. He married, October 24, 18 — , Lydia, daughter of John and Si- billa (Boyle) Jones, of Freemansburg, Lehigh county, and they were the pa- rents of the following children: i. John Joseph, born April 21, 1821, married Phoebe Fenstemacher, and lives at Al- lentown. 2. William Jones, born Sep- tember, 1823, married Susan Detweiler, and lives in Minnesota. 3. Alvin Jetier- son, mentioned at length hereinafter. 4. James Mathews, born February 25, 1828, married Elizabeth Foote, of Min- neapolis, Minnesota, and after her death took for his second wife Eva Bodwell. These children were early deprived of their father's care, the death of Mr. Jar- rett occurring while he was still a young man. Alvin Jefferson Jarrett, son of Solomon and Lydia (Jones) Jarrett, was born Oc- tober 24, 1825, on a farm adjoining the Jarrett homestead, in McQuiger town- ship, Lehigh county, where he received his primary education in the subscrip- tion school. When his father died he -went to live with his grandfather, Jarrett, with whom he remained until his elev- enth year. He then went to live with his mother at Bethlehem, where he attended school during the winter, returning in the summer to the homestead in order to assist his grandfather in the labors of the farm. In his sixteenth year he went to Manatauney, Lehigh county, for the purpose of learning the tanner's trade, to which he served an apprenticeship of three years. At the end of that time, his grandfather having died, he returned to assist his grandmother until the settle- ment of the family estate. This occu- pied one year, after which he worked for several years as a journeyman tanner. In 1849 he hired and afterward bought a tannery in Lower Milford, which he sold a few years later in order to purchase the farm of Jacob A. Shelly, of Milford township. There he has since resided, devoting himself to general farming and to the management of a dairy. Mr. Jarrett married, December 7. 1852, Anna Maria, born Mach 31, 1833, daugh- ter of John and Elizabeth Dillinger, and their children are: i. Alniira. who was born in 1854, and resides at home. 2. Charles William, who was born in 1856, and died in 1868. 3. May Lydia. who was born in i860, married in 1884 Oscar, son of Milton and Margaret (Byshon) Berndt, of Spinnerstown, and lives at Fennsburg. 4. Emma Martha, who was born June 26, 1862, and died August 16, 1864. 5. Sarah Adalaine, who was born November 22, 1864, married Horace, son of Lewis Worman, of Point Pleasant, lived at Allentown, and died in 1899. 6. Eva Louisa, who was born in 1868, and resides at home. 7. Isabel Anna, who was born December 4, 1871, and mar- ried Clement, son of Adam and Clara (Drukenmiller) Zweier, of Rosedale. 8. Oliver Alvin, who was born March 20, 1874, married Ella, daughter of Louis and Catharine (Bright) Deidler, of Rich- land township, lives in Quakertown, and has one child, Miriam Catharine, born September 3, 1903. 9. Agnes Amanda, who was born April 19, 1877, deceased. R. PITFIELD LOVETT. Through several generations the Lovett family has been found in Bucks county. Ed- mund Lovett, the great-grandfather, lived and died in Bucks county, and through- out his active business career carried on agricultural pursuits. Daniel Lovett, son of Edmund Lovett, was born in this county, July 21, 1757, and on the 20th of May, I799, when about twenty-four years of age, married Eliza- beth Lucas, and settled on the farm now owned by R. Pitfield Lovett, which was the homestead of the Lucas family and has been in the Lovett family since his marriage. The house, which was erected in 1729, is still occupied by the family, and is yet in excellent state of preserva- tion. It is one of the notable landmarks in the county, and is a testimonial of the enterprising spirit of the builder. Upon the farm Daniel Lovett carried on gen- eral agricultural pursuits for many years. His children were: Mahlon. born Decem- ber 12, 1781; Hannah, May 16; 1784; Sarah, August .30, 1786: Phebe H., Oc- tober IS, 1788; Daniel, February 18, 1791; Elizabeth, October 15, i793; Robert Lu- cas, January 4, 1796; Grace, August 16, 1797; Ann. April 8, I799: Robert Pitheld, October 25. 1801; and Jane, October 2, Robert Pitfield Lovett, son of Daniel Lovett, was born in the house which has been the family home for four genera- tions. He, too, devoted the greater part of his life to agricultural pursuits, yet he never neglected the duties of citizenship, giving an earnest support to all meas- ures which he believed would contribute to the general welfare. In politics he was a Republican, and was justice of the peace for many years, his decisions be- ing strictlv fair and impartial. He mar- ried Miss "Rebecca Brown, a daughter of Joseph Brown, and they became the pa- rents of four children: Joseph, Ann 662 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Mary, Danief and Robert Pitfield. P^or his second wife the father wedded Alary Thompson, a daughter of Hector Thompson, and they had five children: Hector T., Elizabeth L., Benjamm L., John T. and Margaret. Robert Pittield Lovett, the youngest child of his father's first marriage, was born May 8, 1835, on the farm where he now resides. He was educated m the Friends school and at the Westtown boarding school, and, being thus well equipped for life's practical duties, he be- gan farming on his own account in early life, and has since devoted his energies to the tillir.g of the soil and raising of stock, with good success. Mr. Lovett married Miss Sarah Satterthwait, a daughter of Michael Satterthwait, of Langhorne, and they became the parents of five children, of whom one died in in- fancy, the others being Anna J., wife of Evan Roberts; Robert P. and William ::3., both at home; and Mary T., a gradu- ate of the Westtown boarding school. The family through many generations have been identified with the Society of Friends. WILLIAM PRAUL. Among the rep- resentatives of the quiet but useful calling of agriculture in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, is William Praul, a resident of Emi- lie, Bristol township, where he is recog- nized as an active, energetic and enterpris- ing man. He was born in Bensalem town- ship, December 22, 1848, a son of Elias and Ardanata (Tomlinson) Praul, and grand- son of John and jMartha Praul. William Praul obtained an education which thoroughly qualified him for the active duties of life, in the public schools 01 Bensalem and Middletown. He assisted his father in the management and cultiva- tion of the home farm until he was twenty- six years of age, and from that time to the present his work has been along the same lines. In 1892 he purchased his present farm, which consists of one hundred and eight acres, and by close application and miceasing labor has it now under a high state of cultivation, the products being of an excellent quality. He is practical and progressive in his methods, and the neat and thrifty appearance of the entire place betoken the supervision of a master hand. He is a successful farmer, a most exemplary citizen, and a congenial and pleasant com- panion. He has always cast his vote for the candidates of the Republican party, to the principles of which he firmly adheres, and he has brought up his sons in the same political faith. He has never sought or held office, preferring to pass his days quietly in his comfortable and happy home, enjoying the society of his wife and chil- dren. Mr. Praul was united in marriage Janu- ary 7, 1875, to JMartha Cox Barton, of Emilie, Bucks county, daughter of Thomas and Ann Leah Barton, and granddaughter of Benjamin Barton. Their children are: William Francis, born September 30, 1878^ attended the Pleasantville school. South. Hampton, and on April 19, 1902, was mar- ried'to Charlotte Morris, of Emilie, daugh- ter of James and Alargaret (Stradling) Morris, and they are the parents of one- child, William Joseph. Benjamin Barton^ born September 28, 1882, attended the Pleasantville school, South Hampton. Thomas Elias, born July 12, 1889, attended the schools of Emilie. The sons are intel- ligent, enterprising men, their attention be- ing devoted to assisting their parents on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Praul arc- members of the Society of Friends. JESSE P. NAYLOR, who for forty- three years has been engaged in the burn- ing of lime, developing a profitable busi- ness, is a native of Solebury township,, where he still makes his home, the date or his birth being January 13, 1831. His pa- ternal grandparents were Peter and Mary Naylor. Peter Naylor's mother was a na- tive of Ireland, but his father died in early manhood, and no record of his ancestry was made. Peter Naylor worked on the Ingham farm in Bucks county for many years, having charge of large flocks of sheep, but he, too, died at a comparatively early age. William Naylor, son of Peter and Mary Naylor, was born in Solebury township in 1800, and there spent his entire life. In his. youth he learned the blacksmith's trade,, which he followed up to his twenty-fifth year, when he engaged in the burning of lime. He found that profitable, and ac- quired a competence, but in later life met with reverses and died comparatively poor. His political support was given the De- mocracy and he was a member of the Bap- tist church. He married Eliza Righter,. and died in 1874, while his wife died in 1876. They were the parents of eight chil- dren, of whom two are living : Jesse P., and Garret, of Lahaska. Prior to his twelfth year Jesse P. Naylor was put out to be raised by a neighboring farmer, but, as he did not receive just treatment there, he was placed in the family of Jacob Eastburn, with whom he remained until his fifteenth year. He then returned home and worked with his father until after he attained his majority, when he found employment with Oliver Paxson as a team- ster, continuing with him until 1861, when, having won his employer's confidence, he was told to take charge of some lime kilns which were the property of Elias Paxson, but had been rented and operated b}' Oliver Paxson. The latter volunteered to give ]\Ir. Naylor all the monq\' he needed to conduct the business, and thus Nr. Na5dor entered upon a work that has claimed his attention and returned to him a gratifying income for forty-three years. He pro»- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 663 pered from the beginning, and is to-day one of the prosperous citizens of Solebury township. He has made judicious invest- ment of his capital, and now owns the store at Aquetong and two farms in Solebury, besides other properties, including an ex- tensive peach orchard. His life record is an excellent illustration of the fact that success is not the outcome of genius or fortunate circumstances, but results from industry, experience and business discern- ment. xVIr. Naylor is a Democrat in poli- tics, a Baptist in religious faith, and is interested in general progress and improve- ment to the extent that he has given hearty co-operation to many measures which have proven of public beneht to the community. On the i8th of September, 1856, Mr. Nay- lor married Miss Elizabeth Cummings, a daughter of Samuel Cummings, of New Hope. By this marriage there are twelve children, of whom ten are living : Eliza, wife of D. Krusen Ely, a merchant of Aque- tong ; Alary and Anna, both at home ; George, who is in his father's employ ; Richard, of Solebury township; Warren, who is with the Bell Telephone Company, of Trenton, New Jersey; Jesse, who is foreman for the Bell Telephone Company,' at Philadelphia; Thomas, in his father's employ ; Gabriella, at home ; and Charles, also with his father. Mrs. Naylor died November 13, 1897. Mr. Naylor is a man of strong personality, and added to his notable business traits are personal char- acteristics which have won him uniform esteem wherever he is known. ALBERT J. THOMPSON. One of Wycombe's most enterprising merchants is Albert J. Thompson. Mr. Thompson is a . grandson of Albert Thompson, who was born in Northampton township but spent the greater part of his life on the homestead in Wrightstown township, a large tract ot land which was taken up early in 1700 by Elizabeth (McGraudy) Thompson and her four sons. He married Susanna Carey, and they were the parents of a son, Warner C, mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Thompson moved to Newtown, where he died in 1904. Warner C. Thompson, son of Albert and Susanna (Carey) Thompson, was born April 7, 1848, in Wrightstown township, and at the age of two years was taken to the homestead. In '1871 he miarried Lydia M., daughter of Joseph S. and Photbe (Cad- wallader) Ely, and two children were born to them : Albert J., mentioned at length hereinafter ; and Louis E., who was born October 21, 1877, and lives in Philadel- phia. Mr. Thompson, who is a Republican in politics and a man of high standing in the community, recently left the homestead. where he had lived since infancy, and went to reside in Wycombe. Albert J. Thompson, son of Warner C. and Lydia M. (Ely) Thompson, was born September 27, 1873, near Penn's Park, Wrightstown township, and received his education in the Newtown High School, the Abington Friends' School, and Pierce's Business College, Philadelphia. For some years after completing his education he conducted the home farm, and in 189b es- tablished his present lumber-yards in Wy- combe. He was inexperienced in the busi- ness, but his tact and ability soon brought him to the fore, and he now has one of the leading lumber interests of the county. He is president of the Wrightstown school board, and is a Republican in politics. Mr. Thompson married January, 1900, Kath- arine A., daughter of Joseph J. and Eliza- beth (HainesJ Rogers, ot Aledford, New Jersey, the former a retired business man. Airs. Thompson's parents are both de- ceased. Mr. and Airs. Thompson have one child, Elliott R., who was born June 10,1902. JAMES LAAIBERT CADWALLADER. One of the progressive farmers of Bucks county is James Lambert Cadwallader. The Cadwallader family is of Welsh origin and was planted in the country in the seven- teenth century by four brothers who emi- grated from Wales to the American colon- ies. One of them, Lambert, settled where Lambertville, New Jersey, now stands, and it is supposed that the town was named after him. Two of the others settled near Bucks and Alontgomery counties, and the fourth, of whose descendants we know nothing, settled in the western part of the state. Jacob Cadwallader was born in Bucks county, and bought the farm which is now the home of his grandson, James Lambert Cadwallader. He married Ann Taylor, also a native of Bucks county, and was the father of eleven children. Samuel C. Cadwallader, son of Jacob and Ann (Taylor) Cadwallader, mentioned above, was born November 7, 1815, on the homestead, where the long years of his active life were passed in the successful pursuit of agriculture. In 1895 he took up his abode with his daughter. Airs. Eyer, in Newtown. For a number of years he held the offices of supervisor and school director. He has also been guardian and trustee for twelve orphans, and executor and administrator for ' several estates. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Society of Friends. Air. Cadwalla- der married, in 1844, Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Carr, of Plumstead township, and six children were born to them, four of whom grew to maturity : Ellen, deceased ; Alary, also deceased; Alacre, who is the wife of Samuel F. Piatt, of Upper Make- field ; Alary E., who is the widow of Joseph Eyer, of Newtown; Julia, who is the wife of Thomas Noblp, of Noble Station, Alont- gomery county; and James Lambert, men- tioned at length hereinafter. Airs. Cad- wallader died in 1890, at the age of seventy- two. Like her husband, she was a member 664 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. of the Society of Friends. Mr. Cadwalla- der is still living, having reached his nine- tieth year. James Lambert Cadwalladcr, son of Sam- uel C. and Hannah (Carr) Cadwallader, was born June 14, 1859, on the homestead, and was educated in the common schools and at a private school in Newtown. In accordance with the traditions of his family he has thus far passed his life as a farmer, and from his devotion to agricultural pur- suits has reaped a full measure of success. He is a member of the school board, and in politics affiliates with the Republicans. He is a member and overseer of the Friends' meeting. Mr. Cadwallader married in 1885, Evelyn, daughter of Charles Janney, who was for many years a merchant of Doling- ton and is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Cadwallader are the parents of a son and a daughter, both of whom reside at home, Ernest J. and Mary E. EDWARD C. WILLIAMSON. Among the old families of Bucks county are the Williamsons, who, long connected with agricultural pursuits, have there- by gained comfortable livings, and at the same time, in all duties of citizen- ship have been active and progressive, thus advancing the material welfare of the community and upholding its politi- cal and moral status. Mahlon William- son, the grandfather, spent his entire life in Bucks county, and followed both farming and the lumber business. His children were: Isaiah; John; Peter; Mahlon; Jesse; Sarah, wife of Spencer W. Buckman; and Elizabeth, the wdfe of William L. Moore. Jesse Williamson, son of Mahlon Will- iamson, was born on the old family homestead in Falls township, Bucks county, in 1810. In early life he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed until about forty years of age. He then began farming, and carried on agricul- tural pursuits until his retirement from business life. He spent the evening of his da}^s in the enjoyment of a well earned rest, ' and passed away in 1893. He was twice married, his first union being with Margaret Buckman, by whom he had one son, Mahlon, now deceased. His second wife was Elizabeth Albert- son, and they had five children: Edward C. ; Henry S., a merchant of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Frank, who is now living .in Lancaster; Ida, the wife of Headley B. Harper; and Ella, wnfe of Dr. Tan- tum, of Trenton, New Jersey. Edward C. Williamson, eldest son of Jesse Williaimson, was born in 1851 on the farm which is now his residence. He, too, has made agricultural pursuits his chief occupation, and in carrying for- ward the work he has followed most progressive ideas, so that his place is improved with modern equipments, and in its neat and thrifty appearance indi- cates the careful supervision of a pro- gressive owner. Matters relating to local advancement elicits his attention and oftentimes receive hearty and help- ful co-operation from him. He is a di- rector of the Falsington Library Asso- ciation, and is a valued member of the Presbyterian church of Morrisville, tak- ing an active part in its work, and serv- ing as a member of its board of trustees for a number of years. His political sup- port is given the Republican party, and he held the office of school director of Falls township for twelve years. Mr. Williamson has been married twice. He first wedded Annie C. Parsons, and his present wife was Corilla F. Davis, a daughter of Charles Davis, of New Jersey. HENRY WINFIELD WATSON, of Langhorne, Middletown township, son of Mitchel and Anna (Bacon) Watson, and grandson of Joseph and ]\Iary (White) Watson was born in Buckingham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1856. The pioneer ancestor on the paternal side was Thomas Watson, who came from High Moor, Cumberland county, county, England, in 1701. He settled for a short time near Bristol, Pennsyl- vania, but subsequently purchased several hundred acres in Buckingham township, where he built a large stone mansion and resided there until his death. The pioneer ancestor on the maternal side was Nathaniel Bacon, grandson of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper to Queen Elizabeth, w-ho came originally to Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the early part of the seventeenth century. Henry W. Watson received an excellent English education in private schools, studied law under Hon. F. Carroll Brewster, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1881. He has been actively identified with many of the leading institutions in the vicin- ity of his home. In 188,3 he was largely in- strumental in the organization of the Peo- ple's National Bank of Langhorne, and in the Langhorne Library, of which he was president for a number of years. He served as president' of the first electric street rail- way company operated in Bucks county, and drove the first spike of said road on No- vember 20, 1895. This connection continued until 1898, when the road was sold, and afterward it was leased by the Newtown Electric Railway Company. In 1900 he was appointed receiver of the Washington & Potomac Railroad Company, and at the present time (1905) is president of the Washington, Potomac & Chesapeake Rail- road Company, and director of the Bucks County Trust Company and the People's National Bank of Langhorne. Mr. Watson is a stanch adherent of the Republican party, and has served several times as state and congressional delegate. J^lu^i^/ el/J HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 66: MILES FAMILY. Griffith Miles, the progenitor of the family in America, was born in 1670, in Wales. He married Bridget Edwards, also from Wales, born in 1672, daughter of Alexander and Catha- rine Edwards. Their children were : Es- ther, born 7 mo. 28, 1692; Martha, born 8 mo. 12, 1695 ; Margaret, born 2 mo. 9, 1698; Griffith, born 10 mo. 3, 1700; Samuel, born 7 mo., 1703; John, born 2 mo. 28, 1709. Griffith Miles, sin of Griffith Miles and Bridget Edwards, married Sarah, whose maiden name is not known. Their children were: Joseph, born September 17, 1722; Anne, and Alartha. Joseph Miles, eldest child and only son of Griffith and Sarah Miles, was born Sep- tember 17, 1722, and died November 27, 1800. His wife, Annie (Nesmith) Miles, born ?klay 18, 1732, bore him the following children: Lucy, born December 27, 1750, died February 11, 1751. Lydia, born Octo- ber 7, 1752, died in August, 1841. Griffith, born October 4, 1754. Margaret, born Au- gust 20, 1756, died April 3, 1826. Joseph, born December 5, 1758, died January 18, 1826. John, born February 6, 1761. Thomas born January 2, 1762. Dorcas, born De- cember 30, 1764. Samuel, born October 30, 1766, died September 6, 1849. Jacob, born December 19, 1768, died August 23, 1822. William, born March 7, 1771. Ann, born August 4, 1776. Samuel Miles, fifth son of Joseph and Annie (Nesmith) INIiles, was born in East Pennypack, Moreland township, Pennsyl- vania, October 30, 1766. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and an active and public spirited citizen. He was a very religious man, and served as trustee of the Old School Baptist church, which was succeeded in 1832 by the New School Baptist church. About the year 1801 he purchased a farm consisting of one hundred and sixty-four acres in Southampton township, near Davis- ville, which was sold out of the family in 1873. He married Catherine Bennett, who was born July 21, 1772, and their children were : William Griffith, born February 19, 1798, died June 13, 1889. Ann Jones, born October 29, 1799, died December 23, 1802. Elizabeth Lydia, born November 5, 1801, died August i, 1897. John Bennett, born March 3, 1804, died April 20, 1869. Eras- mus Nesmith, born August 2, 1806, died May I, 1872. Samuel Madison, born Oc- tober 18, 1809, died April 24, 1810. Mary Bennett, born December 29, 1813, in South- ampton township, near Davisville, on the old Miles homestead, which is now occupied by Stanley Saurman. She is the only sur- viving member of the above named family, and is now in her ninety-second year. William Griffith Miles, eldest son of Samuel and Catherine (Bennett) Miles, born February 19, 1798, died June 13, 1889. His wife, Ellen Maria (Bennett) Miles, whom he married November 24, 1825, was born September 27, 1808, and died August it 1857. Their children are as follows: Huldah Catharine, born December 23, 1826, died January 8, 1851. Julia, born January 15, 1829, died November 20, 1866. Ellen L., born November 27, 1831, died Alarch 31, 1836. Mary Matilda, born March 17, 1834, died April 25, 1836. Amanda Melvina, born March 3, 1840. Samuel, born June 20, 1844, died July 4, 1844. WILLIAM H. PRICE, secretary of the Line Lexington Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and a veteran of the Civil war, during which critical period in the history of the nation he displayed his patriotism by enlisting in Company G, Two Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving in the Army of the Potomac, was born in New Britain township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, j\Iay 16, 1837, a son of John and Sarah (Svvort- ly) Price, and grandson of Daniel Price, who was a farmer by occupation, a resident of Montgomery county, and a member of the Dunkard church. John Price (father) was born near Planes Meeting House, Montgomery coun- ty, Pennsylvania, in 1799. He was reared on his father's farm and in early life learned the trade of mason. Being a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and therefore thoroughly qualified to serve in the capacity of school teacher, he devoted his time and attention for a number of years to that vocation in the schools at Kulpsville, and other places, and also conducted a boarding school at Line Lexington for many years. He then changed his place of residence to New Britain township, Bucks county, set- tled on a large farm, and established Price's Boarding School, which he conducted suc- cessfully, for more than thirty years. In 1842 he organized the Line Lexington Fire Insurance Company, and up to the time of his demise served as its secretary. He cast his political vote with the Whig party until the formation of the Republican part}', after which he changed his allegiance to that great organization. He held member- ship in the Dunkard church. By his mar- riage to Sarah Swortly, a daughter ot Philip Swortly, a native of New Britain township, five sons and three daughters were born, namely: Philip, Daniel, Jona- than, William H., George, Sarah, Lavinia, and INIary. The surviving members of the family at the present time (1905) are as follows : William H., mentioned at length hereinafter; Sarah, Lavinia and Mary. After a long and honorable life, John Price (father) died in 1886; his wife survived him until 1888. William H. Price received his educa- tional advantages in the school established and conducted by.his father, and after com- pleting his course of instruction accepted a position as teacher, serving thus for almost a quarter of a century. The success at- tained in this vocation was the direct re- sult of his capacity of imparting the knowl- 666 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. edge he had acquired clearly and concisely to those under his control. Upon the death of his father he succeeded him as secretary of the Line Lexington Fire Insurance Com- pany, which position he still holds. He pertorms all tlie duties of good citizenship, and is a tirm advocate of the prmciples ot Republicanism. Mr. Price was united in marriage to Mary Ann Ackerman, daugh- ter of Henry Ackerman, of Berks county, Pennsylvania, and the issue of this union was one child, Mary, wife of E. K. Mussel- man, of Lansdale; they are the parents of one daughter, Florence Musselman. ALBERT W. PRESTON. Amor Pres- ton was among the earliest of the English settlers in Ptnn's Colony, and lived lor a time in Bristol township, J^ucks county. He was a tailor by trade, and, adapting his vocation to the rude materials and cus- toms of the people whose lot was cast on the extreme borders of civilization, became an expert in fashioning civilized clothing out ot the deer skins turnished by the In- dians, who were then very plentiiul in the country. He became very friendly with the aborigines, and when his house in the woods was burned he was persuaded by the In- dians to remove with them ■ farther back in the woods, near their Indian town ot HoUecunk, in the Buckingham valley, near the present village of Holicong. Here, far from any white neighbors, he and his wife lived for several years, and saw their red neighbors and friends gradually dis- appear as the people of their own race filled up and cleared the surrounding country. Nathan Preston, whose brother Paul was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was said to have been the first white child born in Buckingham town- ■ ship. He was nursed by an Indian woman, who many years afterward journeyed back from the wilderness to pay a visit to her white friends, when an old white haired woman, nearing the century mark. The two Preston boys, Nathan and Paul, were reared among the Indians and learned to speak their language before their own. Nathan married Mary Hough, in 1737, and settled near Doylestown, where he died about 1778, without male issue. Paul Preston, notwithstanding the rude surroundings of his birth, acquired an ex- cellent English education and became an eminent mathematician and surveyor as well as an accomplished linguist, keeping up his studies through his whole life. In 1753 he purchased a farm of fifty acres in Bucking- ham, where he lived until 1792, when he purchased a farm of 130 acres in Plumstead, near Gardenville, on the Durham Road, where he died in 1806 at .the age of eighty- four years. He married. November 21. 1753, Hannah Fisher, daughter of JohiKand Mary (Scarborough) Fisher, and they were the parents of seven children, viz. : De- borah, who died unmarried ; Samuel, born 1756, died in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, in 1834, was the first associate justice or that county ; Ann, who died unmarried ; Naomi, who married James Price; Euphemia, who never married; Paul and Silas. Paul Preston was treasurer of Bucks county, 1 768- 1 771. Silas Preston, youngest son of Paul and Hannah (Fisher; Preston, was born in Buckingham and removed with his father to Plumstead. Atter his father's death he acquired title to the greater part of the homestead, whereon he lived his whole life. He married, April 6, 1796, Margaret Good, of Plumstead township, and they were the parents of two children — Sarah, wife of ihomas Brown; and Nathan Preston, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Nathan Preston was likewise a lifelong resident of Plumstead. He married .Mar- tha Stradiing and reared a large family, several of whom are still living in Solebury township. Joseph G. Preston, son of Nathan and Martha, was born in Plumstead township in 1832, and was reared to agricultural pur- suits, acquiring his education at the public schools. At the age of twenty-one years he removed to Lumberville, where he was employed for a number of years as a saw- yer in the mills. He later followed the butchering business for a short time. In 1862 he removed to a farm belonging tcv his wife's mother, near Peter's Corner, where he resided for the greater part of his life. He was constable and tax col- lector of Solebury township for twenty years, and took an active part in all that pertained to the best interests of the com- munity in which he lived. In politics he was a Republican, and took an active part in the councils of his party, serving for many years as a member of the county committee and representing his district in congressional and state conventions. He was at one time the nominee of his party for a seat in the legislature, but was de- feated at the polls by a small majority, al- though the usual Democratic majority was much larger. In religion he conformed to the tenets of the Society of Friends, in which faith all his ancestors in America had been reared and lived. In early man- hood he married Elmira Walton, of Sole- bury, and they were the parents of four children, all of whom are still living : Al- bert W. ; Anna, wife of Howard P. Evans, of Philadelphia; Harrj-, a resident of Phil- adelphia; and Emma, wife of Charles Case, also of Philadelphia. Mr. Preston died at Center Hill in October, 1901. Albert W. Preston was born in Solebury township. He was reared on the farm and attended the public .schools. - -t the age of twenty-one he found employment, first in the Carversville and later in the Solebury creamery, where he learned the process of making cheese and butter, and became proficient as a creamery operator. He was for sixteen years superintendent of the Solebury creamery, and made it profitable HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 667 to the stockholders by his efficient manage- ment and the high grade of the products he turned out. His health failing, and having a liking for agricultural pursuits, he abandoned the work and engaged in farm- ing, having a good tract of land in Sole- bury township, which he has placed under a high state of cultivation, so that the fields yield to him large harvests annually and bring to him a good financial return. In 1886 Mr. Preston was married to Miss Eva Knight, a daughter of Alfred and Ruth A. (Allen) Knight, of Solebury town- ship. Mr. and Mrs. Preston are members of the Friends Meeting. He also belongs to the Farmers' Club and to other local organizations. He is a member of Doyles- town Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. M. ; Doyles- town Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M. ; St. h.lmo Commandery, K. T., of Lambertville, New Jersey, and the Knights of Pythias fra- ternity. In politics he is a leadmg Repub- lican, and at his father's death was elected his successor in the office of constable, in which position he has since served. He exerts considerable local influence in pub- lic matters, and his efforts are always exerted on the side of improvement and progress, whether in interests of private or public concern. JOHN SHERWOOD, deceased, for more than a quarter of a century an enterprising business man of Bristol township, his es- tate being located on the banks of the Dela- ware river, was born in Edinburgh, Scot- land, June 29, 1806, a. .son of Thomas and Catharine (Rixby) Sherwood, the former named having been a prominent manufac- turer, a man of substance, and of good standing in the community. John Sherwood, the eldest of three chil- dren, was well educated in the schools of Edinburgh, his native city, and came to America in 1827, the year he attained his majority. He studied medicine for two years at the University of Pennsylvania, but, becoming interested in the study ol botany, he abandoned his former studies and took up the business of florist, which he successfully conducted in Philadelphia for several years and until 1850, when he purchased an estate in the township of Bristol, on the banks of the Delaware, where he conducted an extensive business up to the time of his decease. May 2, 1883. He was engaged for over fifty years in the propagation of new and rare plants, and imported from Scotland many plants and shrubs native to that country. He also engaged in landscape gardening and among the many specimens of this art may be men- tioned the beautiful Laurel Hill Cemetery at Philadelphia. He became widely known as an authority on floriculture. Mr. Sherwood was married three times. His first wife, whose maiden name was Wilemina Sinclair, died without issue. His second wife, Arrabella (Shuttlewood) Sherwood, bore him two children : Joel William, born in 1843, married Emma Rodgers, now deceased; the other child died in infancy. After the death of his second wife, in 1846, Mr. Sherwood mar- ried Isabella Hartley, July 7, 1847, and their children were as follows : Robert Hartley, died in infancy, m 1849; Robert Hartley, born June 15, 1849; John Thomas, died in infancy ; Henry Farnum, born August 10, 1854; Edward Caroll, died in infancy; Cath- arine Jane, born April 14, 1858; and James Thorn, born February 21, 1863. Mrs. Isa- bella (Hartley) Sherwood, born February I, 1826, passed on to her reward, January 28, 1900, mourned by a large circle of friends. She was one of that band of de- voted women who during the dark days of the civil war aided so materially in alleviating the suffering of the sick and wounded soldiers. In a hospital located near her home she performed most noble work in tenderly caring for the sick and dying soldiers, giving this loving service untiring attention. Catharine J. Sherwood, only daughter of John and Isabella (Hartley) Sherwood, be- came the wife of Henry Home Jones, of Philadelphia, June 2, 1886, and their chil- dren are : Henry Sherwood, born April 26, 1887, died October 27, 1892; Joel Enston, born September 7, 1890, died October 26, 1892, and was buried the same day as his brother Henry Sherwood ; Isabella Sher- wood, born October 29, 1893 ; and Isaac Smithson Hartley, born August 11, 1895. Henry H. Jones is a son of Colonel Charles A. and Elizabeth (Home) Jones, of a prominent Philadelphia family, and his an- cestors were also prominent citizens of that city. Mr. Jones is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Friends' Societv. while his wife is a member of the Presbyterian church. I\Ir. and Mrs. Jones reside on the Sherwood homestead, where Mr. Jones con- ducts an extensive business as a florist, finding a ready market in Philadelphia. On the maternal side Mrs. Jones is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution and Colonial Dames through Samuel and Thomas Munson. FRANCIS BARTLEMAN. Solebury township has no better known citizen than Francis Bartleman. He is a son of Theodore Bartleman, who was born in Germany and was a shoemaker by trade. He married Margaret Steinle, and seven children were born to them, four of whom are living: Barbara, who is the widow of Jacob Constantine, of Blooming Glen, Bucks county: Teresa, w^ho is the wife of Balthas Schiele. of Plumstead township; Francis, mentioned at length hereinafter; and Robert, who lives in Plumstead towmship. The father of these children died in Germany when about forty-five years of age, and in 1852 the mother came with her five children to 668 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. the United States. She made her home inPlumstead township, where she subse- quently married Anthony Seifert, by whom she had one child, Magdalena, who is the wife of Philip Klein, of Brooklyn, New York. Francis Bartleman, son of Theodore and Margaret (Steinle) Bartleman, was born June 27, 1836, in Wurtemberg, Ger- many, and received his education in the schools of his native land. After passmg his fourteenth year he was apprenticed to the potter's trade, but before the ex- piration of his term of service the fam- ily came to America. He finished his ap- prenticeship in Plumstead township and Monroe county, and then worked as a journeyman in Plumstead township un- til i860, when he leased the pottery of James Maginnis for a period of three years. Shortly after the breaking out of the civil war Mr. Bartleman rallied to the defense of his adopted country. Oc- tober 29, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Fourth Pennsyl- vania Regiment, Colonel Davis com- manding, for a term of three years. The regiment participated in the battles of Fair Oaks, Bottom's Bridge, Savage Sta- tion, and the siege of Yorktown. At the battle of Fair Oaks he \vas twice slightly wounded, in the space of a few minutes, by two spent balls, one in the neck and one in the leg. When the change of base of the Army of the James began, this regiment was part of the command as- signed to prevent the enemy from cross- ing the Chickahominy until the heavy trains should be safe from attack, a duty , which was gallantly performed. The enemy was held in check until the 29th of June, when the bridge was destroyed and the One Hundred and Fourth Regi- ment was ordered to protect the rear. This dangerous service was again per- formed at White Oak Creek crossing, under a heavy artillerj^ fire from the en- emy's batteries. The command then inarched to Malvern Hill, where they were held in reserve during the engage- ment. The hard service seen by the reg- iment may be inferred from the fact that it arrived at Harrison's Landing after the Seven Days' battle with but twenty officers and four hundred and thirty-three men, the entire force at the time of en- listment having been eleven hundred and thirty-five. The command distinguished itself at the siege of Charleston, occupj'- ing a position on North Edisto Island during the assault. The term for which Mr. Bartleman had enlisted expired Oc- tober 29, 1864, at which time he was hon- orably discharged, after being promoted to Corporal, Sergeant and Orderly Ser- geant, respectively. After his return to civil life Mr. Bartle- man went to Flemington, New Jersey, where he was ernployed in a stone-ware pottery. In 1866 he returned to Bucks county and purchased the farm and pot- tery of James Maginnis, conducting the pottery until 1880. In that year he was elected clerk of the court of quarter ses- sions, oyer and terminer, serving for three years with honor to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. After this he returned to business until 1892, when he went once more to Flemington and worked in the pottery of Fulper Brothers & Company until 1898. He then took up his abode in Cottageville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he has since lived a retired life. For six years he served as school director in Plumstead township. He was the first commander of Major Edward L. Rogers Post, No. 448, G. A. R., which was eventually disbanded, and he is now a member of Lambert Borman Post, No. 48, G. A. R., Department of New Jersey. He is a past officer in the I. O. O. F. Lodge, the Knights of Pythias, and a mem- ber of Darcy Lodge, No. 27, F- & A. M., of Flemington, New Jersey. In pol- itics he is a staunch Democrat. Mr. Bartleman married, January 19, 1865, Maggie W. Hellyer, of Mechanicsville, and the following children have been born to them: Theodore, who lives in Philadelphia: William H., who is also a resident of that city; Frank, who makes his home in California; Eugene, who re- sides in Philadelphia; and Watson, who died in infancy. THEODORE LIPPINCOTT, of Cornwells, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, whose reputation in business circles is an enviable one, having been gained by thoroughness, promptness, ability and a capacity for details of a high order, was born in Byberry, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1855, a son of Joshua and ]\Iary (Wright) Lippincott. When only six years of age Theodore Lippincott was deprived by death of a mother's care, and at this tender age he began to make his own living, assisting to the best of his ability in the family of Nathan Tyson, with whom he lived for a year and a half. The following four- teen years he resided with the various members of one family, and after his marriage in 1879 he farmed for Edward Comley at Byberry. He then assumed the mana.gement of the Pancoast farm in Bensalem township, remaining there five years, and at the expiration of this pe- riod of time purchased a farm on the Newportville road, which he sold one year later. He then rented the Middle- ton farm for three years, after which he purchased a store at Cornwells. where he conducted a general inerchandise busi- ness for five years. After disposing of this he became a commercial traveler, in which capacity he served for a timp. and then purchased the store at Cnrnwtlls, which he conducted successfully from HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 669 1897 to 1901, a period of four years. In addition to the various enterprises in which he has been engaged, he faithfully and efficiently performed the duties of postmaster, having been appointed the incumbent during Grover Cleveland's ad- ministration as president of the United States. Since attaining his majority Mr. Lippincott has cast his vote w^ith the Democratic party, for whose interests he has zealously worked. Mr. Lippincott was married, July 30, 1879, to Cathrine Bunting, daughter of Joseph Bunting, and their children are: I. Harry S., born May 8, 1880, a resident at Cornwells, who was married in Oc- tober, 1900, to- Anna Simonds, and they are the parents of one child, Alvin, born February 6, 1902. 2. Alvin T., born Sep- tember 9, 1882, who for the past four years has been an accountant with the American Pipe Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia. 3. Raymond, who died in infancy. CHARLES WESLEY SHARPLESS. The pioneer ancestor of the Sharpless fam- ily, worthily represented in the present generation by Charles Wesley Sharpless, of Langhorne JNIanor. was John Sharpless, who was born in Cheshire, England, in 1624, married Jane Moor, emigrated to America, settling near Chester, Pennsylvania, and died April 11 1685. The ime of descent is as follows : James, who married Mary Edge ; David, who married Priscilla - Powell ; David, who married Sarah Moore; Benja- min, who married Mary Cowan ; David, who married Mary Ann Stedman, parents of Charles Wesley Sharpless, who was born in Philadelphia, April 22, 1842. Charles W. Sharpless, after completing his education in the public schools of his native city, engaged under his father in the card manufacturing business, of which the latter was general manager for A. M. Col- lins, card manufacturers, later A. M. Col- lins, Son & Co., and subsequently the A. M. Collins Manufacturing Company. Mr. Sharp- less continued in this concern as superin- tendent up to the time of his father's death, when he was promoted to the position of general manager, the place vacated by the death of his father, in 1866, and this connec- tion has continued from then up to the pres- ent time. The A. M. Collins Manufacturing Company is the largest of its kind in the United States, and by honorable transac- tions has gained an international reputa- tion. Mr. Sharpless takes considerable in- terest in political affairs, is a Republican from conviction, and at the present time (1905) is chief burgess of Langhorrie Manor. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, affiliated with Kensington Lodge, No. 211'; Girard Mark Lodge. No. 214; Palestine Chapter, No. 241 ; and Mary Com- manderv. No. 36. He is also a member of the Veteran Association of Pennsylvania; of Fidelity Lodge, No. 138, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; United Brothers' Encampment, of Philadelphia, and Delta Castle, No. 216, Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Sharpless married May 3, 1863, Delinda Dover Conn, of Philadelphia, ana their children were as follows : i. William C, born August 12, 1864, died December 2, 1865. 2. Alfred Collins, born June 22, 1870, was educated in the public schools of Phil- adelphia and Pierce's Business College and is now a clerk in the department store of Lit Bros, of Philadelphia. He married, Au- gust II, 1900, Kate Spieler, of Philadelphia, who was born December 12, 1869, a daugh- ter of Charles H. and Elizabeth Spieler, the former named having been born in Wurtem- berg, Germany, December i, 1828, died January 24, 1886, aged fifty-eight years, and the latter was born in Philadelphia, September i, 1831, now seventy-three years of age. Alfred C. and Kate (Spieler) Sharpless are the parents of one child, Delinda Elizabeth, born August 27, 1902. 3. Ella H., born November 9, 1873, died August 21, 1874. 4. Charles Wesley, Jr., born August 30, 1877, was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and at Pierce's Business College, and is now super- intendent in the A. M. Collins Manufac- turing Company, in which his father is serv- ing in the capacity of general manager. He married Gabrielle Houpt, of Philadelphia, daughter of Dr. Houpt, and they are the parents of one child, Eleanor. Mrs. Sharp- less, the mother of these children, died, and on April 3, 1903, Mr. Sharpies? married Gertrude Bowen, daughter of William S. and Elizabeth (Torton) Bowen, and grand- daughter of Thomas and Ann (Duerr) Torton on the maternal side. HENRY Y. PICKERING, of Lower IMakefield township, Bucks county, was born in Philadelphia, January 9, 1854, and is a son of Thomas Elw^ood and Mercy (Paist) Pickering. His ancestors have been residents of Bucks county for over two centuries, his first paternal ancestor of w'hom we have any distinct record be- ing Samuel Pickering, who married, in 1712, Mary Scarborough, daughter of John Scarborough, of Solebury, and granddaughter of John Scarborough, of the parish of St. Sepulcre, London, Eng- land, who purchased land in Bucks jounty in 1682, and gave a power of at- torney to his son John, of Solebury, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1696 to convey the same. Samuel Pickering died in Solebury 8 mo. 19, 1727. His wife Mary survived him nearly sixty years, dying i mo. 10, 1787, aged nearly one hundred years. They were the parents of five children : John, Isaac, Samuel, William and Grace. John Pickering, eldest son of Samuel and Mary CScarborough) Pickering, was born in Solebury in 1714, and died on the 6/0 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. old homestead there 2 mo. i, 1787. He married in 1745 Hannah Dawes, who died in 1796. They were the parents of three children: John, Jesse, and Hannah, who married Jonathan Johnson. John Pick- ering, eldest son of John and Hannah (Dawes) Pickering, was born in Sole- bury 7 mo. 27, 1748, and married in 1771 Rachel Duer, of Alakelield, and had the fol- lowing children: Joseph, Benjamin, Phm- eas, William, John, Yenians, Stacy, and Mercy, who married Robert Paist. Yemans Pickering, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born on the old homestead in Solebury, that had been the property of his ancestors for a century, on May 12, 1784. He followed the trade of a carpenter in early life, but carried on farming in connection there- with. On his marriage in 1808 he set- tled in Upper Makeheld township, re- moving to Buckingham three years later, where he remained until 1840, when he removed to Lower Makeheld township, where he had purchased a farm, on which he resided until 1861. In the latter year he removed to Newtown borough, where he died a year later. He married in 1808 Rachel Beans, of Upper Make- field, by whom he had eight children: Mary, born 8 mo. 28, 1809; Hannah, born 7 mo. 23, 1811, married Job Roberts; Timothy, ' born 7 mo. 7, 1813; Rachel Duer, born 9 mo. 21, 1815; Phineas, born I mo. 12, 1819; Thomas Elwood, born March 4, 1821; Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 29, 1823; Henry Y. (Captain), born 4 mo. 20, 1831. Thomas Elwood Pickering was born in Buckingham township, and spent his boyhood days there, acquiring his edu- cation at the Buckingham Friends' school. He learned the carpenter trade with his father, and on arriving at man- hood removed to Philadelphia, where he followed the business of a carpenter and builder until 1856. when he returned to Bucks county, purchasing the farm where the subject of this sketch still re- sides, and devoting his attention to agri- cultural pursuits until his death, on July 31, 1869. Like his ancestors for many generations, he was a member of the So- ciety of Friends. He married his cousin, Mercy Paist, daughter of Robert and Mercy (Pickering) Paist. Henry Y. Pickering, the subject of this sketch, was the only child of Thomas Elwood and Mercy Pickering, and was but two years of age when his parents removed to the Lower Makefield farm, where he has ever since resided. Until 1892 he devoted his entire atten- tion to farming. Since that time he has leased his farm and devotes his attention to the skle of fertilizers and farm im- plements at Yardley, though continu- ing to reside upon the farm. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and has been a member of the county committee for many years. He has been assessor of Lower Makefield township continuously since 1884. He is a member of New- town Lodge, No. 335, K. of P.; Yardley Lodge, No. 159, A. O. U. W.; and of Newtown Castle, No. 121, A. O. K. 01 the M. C. He married, December 19, 1876, Lizzie W. Taylor, daughter of Jacob H. and Rebecca (Pitman; Taylor. They have no children. CHARLES VAN HART. One of the skilled farmers of Upper jNiaketield town- ship is Charles Van Hart. The great- grandfather of Mr. Van Hart emigrated from Holland and settled in Falls town- ship before the revolutionary war. The son of this ancestor, Jacob Van Hart, who was a farmer and shoemaker, mar- ried Mary, daughter of Daniel Richard- son, who was one of the pioneers of the count}' and lived near Dolington. They were the parents of fifteen children, one of whom, Charles Van Hart, was a farmer in Upper Makefield township, and married Eliza Tomlinson. One of their seven children was David, mentioned at length hereinafter. After the death of his wife, Mr. Van Hart married Jane Jackson. David Van Hart, son of Charles and Eliza (Tomlinson) Van Hart, was born August IS, 1846, in Bucks county, ob- tained his education in the common schools, and for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits in different parts of the county. He has been a member of the school board for nine years, and for ten years has served as collector of the township. He is a Republican in poli- tics, and for the last twenty-one years has served as one of the trustees of the Thompson Memorial Presbyterian church. He married, in September, 1869, Frances Jackson, of Solebury township, and they are the parents of three sons: Eugene, who lives in Brooklyn, New York; Charles, mentioned at length here- inafter; and Abner, who resides in Nor- ristown, Pennsylvania. Charles Van Hart, son of David and Frances (Jackson) Van Hart, was born December 13, 1872. in Upper Makefield township, where he received his educa- tion in the common schools. He rented the Enos Merrick farm, and after re- maining there a year, became manager of the farm of Edward Horn, both these estates being in his native township. He then worked one j-ear for his father, after which he moved to the Charles Twining farm in Newtown township. He remained there two years and then took up his abode on the Slack farm, which he has cultivated for the last four years. For one year he filled the office of tax collector of Newtown township, and he has also served as a member of the elec- tion board. He affiliates with Silvan Lodge, No. 265, L O. O. P., of Newtown. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 671 In politics he adheres to the Republican party. He is a member and trustee of the Thompson Memorial Presbyterian Church. Mr. Van Hart married, March 4, 1896, Sarah W., daughter of Andrew and Florence (Worstellj Wiley, of iNew Hope, and they have one child, Leroy S. WASHINGTON O. CROUTHAMEL, the proprietor of the Ottoway House, Buckingham, was born in Bedmmster township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1848, and is of German de- scent, his parents, Jacob S. and Carolme (Ott) Croutham&l, both natives of Bed- minster, being descendants of two of the -oldest families in 'that township, their ancestors having been among the hrst settlers in that township prior to 1750. ^Ir. Crouthamel has had a somewhat itinerant career in his native county, as salesman, merchant and hotel keeper. At the age of fourteen years he began his mercantile career as a clerk in a coun- try store in Tinicum township, where he remained three years. After a year at A.pplebachsville he accepted a position in the hat store of William Jacoby, in Phil- adelphia. Two years later he entered the large mercantile establishment of Jonas D. Moyer & Co., at Dublin, where he re- mained two years. After two and a half years in the store of William Detweiler, at New Galena (now Levin), and a year at Perkasie he accepted a responsible po- sition with Reuben H. Delp, at Church Hill, who at that time opened a store in connection with his tannery at that place. After three years with Mr. Delp he en- tered into partnership with Henry Rob- inson, the genial auctioneer, and opened a store at Line Lexington under the firm name of H. Robinson & Co., which con- tinued for two years, when he sold out his interest in the firm and opened a store at New Galena, where he conducted a successful business for three years, after which he conducted a store at New Britain Station for eighteen months, and returned to New Galena for another two years. He then sold out his store and becam'e a salesman in the store of E. M. Armstrong, at Doylestown, remaining with Mr. Armstrong's successor. J. A. Linn, for one year, and then entering the large store of A. F. & O. R. Scheetz. In 1886 he was a traveling salesman for Reeves, Parvin & Co., wholesale grocers, and the following year entered the em- ploy of A. S. Heelyer & Son, at Doyles- town, where he remained for ten years. After conducting a store in the Thomp- son building, Doylestown, for one year "he purchased the Buckingham Hotel, which he conducted for two and a half years, when he returned to Doylestown and purchased the stock of the Lenape Hat and Gents' Furnishing Store, and conducted it for eighteen months, when he purchased the Gardenville Hotel. Two years later he again purchased his pres- ent hotel, and has remained there since. Mr. Crouthamel was a popular and suc- cessful salesman, and in his many and varied ventures has always enjoyed the confidence of the people with whom he came in contact. Mr. Crouthamel was married on Feb- ruary 13, 1873, to Mary A. Myers, of Dublin, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and to this marriage were born six children, three of whom survive: Harvey K.; Will- iam J\I., married to ■Martha ]\Iay Ridge ; and Edward M. Mr. Crouthamel and his family are members of the Lutheran church. In politics he and his sons are Democrats. ROBERT L. BALDERSTON. Among the best-known citizens of Bucks county must be numbered Robert L. Balderston, of Upper Maketield township. The fam- ily is of English origin, and for several generations has been resident in Bucks county. John Balderston was a farmer of Upper Maketield township, and mar- ried Phoebe Longshore. Their son David was born May 13, 1815, in Make- field township, where during the years of his life he was engaged in farming. After his retirement he moved to Dol- ington, where he lived for ten years, and in 1879 went to Newtown, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He mar- ried Hannah ^Margerum, of German de- scent, and they were the parents of seven children, of whom six survive: Rebecca, who married Edward Hicks; Phoebe, who became the wife of Edward Carter; Sarah Ann, who is the wife of Eli Over- holt; David J., a resident of Northamp- ton township; Franklin, who lives in Philadelphia; and Robert L., mentioned at length hereinafter. By a second mar- riage Air. Balderston was the father of two children, Ellen, and j\Iary A., de- ceased. The death of Air. Balderston occurred December 27. 1892. Robert L. Balderston, son of David and Hannah (Margerum) Balderston, was born March 28, 1850, in Falls town- ship, Bucks county, and received his edu- cation in the public schools. At the age of twentj'-one he accepted a position in the store of W. Godey Ellis, at Doling- ton, where he remained five years. At the end of that time he opened a store for himslf at Brownsburg, which he con- ducted for five years more. He then re- moved his stock to Dolington, and has ever since been recognized as the leading mer- chant of that place. In the autumn of 1884 he was appointed postmaster at Dolington, an office which he filled with the greatest credit to himself and the most complete satisfaction to the government. In poli- tics he is a supporter and advocate of the principles of the Republican party. Mr. Balderston married, February 27, 1879, djT. m STORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Josephine A., daughter of Azariah and Julia A. (Connard) Matthews, of Sole- bury township. Mr. and Mrs. Balderstcrn have one son, William Ernest, who holds a position in his father's store, and he married, June 17, 1903, Dora J. Kitchin. BENJAMIN MALONE WORTH- INGTON, deceased, for many years one of the widely known and highly re- spected citizens of Hulmeville, Bucks county, whose active career was well worthy of emulation, was born March 19, 1S37, a son of Amos Subers and Har- riet (Paxson) Worthington, and grand- son of Asa Worthington, who were pros- perous and progressive agriculturists of Bucks covmty. Benjamin M. Worthington passed his boyhood days on the home farm, and his educational advantages were acquired in the public schools of Northampton township. Being thus inured to the ar- duous and varied duties of farm life, he was able to give his father competent assistance and he remained with him until he attained his majority. He then located in Hulmeville, Bucks county, where for almost a quarter of a century he conducted the Hulmeville Hotel in such a manner as to show a substantial profit at the end of each year. After this long period of service he disposed of his property, and the following year lived in retirement at Newtown. He then be- came the proprietor of the celebrated Anchor Hotel, which he conducted one year and then disposed of, after which he purchased a hotel in Tullytown, which he also conducted for one year and then sold. He then returned to Hulmeville, purchased a comfortable residence, and resided therein until his decease, April 25, 1901. As a citizen Mr. Worthington was ever earnest, alert and conscientious, keenly alive to everything which con- cerned in any way the wellbeing of his town and county. He was a Republican in politics. Mr. Worthington married. February IS, 1865, Amy Worthington, of Byberry, now Philadelphia, daughter of Walton and Cynthia (Tomlinson) Worthington, the former named having been a son of John and Sarah (Walton) Worthington. and the latter a daughter of Amos and Sarah (Doane) Tomlinson. Their chil- dren are: Florence, born February 12, 1868, became the wife of Henry Harri- son Brown, of Oxford Valley, Novem- ber 5, 1890, and they are the parents of one child, Russell Worthington Brown, born at Hulmeville, February 9. 1902. Russell, born September 18. 1876. died January 25, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. W^orth- ington were reared in the faith of the Friends, and their religious affiliations were with that body. JOSEPH B. WALTER, M. D., who for thirty-six years has been engaged in the practice of his profession m Sole- bury, was born in Plumstead township, Bucks county, on the 30th of August, 1840. His paternal grandfather, Michael Walter, whose ancestors were residents of Alsace, Germany, became one of the early settlers of Plumstead township, where he followed the occupation of farming and also took an active and helpful part in public affairs. He served for a number of years as justice of the peace. His son, John Walter, was born in Pluiristead township and in early life learned the carpenter's trade, being for many years identified with building pur- suits. He married Miss Mary Beek, daughter of Samuel Beck, a resident ' farmer of Plumstead township. They had five children: Catherine, Joseph B., Levi, Silas and Emma. Dr. Joseph B. Walter resided with his parents in Plumstead township until about eight or nine years of age, when, on his mother's death, he was taken into the family of his maternal uncle, William Beek, residing in Doylestown. He was there educated in the private schools conducted by S. A. Thompson and Dr. S. M. Andrews, and also attended the public schools of Doylestown, while sub- sequently he became a student at Kisha- coquillas Seminary, in Mifflin county, and in the boarding school of Rev. M. S. Holford, of Beverly, New Jersey. In 1859 he entered upon the profession of teaching, and his leisure hours during this period were devoted to the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. I. S. Moyer. He taught in the public schools of Durham, Warrington and Northamp- ton and Southampton townships, but in 1862 put aside his professional duties to enter active military service. In the month of August of that year he en- listed for a term of nine months as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Twentj^-second Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, and was mustered out in May, 1863. He taught school for a few months at Richboro, Northampton township, and then re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-second Pennsyl- vania Infantry. He was stationed dur- ing the greater part of the time at headquarters in Virginia and North Car- olina, until mustered out at the close of hostilities. He was promoted to the rank of third sergeant, and on the ist of September, 1865, was commissioned sec- ond lieutenant, but declined the office. He participated in the battles of Freder- icksburg, Chancellorsville, Appomattox and minor engagements. Immediately following his return to civil life, Dr. Walter took up the study of medicine under Dr. I. S. MoA^er, then of Plum- steadville, and in 1866 entered the medi- cal department of the Universit}' of Pennsylvania. He was graduated in the '^'^H at C. Koevoet-s- 1*- ■ TI HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 673 spring of 1868, and at once began the practice of his profession with Dr. J. E. Smith, of Yardley, with whom he re- mained until the spring of 1870, when he located in Solebury township, where he has since been actively engaged in prac- tice, covering thirty-six consecutive years. He is a member of the Bucks County Medical Society, the Lehigh Val- ley Medical Association and the Penn- sylvania State Medical Society, and thus keeps in touch with the advanced thought, research and experience of the medical fraternity. On the 13th of October, 1870, Dr. Wal- ter was united in marriage to Miss Mary T. Child, daughter of George M. and Sarah (Wood) Child, of Plumstead township. In politics he is a Republi- can, and his fraternal relations connect him with the lodge, chapter and com- mandery of the Masonic order. ALBERT E. SLACK, of Upper Make- field township, Bucks county, was born in Philadelphia, October 11, i860, a son of Elijah T. and Eliza D. (Crowell) Slack, and is of Holland and Scotch- Irish ancestry. On the paternal side he is a descendant in the eighth genera- tion from Hendrick Cornelise Slecht, who emigrated from Holland to Long Island in 1652, and settled near the pres- ent site of Brooklyn, where he died about 1690. From his four sons, Barendt, Cor-, nelius, Abraham and Johannes, are de- scended the numerous family of Slack, now residing in nearly all parts >of the United States. Two grandsons of Hen- drick, John and Abraham, settled in Makefield township, Bucks "county, about 1740- Abraham Slack was twice married. His first wife, and the mother of his four children, died while the latter were young and he married (second) June 16, 1768, Martha Titus, who survived him. Abraham died in " 1802. His chil- dren were: Abraham, married Elizabeth Torbert; Cornelius, married Sarah Hell- ings ; James, married Alice Torbert ; and Sarah, married Moses Kelley. Eliza- beth and Alice Torbert, who married Abraham and James Slack, respectively, were daughters of James and Hannah (Burleigh) Torbert, of Makefield, and their two grandfathers, Samuel Torbert and John Burleigh, came from the north of Ireland and settled in Bucks county about 1725. Abraham Slack, son of James and Alice (Torbert) Slack, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He inher- ited from his father a farm in Lower Makefield. and died there in 1833. His wife, Mary Mann, survived him. They were the parents of thirteen children, eleven of whom lived to maturity. Mary Mann, the mother, was a daughter of 43-3 Samuel and Margaret (Keith) Mann, and a granddaughter of William Keith, an- other early settler in Makefield, from the north of Ireland. The children of Abraham and Mary (Mann) Slack were: Samuel M., born June 27, 1808, married Margaret Rubinkam, and had ten chil- dren, oi whom five yet survive — Mary R., Agnes E., and Rosanna, single, resid- ing on the homestead of their father in Upper Makefield; Jesse R., of Upper Makefield, and James M., of Forest Grove; another son, Captain Abraham A. Slack, recently died in Northampton township. John Keith. Slack, the second son of Abraham and Mary, was devised the Keith plantation, and changed his name to John Slack Keith. The remain- ing eleven children were: William H., Anthony W., Frederick A., Elijah T., Margaret, Alice, Rosanna K., Mary Ann B., Martha T., and Jane. Elijah T. Slack, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born in Lower Makefield township, in 1823, and was but ten years of age at the death of his father. He was reared on the old home- stead, which was managed by his eldest brother, Samuel M., after the death of his father, and received his education at the local schools. At the age of fifteen years he went to Philadelphia and se- cured a position in the dry goods store of Gideon Cox, and later obtained a more lucrative position with Atwood, White & Co., representing them on the road as a travelling salesman, his territory ex- tending down through the -southern states, where he built up a large patron- age. About 1854, he formed a partner- ship with John R. Sparhawk, and eni- b^jrked in business for himself. Two years later this partnership was dis- solved, and he organized the firm of Cresswell, Slack & Gemmill, which existed up to the death of Mr. Slack in '1876; and was one of the well known wholesale firms of Philadelphia. Mr. Slack was a Democrat in politics, and took a prominent part in the reform movement in Philadelphia in the early seventies. He married Eliza D. Crow-' ell, of Philadelphia, who is still living with a sister in Hackettstown, New Jer- sey. They were the parents of four chil- dren, two of whom survive : Albert E., the subject of this sketch; and Helene, a single woman residing in Madison, New Jersey. Albert E. Slack was born and reared in the city of Philadelphia, and graduated from the high school there in 1876. In the same spring he was appointed a midshipman at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, by Congressman Charles O'Neil, but, the death of his father oc- curring at about the time of his ap- pointment, and his mother being v€ry much opposed to his accepting, he re- signed the appointment and came to Up- per Makefield township, Bucks county, 674 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. and resided until l88o, with his uncle and guardian Samuel M. Slack. In the latter year he went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to look after a tract of land left by his father and in 1881, removed to Huntington, Indiana, where he superin- tended the large plantations of General James R. Slack for fifteen years. In 1896 he removed to Mitchell, Indiana, where he engaged in the lime business. At the end of one year he sold his inter- est in the business to his partners, and returned to Bucks county and purchased the James M. McNair farm in Upper Makefield, of 167 acres, upon which he has since resided. Mr. Slack married, in 1886, Delila Loughsdorf, daughter of Peter and Su- san (Seifert) Loughsdorf, of Hunting- ton, Indiana, whose family were early settlers of Huntington, having purchased the land now occupied by thein of the government. To Mr. and Mrs. Slack have been born three children, viz.: E. Wilmer, Ethel F. and Lamont, all resid- ing at home. In politics Mr. Slack is an Indepen- dent. He is a member of Thompson Memorial Presbyterian -church, of which his grandfather was an elder, his ances- tors for many generations having been staunch Presbyterians. J. TITUS SLOTTER, living in Sole- bury township, was born in Bedminster township, Bucks county, on the 17th of April, 1850. He is of German lineage, a descendant of Anthony Slotter, who came from the fatherland and settled on a farm in Bedminster township. He had two chil- dren, a son and daughter. The former was Anthony Slotter, who died in 1825, when Jacob Slotter was about twelve years of age. , Jacob Slotter, the eldest of three chil- dren, was born in Bedminster township in 1817, upon the farm now owned by his son William, and his entire life with the excep- tion of a brief period of three years was spent as an agriculturist in his native town- ship. For fifty years he resided upon the old family homestead, where he died on the 19th of February, 1904. He lived in Haycock for one year, in Tinicum for two years, and afterward in Bedminster town- ship, near Tohickon, for eight years. In 1854 he took up his abode upon the old home property, which for half a century was his place of residence. He was en- gaged in buying and driving cattle through the state, selling to the farmers in different sections of Pennsylvania. His political support was given to the Republican party, and he was a member of the Reformed church. His life was characterized by act- ivity and progress in business and relia- bility in all relations. On the 7th of April, 1842, he was married to Miss Leah Hock- man, a daughter of Ulrich Hockman, who was born August 24, 1823, and died Janu- ary 9, 1886. They became the parents of thirteen children, of whom three have passed away: Elizabeth II., Mary Ann and John H. The others are: William H., formerly county superintendent, and a resi- dent of Doylestown; Anna Maria, the wife of Abel Stover, of Doylestown; Leah, who married Milton Crouthamel, and resides at Keelersville; J. Titus; Martha, the wife of Louis Ott, at Church Hill; Anthony, who is living on the old homestead in Bedmin- ster township; Aaron, who is conducting a restaurant in Philadelphia; Lincoln, who married Anna Jones, and is living in Me- chanicsville, Pennsylvania ; Barbara, the wife of. Aaron Landus, of Mechanicsville; and Reuben, who married Ellen Crouth- amel, and resides in Richlandtown. J. Titus Slotter, son of Jacob and Leah (Hockman) Slotter, was a student in the public schools in his boyhood days, and when not occupied with the duties of the school room assisted in the operations of the home farm, remaining thereon until his twenty-second year, when he accepted a position in the general store at Dublin. There he resided for three years. Follow- ing his marriage he returned to Bedminster township, where for two years he was em- ployed at farm labor, and later he rented a store at New Britain, there conducting a general mercantile establishment for four years. In 1881 he removed his stock of goods to Perkasie, and a year later sold his mercantile business and returned to Bed- minster township, settling on the Kerns farm. The following year he sold his farm stock and removed to Detroit, Michigan, where he was variously employed for six years, but in the spring of 1889 once more took up his abode on the Kerns farm in Bedminster township. Mr. Slotter was married to Miss Emma Kerns, of Bedmin- ster township, and they traveled life's jour- ney together for many years, but the year following their return from Michigan Mrs. Slotter died, and he broke up housekeeping. In the fall of 1890 he removed to Carvers- ville, Pennsylvania, and for two and a half years ran a stage from . Carversville to Doylestown. In 1893 he organized a com- mission route, continuing in that business until the winter of 1899, when he sold out and purchased his present farm, on which he has since lived. By his first marriage there were five children : Frank, a resi- dent of Doylestown; George, who is living in Detroit, Michigan ; Florence, the wife of Howard Rose, of Lambertsville ; Rolin, of Churchill ; and Mabel, who resides with her aunt,- Mrs. A. A. Stover, in Doylestown. On the 23d of June, 1899, Mr. Slotter was married to Miss Elizabeth Cadwallader, a daughter of Franklin and Rc-^chel (Slack) Cadwallader, of Solebury township. They have one child, Sara. Mr. Slotter is a Republican in his poli- tical views, and belongs to the Reformed church, while his wife is a member of the Friends' meeting. He is one of the well HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 67 /D known residents of Solebury township, having gained wide acquaintance through his commercial and agricultural interests, -and having won the warm regard of those with whom he has been associated by rea- son of his fidelity to honorable manly prin- •ciples. DR. JOHN W. SHADDINGER, a repre- sentative of the medical profession, resid- ing at Chalfont, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, was born in Lumberville, Bucks county,, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1878, a son of John F. and Wilhelmina (Wor- inan) Shaddinger. Dr. Shaddinger obtained an excellent literary education in the public schools of the neighborhood and at West Chester State Normal School. Having decided to adopt the profession of medicine for his life work he matriculated at the Uni- versity College of Medicine at Rich- mond, Virginia, from which institution he was graduated May i, 1901. From the time of his graduation until August, 1901, he practiced at Portland, Pennsylvania, remov- ing from thence to Chalforf, same state, where he has since resided, and by display- ing great skill in the diagnosis and treat- ment of disease has established a large practice. He is devotedly attached to his profession, keeps abreast of the times by study and research, and is noted for his prompt and energetic work. He is a member of the Bucks County Med- ical Society and the State Medical So- ciety. He also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. Dr. Shad- dinger was married September 17, 1901, to Rosa Michener, daughter of Daniel Michener, of Plumstead township. They are the parents of one child, Elizabeth. ABRAHAM B. ROSENBERGER, of Hilltown, was born in that township, March -27, 1853, and is a son of Isaac and Susanna (Bishop) Rosenberger. He is a descend- ant of Henry Rosenberger, the pioneer an- cestor of the family, who became a land owner* in Franconia, Montgomery county, in 1729, through his son Benjamin Rosen- berger, who died in Franconia in 1777. Yellis Rosenberger, son of Benjamin, born about 1735, was the father of Benjamin Rosenberger, who married Margaret Nash. Elias Rosenberger, son of Benjamin and Margaret, settled in Rockhill township ; he was twice married, his first wife being Bar- bara Fretz, and (second) Elizabeth Huns- berger. By the latter he had two sons, Isaac and Henry, twins. Isaac, one of the twins above mentioned, born in Rockhill township, was a chair- maker by trade, and later purchased a farm in Hilltown township, where he died No- vember 27, 1886. He was a school director 111 Hilltown for many years, and a member of the Mennonite Meeting at Blooming Glenn. He married September 25, 1842, Susanna Bishop, born August 10, 1820, daughter of Jacob and Anna (Fretz) Bishop, who bore him seyen children as follows : Rev. Henry B. Rosenberger, born July 22, 1844, married Mary Ann Shad- dinger ; Jacob B., merchant at Dublin, born January 8, 1847, married Sarah Myers ; Elias, died in infancy; Abraham B., the subject of this sketch; Annie, born Decem- ber 19, 185s, married Edward Shaddinger; and Mary, born December 6, 1856, died un- married April 6, 1880. Abraham B. Rosenberger, born in Hill- town and reared on his father's farm tnere, received a good common-school education at the local schools and remained on the farm with his parents until his marriage, and then took charge of the farm. In 1887 he purchased of his father the farm upon which he still resides, and is one of the en- terprising and prosperous farmers of that vicinity. He is a Mennonite in religion, and in politics a Republican. He married January 10, 1880, Mary Godshalk, born Sep- tember 14, 1852, daughter of Henry and Annie (Gross) Godshalk, and they are the parents of six children, viz. : Isaac G., born 'December 20, 1880, married Laura Keller, and has one child, Alvin ; Anna, born De- cember 19, 1882 ; Mary Emma, born No- vember 2, 1884; Edward, born April 6, and died December 28, 1888; Martha, born April 25, 1890; and Henry G., born March 22, i8sH. HOMER TOMLINSON. Joseph Tom- linson, the great-grandfather of Homer Tomlinson, emigrated from Germany, set- tling in Ohio, where he remained until his death. His children were: Joseph, Daniel, John, and Mary, wife of A. Staats. John Tomlinson, son of Joseph (i), born in 1782, married and settled in Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, where he died. He mar- ried Martha Ridge, by whom were born five children : Josiah ; Sarah, wife of Paul Blaker; Mary R., wife of Amas Twining; 4, Isaac ; 5, John. John Tomlinson, son of John (2) and the father of Homer Tomlinson, was born in Bensalem township, September 16, 1825. He followed farming all his life. He married Sarah E. Hageman, by whom four children were born: Homer; Grant; Mark; Valmer. Homer Tomlinson was born in North- ampton township, Bucks county, October 10, 1856, and, like his ancestors, has fol- lowed farm life. He married Miss Amelia Taylor, by which union one child was born, Willmer, September 20, 1888. He is still on the farm, which he purchased in 1879. It embraces forty-nine acres, and is located about two miles from Richboro. In later days, but few families have followed in the same line of occupation so long as has this family. 676 • HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, WORM AN STONEBACK. For many years one of QuaKerLO\. .is most highly re- spected citizens was vvorman Stoncback. 'ihe name was originally spelled ijleinbacli, the family having been tounded in this country by Henry Steinbach, who was born in 1750 in Germany, died in 1795, and was buried at Keller's cnurch, Bedmmster town- ship. He left a son John, wlio was born in 1782, married, and became tlie lather of nine children. His death occurred m 1864. Robert Stoneback, son of John Sloneback, was born September 21, 1806, m Uublm, Bucks county. He was much interested in local and political affairs, and hlled many posiitons of trust, among them that of recorder of Bucks county; this office he held for one term. In politics he was a standi Democrat of the old school, and in re» ligion adhered to the Dutch Reformed church. He married June 21, 1835, Lydia, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (.Cope) Worman, and their children were : i. One who died in infancy; 2. Worman, men- tioned at length hereinafter; 3. Emeline, born September 17, 1840, became the wife of Jonas Ai. Harley, of Germantown, and has two children, Laura S. B., and Walter, who is a teacher and lives in Brooklyn; 4. Amanda, born November 30, 1842, died Jan- uary 8, 1863; 5. DeWitt Glmton, born Feb- ruary 16, L84b, died July 27, 1846. Mr. Stoneback's latter years were spent in re- tirement at Quakertown, where he died in 1880. Worman Stoneback, son of Robert and Lydia (Worman) Stoneback, was born February 14, 1838, in Bedmmster township, where his father was engaged in the milling business. He attended the district school of his birthplace until his parents moved to Philadelphia, where his father was for some time with Stoneback & Snyder, cloth merchants. During the residence of the family in Philadelphia, Worman Stoneback attended the Central High School, from which he graduated in 1S55. During the construction and finishing of the ^North Pennsylvania Railroad he was agent for the company at Quakertown, holding this position for twenty-one years. In 1880, when the' North Pennsylvania Railroad was leased by the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-, road, he engaged with David J. Ambler in the coal and lumber business, which he car- ried on successfully until 1885, when he sold out to the firm of the Walps. After spending one year in the stove- foundry business, succeeding to the interest of Oliver Scheetz, he established himself in Philadelphia as a wholesale queensware dealer, continuing to reside in Quakertown. He served a number of years as school di- rector and in town council, and also acted as delegate to county conventions. In poli- tics he was a Democrat, always taking an active interest and prominent part in the affairs of the organization. In early life he attended the Dutch Reformed church, but later became a member of Emanuel (Protestant Episcopal) church, in which he served as lay reader and superintendent of the Sunday School. Mr. Stoneback mar- ried, E'ebruary 20, 1868, Joanna B., daugh- ter of William H. and Christiana (Cope) Bush, and granddaughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Cope. Mr. and Mrs. Bush were at one time residents of Philadelphia, where their daughter Joanna was born March 13, 1849, and was educated in the Northeast Grammar School and at the Oakland Seminary, Norristown. After moving to Quakertown, Mr. Bush became proprietor of the Bush House, which he conducted for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Stoneback were the parents of the follow- ing children : Ella Christiana, born Octo- ber 13, 1869, died May 16, 1870; Blanche Lydia, born June 4, 1871, resides at home; Robert Eugene, born June 4, 1874, and lives in Philadelphia, where he is one of the firm of Bodine, Son & Company, bankers and brokers. The death of Mr. Stoneback, which oc- curred January 26, 1890, deprived his family and the community of one whose place could not easily be filled, and who, as a business man, a neighbor and a citizen, commanded the sincere respect and cordial friendship of all to whom he was known. DR. FELIX A. MURPHY, a general practitioner of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was born in Ireland, June 7, 1877. He is a son of John and Anna McCjurgan, but upon his adoption by Timothy J. Mur- phy, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, he took the name of Felix A. Murphy. His ances- tors on both the paternal and maternal sides were natives of Ireland. The early educational advantages enjoyed by Felix A. Murphy were obtained in the public schools of Doylestown and the Cath- olic high school of Philadelphia. After completing this course of instruction and having decided to lead a professional life, he entered Je-fferson Medical College, and was graduated therefrom in 1901, when he received his diploma as Doctor of Medi- cine. He then received the appointment of Resident Physician of St. Joseph's Hos- pital, Philadelphia, in which capacity he served for fourteen months. In October, 1902, he established an office in Doyles- town for the general practice of medicine and surgery, and by displaying both ability and skill in his treatment of disease he has commanded the confidence of his patients, and his patronage is steadily increasing. He keeps in touch with the thoughts of the day along his line of profession by member- ship in the American Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the Bucks County Medical Society. He is a Republican in his political views, and was chosen by his party to serve in the oftice of overseer of the poor in the borough of Doylestown. Dr. Murphy is unmarried. I ^^^^-^^ yj^/ff^f^'/ y^/ '^ T1 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 677 ISAAC C. DETWEILER. Several generations of the Detweiler family have been residents of Bucks county. The grandfather, George Detweiler, lived and died in this county, being engaged in general work through his active busi- ness career. He married Miss Clem- mens, of Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, and their only child was John C. Detweiler, who was born in Montgomery county in 1844, and was brought to Bucks county by his parents when but two years of age. Here he has spent his en- tire life engaged in general work. In community afifairs he is deeply inter- ested, taking an active and helpful part in many of the movements. He is now serving as a deacon in the Lutheran church of Dublin, Pennsylvania. He married Miss Esther Crouthamel, and they became the parents of five children: Isaac C. ; Anna M., the wife of Charles Cassel, of Montgomery county; Esther Elizabeth, the wife of Daniel Leather- man; J. Aaron, of Philadelphia; and El- vina. Isaac C. Detweiler was born near Dub- lin in 1873, and pursued a common-school education. In his youth he began farm labor, and was thus employed until eigh- teen years of age, when, thinking that he would find mercantile life more con- genial, he entered the employ of John Bergstresser. at Pipersville, thus becom- ing a clerk in a general store, where he remained fpr a year and a half. On the expiration of that period he went to Blooming Glen, Hilltown township, Bucks county, and for eight years was a salesman in the employ of Bishop & Brother. The experience which her-ac- quired through his industry and- econ- omy enabled him in 1901 to purchase the business of Daniel Gross at Danboro, where he has since conducted a general mercantile enterprise. This has since become one of the best quipped stores in Bucks county, and Mr. Detweiler is justly accounted one of its most pro- gressive merchants, making a close •study of the desires of the public, and so purchasing his stock as to fully meet the varied demands of the trade. His business methods are thoroughly reli- able, and have gained him a desirable patronage. A'Ir. Detweiler married Miss Ella May, a daughter of Reuben K. and Amanda Stovgr. They have two chil- dren: Willard S., born November 5, 1808; and Ruth S., born July 25, 1901. The parents hold membership in the Lu- theran church at Dublin, and Mr. Det- weiler is a Republican in his political views. On the 2d of Jannar^-. tqoi, he was appointed postmaster of Danboro by President McKinley, as successor of Daniel Gross, and is now the incumbent of that office. His official service and liis mercantile interests make him a lead- ing and representative man of his town. JOHN B. SHERM. It is somewhat seldom that the characteristics of a thor- ough farmer and a successful business man are found united, but that this com- bination exists in the case of John B. Sherm, of Chalfont, all his neighbors can testify. Mr. Sherm is a grandson of John Sherm, a native of Germany, who spent his entire life in the fatherland. John Sherm, son of John Sherm before mentioned, was born in 1806 in Ger- many, and in 1823 emigrated to the United States. He settled at Plymouth, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and in a few years moved to Fretz's Mill, Bucks county, where he learned the mill- ing trade with Mark Fretz, and after- ward followed it for six years. He then settled on a farm in New Britain town- ship and devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits. In politics he adhered to the Democratic party. He was a member of the Lutheran church and for twelve years was a member of the church council. His wife was Bar- bara Rickert, and they were the parents of two sons: William H., and John B., mentioned at length hereinafter. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sherm were zealous in good works, and possessed, as they de- served, the sincere respect and cordial regard of all their neighbors. John B. Sherm, son of John and Bar- bara (Rickert) Sherm, was born Septem- ber 2, 1844, in New Britain township, where he was reared on the paternal farm, in the labors of which he was from boyhood trained to assist. He at- tended the old Clymer schoolhouse on the Messenger farm. This building, stored with associations for so many of the inhabitants of Bucks county, has since been torn down. Mr. Sherm has been a lifelong farmer and has reaped the success which comes from practical ability and long experience. ' In connection with his agricultural pursuits he carries on the produce commission busi- ness, having a flourishing trade and ship- ping goods from Lansdale to Philadelphia. His political affiliations are with the Re- publicans, and he is a member of St. Peter's Lutheran church at Hilltown. Mr. Sherm married, May 27. 1864, Cnro- line, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Snyder) Savacool, and they are the parents of the following children: i. Minerva, who was born September 16, 1866, and became the wife of Henry Hetrick. 2. Wilhelmina, born May 31, 1868, married Samuel Camp- bell, and is the mother of two children, Irene and Willie. 3. Harvey S., .born De- cember I, 1870. 4. Jacob S., born October 26, 1872, and married Christian Mull. He and his wife are both deceased, leaving three children — John George, Sylva and Minerva. 5. Martha, born July 7, 1875. and is now deceased. 6. J. Frame, born July 4, 1878, married Amy Cassel. 7. M. Eliza- beth, born January 22, i88r. 8. William S., born August 19, 1886. 6/8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. MILTON L. COPE, of Perkasie, dealer in pianos and other musical instruments, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1857, and is a son of the .late John Frank and Maria (Leidy) Cope, grandson of John and Su- sanna (Savacool) Cope, great-grandson of Adam and Margaret (Hartzell) Cope, and great-great-grandson of Yost and Doro- thea Cope, who emigrated from Wurtem- burg, Germany, arnvmg in Philadelphia on October 2, 1727, in the ship "Advent- urer," Captain John Davies, from Rotter- dam. Yost Cope settled first in what is now Montgomery county, where 150 acres of land was surveyed to him by Penn's com- missioners by warrant dated January 8, 1734- His sons Abraham and Adam set- tled in Hilltown, Bucks county, and both have left numerous descendants. Adam Cope, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the earliest set- tlers in Hilltown, being already a resident there at the time of his purchase of large tracts of land there in 1759 and 1760. He married Margaret, daughter of Henry Hart- zell, an early settler and large landholder in Rockhill, who bore him eleven children, six sons : Jacob, Abraham, jMichael, Henry, John and Paul ; and five daughters. Adam Cope died in 1794, his wife :\largaret sur- viving him. John Cope, seventh child and fifth son of Adam and Margaret (Hartzel) Cope, was born and reared in Hilltown, and in- herited from his father a portion of the old homestead, and spent his whole life there.. He married Susanna Savacool, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Savacool, of Hilltown (see sketch of Aaron Savacool, in this work), and they were thg parents of six children; William S. ; Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Wambold; John Frank; Henry S. ; Maria; and Susanna. John Cope died in 1862, and his wife in 1873. John Frank Cope, second son of John and Susanna (Savacool) Cope, was also born and reared in Hilltown. In the division of his father's real estate in 186^ he acquired title to a fine farm, part of the land that had belonged to his grandfather, Adam Cope, and lived thereon until his death, August 10, 1902. He married Maria, daugh- ter of Jacob Leidy, who survives him. They were the parents of two children— Mil- ton L., the subject of this sketch; and Dr. Leidy L, Cope, a successful physician of Hatfield, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. Milton L. Cope was born and reared on the old homestead in Hilltown, and was educated in the public schools. He early manifested a taste and talent for music, and has filled the position of organist at his church for twenty-one years. He continued to conduct the homestead farm until 1S83, when he started into the music business in a small way, selling pianos from his home on the farm. His business .having materi- ally increased, he removed to Souderton in 1896, and carried on the business there un- til 1902, when he removed to Perkasie, and erected a large music warehouse and now. carries a large stock of pianos. He also> has a branch establishment in Allentown, at 141 South Eighth street, and does a large business. He is one of the active business men of Perkasie, and is well known in busi- ness and social circles in upper Bucks and Lehigh counties. He is still the owner of the old homestead in Hilltown. Mr. Cope was married on September 11,. 1883, to Susan Savacool, daughter of Aaron and Esther (Stetlerj Savacool of Hilltcnvn, who died in 1896, leaving two boys; How- ard, born May 11, 1888; and Raymond, born December 17, 1893. On April 29,, 1898, Mr. Cope married JNIrs. Alice Guth, a widow, and daughter of Jonas H. and Sarah. Schmoyer of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cope has one child by her former marriage Helen Maria Guth, who was born December 18, 1893. THOMAS STRAWN, one of the retired business men of Quakertown, is a grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Johnson} Strawn, who were residents of Bucks coun- ty not less than a century ago, and his maternal grandmother was Rebecca Ball. Johnson Strawn, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Johnson) Strawn, was born in 181 1, on Fellman's farm, in Richland town- ship, and attended the subscription school of his birthplace. He learned the carpen- ter's trade and later the manufacture of agricultural implements. In 1856 he erected the grist and saw mill which he afterward operated. He married Jane Penrose (see Penrose, in this work), and they were the parents of the following children: i. Evan. Penrose, born September 16, 1834, died October 5. 1838. 2. Joseph P., born August 16, 1836, died October 8, 1858. 3. Thomas,. mentioned at length hereinafter. 4. Mary Ann, born April 18, 1841, married, in 1869, Edwin A., son of David Johnson, a painter, formerly of Richland township, now of Philadelphia. 5. Johnson, born October 13,. 1849, married, in 1871, Florence, daughter of Charles F. Mendith, and they are the pa- rents of the following children: Ollie ]M., born ]\Iarch 18, 1872, died May 4, 1876; Thomas B.. born March 3. 1874. lives in Richland township, and married a daugh- ter of Dr. Callahan, of Philadelphia; Charles M., born August 13, 1879, lives at home and is an electrical engineer; Harry M., born October 15, 1885, lives in Phila- delphia. Mr. Strawn died in 1858. Thomas Strawn, son of Johnson and Jane (Penrose) Strawn, was born April 4, 1838, on the farm of his grandfather Penrose, in Richland township, and received his preparatory education in the subscription school, later attending the Friends' school at Quakertown. At the age of twenty he succeeded by the death of his father, to- the milling business, and al?o to the manu- facturing of agricultural implements. Irt HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 679 1873 he associated with himself his brother Johnson, and when he retired from business in 1897 he was succeeded by this brother. From 1890 to 1896 he served on the com- mittee of the electric light and water plant. He was for many years interested in the Richland Library, founded in one hundred granges, an institution which had always been encouraged by his family. From 1809 to 1872 he served as a member of the town council of Quakertown. In politics he is a Republican. He is a birthright member of the Richland Meeting of Quakertown, and has served for three years as overseer. He has since been elected a member of com- mittee. Mr. Strawn has never married. PHILIP S. CRESSMAN, proprietor of the American House, Perkasie, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county. May 31, i860, and is a descendant of one of the oldest Ger- man families in Bucks county. Johannes Cressman, his great-great-great-grandfatn- er, was born in Germany and came to Penn- sylvania with his father, George Cressman (or Gressman, as the name was spelled in German) about the year 1720. The family settled in Franconia township (now Mont- gomery county) from whence Johannes Cressman came to Rockhill township, Bucks county, where he was a landowner as early as 1747. He later returned to Franconia, where he died in 1786. His children were Anthony, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Catharine and Hannah. Anthony Cressman, eldest son of Jo- hannes, born May 9, 1731, came to Rock- hill with his parents when a child. He was a farmer, and became a considerable land- holder prior to his death, which occurred March 3, 1789. By his wife Magdalen he had seven children : Jacob ; Elizabeth, wife of Daniel Sliver; Abraham; John; Adam; Catharine, and Sarah. Jacob Cressman, eldest son of Anthony and iMagdalen, born in Rockhill, October 27, 1755, inherited the homestead farm in Rockhill and became one of the largest landowners in the township. He died June 15, 1832. His wife was Eliza- beth Nace, and they were the parents of twelve children. Philip Cressman, young- est son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Nace) Cressman, born in Rockhill township, in 1797, resided on a portion of the old home- stead in Rockhill until the death of his fa- ther in 1832, and then removed to Hilltown township. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that vocation in connection with farming in both Rockhill and Hill- town. He died in 1872. He married Mag- dalena Stout, and they were the parents of three children, two of whom survived child- hood, viz. : Henry, the father of the suD- ject of this sketch; and Eliza, wife of Jonas Leidy. Henry Cressman, born in Rockhill, De- cember 14, 1825, removed with his parents to Hilltown at the age of six years,~and re- sided on the old homestead there for the remaining fifty years of his life, dying April 8, 1882. He married Sarah A. Snyder, daughter of George and Mary (Wittig) Snyder, of Hilltown, who was born Janu- ary I, 1833, and had six ■ children as fol- lows : James S., born December 6, 1853, married Emma Savacool, and has one chila, Roland; William S., of Sellersville, a gro- cer, married Emma Gearhart, and has three children, the eldest of whom, Alma, is a school teacher at Perkasie ; Philip S., the subject of this sketch; Henry M. S., who is supervisory principle of schools at Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, who married Emma Jacoby, and has three children; Alary Ann ; and another who died in In- fancy. Philip S. Cressman, born ^^lay 31, i860, was reared on his father's farm in Hill- town, and educated at the public schools, remaining on the farm until his twenty- second year, when he became a clerk in the general merchandise store of his father-in- law, Reuben B. Crouthamel, at Hagers- ville. He remained there two years and in 1884 went into the hotel business at Perkasie as proprietor of the American House, which he has since conducted, erect- ing the present hoiei building and hall in 1894. He is a successful and progressive business man, and owns considerable real estate in that thriving borough. He has always taken an active interest in all that pertains to the best interests of the town, and has served several terms as a member of the local school board. He is a member of McCalla Lodge, No. 596, F. and A. M., at Sellersville, and of Perkasie Lodge, 1. O. O. F. He married in 1882 Mary CroU' thamel, daughter of Reuben B. Croutha- mel, then of Hagersville, Rockhill town- ship, but later of Philadelphia, and they are the parents of tour children, Howard, Frank, Winfield, and Mabel. ABRAM F. SWARTZ. Early in the eighteenth century, the Swartz family, of German lineage, was founded in Penn- sylvania, where representatives of the name have since been found, doing their full share in upholding the legal and moral status of the state. The first of the family of whom we have authentic record was Andrew Swartz, a native of the fatherland. His son. Andrew Swartz, was born in Germany and emigrated to America in 1727, ar- riving in Philadelphia on the i6th of Oc- tober of that year. He located in Fran- conia township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a tract of land comprising one hundred and fifty-five acres, then a part of Salford' township. He followed farming through- out the greater part of his life. He mar- ried Catharine Kline, and thej' became the parents of ten children, as follows: Mary, born December 2, 1728; Abra- ham, January 5. 1731; [Margaret, Decem- ber 7, 1732; Ester, February 2, 1735; 68o HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Isaac, April 2, 1737; Susanna. December 3. 1739; Andrew. June 29, 1742; Jacob. , 1744; John. July 18, 1747; and Elizabeth. Julj' 28, 1750. Abraham Swartz. son of Andrew and Catharine (Kline) Swartz. was born on the old family homestead in Montgomery count}', and made farming his life work. Abram Swartz, son of Andrew Swartz, was born in Franconia township. Mont- gomery county, April 16, 1790. He was a clockmaker, and followed that trade when all of the work was done by hand, even making his own castings for wheels, in addition to making all the parts' and the frame. He manufactured the kind of timepiece now known as "grandfather's clock," carrying on the business for many years in Lower Salford township, Montgomery county, but later turned his attention to farming. He met with a sudden death, slipping from his wagon and sustaining internal injuries which caused his demise the same night. He married Susanna B. Fry, who was born January 28, 1796. His death occurred in 1832, and she died September 26, 1861. She was a daughter of George Fry. Mr. and Mrs. Swartz Were the parents of seven children, as follows: i. John F., who was born July 2, 1816, died Sep- tember 6, 1897, married Susanna Hen- dricks, by whom he had two children, and after the death of his first wife he married Ester Foiitz, and they had two children. 2. George F., born OctoTaer 26, 1818. wedded Mary Moyer and died July 15. 1875. 3- Catharine, born September 26, 1820. became the wife of Jacob A. Hendricks and they had one child; fol- lowing the death'of her first husband she married Martin Kulp, and they had three children; her death occurred April 9, 1864. 4. Mary, '.born September 13, 1822, was the wife of M,artii7 Jlulp, and died December 11. 1843. leaving one child. *>. Elizabeth, born February 10. 1827, was the wife of Edward Thompson and the mother of three children; her death oc- curred August 6, 1857. '6. Sarah A., born February 24. 1829, was the wife of Will- iam R. Christman. and died January 19, 1865 ; they were the parents of five children. Abram F. Swartz, seventh and young- est child of Abram and Susanna (Frj-) Swartz, was born in Lower Salford town- ship. Montgomery county. March 21, 1832. and was reared by his uncle on a farm at Silverdale, Hilltown township, Bucks county. He was but a babe when his father died, and went to live with his uncle when two and one-half years of age. He obtained his elementary educa- tion in subscription schools of that neighborhood, and completed his studies in the Washington Hall Boarding School at Trappe. Montgomery county. He afterward learned the trade of cabinet- making under the direction of Daniel Rosenbcrger. at Hatfield. Montgomery county, and when he had mastered the business he worked at carpentering through the summer months, while in the winter seasons he was engaged in teaching school. He began following that profession when eighteen years of age, and was thus identified with the ed- ucational interests of this part of the state until about sixty years of age. Fol- lowing his uncle's death he purchased the farm upon which he was reared and lived there until 1897, when he re- moved to Blooming Glen, locating on the place which he had purchased the prev- ious year. Here he has since lived re- tired, having in former years acquired the competence which now supplies him with all the necessities and many of the comforts and luxuries of life. Politi- cally a Republican, Mr. Swartz has al- ways taken a deep interest in the party, its growth and success, and has ever kept well informed on the leading ques- tions of the day. He served for seven years as assessor of Hilltown township. Religiously he is a member of the Men- nonite church, and is well worthy the trust so uniformly accorded him. Mr. Swartz married in 1855, Catharine A. Siegfried, who was born March 28, 1831, a daughter of John H. Siegfried. Her death occurred in 1873. There were six children by that marriage: i. Susanna Louise, born February 11, 1856, married Henry B. Lapp. and. their six children are Nelson, Stella, Agnes, Esther, Mar- tha and W^alter. 2. Mary S., born Septem- ber 23, 1857, is the wife of Isaac B. Beideman and has nine children. Frank, Estella, Harry, Alice. Abram, Raymond, Edna, Bertha, and Harvey. 3. Isaac Franklin, born April 27, i860, married Amanda Elizabeth Bishop, a daughter of Jacob Bishop. 4. John S., born April 27, 1864. died June 2. 1866. 5. Abraham Lincoln, born ,June 27, 1866, married Elemanda J. Crouthammel, and they have two children, Mamie, who was born and died in 1894. and Abram Warren, born October 20. 1896. 6. William Henry, born May 31, 1.868, died April 15, 1878. Abram F. Swartz was married (sec- ond) December 23. 1882. to Mary C. Swartz, a daughter of Andrew S. and Catharine B. (Cassel) Swartz. They have two children: Norman S., born Oc- tober 12, 1883. and Maurice S.. born De- cember 10, 1884. and died March 27, 1885. CHARLES BENJAMIN KRAUSE, of Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in Copenha.gen, Denmark, June i, 1834, ^"d is a son of Carl G. and Johanna (Brinkman) Krause, the former born March 8. 1803 aild the latter in August, 180S. Carl G. Krause was a manufacturer of cotton goods at Copenhagen. Believing that America offered better facilities for their manufacture, he came to Philadelphia ^^4^ £. % HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 68 1 in 1851 and engaged in the manufacture of carpets. Being joined there by his son, the subject of this sketch, in 1856, he left the business in -his charge and went on an ex- ploring expedition to the far west in 1857, crossing the plans from Kansas City, IMiss- ouri, to Colorado in a train of ox-teams, and proceeded as far as Pike's Peak. In 1859 he returned to Philadelphia and re- sumed the manufacture of carpets there, continuing to operate his mills until his death on May 5, 1879. Charles Benjamin Krause. the subject of this .sketch, was educated in Copenhagen and learned the trade of a weaver in all its branches. On January 27, 1855, he mar- ried, ■ at Copenhagen, Christina Berg, a native of Sweden, daughter of Nels And- ries and Christine (Osterfelt) Berg. Her father was born in 1780, four miles from Lond. Sweden, and died in 1843. He was an officer in the Swedish army, and fought ■under Napoleon at the battle of Leipsig and afterward was an officer vmder the Swedish government until his death in 1843. He was a son of Andries Berg, also an officer in the Swedish army, and had one brother, Ole. In 1856 Mr. Krause removed with his wife to Philadelphia and engaged in the weaving business. In 1863 he began the manufacture of carpets in that city, and is still extensively engaged in that business. In 1902 he erected a new factory and en- gaged in the business on a larger scale. He' removed to Doylestown, Bucks county, in 1885, where he still resides. He is a mem- ber of the LvTtheran church, and in politics is a' Republican. Charles Benjamin and Christine (Berg) Krause have been the parents of three children: Carl Benjamin, who died in infancy; Emma Christine, born in Philadelphia in 1862: and Carl Benjamin, Jr.. born in Philadelphia. November 2T. 1865. Emma Christine married Dr. Will- iam Brodie, born in Philadelphia in i860, son of Dr. Robert Brodie, a druggist at Twentieth and Callowhill streets. Dr. Will- iam Brodie graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1878, and began the prac- tice of medicine at Pineville. Bucks county, removing later to Forest Grove. Bucking- Iiam township, where he practiced until his death, September 2. 1898. His widow re- sides with her father at Doylestown. They were the parents of three children. Emma K.. born February 4. 1880; Carl Benjamin, born February i, 1882; and Christine Sar- ah, born November 9, 1885. Emma K. Brodie married Charles Sponsler. and re- sides in Washington, D. C. Carl Benja- min Brodie is an employee of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, and also resides in Washington. Carl B. Krause. Jr.. only son of the sub- ject of this sketch, born in Philadelphia, November 21, 1865. was educated at the Friends' School at Fifteenth and Green streets, and at Pierce's Business College. After the completion of his education he assisted his father in the carpet manufactur- ing business, and later became a partner under the firm name of Charles B. Krause & Son. He resided for a time in Doyles- town township, where he had charge of a farm owned by his father, but in 1902 rt- turned to Philadelphia, and now has charge of the business at the new factory. He married, September 21, 1887, Pauline Priz- endense, daughter of Jacob Prizendense, of Hilltown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of four children : Carl Benjamin. Jacob Frederick, Anna Christine and Christine Helen. SAMUEL SCHAFFER. A list of the experienced and successful farmers of Bucks county would be incomplete without the name of Samuel Schaffer. Mr. Schaffer is a representative of that large and force- ful German element which includes so large a number of the best citizens of Pennsyl- vania. Conrad Schaffer was born in i8or in South Germany, and at the age of thirty emigrated to the United States. After liv- ing for a while in Philadelphia he found himself, by reason of the great financial de- pression which then prevailed throughout the country, out of employment, and so left the city, thinking that in the country his chances might be better. He walked as far as The Turk, an inn in Bucks county, where he was given food and lodging for the night. The next day he walked to Hilltown, and there obtained work at his trade, which was that of a mason. After a few weeks he went to New Britain, where he also worked ai his trade, and as he was known to be an industrious and thrifty man he was offered a small farm, which he bought without a dollar, giving notes on small payments. He then sent for his wife, whom he had left in Philadelphia, and they set- tled on the farm. By his skillful manage- H'ent of the property, together with close application to his trade, he was enabled in a lew years to pay tU the notes and to be- come the possessor of an unincumbered estate. He and his wife were the parents of one child, Samuel, mentioned at length hereinafter. This worthy couple were loved and respected during their lives, and when they died were sincerely mourned. Mrs. Schaffer before her marriage was Sarah Schmidt, and was, like her husband, a na- tive of Germany. Samuel Schaffer, son of Conrad and Sarah (Schmidt) Schaffer, was born Au- gust II, 1834, in Kew Britain township, where his boyhood and youth were spent in assisting his father in the labors of the farm. He succeeded in time to the owner- ship of the homestead, and has for many years led the happy uneventful life of a prosperous farmer. His time has been spent in cultivating his paternal acres in the best manner, in reaping the results of his labors, and in discharging the duties of" a good citizen. In politics he is a Democrat. He and his family are members of the dial- 682 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. font Lutheran church. Mr. Schaffer mar- ried Katie, daughter of Leonard and Peggy (Rockwood) Felty, of Montgomery county, and their children are : Annie M., who was born March 19, 1875 ; and Frank L., born August 28, 1877, who married Katie, daughter of John Rumler; they have one child, Samuel J. HENRY STACKHOUSE, born March 12, 1862, in the house which he yet occupies, represents one of the old families of Bucks county, and the farm which he owns and operates came by purchase into possession of his great- grandfather, Stephen Stackhouse, who was born August 12, 1761. After arriv- ing at years of maturity he purchased what has since been known as the old family homestead, and to its develop- ment and improvement he gave his at- tention throughout his remaining days. He also followed the weaver's trade, do- ing considerable business for people of the neighborhood at a time when much of the weaving was done by the hand loom. He was married September 15, 1784, to Amy Van Dycke, who died Sep- tember 20, 1804. Their children were: Sarah, born February 10, 1785; John, February 18, 1787; Mary, October 14, 1788; James R., November 21, 1790; Stephen, April 9, 1793; Samuel, born No- vember 28, 1794; Ann, January 30, 1797; Amy, October 9, 1799; and Elizabeth, born March 19, 1802, died in 1901, aged ninety-nine years and six months. James R. Stackhouse, second son of Stephen Stackhouse, was bojn in Bucks county, November 21, 1790. In his early childhood his parents removed to the farm w'hich is now occupied by Henry Stackhouse. He, too, learned the weav- er's trade and followed that pursuit in connection with farming throughout his active life. He was married on the 27th of April, 1815, to Martha Watson, and they had four children: Miles W., born March 6, i8t6: Mary Ann, December 25, 1818: Henry W., September 25, 1821; and Jacob W., September. 30, 1826. Henry W. Stackhouse, son of James R. Stackhouse, was a native of Falls township, and throughout his business career followed farming, giving his time and attention to the cultivation and im- provement of the home property until 1890, when he retired from its manage- ment. However, he continued to reside on the old homestead until his death, which occurred July 8, 1891. He was married twice. On the nth of Novem- ber, 1847, he wedded Mary SaV terthwaite, who died June 27, 1851. On the 24th of March, 1859, he married Ann Satterthwaite, and they had four chil- dren: Elizabeth S., February 23, i860; Henry. March 12. 1862; Tacie. January IS, 1865; and Mary, April 12, 1869. Henry Stackhouse, only son of Henry W. and Ann (Satterthwaite) Stackhouse^ occupying the ancestral farm, is ac- counted one of the leading agriculturists of his community. He obtained a public school education, and assisted his father in the operation of the farm until the latter's retirement, when he assumed the management of the home place, which he has since conducted. He purchased this property in 1894, ^rid it has now through four generations been in the family. Possessing good business abil- ity and laudable ambition to utilize hi* - farming interests to the best advantage, he has year by year acquired therefron^ a comfortable competence. On the 27th of September, 1893, Mr. Stackhouse mar- ried Miss Anna L. Tomlinson, a daugh- ter of Francis and Emily A. Tomlinson, and they have one child, Emily A., borrk September 9, 1899. HENRY S. SHELLY. The descen- dant of a race of farmers, and himself a successful agriculturist, is Henry S. Shelly, of Levin. Mr. Shelly is a grand- son of Michael Shelly, a native of Le- high county, Pennsylvania, wdio was a hfelong farmer and a good citizen. His children were: Henry S. ; Samuel M., mentioned at length hereinafter; Chris- tian; Barbara; and Elizabeth. Samuel M. Shelly, son of Michael Shelly, was born December 6, 1796, in Milford township, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. For many years he cultivated his own farm in his native township, but finally sold it and moved to Plumstead township, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Mennonite church, in wdiich for many years ne held the office of deacon, and also served as treasurer. He married Catharine Strunk, who was born January 29, 1797, the marriage tak- ing place March 2, 1819. The following children were born to them: Elizabeth, Barbara, Thomas, Charles, Samuel and Henry S., mentioned at length herein- after. The death of Mrs. Shelly, the mother of the family, occurred when she had reached the age of seventy-two years, eight months and eighteen days. Her husband survived her but a few years, passing away December 25, 1873. aged seventy-seven years. None stood higher in the esteem of their neighbors than did this truly worthy and estimable couple. Henry S. Shelly, son of Samuel M. and Catharine (Strunk) Shelly, was born De- cember 25. 1837, in Milford township, where he was educated in the public schools. Until attaining his majority he assisted his father in the cultivation of the homestead acres, and subsequently settled in Plumstead township. After a brief sojourn there he moved to Buck- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 683 ingham township, where he remained five years. In 1873 he purchased the farm in New Britain township which was ever afterward his home. True to the traditions of his faniily, he followed the calling of a farmer, and in thus treading in the footsteps of his ancestors was ex- ceptionally successful. He was a Repub- lican in politics, and in matters of re- ligion adhered to the belief of his father, being a deacon in the Deep Run Men- nonite church. Mr. Shelly married, De- cember 25, 1862, Mary, born April 10, 1844, daughter of Jacob M. and Sarah (Bishop) Leatherman, and thej' have three children: Sallie, who was born March 5, 1865; Jacob L., born December 24, 1866; and George W., born February 22, 1880. Henry S. Shelly died March 17, 1905. deeply regretted throughout the community. THOMAS BROWN BEAUMONT. One of the old families of Bucks county is represented by Thomas Brown Beau- mont, of Solebury township. Mr. Beau- mont is a great-grandson of John Beau- mont, who was the first owner of the fam- ily estate in Upper Makefield township. He purchased the land in 1743 from John, Thomas and Richard Penn, sons of William Penn. His son, John A., was born January 10, 1757, married Elizabeth Skillman, and died February 10, 1834. John A. Beaumont, son of John and Elizabeth (Skillman) Beaumont, men- tioned above, was born May 29, 1820, on the homestead in Upper Makefield town- ship, where he passed his entire life. He married Catherine Basso, and of their six children three survive: Edward, who is a merchant of Philadelphia, residing at Woodburn Station, Bucks county; Catherine, who is the wife of Isaac Van Pelt, of New Hope; and Thomas Brown, mentioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Beaumont died January 28, 1885. Thomas Brown Beaumont, son of John A. and Catherine (Basso) Beau- mont, was born May 16, 1856, in Upper Makefield township, where he attended the common schools. One year after his marriage he moved to a farm in Wrights- town township, near Pineville, which he cultivated as a tenant. At the end of a year he returned to Upper Makefield township, settling on the farm now owned by Edward M. Slack, but then the property of Mr. Beaumont's father. After remaining there four years he took charge of the home farm for his brother, William H. Beaumont, who had become by purchase the owner of the estate. Two years later he removed to Brownsburg, where for three years he was variously employed. In 1893 he bought his pres- ent farm in Solebury township, where he has since resided. The estate com- prises one hundred and sixty-eight acres. He is a member of New Hope Conclave, No. 578, Improved Order of Heptasophs^ and is a Democrat in politics. Mr. Beau- mont married, December 25, 1882, Alice, daughter of William B. and Sarah (Quick) Strj'ker, of Lambertville, New Jersey, and on the maternal side a great-great-granddaughter of John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Beaumont are the parents of three children: Addie,. who is the wife of George B. Carroll, of Trenton, New Jersey; John A., and Abraham Stryker, who reside at home. WILLIAM HENRY BROWN. Among the many highly cultivated and productive farms in the township of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is the one owned and operated by William H. Brown, the products of which are of excellent quality and find a ready sale in the nearby markets. William H. Brown was born in Flush- ing, Bensalem township, Bucks county^ January 28, i860, a son of William and Alice (Ramson) Brown, whose family consisted of eleven children, namely: I. Sarah, who became the wife of Jere- miah Spicer, and five children have been born to them: 2. George, who married Elizabeth Potts, and they are the parents of five children. 3. Ella, who became the wife of Nathan Austin, and mother of .hree children. 4. William Henry, men- tioned at length hereinafter. 5. Samuel, who married Louise Buckingham, and their faniily consists of two children. 6. Herbert, who married Catharine Mc- Dermitt, and five children ha^-e been born to them. 7. Anna, deceased. 8. Eliza- beth, who became the wife of Franklin Cadwaladej, and rhother of four children. .). Joseph, deceased. 10. Richard, de- ceased. II. Thomas, deceased. The men whom their daughters married were all prosperous farmers, residents of Bucks county. William H. Brown attended the com- mon schools of his native village, Flush- ing, and his boyhood days were spent in obtaining a thorough knowledge of the various details of farm life, assisting his father on the old homestead, and this line of work he has followed continuously ever since, deriving a goodly income therefrom. He is the owner of fifty-four acres of land, of which he is justly proud. On November 23, 1879, Mr. Brown married Rachel Buckingham, of New Castle, Delaware, and they are the pa- rents of one child, Ira Coan, born De- cember 9. t886. who was educated at Holland, Eddington and Bristol, and is now assisting his father on the farm. Mrs. Brown is a daughter of John and Catharine (Holland) Buckingham, of Newark. Delaware, and a granddaughter of Abel and Louise (Lincoln) Holland, on the maternal side, and of Richard and 684 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Mary (Chambers) Buckingham, on the paternal side. These ancestors were ac- tive business men, respected in the com- munities in which they lived. Louise (Lincoln) Holland was a first cousin of Abraham Lincoln, the martyred presi- dent. John Buckingham (father) was an architect and builder, and was well and widely known in his profession and as a benevolent and kind-hearted citizen. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and his wife was a communicant •of the Protestant Episcopal church. His death occurred ]March 20, 1892, and his wife passed away November 10, 1890. They were beloved and respected by all. JAMES R. BUCKMAN. The Buck- man family is of English origin, and was established in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, by Abden Buckman, the grand- father of J. R. Buckman, who settled near Dolington. where he continued to follow farming throughout his remaining days, his death occurring in 1856. He was a member of the Society of Friends. In early manhood he wedded Sarah Har- vey, and their children were Samuel; Ellen, wife of Robert Longshore; Benja- min; and Margaret, wife of William Carr. Benjamin Buckman, son of Abden Buckman, was born in Dolington, Bucks county, in 1797. and received a liberal ■education, attending the common schools of this locality and a boarding school at Burlington, New Jersey. When he was but twenty years of age he began teach- ing in the latter state, and followed that profession for several years. After his marriage he purchased a farm in Evesam township, Burlington county,. New Jer- sey, where he spent his remaining days, conducting his agricultural interests in connection with the furtherance of many public enterprises. He was recognized as one of the leading and influential citi- zens of his community. In politics a stanch Republican, he held the office of assessor of his township for several years, and was likewise a justice of the peace and notary public. In 1856 he was elected surrogate of Burlington county for a term of five years, and about 1862 was appointed internal revenue col- lector of that county by President Lin- coln. He married IMiss Ann Dobbins, of New Jersey, and their only child was James R. For his second wife he chose Miss Keziah Peacock, and his death oc- curred in Burlington, New Jersey, on the 31st of August, 1870, when he was about seventy-three years of age. James R. Buckman was born at Mount Laurel, New Jersey, March 10, 1827. and stipplemented his preliminary educa- tional privileges afforded by the comrnon schools by study in the Friends boarding school at Bristol. He began life for him- self as a farmer, and in 1861 purchased the farm at Wrightstown, Bucks county, whereon he remained for sixteen years, successfully conducting agricultural pur- suits. On the expiration of that period he sold this property and removed to Smg Sing, New York, where he re- mained for seven years in the employ of the commissioners of the state, building a dam across the Croton river. In the spring of 1884 he returned to Bucks county, and for eight years had charge of the Presbyterian and Methodist Epis- copal church and also the Morrisville school as janitor. Since that time he has lived retired, enjoying a well earned rest, for his entire life has been charac- terized by unfaltering labor and dili- gence, and it is through this means that he gained the competence that now en- ables him to rest from further labor. He married Miss Mary Fort, a daughter of John and Alice Fort, of Penn ]Manor. IRA H. CORNELL. The grandfather of Ira H. Cornell was James C. Cornell, and he was born and reared in Bucks coun- ty. Pennsylvania, where he became one of the best farmers in this famous farming section. He married Judith Everett, by whom children were born as follows: Julia; Joseph; Elizabeth; Sarah; Hiram; John; Theodore ; Louisa. Hiram Cornell, son of James (i) was born in Holland, Northampton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in October. 1834. He followed farming during his en- tire life. He married Henrietta S. Fetter, daughter of Geo. C. Fetter. By this union one child was born, Ira H. Ira H. Cornell, son of Hiram and Hen- rietta (Fetter) Cornell, was born January 18. 1861. He obtained his education at Newton Academy and the State Normal School at Millersville. In early life lie be- gan farming, and has made that his life vocation, but has also become a popular auctioneer, and has "cried" nearly one hun- dred sales per year. Politically he is a Republican. He has held the office of school director for six years, and is now treasurer of the district. In 1887 he married Miss Anna, daughter of Mahlon Balderston. by whom two children were born : Edna B., February 16, 1890; and Raymond C. Sep- tember I, 1893. CHARLES HOWELL CARVER, a prominent business man of Falsington, is a lineal descendant of William Carver, who came from England in the ship "Samson" about the same time as John and Mary (Lane) Carver, of Byberry. William Car- ver married, November 14, 1689 (old style), at Middlctown monthly meeting of Friends. Joan .Kinsey. After her death he married in 1723 at Falls. Bucks countv. Pennsyl- vania. Grace Carter, a widow, whose HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 685 maiden name was Paxson, a native of Bris- tol. William Carver died at Byberry, Penn- sylvania, May, 1736. The line of descent from the pioneer ancestor is as follows : William, who married Elizabeth Walms- ley ; Joseph, who married ; John, who mar- ried Ann Carver; John, who married Mary Martindale; Adin, father of Charles H Carver, who was born January 4, 1830, near Buckingham, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. November 21, 1850, he married Sarah Howell, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Vansant) Howell. Charles H. Carver, the next in line of descent, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks count}', Pennsylvania, September 11, 185 1. He now owns and operates the Fal- sington Creamery, which separates milk from cream and pasteurizes milk for the Trenton market. As a citizen he has evei been alert, earnest and conscientious, keenly alive to everything which concerns in any way the well being of the town and county. January 9, 1873, Mr. Carver married Anna M. Bailey, a daughter of , George and Ann (Bailey) Bailey, and a graduate of Millers- ville State Normal School. Their children are as follows : Anna B., born November 9, 1873, graduated from \Vest Chester Nor- mal School, and July 26, 1893, became the wife of Charles T. Windle, son of David C. and Annie (Thomas) Windle ; residence Washington, D. C. Rachel B., born Jan- uary 22, 1876, a graduate from the Phila- delphia School of Design. Edward L., born December 30, 1878, died February 19, 1881. AARON CLYMER DETWEILER. One of the representative citizens of Quaker- town, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and a man who is held in high regard by his fellow townsmen and who takes an active interest in community afifairs, is Aaron Clymer Detweiler. Mr. Detweiler is the grandson of Jacob and Magdalena (Heist) Detweiler, whose son Henry was born on the home place in Upper Milford township, Lehigh county, April 24, 1817. Henry Detweiler was by occuoation a boot and shoemaker, but later relinquished his trade in order to follow farming. In 1845 he removed to Milford township, where he purchased a farm comprising seventy acres, which was formerly the Detweiler home- stead. November 10, 1839, he married Anna Clymer, daughter of Henry and Mary (Shaffer) C^aiier, and nine children were born to them, live sons, one of whom was Aaron C. (mentioned at length hereinafter), and four daughters. Aaron Clymer Detweiler, son of Henry and Anna (Clymer) Detweiler, was born August 6, 1842. on a farm then owned and cultivated by his father in Richland town- ship, on the road leading from Quakertown to Spinnerstown. He was afforded but a limited education, received in the district school, which he attended irregularly until his twenty-first year. In the meantime he was engaged in cigarmaking and assisted his father with the farm work. In 1866 Mr. Detweiler was married to Annie, daughter of John and Elizabeth Taylor, and settled at the home of his wife's parents, where he remained for one year, after which time he removed to the Detweiler farm, which he conducted on shares for his father. He remained there until 1886, when he re- moved to Quakertown and engaged in the butcher and provision business, with his brother, Mahlon, continuing for nine years. In 1899 he was engaged as janitor of the Central, or High School, of Quakertown, in which capacity he is still engaged, and the duties of which positPon he acquits with credit to himself and satisfaction to his employers. In politics Mr. Detweiler is a Democrat, and has always taken an active interest in the affairs of that party. He is a member of the Trinity Lutheran church of Quakertown. HARRY PAIST DO AN. For more than a century the family of which Harry Paist Doan is a representative has been resident in Upper Makefield township. The first settler in that region w^as Benjamin Doan, who in 1800 purchased a large tract of land within the limits of the township, paying for it twenty dollars an acre. His wife was Sarah Kirk. Amos Doan, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Kirk) Doan, was born December 8, 1817, on the homestead, of which, in the course of time, he became the owner. In 1889 he relinuqished the cares of an active life, and has since made his home with his chil- dren. He is now, at the age of eighty- seven, residing with his son, Harry Paist Doan. His wife was Eliza Paist, and their children are : Edward H., who is a practic- ing physician of Newtown ; Eleazer T., who lives in Upper Makefield township; Benjamin F., who is a resident of Wrights- town township ; and Harry Paist, mentioned at length hereinafter. These sons are of the seventh generation of Doans in Bucks county, and also of the seventh generation that owned the old homestead farm, which is still in the family. Harry Paist Doan, son of Amos and Eliza (Paist) Doan, was born November 3. 1857, on the old homestead, and was edu- cated in the common schools. For two years after his marriage he cultivated the farm for his father, and then took a western trip, going as far across the continent as Montana. After an absence of a year he returned and purchased the Roberts farm, consisting of sixty-seven acres, where he has since resided. He is a member of Newtown Lo4ge, No. 335, Knights of Pythias, and is a Republican in politics. Mr. Doan married, October 14, 1880. Eda, daughter of Harrison and Ella (Walton) Hellyer, deceased, of Upper Makefield township, and two childnen have been born to them : Elsie V.. deceased ; and Marcus P., who resides at home. 686 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. JOHN W. COOPER, a representative of Ihat class of men known as agriculturists whose energy, uprightness and progressive spirit make them valuable citizens of w'hat- ever community they cast their lot with, is a native of- Pineville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, born May i8, 1880, a son of Stephen K. and Ellen (Twining; Cooper. John W. Cooper was reared in his na- tive village and acquired a practical educa- tion in the John M. George school of New- town township and at Pierce's Business College, graduating from the latter insti- tution in 1899. Shortly afterward he came to Wrightstown township and assumed ■charge of the old home farm, which for many years was the home of his grand- father. Liking the occupation and being perfectly familiar with it, it was natural that he should select it for his life calling when the time came for him to act inde- pendently, and by his progressive methods and efficient management he has achieved a large degree of prosperity. Mr. Cooper was reared in the Friends' Meeting, but is not a member of any religious body. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Cooper married, October 15, 1902, Anna B. Fish, daughter of John T. Fish, of Falls town- ship, ex-registrar of wills, and a prominent retired business man. They are the parents of one child, Theresa Ellen, born October ^o, 1903. MILTON KLINE ERDMAN. Promi- nent among the business men of Quaker- town is Milton Kline Erdman, grandson of John Erdman, whose son George was born February 15, 1818, in Milford township, where he attended the common schools and learned the carpenter's trade. For many years he followed this trade in conjunction with the building business. He was also at one time an undertaker, and during the latter part of his life was engaged in busi- ness as a manufacturer of cigar boxes. He was thrice married, his second wife being Mary, daughter of Georp-e and Susan (Haustach) Kline, and a native of Bucks county. Mr. and Mrs. Erdman were the parents of a son and daughter : Milton K., mentioned at length hereinafter ; and Anna Maria, married Dr. E. K. Blank, of Hatfield, Montgomery county, and was the mother of two daughters — Jeanetta, who married and lives at Vinemont, Lancaster county; and Elisa. The death of Mrs. Blank, the mother, occurred in 1897. Milton Kline Erdman, son of George and Mary (Kline) Erdman, was T)orn January 14, 1850, on a farm in Milford township. When he was but a year old the family moved to Trumbauersville, where they re- mained until 1864, in which year they took vip their abode in Sellersville. While in Trumbauersville he attended a boarding school, and in 1867 went to Quakertown, having in that year graduated. In Quaker- town he entered the store of James Cress- man & Company, dealers in general mer- chandise. After remaining there one year he worked for a time with his father in the manufacture of cigar boxes, and in 1876 went to Pennsburg, where he engaged in mercantile business under the firm name of Hillegas & Erdman. The following year he sold his interest and returned to Quaker- town, where he became a hardware mer- chant, his place of business until 1895 being the store now occupied by Howard Stone- back. In the above-mentioned year he re- tired from that field of endeavor, having reaped its reward. His business had been from the first a thriving one, and he stood at the head of an extensive and flourish- ing trade. Since 1896 he has been engaged in the coal, feed and hay business. He is a member of the board of directors of the Building and Loan Association. Mr. Erdman is a good citizen, and has served the community as assessor, judge of elec- tion, inspector and delegate to the county convention. He is a member and past master of Quakertown Lodge, No. 512, F. and A. M., and also belongs to the Knights of Malta, of which order he is a charter mem- ber. His political affiliations are with the Democrats. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church, in which for thirty- three years he has held the position of organist. Mr. Erdman married, November 14, 1873, Mary Elizabeth Springer, and they are the parents of one son, George Fred- erick, who was born December 26, 1876, and received his preparatory education in Quakertown, subsequently entering Muhlen- berg College, from which he graduated in 1898. He is now engaged in the printing business in AUentown, and married, July 30, 1899, Mame, daughter of James Grader. Mrs. Erdman is a great-granddaughter of John Springer, a farmer, whose son George was born January 18, 1786, and was a resi- dent of Bucks county, where he was en- gaged in general milling and building. He married Katherine, daughter of George Trollinger. who was the proprietor of a hotel in Trollinger's lane, now Carpenter Street, Germantown, Philadelphia. The marriage took place October 11, 1807, and the following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Springer : i. Enos, born July 29, 1809, died unmarried. 2. Sophia, born No- vember 3, 1812, married Amos Jacoby, of Sellersville, w'here their son, Enos Jacob, now lives. 3. John, mentioned at length hereinafter. 4. One who died in infancy. 5. Simon, born June 12, 1817. died. 6. Maria, born April 29, 1819, married Daniel Althouse. Mr. Springer, the father, died June 3, 18 — . John Springer, son of George and Kath- erine (Trollinger) Springer, was born Oc- tober 9, 1815. a few miles from Sellersville. He attended the subscription school, and then learned the wheelwright's trade. He was a resident of Rockhill township, where he was much respected. He married, Octo- ber 18, 1846, Hannah, daughter of Henry HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 687 and Elizabeth (Harwick) Snycler, and they were the parents of the following children : I. Elenora, born September 5, 1847, mar- ried William Smith, of Philadelphia. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born August 27, 1849, at- tended the common schools, and remained at home until her marr-iage to Milton Kline Erdman, mentioned above. 3. Alfred, born September 27, 1851, married Kate Eilen- berger, of Stroudsburg. 4. Anna Catherine, born February 14, 1853, married Milton G. Erney, a cigar manufacturer. 5. Died in infancy. 6. Sallie Amelia, born December ■8, i8b6, married Orlando Bach Sellers, then of Sellersville, now railroad agent at Perkasie. MOSES HARVEY IVINS, one of the •enterprising citizens of Langhorne Manor, whose success in life has been mainly due to his own .exertions and business qualifica- tions, is a lineal descendant of Isaac Ivins, a native of England, who left his native land about 1700 to seek a home in the new world. He located in Mansfield, Burling- ton county. New Jersey, where he estab- lished a country store from which he de- rived a comfortable livelihood for his fam- ily, which consisted of his wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Johnson, and ten children. His death occurred July 19, 1768. Aaron Ivins, son of Isaac and Sarah (John- son) Ivins, married Ann Cheshire, and among their children was a son Aaron, who was united in marriage to Hope Aronson, and they in turn were the parents of a son Edward Aronson, who married Annie Brown. Moses Harvey Ivins, son of Edward Aranson and Annie (Brown) Ivins, was born in Falls township, Bucks county, March 15, 1862. He attended the public schools adjacent to his home, the Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, and Ryder & Stewart's Business College of Trenton. New Jersey. The early years of his life were spent on his father's farm, whereon he remained until 1890, w^hen he engaged in the various branches of seed farming on his own account. He pursued this line of work successfully for eleven years, in Falls township, after which he disposed of it and since then has been engaged in various iinancial undertakings of a public and bene- ficial nature. Mr. Ivins takes a keen in- terest in all that pertains to the welfare of the community in which he resides, and the esteem in which he is held is evidenced by the fact that he was chosen a member of the borough council. He adheres to the tenets of the Friends' faith, and his politi- can affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of Bristol Lodge. . No. 25, A. Y. F. and A. M., of which body he is past master. He is eligible to membership in the Sons of the Revolution through General Jacob Brown, of Bucks ■county. His wife is a member of the Dela- ware County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution through Second Lieutenant Cornelius Vansant. On April 8, 1890, Mr. Ivins married Sarah Buckman Parsons, of Falls town- ship, daughter of Charles xA.nderson and ]\Iary (Buckman) Parsons, and grand- daughter on the paternal side of Isaac and Lydia (Anderson) Parsons, the latter named dying at the age of one hundred years and one day. On the maternal side she is a granddaughter of Spencer Worthington and Sarah (Williamson) Buckman, and great- granddaughter of Mahlon and Charity (Vansant) Williamson. Their children are : Margaret Parsons, born March 29, 1891 ; Maurice Harvey, born April 18, 1896; Ralph Stanley and Alice Loraine (twins), born March 27, 1898. These children are being educated by a private tutor and in the public schools of Langhorne Manor. EDWIN K. HALDEMAN, one of the most popular men in the community in which he lives is Edwin K. Haldeman, ol Chalfont. He is a great-grandson of Chris- tian Haldeman, one of three brothers who emigrated from Germany in quest of homes across the sea. Christian setiled in War- rington township, where many of his de- scendants still reside. Daniel Haldeman, son of Christian Haldeman, was born in 1799, on the Halde- man homestead, situated on Pickerton road, in Warrington township. This estate, which has now passed out of the possession of the family, has many interesting relics of past times, among them a corn-crib which was built one hundred and fifty years ago but is still in use and in a good state of preserva- tion. Mr. Haldeman spent his life in agricul- tural pursuits. He was a public-spirited citizen and a stanch Republican. His church membership w^as with the Mennonite society in Doylestown. He married Magda- line Myers, and among their children was a son Charles, mentioned at length herein- after. Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman closed their long and useful lives rich in the love and respect of all who knew them. (iharles Haldeman, son of Daniel and Magdaline (Myers) Haldeman, married Mary, who was born August 31, 1826, in New Britain township, daughter of Simion Kratz. Their children were : i. Sarah Ann, who married Henry M., son of William Fretz, of Tinicum. 2. Daniel, who married Ella, daughter of Christian Haldeman, and had three children, Edgar, Florence and Daniel. 3. Emma, who became the wife of Abraham G., son of Noah Ruth, of New Britain, and died in March, 1888, leaving one child, Mary H. 4. Edwin K., mentioned at length hereinafter. 5. William, who is deceased. Edwin K. Haldeman, son of Charles and Mary (Kratz) Haldeman. was born May 11, 1862, in Warrington township, and on Octo- ber 12, 1893, entered the service of Abra- 688 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. ham M. Moyer in order to learn the l)usi- ness of a butcher. In tlie spring of i8yt), after becoming thoroughly prohcieni, he purchased Mr. Moyer's business, iiiciuwiiig residence and buildings, and carries on a brisk trade both in the town and in the surrounding country. His fellow-citizens have evinced their regard for him by choos- ing him to till the olhce of school director for three years. Politically he is a Re- publican. He is a member of the New Brilani Baptist church. Mr. Haldeman married January i, 1887, Emma J., daugh- ter of Albert D. Wilgus, of Warrington township. Mrs. Haldeman died April 6, 1893. leaving one child, Mabel W. Mr. Haldeman afterward married Bertha, daughter of Harry F. and Mary Jacoby, and they have two children : Mary Mildred, born April 25, 1900; and Charles Herbert, born -September 26, 1902. WILLIAM W. YARDLEY was de- scended from one of the most prominent early families of Pennsylvania, his ancestors having been contemporaries with William Penn and active in the material, educational and moral upbuilding of the colony. He was of the fifth generation of the family in America, and traced his ancestry back in direct line to Thomas Yardley, his great- great-grandfather, who was a native of England, whence he emigrated to America in 1704, settling in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania. He purchased the tract of land upon which William W. Yardley w^as born, lived and died, and it is still in possession of the family. Among his ten children was : (II) William Yardley, who married Sarah Kirkbride, a daughter of Mahlon and Mary Kirkbride, on the 31st of March, 1756. (HI) Mahlon Yardley, son of William and Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, wedded Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John and Anna Winfield Brown,. April 6, 1787. They had eight children, including (IV) Charles Yardley, who was born September 4, 1802, and was married March 25, 1830, to Mary Anna Warner. They had five children : Willis, Franklin, Robert Winfield, Edwin and William W. (V) William W. Yardley was born Sep- tember 26, 1841, at the old family home- stead in the borough of Yardley. A part of the house was built by his grandfather, Mahlon Yardley, about 1790, although it has been enlarged and improved since that date, and is now a modern, commodious and attractive residence. Here William Yardley devoted his entire attention to his home and family, giving little time to out- side affairs. He followed agricultural pur- suits with good success, and was thus en- abled to provide comfortably for his wife and children. He had not yet, however, completed a half century when he was called to his final rest, September 14, 1890. On the 30th of August, 1877, William Yard- ley was married to Aliss Mary D. Baily, a daughter of Samuel H. and Maria Baily, 'and they became the parents of five chil- dren : Anna W., born August 4, 1878, died June 14, 1903 ; George W., born November 5, 1879, who was educated in the Yardley high school and trained on the school-ship "Saratoga," being now second ofiicer on the transport "Sheridan," running between Manila and San Francisco; Lillian B., born October 21, 1880; Elma, born February 27, 1883, and was married September 2, 1903, to R. Irving Tobey, general manager of the Cold Springs Bleachmg Company of Yard- ley; and Mary A., born January 3, 1884. EDWARD INSINGER, the proprietor of the Continental Hotel at Yardley, des* cends from a Swiss family. His father, Albert Insinger, emigrated from Switzer- land to America about 1840, accompanied by his wife and three children, settling in Philadelphia. By trade he was an engraver of designs for printing calico, having learned that business in his native land. After reaching the new world he began work on Third and Greene streets in Phila- delphia, making engravings for bedsteads, and occupied that position for about four or five years. He then removed to German- town, where he engaged in the carriage painting business until 1869, after which he began the manufacture of carriages on ^lis own account in that city. He succeeded in developing a profitable enterprise, owing to the excellence of his output, and con- tinued in the trade until his death, which occurred in 1875. His business career was marked by steady progression, for he had little capital when he came to America, and at his death was the possessor of a very comfortable competence. He belonged to the German Red Men of Germantown, in which he filled all the offices. While liv- ing in Philadelphia he served as a commis- sioned officer in the state militia. His wife bore the maiden name of Margaretta Brun- er, and they were the parents of seven chil- dren, three of whom were born in Switzer- land— Lena, the eldest, is the wife of Martin Craig ; Albert enlisted for service in the civil war, and for three years and three months was a member of Company E, Ninety-fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Vol- . unteers ; Sophia, is the wife of Alford Lans- dale; Alford is a machinist at Wayne Junction. Germantown, and is now acting as general manager of the Insinger Manu- facturing Company; Edward is the next of the family; Emile is a carriage builder in Germantown ; Clara P. is the wife of Xaier Harte. Edward Insinger, whose name introduces this record, was born in Germantown, Penn- sylvania, September 3, 1852, and acquired a common-school education. In early life he learned the trades of carriage building and blacksmithing wMth his father, and W'as thus employed for about six years,- after &cu4>ct^/ii;q HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 697 in Statham, New Hampshire, February 10, 1758, daughter of John and Martha Fol- som, by whom he had four children, all born in New Hampshire. His wife died August 3, 1784. While principal of the young ladies' academy in Philadelphia he married one of his pupils, Jane Neely, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Thompson) Neely, of Solebury, Bucks <:ounty, Pennsylvania, where she was born in March, 1767. Her grandfather, Robert Thompson, was one of the four brothers who with their widowed mother, Elizabeth (McGraudy) Thompson, and her brother, McGraudy, settled on the Neshaminy, in Warwick and Northampton early in the seventeenth century. They were Scotch- Irish Presbyterians, and pillars of the churches of that denomination at Nesha- miny and elsewhere. Robert, the youngest of the brothers, married in 1747-8, Hannah (Delaplaine) Simpson, born 3mo. 4, 1714, widow of John Simpson, of Solebury, and daughter of Jane and Hannah (Cock) De la Plaine, and granddaughter of Nicholas De la Plaine, a native of France, who came to New York from Holland, where he had married Susanna Cresson, daughter of Pierre Cresson, also a native of France, who had married in Holland, Rachel Claes, and later emigrated to America with his family and that of Nicholas De la Plaine and settled on Staten Island. Susanna (Cresson) De la Plaine was born at Rys- wick, Holland. Robert Thompson was one of the founders of the Presbyterian church of Lower Solebury, now known as the Thompson Memorial church in his honor, and of which he was for many years a rul- ing elder. He died in 1804 at a very ad- vanced age. The only child of Robert and Elizabeth (De la Plaine-Simpson) Thomp- son was Elizabeth, born iimo. 29, 1748-9, who married William Neeley. The later was also an elder of Solebury Presbyterian church. He died July 10, 1818, at the age of seventy-six years, and his wife Eliza- beth on February 15, 1834, i" I'ler eighty- sixth year. In 1809 John Poore left Philadelphia and settled in Solebury, where he taught school for a number of years. In 1815 his family and others erected for him an academy building, still standing in New Hope, where he conducted a select school for young la- dies for several years. His wife, Jane Neely, died on May 15, 1827, and he then removed to York Haven, York county, Pennsylvania, and resided with his son, Charles M. Poore, until his death on De- cember 5, 1829, and is interred at Liver- pool, York county, Pennsylvania. He was also in his earlier years a teacher of vocal music and was an accomplished linguist. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and assisted in establishing the first Sabbath schools in Philadelphia in 1791, and taught one on Cherry street in that year. He was a rul- ing elder of the Presbyterian church during his residence in Solebury. By his first wife, Sarah Folsom, he had four children, John Folsom, George, Charles Merrill, and Ann, who married Rev. Alfred Metcalf and lived and died in New Hampshire. Three sons all became prominent merchants in Baltimore, Maryland. John died there unmarried in 1858. George and Charles Merrill were in partnership in Baltimore until 1812, when they removed to York Haven, York county, Pennsylvania, where George died in 1821, and Charles M. in 1832, the children of the former settling in Ohio, and of the latter in New Jersey. The children of John and Jane (Neely) Poore, were : Daniel, born October 12, 1793, died April 12, 1888; Jane Neely, born March 16. 1796, married (first) January, 1832, Charles H. Boss, of New Jersey, who died September, 1835, and (second) in 1852, Josiah Hart, who died in 1864 ; and Hannah Delaplaine Poor, born February TQ. 1799. married Solomon H. Opdycke, of New Jersey. Daniel Poore, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the eldest son of Profes- sor John Poore by his second marriage with Jane Neely, and was , born in Solebury township. October 12, 1793, and spent his whole life in that and the adjoining town- ship of Upper Makefield. By the will of his grandfather, William Neely, probated in t8i8, he was devised a small farm in the latter township, near Buckmanville, where . he died April 12, 1888. He was for many years a justice of the peace, and acted as a surveyor and conveyancer in his younger days, and did a large amount of official and public business. He married. May 2, 181 5, Maria Merrick, born in Upper Make- field township, April 23, 1798, daughter of Robert and Hannah (McMasters) Merrick, of Upper Makefield, whose ancestors had been residents of Makefield for many gen- erations ; they were descendants of John Merrick, a native of Herefordshire, Eng- land, who came to America about 1699 and settled in Lower Dublin township, Phila- delphia county, where he died in 1732. He married, in 1702, Eleanor Smith, and his eldest son John, who married Hannah Hulme, settled in Bucks county, and is the ancestor of the Makefield Merricks. The children of Daniel and Maria (Merrick) Poore were as follows: i. Eliza Thompson, born September 17, 1816, died April 25, 1863 : married September 18, 1837. George F. Smith, son of Thomas and Sarah Smith, of Fallsington. 2. Martha Merrick, born in New Hope, Bucks county, February 18, 1817, died in Nockamixon township. May 2, 1902; married Brice M. Pursell. (See Pur- cell family in this work.) 3. Robert Alpheus, born December 15, 1829. — See for- ward. 4. John Thaddeus, twin brother of Robert Alpheus. still lives on and owns the farm on which he was born in LTpper Make- field. He married, February 20, 1861, Mar- tha Rachel Lefferts. daughter of Elias and Margaret (Search) Lefferts. of North- ampton township, and took charge of the home farm and continued to conduct it and care for his aged parents until their death. 698 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. later acquiring title thereto. He is an ac- tive and prominent man in the community, and served as county commissioner for the term 1896-1899, and has filled many local posticus of trust. He has three sons, Aug- ustus P., of Doylestown; Elias L., and James W. Robert Alpheus Poore was born and reared in Upper Makefield township, Bucks county. He engaged in farming in his native township for many years, and on ]\Iarch 14, 1866, was appointed assistant station agent for the Pennsjdvania Rail- road Company, at Riegelsville, New Jer- sey, he at that time residing in Bridgeton, now Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania. In 1872 he was advanced ^to the position of station^ agent and remained with them until January i, 1900, when at the age of seventy years he was retired, having been in their service for thirty-four years. He is now living a retired life at Riegelsville, whither he removed from Bridgeton as soon as a suitable home was procured for his family. He married, December 14, 1854, Hannah Bennett, daughter of John and Abi (Doane) Bennett, who was born in Upper Makefield, December 4, 1833, and they were the parents of nine children, four of whom died in childhood — Those who sur- vive are, William Wallace Trego Poore, of Rutlege, Delaware county, Pennsylvania ; Olivia, wife of S. O. Bachman, of Riegels- ville; INIartha Merrick, widow of Rev. J. C. Leimbach, residing in Riegelsville; John B., the subject of this sketch; and Mary Bertha, residing at home. Mrs. Poore died in January, 1901. John B. Poore, was born in Nock- aniixon township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, May 6, 1867. He was educated at the public schools and at the age of four- teen years entered the railroad office to assist his father, and remained with the Railroad Company for five years. He then entered the employ of Cooper & Hewitt, proprietors of Durham furnace, as book- keeper, and filled that position for fourteen years. In the spring of tgoo he formed a partnership with Henry Sigafoos, in the hard wood lumber business, with offices at Riegelsville, Pennsylvania. The firm has since done a large and profitable business. In the fall of 1904, Mr. Poore was elected on the Republican ticket to the office of county treasurer, and entered upon his duties the following January. He has been active in the councils of his party for sev- eral years, and is well and favorable known in all parts of the county. Mr. Poore married, on June 7, 1893, Annie Josephine Adams, daughter of Will- iam F. and Emily (Hunt) Adams, of Riegelsville, the former a native of New York state, and the latter of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Poore are the parents of three children, viz: Dorothy Adams, liorn March 18, 1894; Donald Norris, born Sep- tember 25. 1S95 ; and John B., Jr., born January 25, 1904. WILLIAM H. WHITE. The White family, represented in the present genera- tion by William H. White, of Feasterviile, traces its ancestry to George and Mary White, whose family consisted of two chil- dren, namely: Thomas and William. Thomas White, son of George and Mary White, was born July 22, 1797, and died August 26, 1889; His wife, Jane (Krewson) While, born September 8, 1793, died July ;20, 1859, daughter of Garrett and Jane Krewson, bore him the following named children: George, born January 15, 1819, died October 24, 1895, mentioned herein- after. Elizabeth, born March 8, 1823, be- came the wife of John Gifford, and their family consisted of three children : Warner,. George, and Elizabeth. Henry, born Sep- tember 30, 1825, married Anna Lefferts, who bore him two children : George and Eliza- beth. Jonathan, born July 3, 1827, married Rachel Mayurm, and they are the parents of four children: Elizabeth, William T., Ida, and Mary F. Christopher, born No- vember 15, 1834, married Elizabeth Mc- Vaugh, who bore him one child: Lydia. George White, son of Thomas and Jane (Krewson) White, was born January 15, 1819, on the old Krewson farm near South- ampton village, which belonged to his grandfather on the maternal side. Emily (Margurm) White, his wife, whom he mar- ried October 28, 1841, was born April 30, 1821, and she bore him the following named children: Rebecca Jane, born November 16, 1842, died November 28, 1870; she mar- ried September 4, 1862, Louis Ashton, who died September 28, 1866 ; they were the pa- rents of one child, Emily, born July 19, 1863. Rachel, born April 25, 1846, married December 15, 1864, Theodore Hogeland, who died December 14, 1868; their chil- dren are : Elizabeth, born May 27, 1865, married, January 19, 1887, Howard Lefferts, and two children were the issue of this union : Theodore, born January 8, 1891, and Helen, born in October, 1897. Emily W., born November 23, 1866. George W., born January 22, 1868, died June 17, 1869. Will- iam H., mentioned at length hereinafter. George White, father of these children, died October 24, 1895, and his wi-fe passed away September 28, 1893. William H. White, son of George and Emily (Margurm) White, was born on the old Benson farm at Davisville, Southampton township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, No- vember 4, 1853. He was reared in Bucks county, receiving his education in local schools. At an early age he went to farm- ing with his father, with whom he remained until 1881, when he moved to Northampton, where, however, he only remained one year, returning thtn to Southampton township. He rented a tract of land consisting of eighty-five acres known as the Delaney farm, now owiied by John D. Landis, from whom he now rents it. He makes a specialty of dairying and the raising of fine cattle, from which he derives a goodly profit. In politics he is a Democrat, and in HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, 699 religion a Baptist, attending the old school church at Southampton township. On Octo- ber II, 1876, Mr. White was united in mar- riage to Rachel M. Tomlinson, who was born August 20, 1855, daughter of Henry and Mary Tomlinson. Their children are : George, born July 29, 1878, who married Emma P. Dolton, daughter of Richard Dol- ton, September 20, 1901 ; W. Harry, born April 15, 1889. WILLIAM PENROSE. Pennsylvania owes an inestimable debt of gratitude to those English Friends who were among the tirst settlers of the province. Will- iam Penrose, of Quakertown, is a de- scendant of one of these pioneers, who brought to their home in the New World principles which they not only professed but practiced, and which have thus been a lasting and powerful mtluence for good in the province of Penn. Robert Penrose (i), son of Robert and Jane Penrose, was born in York- shire, England, moved to Ireland in 1669, and married Anna Russell, by whom he was the father of three chil- dren. His son, Robert Penrose (2), was born in 1670 in Blackane, married Mary Clayton in 1695, and had thirteen chil- dren. With part of his family he came in 1717 to Pennsylvania. His son Rob- ert Penrose (3), who was born in 1697, came to America after his father, and about 1731 married Mary Heacock. They were the parents of eleven children, one of whom, John Penrose (4), was born in 1740, in Richland township, mar- ried Anna Roberts in 1764, and died in 1813. He was the father of ten children. The ninth son, Evan Penrose (5), born in 1782, married Rebecca Ball, and the following children were born to them: Jane; Aaron (deceased); Evan, men- tioned at length hereinafter; and Mar- garet, who became the wife of Eli W. Strawn. Evan Penrose (6). son of Evan (5) and Rebecca (Ball) Penrose, was born May 8, 1813, on the homestead in Rich- land township, attended the subscrip- tion schools of his birthplace, and after- ward became a pupil in the school taught by Richard Hoopes, of West Chester. He then learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for some time, but the greater part of his life was devoted to the management of the homestead. •He was a Republican in politics, but never took an active part in the affairs of the organization. By birthright he was a member of Friends' meeting, but was not {:)rominentl3' identified with the so- ciety. Mr. Penrose married. March 20, 1851, Anna Roberts, daughter of George and Anna (Penrose) Hicks, born No- vember 28, 1817. The famihr of Mr. and Mrs. Penrose consisted of the following children: i. Charles Robert, born March 10, 1853, died December 27, 1877. 2. Mary Jane, born March 7, 1856, married, in 1877, William, son of William and Sarah (Gofman) McDevitt, of Philadelphia. 3 and 4. Evan EUwood and George How- ard (twins), born October 22, 1857; the former died April 5, 1858, and the latter August 17, same year. 5. William, men- tioned at length hereinafter. Mr. Pen- rose, the father, retired from the active labors of the farm in 1884, and his death occurred December 24, 1888. The mother of the family expired January 29, 1903^ at the advanced age of eighty-five. William Penrose (7), son of Evan (6) and Anna Roberts (Hicks) Penrose, was born September 16, 1861, on the homestead in Richland township, and received his primary education in a school held under the auspices of the Friends' meeting and presided over by Anna Blakey. Later he became a pupil in a public school, and afterward at- tended the Quakertown high school un- til his seventeenth year. He then became- the assistant of his father on the home farm. For many years he was the owner of this estate, which for more than a century was the property of the Penrose family, and proved himself an able, ener- getic and successful farmer. In 1901 he sold the estate and took up his abode in Quakertown. In politics he is a Repub- lican, but has always refused to hold of- fice, preferring to devote his time to the cultivation of his farm. He is a mem- ber of the Reformed church of Quak- ertown. Mr. Penrose married, in 1886, Jennie Trumbauer, and they are the parents of the following children: i. John Evan,^ born May 26, 1888, and attended the Quakertown public schools. 2. Henry Speakman. born September 13, 1895. 3. Annie Elizabeth, born October 11, 1899. 4. Alfred, born October 29, 1903. Mrs. Penrose is a granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Baum) Trumbauer, whose son John was born in 1808, in Richland township, attended the sub- scription schools, learned the shoemak- er's trade, and later engaged in farming. He was a member of the Lutheran church at Trumbauersville, in which he served as elder and deacon. Mr. Trum- bauer married, in 1843, Lydia B. Scholl, daughter of Michael and Lydia (Dono- hue) Scholl. the former a farmer near Telford, and their children were: i. Henry S., born in 1845, is a carpenter at Fairview, and married May Stoneback, of Richland township. 2. Milton, born in 1848, is unmarried, and lives on the homestead. 3- Michael S., born in 1850, lives in Quakertown, and married Eliza Moyer, oi Milford township. 4. Levi S.,. born in 1853, is a farmer and unmarried. 5. Lydia Ann, born in 1855, and became the wife of Gideon Groff, of Trum- bauersville. 6. Mary Elizabeth, born in 1859. and married Nathaniel Keely, of East Greenville, Montgomery county. 7. yoo HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Jennie, who became the wife of William Penrose, as mentioned above. Mr. Trumbauer, the father of the family, died February 2, 1898, having attained to the great age of ninety years. JOHN ALBERT OZIAS. Tlie Ozias family, of which John Albert Ozias is a rep- resentative, was established in America by Christopher Ozias, a native of France, who came to America about the middle of the eighteenth century. He landed at Balti- more, from which place he traveled south- ward to the French province of Louisiana, and after residing there for some time he made his way westward. Subsequently he came north and settled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Soon, however, he removed to Roxboro, where he followed his trade of weaving, devoting his energies to that pursuit throughout his entire lite. He was married and had two sons, Joseph and Jacob. Joseph Ozias, son of Christopher Ozias was the father of three children : John, Deborah, and George. George Ozias, father of John Albert Ozias, was born April 10, 1810, at Rox- boro, in Philadelphia county. He obtained his education in the subscription schools of the neighborhood and also in the free schools of that locality, and on putting aside his text-books he assisted his father in the trade of weaving. Later, however, he learned the carpenter's trade, and when he had mastered that business he engaged in contracting and building for many years, being actively identified with the improve- ment of the locality in which he made his home. He resided for some time at Germantown, in Philadelphia county, where he carried on building operations, but in 1837 removed to Nashville, Ten- nessee, where he again conducted business as contractor and builder. He was for several years a resident of that southern city, and then returned with his family to Germantown in 1842. .He wedded Mar- garet Barr, and they became the parents of three children: John AiDert ; George B., who is living at Vineland, New Jersey; and one who is living at Quakertown. John Albert Ozias was born in German- town, Philadelphia county, September 6, 1836, and the following year was taken by his parents to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until about six years of age. He then again became a resident of his native city, and attended the public schools there until his parents removed to what is now known as Chalfont, Pennsyl- vania, in 1859. He remained at that place for ten years, and in the meantime had be- come an active factor in business life, en- gaging in the coal and lumber trade. In 1869 he removed to Quakertown where he established a lumber business as a member of a firm, but not long afterward he pur- chased his partner's interest and continued to ) conduct his lumber yard alone until 1886. He also dealt in coal, but in the year mentioned he sold his coal and lumber busi- ness to Benjamin Achey, who is still con- ducting it. Mr. Ozias has since practically lived a retired life, enjoying the fruit of his former toil. He was capable in the management of his business affairs, conduct- ing his interests so ably that he won a very desirable reputation. As a citizen Mr. Ozias has ever been deeply interested in the puDlic welfare, and while residing at Chalfont he served for some time as justice of the peace. His ef- forts in oehalf of the public good had been exerted along other lines as well, for he was instrumental in establishing the Build- ing and Loan Association of Quakertown, and many home owners in that borough owe to his efiforts the beginning which they made in securing homes of their own. In educational work Mr. Ozias has also been very active, believing that a man should not be content in merely sending his children to school, but that he should put forth every effort toward having the schools of an excellent character and that competent teachers should be employed. His labors have been effective and resultant factors in the betterment of the school equipment and facilities of Quakertown. In his politi- cal affiliations Mr. Ozias has always been a Democrat, and, although rather conserva- tive in his political views and position, he has nevertheless adhered closely to the principles of that party. His fellow towns- men, recognizing his worth and ability, have several times called him to public office. He served for six years as county auditor of Bucks county, filling the position from 1892 until 1898, his course in office being so commendable that he was reelected. Mr. Ozias was the prime mover in the work of having Richland Center incorporated into Quakertown. His efforts have ever been of a most practical character, yet all has been done in a quiet and unobtrusive man- ner. He cares not for outward display, is entirely free from ostentation, and does not seek public encomiums, but is content with the consciousness of duty well per- formed, whereby he retains his self respect. In 1862 Mr. Ozias was married to Miss Amanda Echart, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Snyder) Echart, of Chalfont, representatives of an old and respected fam- ily of that community. The Snyders were among the oldest settlers of Newtown township, and were identified with the mill business of the county in pioneer days. Mr. Echart was also closely associated with the milling business at Chalfont, and was thus a factor in the industries of the town. He was a son of George and Catherine (King) Echart. George Echart was a man of con- siderable influence and activity in public affairs of his community. His father was Charles Echart, a resident of Oley, Berks county, Pennsylvania, and it was there that George Echart was born, F'ebruary 12, 1770. His death occurred March 16, 1848. Charles Echart, Sr., was a soldier of the Revolu- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 70l tionary war. Mrs. Ozias, a daughter of Charles Echart, Jr., was born February 19, 1840, in what is now known as Chalfont, in New Britain township, Bucks county. She attended the public schools until her seventeenth year, after which she engaged in teaching for two winters, and subsequent to her nineteenth year remained at home with her parents until her marriage in 1862 to John Albert Ozias. To Mr. and Mrs. Ozias have been born six children : Estella, the wife of Oliver R. Schutz, a son of Edwin Schutz, of Quakertown, and they reside at Quaker- town ; Carrie J., the wife of Rev. William Heist, a son of Henry Heist, of Quaker- town, and they reside at Scranton, Penn- sylvania, with their son Paul ; Winnie is the wife of Ferdinand Sommer, a son of Henry Sommer, and they live at Quaker- town ; Ramon married Emily Egner, of Newark, New Jersey ; J. Howard married E. Irene Harley. a daughter of Jonas L. Harley, of Quakertown, and they are living in that place ; and George Echart married Nellie Haring. a daughter of Charles C. Haring, of Quakertown. The Ozias fam- ily are members of St. John's Lutheran church of Quakertown. SARA E. TWINING. William Twining emigrated to this country in the early part of the seventeenth century and set- tled in Massachusetts, but later removed to Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died at Newtown in 1703. He had a son, Stephen. Stephen Twining (2), son of the American ancestor, was born at Eastham, Massachusetts, February 6, 1659. He became a resident of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. John Twining (3), son of Stephen, was born at New- town, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1692; he married, and had a son named Jacob. Jacob Twining (4), son- of John, was born October 25, 1730. and his son, David Twining, was the subject's grandfather. David Twining (5), son of Jacob, born in Wrightstown township, February 5, 1791. was a W'heelwright, but usually fol- lowed farming for his livelihood. He died October 13, 1877. He was a mem- ber of that branch of the Society of Friends knowm as the Hicksites. He married (iirst) Hannah Taylor, by whom three children were born : Amas H., George, Elizabeth H., wife of Edw-ard Atkinson. For his second wife, Mr. Twining married Mercy VanHorn, and by his union were born: Abbott A., died in infancy; Frances M., wife of Francis V. Krusen. Amas H. Twnning (6), son of David, was born in Northampton township, Maj- 31, 1820, on the farm where the family still resides, and where he farmed during his lifetime. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He married ^^lary. daughter of John and Martha (Ridge) Tomlinson. By this union were born the following children: i. George W.; 2. William H.; 3. David;' 4. John; 5. Mil- ton; 6. W^almsley R. ; 7. Sara E.; 8. Mary R., wife of William Adcock, of New Jersey. Milton Twining and Walmsley R. Twin- ing, sons of Amos H. Twining, early in life learned the carpenter trade and were engaged in building at Chicago, Pitts- burg and Denver, Colorado. Milton later returned to Bucks county, where he is engaged in farming with his brother, George, on the old homestead. W^alms- ley is now a builder in Philadelphia. Sara E. Twining, daughter of Amas H. Twining, was educated at the Belle- vue Academy and the State Normal School at Millersville. For twenty years she has been among the efficient teach- ers in the public schools of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. CHARLES WTLLIAMS, who through- out his entire life has been interested in agricultural pursuits in Bucks county, was born in Buckingham township on the 13th of May, 1833, his parents being Anthony and Sarah (Thompson) Williams, both of whom were natives of Montgomery county. The paternal grandparents were Joseph and Ann Williams. Their son, Anthony Will- iams, was born in Wliite Marsh township, near Chestnut Hill, on the 7th of June, 1807, and was of Welsh descent. He con- tinued a resident of Montgomery county until two years after his marriage, when he removed to Bucks county, settling in Buck- ingham township in 1832. After a few years' residence here he returned to Mont- gomery county, purchasing a farm near Ogontz. His death occurred in 1844. An- thony and Sarah T. Williams had seven children, viz.: Charles; Edward H., who is living in Buckingham township ; Joseph T., a resident of Easton, Pennsylvania ; two daughters who died in infancy ; Jane, de- ceased; and Anthony, who has also passed away. Later she married Jesse Shoemaker, having one child Sarah, also deceased. Charles Williams was only four years of are when his parents returned to Mont- gomery county, and he was reared on the home farm, there acquiring his early edu- cation at Abington Friends' school and afterward attending Friends' schools in Philadelphia. He was also a student in a private boarding school in Langhorne. On attaining his majority he took charge of the home farm, and continued its operation for two years, after which he removed to Buck- ingham township, Bucks county, his grand- father, Joseph Williams, having deeded him his farm there. In the spring of 1902, (having sold his property the year previous) he removed to his present home, which is owned by his wife, it being her ancestral home through her mother, a descendant of 702 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Robert Smith, who acquired the property in 1733- On the I2th of April, i860, Charles Will- iams was married to Hetty A. Eastburn, a daughter of John and Sarah VV. (Smith; Eastburn, of Wrightstown. The farnily is of English lineage. The names of their six children are: John E., deceased; Elizabeth E., the deceased wife of George B. Brown; Edward, who has also passed away; Howard, deceased ; Sarah W., who is the wife of George B. Brown; and Edith C, at home. The family are members of the So- ciety of Friends, and in his political views Mr. Williams is a Republican. He is .one of the most esteemed citizens of Wrights- town township, interested in all progressive measures for the general good, and giving hearty co-operation to many movements which have resulted beneficially to the com- munity. tified with the Hilltown Lutheran church. i\ir. Martin married, October 24, i8yy, Ro- berta, daughter of Eli Cadwaladcr, and they have two children— Chester C, who was born December 15, 1901 ; and Howard C, born December 14, 1905. REUBEN A. MARTIN, an enterprising young man of Bucks county, is a grandson of George Martin, a native of Wurtem- berg, Germany, where he was born Sep- tember 14, 1820. In his youth he came to the United States and took up his abode in Reading, proving himself during the Civil war, a loyal citizen by serving in the ranks of the defenders of the Union. Adam Martin, son of George Martin, was born ]\larch 25, 1853, and was educated in the public schools. After learning the carpenter's trade with David High, of Hill- town, he spent twelve years in the practice of it. In 1880 he purchased the Jesse Garner farm, in Warrington township, and for eight years devoted himself to its cultivation. He subsequently bought the Aaron Weisell farm, which is now his home, and also the Christian Haldeman farm, adjoining. The two estates he cul- tivates as one, with extremely profitable re- sults. In New Britain township he held for three years each the offices of constable and charity commissioner, while in War- rington township he served for five years as school director, and now holds the office of auditor. Politically he is identified with the Republicans, and is a member of the Hilltown Lutheran church. He married Addie Sherm, and their children are : Reu- ben A., mentioned at length hereinafter; Flora; Alice; Bertha; Walter; Jennie; and Edgar Harrison, deceased. Reuben A. Martin, son of Adam and Ad- die (Sherm) Martin, was born March 1, 1880, in Warrington township, where he received his education in the public schools. His boyhood and youth were spent in assist- ing his father in the labors of the farm and in acquiring a thorough and practical knowledge of agriculture in all its branches. In 1899 he purchased the old Hillpot farm, in New Britain township, on which he has since lived. His well-tilled acres and large crops testify to his ability and industry. He is a good citizen and a steadfast Re- publican. In matters of religion he is iden- THE GROUSE FAMILY settled in up- per Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1758. Michael Krouse (as the name was formerly written), the founder, and his wife Anne Barbara landed in Philadelphia from Ger- many, September 3, 1758. He located and acquired land in Nockamixon township, near the Narrows of the Delaware rivei. They belonged to the Reformed church. He enlisted in a company that was formed in Durham township, and served in the Revo- lutionary war. We find in the old family papers and records that the name was spelled "Krouse" down until about the year 1800, after which the name is gener- ally written "Crouse." The writer is not in possession of the exact date of the death of .Michael Crouse, Sr., or his wife Anne Barbara, but the former died about 1812. They had three sons and two daughters, viz. : Jacob, Frederick and Conrad, Han- nah, and Mary Margaret. The latter mar- ried Jacob Lechleiter, who was the founder of the Lechleiter family in Nockamixon. He died March 20, 1855, aged ninety-one years. His wife, Mary Aiargaret, died May ^2, 1847, aged seventy-nine years. Hannah married a Mr. Pursell, and they lived in what is now the village of Bridgeton, Pennsylvania. She died there at a good old age, leaving many descendants. The oldest son, Jacob Crouse, married and settled in Hunterdon county. New Jersey. He had three sons : Jacob, John and William. The former married and settled in Milford, New Jersey, where he died in 1900 at an ad- vanced age. The son, John Crouse, mar- ried Lucy Butler and they had a large fam- ily of sons. They moved to Luzerne coun- ty, Pennsylvania, about 1850, where he died leaving many descendants. The other son, William Crouse, was twice married. He settled in Warren county. New Jersey, and raised a large family .of sons and daughters, who are scattered through Warren and Hunterdon counties. New Jersey. Freder- ick, the second son of Michael Crouse, Sr., was born in 1766; he married Catharine Schell, and settled in Nockamixon town- ship, where he died April 21, 1845, aged seventy-nine years. His wife, Catharine, died February 23, 1849, aged eighty-two years. They had two children, Jacob and Sarah. The latter married Jacob Overpeck of Durham township, Bucks county. They had three children : Frederick, Philip, and Sarah ; they all married and left many de- scendants. Jacob, the only son of Frederick Crouse, married Susan i\Iills ; they raised a large family of children. Conrad Crouse, the third son of Michael Crouse. Sr.. was born in 1768. He married Elizabeth Moyer, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 703 and settled on the old homestead in Nocka- mixon township. He died in 1796, leaving a widow and three small children ; his will speaks of one son Michael, and two daugh- ters, one of which must have died in child- hood, as no further mention is made of her. The other daughter Elizabeth grew to womanhood and married Joseph Raisner; they settled in New Jersey near Lambert- ville, and had one daughter, who married . Carnelious Arnett, of Lambertville, New "jersey. Michael Grouse, Jr., born January 22, 1793, was the father of the writer of this sketch; he was only three years old when his father, Conrad Crouse, died. He learned the mason trade and was educated in English and German. He taught school for many years, it being required in those days to teach both languages in the schools of the upper districts of Bucks county. He was constable of. the township for several years, and held a lieutenant's commission in the Pennsylvania militia. In 1820 he mar- ried Sarah Cole, who was born December 5, 1797. She was the daughter of Tunis and Julia Cole, who lived in Holland, New Jersey, and whose parents immigrated from Holland many years before. Tunis Cole was born February 6, 1754, and died Feb- ruary 17, 1816. His wife, Julia, born Sep- tember ID, 1762, died January 21, 1834. Michael Crouse, Jr., after his marriage, settled on the old homestead. They had ten children, five sons and five daughters, viz. : Conrad F., Jacob W., Michael, Frederick, and Andrew Jackson. Eliza, Elizabeth, Sarah Ann, Catharine, and Hannah. The first son, Conrad F. Crouse, born April 27, 1827, was a steam engineer by oc- cupation. He was twice married; his first wife was Julia Ann EUicott ; they had three -children: Oscar, Warren, and Sallie. The mother died September 7, 1858. His second wife Caroline. Kerbaugh, to whom he was married August 27, 1859, bore him five chil- dren: John, JNIary, Lizzie, Alice and Cane. The family then moved to ]\Iilnesville, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. During the Civil war he served in the Forty-fifth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Mililia. He died June S, 1901, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Eliza married Andrew Shaw, of Carvers- ville, Bucks county. They had four chil- dren: Charles, Sallie, Mary, and Ella. Eliza Shaw died July 8, 1865. Elizabeth Crouse, born December 14, 1823, married Chapman Large, of DoyleStown, Pennsyl- vania. They had four children : John, ^Martha, Alice, and Fannie. Elizabeth died July 15, 1891. Jacob W. Crouse, second son of Michael Crouse, Jr., was born March 14, 1829; by occupation he was a carpenter. He served during the war for the Union in Company F, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He mar- ried Eliza Freeling in 1852 ; they had four children: Annie S., who married B. Frank Rapp ; Alice and Frederick W. died in child- hood; and Clara; who married Lee Ott, of Tinicum. Jacob W. Crouse settled in Uhler- town, and was a consistent member and elder in the upper Tinicum Reformed church. He died November 3, 1884. Sarah Ann Crouse, born July 13, 1831, married Amos Smith, of Smith corner, Plumstead township. They had nine chil- dren, three of whom died in childhood, and those who grew up were: Mary Ellen, wife' of Israel Wismer. ^Michael, who mar- ried Hannah Overholt and settled at Smith Corner; he died in 1902. Alice, who mar- ried Reuben Walters ; she died in 1896, leav- ing one son, Austin Walters. Jacob Smith, who married ^liss Anne Gearhart ; they live at Ambler, Pennsylvania. Emma, who married Samuel Lear. Kate, who married John Nash. All live at Smith Corner. Michael Crouse, third son of Michael Crouse, Jr., born July i, 1833, was accident- ally drowned in the Delaware river, oppo- site Burlington, New Jersey, September 24, 1843. Frederick Crouse, fourth son of Michael Crouse, Jr., was born July 4, 1835. He served his country during the great Civil war as a member of Company C, One Hun- dred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers; he was severely wounded in the battle of Antietam, Mary- land, September 17, 1862. He was by occu- pation a telegraph operator, having opened the first telegraph office at Riegelsville, New Jersey, in 1864, serving fourteen years. After being discharged from the United States army in 1863 on account of wounds received in battle, he was appointed by the provost marshal of the Fifth ^Military' Dis- trict as enrolling officer, and served as such until the close of the war. In 1867 he was appointed postmaster at Riegelsville, Penn- sylvania, and managed the office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the govern- ment for seventeen years. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1876 was a candidate for the Pennsylvania legislature, but was de- feated by a small majority, the county being largely Democratic at that time. In 1868 he organized Fraternal Council, O. U. A. ]M. He also organized the Riegelsville Building & Loan Association in 1875. In 1857 he was initiated into Peace & Union Lodge No. 456, I. O. O. F., under the juris- diction of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania of which he has been a working member for forty-eight years. In 1882 he organized Colonel Samuel Croasdale Post No. 256, Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic. He became a member of St. Johns Reformed church, at Riegelsville, in 1852, and became a resident of Riegels- ville in 1853 and has resided there ever since. He married Mary A. Kerbaugh. De- cember 13, 1856; she was the daughter of Josiah and ^Slaria Kerbaugh, of North- ainpton county, Pennsylvania. They had eight children, four of whom died in child- hood. Those living are : Stewart C, Clara. Gertrude, and Sallie May. Stewart C. Crouse married Sallie S. Atkinson, daughter of Jesse H. and [Martha Atkinson, of Dolington, Bucks county. Three chil- 704 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. dren blessed this union : Jesse Clyde, Mary and Frederick. The motlier died July ij, 1888. J. Clyde Crouse married Florence Souders, of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1904, and settled in Elizabeth, New Jer- sey. He is a civil engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Stewart C. Crouse was married twice, his second wife being Miss Kate Giant, of' Philadelphia; they have four children : Margarite, Wil- mot, Grace, and Emily. He resides in Bound Brook, New Jersey, and is employed in the telegraph department of the New Jersey Central Railroad. Clara, daughter of Frederick Crouse, was born June 25, 1864; she married John W. Thompson, of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, by occupation a carriage painter. They settled in Riegels- ville and have two children living, viz : Florence May, and John.Elsworth; a third child, died in childhood, named Alma. Gert- rude, second daughter of Frederick Crouse, was born June 21, 1874; she married Syl- vester Dillon, a mechanic of Lehnensburg, and they reside in Riegelsville, and have three children : JMildred Rebecca, Laurence and Evelyne. Sallie May, third daughter of Frederick Crouse, was born in July, 1876; she married Peter Heater, a foundry- . man of Durham. They reside at Alburtis, Pennsylvania, and have one daughter, Mal- vene. Catharine, daughter of Michael Crousc, Jr., was born March 27, 1837; she remained single and died March 20, 1885. Hannah, the youngest daughter, born September 29, 1839, died December 8, 1852. Andrew Jackson Crouse, youngest sou of Michael Crouse, Jr., was born January I, 1843. He grew to manhood and married Mrs. Helena Kerbaugh, widow of John B. Kerbaugh, a member of Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was killed at the battle of Antietam, Maryland, Sep- tember 17, 1862, leaving a daughter, Lizzie, who married Oscar Tettemer, of Tinicum township, where they reside. Andrew Jack- son Crouse resides in Riegelsville, and is employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as clerk at the Riegelsville Sta- tion. He served his country during the Civil war in the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Militia, Union League Regiment, and after- wards as a member of Company G, Twenty- eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is a past commander of Colonel Sapiuel Croasdale Post, Grand Army of the Repub- lic. He is also a member and holds office in St. John's Reformed church of Riegels- ville. In politics he is a Democrat, al- though he never sought office. They had four children, viz. ; Charles W., Ada A., Idia and Jennie ; the two latter died in child- hood. The daughter, Ada A., born April 14, 1875, holds a position in the Durham Knitting Mill. The son, Charles W. Crouse, born March 5, 1868, was married to Anerta Rader, of Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 1891. They reside in New York city, where he holds the position of book- keeper for a large firm. Two children have blessed this union : George, and Aubrey. Helena, wife of Andrew J. Crouse, died April 21, 1892. Mr. Crouse married, Octo- ber 24, 1894, Miss Emma Lear, of Plum- stead township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. MRS. RACHAEL P. IRELAND oc- cupies the beautiful old homestead "Winde- mere," which was the property of her par- ents, Thomas S. and Martha (Scarboro) Radcliff. Descended from English an- cestry, her grandfather, John' L. Radclifif, was born in Bucks county, being a repre- sentative of one of the old families of this part of the state. He always followed farming, and while he did not seek to fig- ure in public life his influence was always on the side of right and progress and he was identified with the Friends' meeting, thus adhering to the religious faith of his ancestors. He married Patience Smith, also a native of Bucks county, and his death occured on the old homestead farm. Their children were : Thomas S., Mrs. Mary -, Mrs. Sally Cozens, Isaac N., who is living in Illinois; Charlotte, wife of H. Funk; Lew, a physician, who died unmarried ; Theodore, who served through the civil war ; Dewitt C, who was a soldier of the Union army and is now 'a resident of California ; Harriet, who died unmarried ; Wesley, a farmer, now de- ceased ; and Amanda, wife of J. Neal. Thomas S. Radclifif, son of John L. and Patience (Smith) Radcliff, was born in Bucks county in 1815, and was reared near Warrington on the old home farm. He received a liberal education, and in early manhood engaged in teaching school for a number of years. Subsequently he settled upon what was the old Scarbor- ough farm, formerly the property of his father-in-law, and there remained until his children had attained years of maturity. The property had at one time been owned by Jonathan Roberts, who afterward sold it to Mr. Scarborough and eventually Mr. Radclifif purchased it. It is noted for its productive soil, its attractive location and for the splendid view which it commands. In 1867 ]\Ir. Radclifif sold the property and removed to Philadelphia, where he was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and subsequently he bought a farm in Maryland which remained his- place of residence throughout his life. His political -iews accorded with Repub- lican principals, and he gave to that party unfaltering support. He was called to several local oflSces, the duties of which he discharged with promptness and fidel- ity, and he was widely known and highly respected for the possession of many ster- ling traits of character. He held friend- ship inviolable, was chararitable and be- nevolent to the poor and needy, and in his home was an indulgent and devoted t-l o > o o H o > in CO > a n HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 705 husband and father. From early manhood he was a consistent member of the Bap- tist church. Thomas S. Radcliff married Alartha Scarboro, who was born in Bucks county in 1816, a daughter of Amos and Sarah (Cooper) Scarboro, also natives of this county and of Scotch-Irish descent. Her father was a practical and prosperous farmer, quickly recognizing and utilizing a favorable business opportunity, and gaining at the same time an unblemished reputa- tion by reason of his straightforward deal- ing. Kindness and consideration were among his salient characteristics, and he commanded the esteem of all who knew him. Selling the old homestead, he later purchased a farm near Doylestown, Penn- sylvania, known as the Patterson farm, and on disposing of that property he bought a lot on which was a good resi- dence and therein lived retired. In his political views he was a Republican, and in religious faith a Presbyterian. His chil- dren were : Mrs. Elizabeth Rubincamp, Mrs. Martha Radcliff, and Rachael, wife of William Stuckert. Thomas and Martha (Scarboro) Radcliff had a large family, but lost several children in early life. The others are: Sarah, wife of A. Robi- son; Mrs. Ireland; Winfield S., a drug- gist; Thomas J., a broker of New York; and John L., who died at the age of eighteen years. The father died in 1878, aged sixty-five years, and his wife died July 23, 1893. Rachael P. Radcliff was born at the old home where she now lives, February 23, 1847, and when a young lady accompanied her parents on their remove! to Philadel- phia, where she was married, in 1877, to Charles G. Ireland. He was born in that city. November 4, 1846. His father, Charles Ireland, was the adopted son of Dr. Charles Garrison, of Millville, New Jersey, who reared and educated and made him his heir. ]Mr. Ireland inherited all of Dr. Garrison's large estate and he was called by his foster father's name. His inheri- tance enabled him to live retired from busi- ness cares and he made his home in Philadelphia. He was married and reared his family there, and his children went by his own name of Ireland. He provided them with liberal educational privileges and also left to each a goodly inheritance. They were: Isadore, wife of J. Cassell ; Lydia, who died unmarried ; Charles G. ; Thomas W., deceased ; and Florence, who was a teacher and died unmarried. Charles G. Ireland was a competent business man of Philadelphia, and managed and settled up his father's estate. Broad minded and intelligent, he profited by his excellent educational privileges and became an important factor in business circles in his native city, but, overtaxing his strength he was an invalid for three years prior to his death. He was generous in his benefactions to the poor and needy, con- siderate and courteous at all times, main- tained the most' kindly relations with his .45-3 many friends, and in his home was a de- voted and loving husband. His political support was given the Democracy, and without political aspiration he gave effic- ient aid in matters of public moment as a private citizen. He died in his fifty- fourth year. Mrs. Ireland had one son, Walter S. Radcliff, who resides in Philadelphia. After her husband's death she purchased Windemere, the old family homestead in Bucks county, at one time the property of her maternal grandfather, and here she has since remained. The place comprises seventy-eight acres of land. The soil is rich and productive and is now highly cultivated, Mrs. Ireland giving personal supervision to the farming interests. The farm is conveniently and pleasantly situ- ated about four miles from Doylestown, and is equipped with all modern accessories and conveniences, not only in the house but also for facilitating the farm work. The residence is a three story structure which she has remodeled, making it modern in every way. It is supplied with hot and cold water, is heated throughout by fur- nace, and stands on a natural building site, commanding a wide view of the surround- ing country and also looking down upon Doylestown with its beautiful homes, orchards and groves. There is a large barn and other buildings in the rear of the house, and no equipment of the model farm of the twentieth century is lacking at Windemere. Mrs. Ireland has a wide acquaintance in her native county, and the hospitality which she so generously ac- cords to her many friends is as freely ex- tended to her. She was reared in the Baptist church and has always adhered to its teachings and faith. WILLIAM M. HOLBERT, postmas- ter of Warrington, where he is also en- gaged in merchandising, represents one of the old families of Bucks county that through many generations has figured in business and political life here. At an early period in the settlement of the new world, the Holbert family was founded in New Jersey, where its mem- bers became prominent in agricultural circles. William Holbert, the grand- father, came to Pennsylvania soon after his marriage, settling first in Abingdon township; Montgomery county, where he remained for a few years and then re- moved to Jamison's Corners in Bucks county, where he carried on agricultural pursuits until his death. He had been reared in the faith of the Society of Friends and continued an active and con- sistent member of that sect up to his de- mise. He was a plain, honest farmer who had no aspirations for public office or public fame, being content to do his duty as a private citizen and as a hus- band and father. He married a Miss 7o6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. Brannan, who was also a native of New Jersej', and was of Welsh lineage. She survived her husband for but a short time. They reared four children. El- wood, born July 31, 1818, who resides in Wilson county, Kansas, having for a long period been a leading farmer of that localitj^; Nathan, born August 31, 1823; Mrs. Elizabeth Ewing, born May 18, 1836; and Lenora, born July 14, 1838, who died unmarried. All were reared in the faith jof the Friends meeting, from which they never departed. Nathan Holbert (2), born in New Jer- sey, was reared in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, remaining under the parental roof up to the time of his marriage, when he began farming on a tract of rented land. He remained for a long period upon the farm on which he set- tled, and after many years devoted to ag- ricultural pursuits came to Warrington, where he purchased a mercantile enter- prise, renting a building in which he conducted business with the assistance of his son, William, for a number of years and eventually disposing of the store to his son. He was ever a man of marked industry and in early life was a practical and successful farmer who for many years attended the Philadelphia market. He conducted an extensive dairy business and his butter commanded the highest market prices. His capably con- ducted business affairs resulted in the acquirement of a very desirable com- petence. He adhered to the religious faith of his ancestors, and his political support was given to the Republican party. In his locality he was recognized as one of its leading advocates and he filled some township offices, but was never an aspirant for political preferment. Of social, genial nature, he enjoyed the friendship of those with whom he came in contact, and they found him a con- siderate neighbor and kind friend. He was benevolent and charitable to the poor and needy and, honored and re- spected by all, he died February 5, 1899, at the age of seventy-five years. He passed the evening of life in the home of his son. William, but his death oc- curred while he was visiting a daughter. In early manhood he wedded Sarah Yonker, who was born in Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, and was a daughter of William Yonker, who was one of the early set- tlers of Warwnck township, Bucks county, where he became widely recog- nized as a leading and influential farmer. He was also highly respected in social circles and was known as "the Quaker fiddler," because of his skillful perform- ance on the violin, the young people of the neighborhood depending upon him to furnish the music for their dances. His children were: Mary, the wife of J. C. Worthington; Thomas, who died at the age of eighteen years ; Emma, who died unmarried; Mary J., who became the wife of Joseph Flack, and Sarah, wife of Nathan Holbert. The last named passed away in June, 1881, about eighteen years prior to the death of her- husband. They were the parents of five children: Thomas, of St. Louis, Missouri; Maria, wife of John Cravens; William M., Agnes Y., and Jane. William M. Holbert was born near the Warwick postoffice in Bucks county, Jan- uary 21, 1854, attended the common schools and was reared in his parents home, accompanying them on their re- moval to Warrington. He had prev- iously assisted in the labors of the fields on the old home farm, and after settling in Warrington became his father's as- sistant in the conduct of the store. Eventually he purchased the stock and engaged in business on his own account, renting the store until 1899, when he pur- chased the large block which comprises both a store and residence. He carried a large and well selected line of general merchandise, such as is required by the village and country trade, and is a prac- tical, enterprising merchant, following modern methods and utilizing every op- portunity that tends to honorable suc- cess. He has contributed to the material improvement of the town as well as to his individual prosperity by the erection of a number of houses which he rents. He is likewise a director in the Warring- ton Mutual Telephone Company, and his recognition and utilization of business opportunities have been salient features in the acquirement of the desirable com- petence that now crowns his efiforts. Mr. Holbert strongly endorses Repub- lican principles, and in as far as possible aids in the party work in his locality. In 1886 he was appointed postmaster of Warrington, which position he yet fills, and is also auditor of his township. Fra- ternally he is a worthj^ member of the Masonic lodge at Hatboro. William M. Holbert was married in 1889 to Miss Sallie V. Radclifife, who was born in Warrington, Pennsylvania, De- cember 8, 1857, a daughter of Elias H. and Emily L. (Coulter) Radclifife, the latter named having been married July 7. 1850. Elias H. Radclifife was the son of Robert and Mary (Cline) RadclifTe. Robert Radclifife, who in early life learned the tanner's trade, which he fol- lowed in his young manhood, lived re- tired many years previous to his death with his son, Elias H., in Warrington. Robert Radclifife died August 31, 1878, aged ninety-two years, his wife having died at the same place, March 26, i860, aged si.Kty-five years. Elias H. Rad- clifife resided with his parents at Hat- boro up to the time of his marriage to Emily L. Coulter, at Germantown. Sub- sequently he purchased a farm at War- rington known as the old historic Ben- jamin Hough homestead, its former HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, 707 owner having been a relative of General U. S. Grant, who several times visited there. Elias H. Radcliffe conducted the farm for many years along practical, pro- gressive lines that won a fair measure of success. He had a wide acquaintance and the favorable regard of many friends. In politics a Republican, he never de- sired political preferment, wishing rather to devote his entire attention to his ag- ricultural interests. He spent his last years in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Holbert, and died November 24, 1901, -while his wife's death occurred October 18, 1899. Emily L. (Coulter) Radcliffe was the daughter of Paschall and Sarah 1893. 3. Thomas, born November 9, 1874, married Ellen Brooks, February 2^, 1899, and they have one' daughter Caro- line Cook, born February 10, 1903. 4. Fred- erick Firman, born November 15, 1876. 5. Samuel Cook, born May 15, 1879. 6. Charles Edgar, born March 5, 1884; the two last named are at home with their parents. EDWARD BOILEAU ROSE, one of Bristol's successful business men, was born March 3, i860, in Southampton, Pennsyl- vania, and is the son of George Granthon and Susan (Boileau) Rose. His grand- parents were John and Mary (Barwis) Rose and Major Isaac and Anna (Bickley3 Boileau. Mr. Rose's boyhood was passed in New- portville, whither his parents moved in 1866. He attended the public schools of that place and afterward learned the carriage- making business in his father's shop, and for twenty years thereafter was engaged in that business. He then became a dealer in horses, carriages, harness, blankets and everything pertaining to that branch of business, and his enterprise was rewarded with a gratifying measure of success. He is at present engaged in the grocery and truck business. From 1892 to 1898 Mr. Rose filled the office of assessor of Bristol township, serving two terms. He is a mem- HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 713 ber of Peerless Lodge, No. 28, Shield of Honor, of Philadelphia. Mr. Rose married, December 30, 1883, Ida, born December 7, 1861, daughter of Jesse and Christiana (Everett) Cabe, of Middletown township. She is the grand- daughter on the paternal side of Elisha and Martha (White) Cabe, great-granddaugh- ter of Thomas and Rebecca (Brodnaux Van Horn) Cabe, and great-great-granddaughter of Thomas and Sarah (Bidwell) Cabe. This Thomas was the first American an- cestor of the Cabe family. On the maternal side Mrs. Rose is the granddaughter of Samuel and Sarah (Bennett) Everett, great-granddaughter of Aaron and Mary Hellings (widow of Richard Rue) Everett, and great-great-granddaughter of David and Amme Everett. Mr. and Mrs. Rose are the parents of the following children : Mildred born March 6, 1885, deceased; Mary Emily, born May 12, 1887; Louisa Bolieau, born March 21, 1890, deceased ; Christiana Ever- ett, born July 16, 1892, deceased ; Ida Cabe, born July 17, 1894; George Grantham, born March 17, 1900; and Willis Weaver, born July 8, 1902. REUBEN H. RICKERT. The Rickert family is of German origin, and the de- scendants of the progenitor in America have lived here through five generations. Daniel Rickert, the first of the name born in America, opened his eyes to the light of day on the old home farm in Hilltown township, which has since been in posses- sion of his descendants. He always car- ried on agricultural pursuits and to that occupation reared his sons. He married Barbara Rosenberger, and they became the parents of six children : Henry, John, Abra- ham, Catharine, Magdaline and Isaac. Isaac Rickert, whose birth occurred at the ancestral home in Hilltown township, likewise devoted his attention to the till- ing of the soil throughout his business career. He married Catharine Ruth, a daughter of Henry Ruth, who was likewise a native son of Hilltown township. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rickert were the parents of nine children, namely : David, who married Livy Funk; Abraham, who married Mary Ann Fretz, a daughter of Abram Fretz ; Daniel, who married Lucy Hunter; Annie, the wife of Enos Loux ; Isaac, who was a Mennonite preacher and married Salome Gross ; Henry R. ; Barbara, the wife of Aaron Moyer; and two children who died in infancy. After the death of Isaac Rickert, the father of these children, the mother married Abraham Rickert, a brother of her first husband, and they had two chil- dren : Catharine, who became the wife of William Moyer ; and Maggie, who was the second wife of William Moyer. Henry R. Rickert, son of Isaac and Cath- arine Rickert, was born in Hilltown town- ship in 1829, and always followed the occu- pation of farming. He was a member of the Mennonite church of Blooming Glen, and his political allegiance was give to the Republican party. His first wife was Eliza- beth Hunsberger, who became the mother of nine children, as follows : Mary Ann, the wife of John Barndt ; Catharine, Levy H. and Enos H., all deceased ; Reuben H. ; Rosie, wife of Samuel Yother ; Salome, wife of Harry H. Moyer; Maggie; .and Mahlon, who married Delia Strohm. The second wife of Henry R. Rickert was Cath- arine Stover Freed, a daughter of Samuel Freed, no issue. Reuben H. Rickert was born June 11, 1863, upon the farm which came into pos- session of his German ancestor in colonial days. He was educated in the Hilltown public schools, and when a young man he learned the creamery business. In 1885 he went west to Kansas, where he lived for two years, and subsequently he spent six months in Colorado, being employed in various ways. Later he continued his west- ward journey to Califorrtia, where he de- voted seven years to the business of hop- raising, and then, because of his father's ill health, returned to Bucks county to take charge of the home farm, which he has since managed, and his early training as an agriculturist has enabled him to carry forward this work along successful lines. His political views accord with the prin- ciples of the Republican partv, and he therefore exercises his right of franchise in support of its candidates. Religiously he is connected with the Mennonite church. Reuben H. Rickert was married Febru- ary 25, 1898, to Mrs. Lavina Leatherman, a daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth (Trout) Haycock. She had three children by her first marriage, and two have been born of the second union : Catharine and Harry Freeman. J. ANDREW FRENCH. The French family in Bucks county is of Welsh Imeage. 1 he progenitor in America was Andrew French, who came to the new world when this country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain and settled in Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania. Andrew French (2), his son, was born and reared in Montgomery county and in early life learned the wheelwright's trade, which he followed for many years. In 1799 he removed to Branchtown, Philadelphia, where he made a permanent settlement. He was distinctively a man of aflfairs and one who wielded a wide infiaence, recog- nized as an important factor in mold- ing public thought and action in his community. He was a stanch Demo- crat, and in 1816 was elected to. the Pennsylvania legislature where he capably served for one term, leaving the im- press of his individuality upon the early laws of the state. Questions affecting the commonwealth and the nation were of deep interest to him and he was a broad-minded, public-spirited citizen whose intelligently 714 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. directed effort proved of far-reaching oenc- tit. liis spirit of justice was recognized as one of his strong characteristics, and there- fore he was often called upon to act as arbitrator in settling disputes and adjusting dititiculties between neighbors, thu^ saving the expense of litigation and more than that, often thus saving friendships, which, had they been broken, might often have brough: on life-long bitterness of feeling. He haa been reared in the Presbyterian church and was ever a most honorable and upright man. He married Rachel Harper, who was born in this state, and was a lady of intel- ligence and culture, belonging to one of the prominent families of Pennsylvania, con- nected with the Friends' meeting. Andrew and Rachel French became the parents of eight children : Samuel, who engaged in school teaching and later in merchandising; William (3), Martha, wife of Stephen Whiteman; Elizabeth and Jane, who died unmarried; Charles, Ann, and Sarali, who married B. Medary. William French (3), son of Andrew French (2^, was born in Montgomery coun- ty and was reared under the parental roof. He learned the wheelwright's trade with his father and worked as a journeyman until after his marriage, when he purchased Bull's mill in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the manufacture of lumber and the grinding of grist. He located there m 1828 and conducted the mills suc- cessfully until 1834, when he and his brother purchased a lumber business at Torresdale, which they afterward sold out. In 1835 William French came to Bucks county and bought one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which his grandson, J. Andrew French, now resides. There were meager improve- ments upon the place, but he soon began the development and cultivation of the farm and his labors wrought a speedy transfor- mation in its appearance. The old stone house and barn which were on the farm when it came into his possession are still in use, but he also built a large modern residence and added other equipments in keeping with the most modern methods of farming at that time. He placed this under a good state of cultivation, and derived from his labors a good income. His po- litical views were in accord with Democratic principles. William French married Char- lotte Medary, a native of Bucks county, and a daughter of Jacob Medary, a tailor by trade and later a farmer. He died at Miles- town. He had but two children, the younger being Bennett, who followed farm- ing in early life and subsequently became a merchant. The elder child Charlotte became the wife of William French. Mr. French died in 1858, at the age of sixty-seven years, and his wife, long surviving him, died in 1892, in the ninety-second year of her age. She was a member of the Baptist church. Their children were : Bennett M. (4) ; Edmund, who owns a portion of the original French homestead, and now, retired, lives with J. Andrew French ; Andrew, who died at the age of twenty-one years ; and Albert, now of Hatboro, Pennsylvania. Bennett M. French was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and with his parents came to Bucks county, where he passed the days of his childhood and youth in the usual manner of farmer lads, gaining practical experience of the farm work so that when he entered upon his active business career he was well equipped with a thorough un- derstanding of the best methods of farming. He and his brother Edmund purchased the old homestead and divided the property. Public honors or office had no attraction for him, but he supported the Republican party by his ballot. He married Miss Elizabeth Hawkins, who was born in Abingdon town- ship, Montgomery county, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Hawkins, her father a prominent farmer, widely known and highly respected. The children of the Hawkins family are : Mary A., wife of James Baird ; Josephine, who died at the age of eighteen years ; Mrs. Elizabeth French ; Amanda, wife of R. Robb; William H., a farmer.; Leslie N. and Albert F., who carry on farming ; Rebecca, wife of A. Tomlinson ; and Lydia A. The children of Bennett and Elizabeth (Hawkins) French are J. An- drew and Amanda. The father died August 24, 1886, at the age of fifty-nine years, and the mother June 13, 1900. Both were de- voted members of the Baptist church. J. Andrew French was born on the old family homestead where he yet resides, and having acquired his education directed his energies to the improvement of the place. He now carries on general farming and keeps the place in excellent condition, so that it presents a most attractive appearance which indicates the careful supervision of a progressive owner. B. PALMER TOMLINSON, who is successfully engaged in agricultural pur- suits in Buckmansville, Bucks county, was born on the old homestead near Browns- burg, in Upper Makefield township, the farm originally owned by his grandfather, Benjamin Tomlinson, August 31, 1869, one of seven children born to Robert K. and Mary E. (Hibbs) Tomlinson. Robert K. Tomlinson (father) was born March 24, 1831, a son of Benjamin P. and Hannah (Knowles) Tomlinson, in Upper Makefield township, where he was reared, and his education was acquired in the West- town school. In early life he was a school teacher, but later engaged in farming. He was a reader and student, and was one of the well informed men of the township, especially on all public questions and the financial status of the country. During his early manhood he took active part in debating societies, thus increasing his store of knowledge, and he was a prominent factor in the forwarding of the cause of lyceum work in the towns for many miles surrounding his home. He was a candidate for congress on the Greenback ticket, but HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 715 in later years was independent in politics, with prohibition tendencies. He married Miss Mary Eliza Hibbs, daughter of Will- iam and Elizabeth (Holcomb) Hibbs, of Upper Makefield township, and their chil- dren were as follows : Arthur H., proprie- tor of the Preparatory Swarthmore Gram- mar School; Edith, wife of T. Newlin Ely, of Upper Makefield township; Walter H., deceased; Alvan H., a farmer, residing at Wrightstown township; Ernest H., of Morristown, New Jersey, proprietor and publisher of The Afternoon Daily ; B. Pal- mer, mentioned hereintfter; William H., a physician, at present practicing medicine in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Tom- linson, father of these children, died June II, 1901 ; he survived his wife many years, her death having occurred August 6, 1890. B. Palmer Tomlinson acquired his edu- cation in the public schools adjacent to his home, and at Stewart and Hammond's Business College, Trenton, New Jersey. After his marriage he located on his father-in-law's farm, and during the in- tervening years has managed the same in a thoroughly reliable manner, and, being a man of progressive and practical ideas, the property has yielded large returns for the labor expended on it. He is a Prohibi- tionist in politics. March 18, 1897, Mr. Tomlinson married Ellie R. Johnson, daughter of Samuel A. and Anna (Walton) Johnson. The John- son family is an old one in Bucks county, the pioneer ancestor of tlie family, Dirck Johnson, having settled there upon his ar- rival from Holland about the year 1684. The second in line of descent from Dirck Johnson was John Johnson, whose son, John L. Johnson, purchased the first farm north of Center Bridge, in Solebury town- ship, and also the island known for many years as Johnson's Island. Edwin Johnson, son of John L. Johnson, was reared on the old homestead in Solebury; after his mar- riage he resided for one year on Johnson's Island, and then removed to Upper Make- field township. Samuel A. Johnson, son of Edwin Johnson, was born September 27, 1846. He was reared and lived in Upper Makefield township, on the present John- son homestead, the property having come to him upon the decease of his father. He married Anna Walton, and they were prom- inent members of the Friends' meeting. Samuel A. Johnson died October 28, 1897. Mrs. Anna (Walton) Johnson is a daugh- ter of Samuel and Mercy J. (Snyder) Walton, of Upper Makefield township. Samuel Walton, born August 31, 1825, died October 7, 1900, was a son of John and Martha (Gourley) Walton, and a grand- son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Malone) Walton. John Walton was born in Mont- gomery county. The Waltons were farm- ers by occupation, and Friends in religion. Mr. and ^Irs. Tomlinson, who are well known and highly honored in the commun- ity, are prominent members of the Baptist church. BENJAMIN G. WOOD, the owner of one of the fine farms of Warminster town- ship, Bucks county, was born May 13, 1856, in Montgomery county, where his ancestors had resided through several gen- erations. His grandfather, Joseph Wood, was born in the same county, while earlier generations of the family had lived there in colonial days. They resided in More- land tow'nship, and were members of the Horsham Friends' meeting. Joseph Wood made farnring his life w'ork, and also fol- lowed in the religious faith of his ances- tors. He never aspired to public office, but was the advocate of all that tended to pro- mote the moral and material development of the community. His children were : Chalkley; Rebecca, wife of Hughs War- ner ; Comly, John, Mary, wife of Lee Garigus ; George ; Ann, wife of Jonathan Davis ; Joseph, and Elizabeth, w^ife of Ab- ner W. Walmslej'. George Wood was born on his father's farm in Montgomery county and was there reared. At the time of his marriage, he settled upon a part of the old homestead and his attention was given to general farm- ing and marketing; his products being sold in Philadelphia, where for many years he had a stall in one of the city markets. He was practical, energetic and determined in his business aflfairs, and, prospering in his undertakings, he added to his land, becom- ing one of the prominent and prosperous farmers of his locality. He remained upon the farm until he sold it to the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, when he retired to Norristown, where he and his wife are now enjoying the fruits of their former labor, having acquired a comfortable com- petence through the careful husbanding of their resources. Mr. Wood is now eighty years of age. In his early years he was also interested in pike roads, and his hearty co-operation was given to many public measures for the welfare and upbuilding of the county. He married Sarah Garigus, a daughter of Benjamin Garigus, of an honored early family of Pennsylvania. He, too, was a farmer, with a wide and favor- able acquaintance, and he was widely known and active in the Friends Meeting. His political support was given the Whig party until its dissolution, when he became a Re- publican. In his family were four chil- dren : Lee ; ^largaret, the wife of J. L. Jones; Ellen, wife of J. Meredith; and Sarah. To George and Sarah (Garigus) Wood were born two daughters and two sons : Emma C., the wife of J. M. Jones ; Wilmer A.; Benjamin G. ; and Anna G. Benjamin G. Wood attended the public and private schools, acquiring a good Eng- lish education, and received ample train- ing at farm labor under his father's direc- tion, assisting in the operation of the home farm until 1881, when he was married and took charge of the homestead. This he continued to cultivate until 1890, when he purchased the farm in Bucks county upon which he now resides, it being the historic 7i6 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY old homestead of D. Longstreth. He has ' since given his attention to general agri- cultural pursuits, having a well improved place, which in its attractive appearance indicates his careful supervision. He has also attended the Philadelphia market for more than twenty years, never missing a market day, and his business affairs have been so wisely directed as to bring to him a very desirable annual income. He owns one of the beautiful homes of this part of the county, having remodeled and made additions to the old mansion, until it is now a commodious, three-story stone resi- dence, which he has equipped with modern improvements, including hot and cold water, furnace and in fact all the conveniences known in the modern city home. It occu- pies a beautiful building site, and there are . fine forest and fruit trees and large groves. The large button-ball trees are among the attractive features of the place, and the main drive leading from the house to the road is bordered on either side by spread- ing maples. Mr. Wood exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party. He has served as school director, but does not de- sire official preferment as a reward for party fealty. He belongs to the Horsham Friends' Meeting, and his life has been so honorable and straighforward that he com- mands the respect and confidence of all who know him. Mr. Wood wedded Miss Mary R. Kirk, who was born on the homestead farm where they now reside, December 12, 1859. Her parents were Isaac Rush and Mary Y. (Montanye) Kirk, the former a native of Montgomery county and the latter of War- minster township, Bucks county. The grandfather, Isaac Kirk, was a prominent and well known farmer of his locality, and belonged to the Friends' meeting. His children were: Caroline; Mrs. Mary Twin- ing; Mrs. Louisa T. Snyder; Hannah; Sarah, wife of W. Paxson ; Susanna, wife of C. Camby ; and Isaac Rush. The last named was reared upon a farm in Mont- gomery county, and followed agricultural pursuits throughout his entire business career. After his marriage he settled upon the farm now occupied by Mr. Wood, and there engaged in the tilling of the soil and in attending market until his death, which occurred in i860, when he was but thirty- six years of age. He voted with the Re- publican party, and affiliated with the Friends' Meeting. His -widow yet survives and finds a good home with her daughter, Mrs. Wood, and also lives a part of the time with Comly Walker. She is a daugh- ter of Samuel E. and Clarissa (Yerkes) Montanye. the former a son of Thomas B. Montanye, who was born in the state of New York and became a leading minister of the Primitive Baptist church, devoting many years to Christian work, and also following the occupation of farming. His children were: Maria, Benjamin. Henry W., Cornelia, Samuel E., Sarah, Eliza, Re- becca, Thomas, Amy and Jane. The chil- dren of Samuel and Clarissa Montanye were: Edwin Y. ; Amy, wife of W. A. Car- rell; Mrs. Mary Y. Kirk; Thomas B. ; Harmon Y., former recorder of wills in Bucks county ; and Margaret, who died in childhood. The parents were 'members •of the Baptist church. To Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rush Kirk were born three children : Clara M., who married C. Walker ; Sarah R., who died in childhood ; and Mary R., who became Mrs. Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have four children : Gertrude K., Sara W., Clara M., and Anna B. The parents are members of the Friends' Meet- ing, and occupy a prominent position so- cially, the circle of their friends being almost co-extensive with the circle of their acquaintance. SAMUEL B. THATCHER. Among the names of the notable and distinguished men of Pennsylvania, the men of ability and en- terprise who have labored assiduously to advance the interests of the community, may justly be named Samuel B. Thatcher, the man after whom the town of Thatcher, Pennsylvania, was n3.med. He was born ]\Iay 22, 1822, on a famn then owned by his grandfather, Ludwig Afflerbach, in Durham township,, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, the son of Charles and Magdalena (Afflerbach) Thatcher. Charles Thatcher was a son of Bartholomew Thatcher, a native of Eng- land, who emigrated to this country before the Revolutionary war, settling in Quaker- town, New Jersey, and is thought to have followed the occupation of a farmer. His son Charles settled in Durham, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, later removing to Haycock township, where he was united in marriage to Magdalena Afflerbach. Six children were born of this union, Samuel B. (mentioned at length hereinafter) becoming the most prominent. Samuel B. Thatcher's parents occupied and cultivated the farm until the death of his grandfather, Ludwig Afflerbach. In the spring of 1833 the property was sold and the family removed to a farm in Bedminstei township, which the father, Charles, rented. After one year's residence in this place they removed to Rockhill township, near what is now Perkasie, remaining there two years. Here Samuel B. obtained what educational training the subscription schools of the neighborhood afforded, continuing in school until 1834, when, at the age of twelve years, he vi'ent to Doylestown, there entering into his first regular employment in the bark shed of a tannery, where he remained some time. In the meantime (March 28, 1837) his parents removed to a farm in Haycock township, and there he joined them, assisting his father with the farm work. He subse- quently succeeded his father in the conduct of the farm, in which he engaged until i860. Politically, ]\Ir. Thatcher was a Whig, and took an active interest in the affairs of HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 7^7 the party. At the formation of the Repub- lican party he joined the ranks of its fol- lowers and labored diligently and untiringly for its success. In the fall of i860, a pe- riod of great political excitement through- out the country, Mr. Thatcher, at the earnest solicitation of his fellow townsmen, be- came a candidate for the office of prothon- otary, and was elected in that victorious campaign of the Republican party with Lin- coln at its head. Mr. Thatcher's victory was more gratifying than the majority of the candidates, for out of a strongly Demo- cratic district he received a majority of over one-third of the voting population, which demonstrates in some part the popu- larity and esteem in which he was held by his fellow-citizens. He discharged the du- ties of his position of responsibility and trust with the greatest credit and efficiency. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Thatcher removed to Doylestown, where he remained for three years. In 1864 he again turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, for which occupa- tion he had a strong liking. At the death of his mother he purchased the place, com- prising seventy-three acres of land, at the settlement of the estate, and he was engaged in the conduct of the same until 1871. In 1871 Samuel B. Thatcher received the appointment of assistant United States revenue assessor, and when that office was abolished became deputy collector of in- ternal revenue under Colonel James Ash- worth, of Philadelphia, who was later suc- ceeded by J\Ir. Elliott, during President Grant's administration. Mr. Thatcher served a term of tw^elve years as collector, acquitting himself with honor. He again returned to farming, in which he was at- tended with considerable success. Later, in a district which was Democratic three to one, he was elected justice of the peace, serving one term of five years, and in 1884 received the distinction at 'the hands of the Republican party of being made one of the thirty-two presidential electors of his state. It is said that Mr. Thatcher has been an attendant of every county convention, either Whig or Republican, between the years 1844 and 1902. .Mr. Thatcher was the originator and first president of the Tohickon Live Stock In- surance Company, and served as its head for over thirty years. He was also one of the organizers and directors of the Quaker- town National Bank. Besides his varied business interests, he takes a deep and active interest in educational affairs, and served eighteen years as school director, and was secretary of the school board seventeen years. He also served as a delegate to the Republican State convention that nominated Generals Geary, Hartranft and Beaver for governors. Mr. Thatcher's career as a man of public affairs has been unusually eventful and one of marked success. He is pre-eminently a self-made man. Starting in life with few advantages, he has with a tenacity of pur- pose, lasting determination and earnest de- sire to make something of his life, reached the top rung in the ladder of prosperity and success. In 1889, ^s a mark of respect and acknowledgment of his worth and public servises, a postoffice was created at the gen- eral store near his home, and at the sug- gestion of Mr. James Shelly, postmaster at Richlandtown, and many others, the new postoffice was named "Thatcher." February 24, 1855, Samuel B. Thatcher was united in marriage to Miss D<:borah Shelly, who was born in 1833, the daughter of David and Elizabeth (Clemmer) Shelly, who resided near Sellersville, Bucks county^ Pennsylvania. The issue of this union were four children, as follows: i. Charles, born December 2, 1855, married Ellen Mayers, daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth Mayers, and the following named children were born to them: Frank; Samuel, deceased; Harri- son ; Mark. 2. Katharine, born November II, 1857, married William, son of Peter H. and Mary (Sames) Lewis, farmers of Hay- cock township ; 3. David, born September 30, i860, died May 12, 1871 ; 4. Samuel B., born August 15, 1867, died December 25, 1882. The parents of these children, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Thatcher, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, February 24, 1905. The numerous messages of congratulation, and visits from friends and neighbors, far and near, attested the re- gard and esteem in which they are held in Jthe community. Mr. Thatcher and his family are members of the Flatland Men- nonite church, near Quakertown, Pennsyl- vania. WASHINGTON CADWALLADER, a prominent farmer, descended from an honored early family of Bucks county, was born August 7, 1871, on the old fam- ily homestead near Warrington, where he yet resides. The Cadwallader family- had its origin in Wales and was planted on American soil during colonial days. The first settlers here, who were the pa- rents of John Cadwallader, lived at vari- ous places in the east and eventually be- came farming people of Horsham town- ship, ^Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. They were consistent members of the Hicksite branch of the Friends' meeting. Their son, John Cadwallader, the father of Benjamin Cadwallader, was born in Montgomery county and was reared in Horsham township under the strict in- fluence of the Friends' Society to the faith of which he always closely adhered. He made farming his life work and after his marriage settled in Horsham town- ship, where he remained tintil after the birth of all of his children. Subsequently he purchased a large tract of land in Buckingham township, Bucks county, made splendid improvements thereon and became a very prominent, success- ful and influential farmer of his locality. In his later life he divided his property 7i8 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. among his sons and retired to Byberry, Philadelphia county, where he spent his remaining days. He was a man of un- faltering integrity and honor in business affairs and in private life, commanding the uniform confidence and good will of his fellow citizens in whatever locality he resided. At his death his remains were taken back to Horsham township, Montgomery count}', for interment. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Han- nah Bradfield, was a native of Horsham and died several years prior to her hus- band's demise. They were the parents of seven sons and two daughters: Eli, Yardly and Benjamin, all of whom be- came prosperous agriculturists; Peter, who engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery; John, a farmer; David, a tailor by trade; Cyrus, who learned the followed the wheelwright's trade; Uree, who married James Bonner ; and Eliza- beth, who became the wife of John Rich. Eli Cadwallader (4), born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was reared in Buckingham township and after his mar- riage settled upon a part of the old home- stead farm, where he spent his remaining days. When death claimed him his re- mains w^ere interred in Buckingham township, where he had so long resided, conducting his business affairs in a man- ner that won him public confidence, as well as prosperity, while his relations with his fellow men gained for him gen- eral confidence and commendation. He was true to the teachings of the Friends' meeting, in which he had been reared, and in his political adherence was loyal to the principles in which he be- lieved, supporting the Whig party and becoming the champion of the abolition cause. He married Rachel Morris, of an honored early family of Bucks county, a daughter of Benjamin Morris, who was of Welsh lineage and became one of the prominent agriculturists of this county. He contributed, too. in large measure to the intellectual and moral development of his locality, his influence ever being found on the side of right, justice and improvement. Eli and Rachel (Morris) Cadwallader were the parents of five children: James, a farmer; Uree, the wife of Haslett Gibson; Ann, wife of Samuel Trumbower ; Grace, the wife of Moses Haldeman; and Eli Cadwallader, Jr. Eli Cadwallader, Jr., (5), born in Bucks countv, Pennsylvania, was reared in his father's homeand after the latter's death became the owner of the old homestead property, on which he remained for a number of years. He later sold the farm and purchased the tract of land upon which his son Washington resides and which is known as the John Kenngott farm. There he made permanent settle- ment and began the improvement of his land, which was but partly cultivated when it came into his possession. His labors wrought a great transformation there, making it one of the best farm properties of the neighborhood. He car- ried on general agricultural pursuits, also raising products for the Philadelphia market, and his efforts were attended with good success. He was below the average height, yet possessed a strong constitution and was a very energetic and industrious man. Competent and farsighted in business affairs and broad- minded in all his views of life, his own •integrity caused him to be selected to ad- minister many estates and to act as guardian on various occasions. He pos- sessed a social, genial nature, wdiich made him a companionable gentleman and gained for him a large number of friends. The poor and needy received from him generous assistance and he ever held friendship inviolable. His in- tegrity and business honor stood as un- questioned facts in his career. He voted with the Republican party, and although he never aspired to office was deeply interested in Republican successes and attended various party conventions. As the years passed he prospered in his business undertakings and became the owner of various farms and mortgages, so that he left to his family a handsome estate. He had been reared in the faith of the Society of Friends and was always true and loyal to its teachings. He mar- ried IMiss Sarah Knipe, a native of Mon- roe county, Pennsylvania, 'and a daugh- ter of George L. and Mary Knipe, both natives of Bucks county. Pennsylvania. Early in their married life they removed to Monroe county, w'here they spent their remaining days. Her father was originally a wheelwright, but purchas- ing land in Monroe county turned his at- tention to agricultural pursuits and con- tinued the improvement of his farm up to the time of his death. He gave his political allegiance to the Democracy, and lived an honorable, upright life. His w'ife bore the maiden name of Mary Haldeman, and was a representative of one of the old and worthy families of Pennsylvania. The Knipe family was connected with the Lutheran church, while the Haldemans were of the ]\Ien- nonite faith, and all were consistent Christian people. To George and Mary Knipe were born seven children: Jacob, who was killed in the second battle of Winchester, while serving in the Union army during the civil war: Emeline, the Wife" of George B. Kerst: Mary, the wife of Abner Boorse: Ann. the wife of James Zabriska; Sarah, wife of Eli Cad- wallader, Jr.; Rachel, wife of N.' Scoble; and Josephine, the wife of A. Abler. Eli Cadwallader. Jr.. died December 21, 1891. at the age of sixty years, and was survived by his wife, who is now about sixty years of age. Their children were: Washington: Mary, the wife of H. S. Abbott: Ruberta. wife of R. Martin; Sarah: and Grant, who is a civil engineer. HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 719 Washington Cadwallader 6), born and reared on the old homestead, pursued his education in the public schools and in the Horsham Friends' school. He as- sisted in the cultivation and improve- ment of the home farm until after his father's death, when he took charge of the property and later became its pur- chaser. He still continues general farm- ing and he also keeps a herd of cows and sells milk. He markets the products of his farm in Philadelphia, and was a reg- ular attendant at the city market for ten years. His entire attention is devoted to his agricultural pursuits. His farm comprises one hundred and nine acre.', of land, which is very productive. It is situated within a mile of the Warrington postoffice, and the house is a commo- dious, two-story structure, standing on an elevation that commands a splendid view of the surrounding country. There is also a large barn, modern in con- struction, and all the outbuildings neces- sary for the shelter of grain and stock. He uses the best improved machinery, has his fields under a high state of cul- tivation and follows the most modern ideas of farming in carrying forward his work. There are apple and peach or- chards upon the place, together with small fruit and everything about the farm indicates his careful supervision and practical and progressive spirit. He is a broadminded and intelligent business man and competent farmer, and through unfaltering diligence has achieved a very gratifying measure of success. In addi- tion to the control of other business af- fairs, he is a director of the Whitehall Fire Insurance Company and a director of the Danboro Livestock Insurance Company. He belongs to Hatboro Lodge, No. 410, F. and A. M. They are num- bered among the most highly respected citizens of their locality, and the influ- ence which Mr. Cadwallader exerts in community affairs has been far-reaching and beneficial. In 1893 Washington Cadwallader was joined in wedlock to Miss Agnes Mere- dith, who was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1873. She is a lady of many excellent traits of heart and mind and has been an able assistant to her husband. Her parents, Charles and Catherine (McKinstry) Meredith, are na- tives of Bucks county and representa- tives of early families of this part of the state. The paternal grandfather, James IMeredith. was a leading and successful farmer of Warminster township, and his business integrity and public-spirited cit- izenship made him highly respected. Charles ^^leredith was reared to farm pursuits and when married settled upon a farm and afterward conducted a hotel. Later he served as jailer at Doylestown, and is now a salesman of Philadelphia. Those with whom he has come in con- tact entertain for him high regard be- cause of his allegiance to honorable, manly principles. His wife, Mrs. Cath- erine Aleredith, died in 1875, in the faith of the Neshaminy Presbyterian church, to which Mr. Meredith also belonged. His second wife was Mary Duckworth, a daughter of Samuel Duckworth, a well known farmer of Bucks county. There was one child of the second marriage, Frank. By the first marriage there were two children: James H., who is now a conductor on a trolley line; and Agnes. Mrs. Agnes Cadwallader was only two years old at the time of her mother's death, and was reared by Hiram Cornell and his wife (the latter her mother's sis- ter), who gave her good educational privileges and surrounded her with all the loving attention she would receive in the parental home. To Mr. and Mrs. Cadwallader have been born four chil- dren: James Russell, October 17, 1895; Eli Franklin, February 12, 1898; Charles Paul, March 8, 1900; and Eleanor J., May I. 1902. A Republican in politics Mr. Cadwallader takes an active interest in public questions, frequently attendmg conventions of his party and has la- bored to secure the nomination of com- petent and capable men. He has filled varius township offices, and at the pres- ent time (1904) is school director in his district. He has been secretary of the board since 1896, and has been most loyal to every trust reposed in him, and has been the supporter of every measure which has concerned public progress and improvement. WILLIAM HOBENSACK, who for a number of years has been closely identi- fied with the business interests of Ivy- land, was born in Southampton township, Bucks county. May 17, 1862, upon a farm belonging to his father, Isaac C. Hoben- sack. The family history gives it that three brothers of the name came from Germany to America in colonial days and from them were descended the rep- resentatives of the family now in Penn- sylvania. They have mostly been farm- ers .and mechanics. Isaac Hobensack, Sr., grandfather of William Hobensack, was a native of Bucks count}', and throughout his entire life followed farm- ing, his death occurring in Warminster township, at Johnsville. He took an ac- tive interest in public affairs, gave his political allegiance to the Whi-g party and filled a number of township offices, in which his loyalty in citizenship was manifested. His wife was of the old school Baptist faith, and both were held in high regard in the communit}^ She bore the maiden name of Emily Fetter and by their marriage they became the parents of seven children: Rachel F., the wife of James Hart, who served in the civil war; ]\Iargaret, who married Will- '20 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. iani L. Craven; Isaac C; William, who followed school teaching and afterward engaged in farming; John, of Ohio, who was a captain in the rebellion; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Hillings; and Mary E., wife of Thomas Mayberry. Isaac C. Hobensack, father of Will- iam Hobensack, was also a native of Bucks county, and, reared to agricultural pursuits, he remained upon the home farm near Jbhnsville until his marriage. After he wedded Joanna Hogeland he brought his bride to the old homestead, but later removed to Jacksonville and in 1862 bought a farm in Southampton township, whereon he spent his remain- ing days. He carried on general agri- cultural pursuits and found a ready sale for his products in the Philadelphia mar- kets, being numbered among the general farmers and market men of his locality for a half century. His interest in com- munity affairs was deep and sincere and prompted him to capable service wdien he was called to public duties. He be- came county commissioner as a member of the first Republican party and acted in that capacity for thirty-two years, capably promoting the interests of the county by his faithful discharge of the duties that devolved upon him. He was also a school director for a number of years, and he served as a delegate to congressional conventions on several occasions. Widely recognized as one of the leaders of the Republican party in his locality, he did everything to promote its growth and insure its success. His life in all its relations was straight-for- ward and honorable, and for many years he was the trustee of the old school Baptist church of Southampton. He continued a resident of Southampton township until his death which occurrea January 9, 1904. His wife, who still sur- vives him, now resides on the old home farm at the age of seventy-two j^ears. She is a daughter of Abraham Hogeland, a harnessmaker, who in his later life fol- lowed farming. He belonged to one of the old families of Bucks county and was prominent in its public life- as a Democrat, who filled various positions. He acted as justice of the peace and in township positions did creditable service for the community. He belonged to the Dutch Reformed church and died in that faith in 1865. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Fenton and v^'ho also belonged to an old family of Bucks county, was a daughter of John Fenton, an agriculturist. To Mr. and IMrs. Hoge- land were born nine children: Joseph, living in Trenton, New Jersey; Susannah, the wife of H. D. Leffert; William, a hotel keeper; Joanna, who became Mrs. Hobensack; Theodore, a farmer; Morris, who carries on agricultural pursuits; Elias, who was at one time sheriff of Bucks county; Frank, a farmer, who served as justice of the peace; and Charles, a farmer and miller. The chil- dren of Isaac C. and Joanna Hobensack are: Mary A., the wife of H. B. Krew- son, a farmer and special agent; Isaac Morris, , of Montana; Louisa, who died in infancy; William, of this review; B. Frank, who was at one time sheriff of Bucks county and is now following the real estate business; Albert C, of Ivy- land; Emily, the wife of W. C. Yerkes; Wilkins, who is private secretary for Hon. I. P. Wagner, congressman of Seventh Congressionil district of Penn- sylvania; and Joanna, at home. The mother is a member of the Dutch Re- formed church of Churchville, Penn.syl- vania. William Hobensack was reared under the parental roof where he remained un- til tw^enty-five years of age, when he was married and began farming on his own account. He had acquired a good edu- cation in the common schools and in Hatboro Academy, and he received prac- tical training in farm labor under his father's direction. At the time of his marriage he rented the Abram Hogeland farm, which he continued to cultivate for three years, and in 1890 he joined his brother B. Frank and they became mer- chants and mill men of Ivyland, con- ducting a mill in which they manufac- tured feed and also dealt in coal, lum- ber, farm implements and fertilizers. He built up a very large trade and bought and shipped grain of all kinds. In 1S99 William Hobensack purchased his broth- er's interest, and yet conducts the busi- ness under the old firm name of Hoben- sack Brothers. He handles goods in large quantities and his patronage has long since reached profitable propor- tions. He is practical in all that he does, possesses sound judgment and keen dis- cernment, and in the capable control of his mercantile interests has met with very gratifying success. He also owns a large and well improved farm, which is kept under a high state of cultivation and is a well improved property. Mr. Hobensack wedded Miss Mary A. Stout, who was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1868, a grand- daughter of Henry Stout, a leading farmer of this part of the state and one of the trustees and deacons in the old school Baptist church of Southampton, . Pennsylvania for many years. Her pa- rents were Christian F. and Sarah Shel- mire Stout, both belonging to early east- ern families of Pennsylvania. Her father was reared to farm pursuits, and later entered the employ of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, in which service he has since been retained, one of the most trusted representatives of the road. The children in his family are: Albert, who is connected with a creamery ; George S.. a conductor on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad; Mary A., now Mrs. Hobensack; Valeria, HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 721 the wife of L. Terry; Xora, the wife of J. Terry; and Harry, a carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. William Hobensack had nine children: Isaac C, born April 18, 1888; Sarah M., born June 13. 1889; Bertha, born February 21, 1891; George F., born November 24, 1892; Joanna, born Janu- ary 14, 1894; William P., born June 25, 1896; Clarice D., born April 20, 1898; Earle j\I., who was born January 13, 1901, and died at the age of seven months; and Alice, born May 3, 1902. Mr. Hobensack exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party and is deepl}' interested in its growth and suc- cess, believing that its platform contains the best elements of good government. He has served as a school director for a number of years and is likewise deeply interested in the moral development of his community, having for more than twenty years been a member of the old school Primitive Baptist church, in which he is serving as clerk and trustee. He is likewise a member of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia. In his busi- ness career he has made a steady ad- vancement through close application, laudable ambition and strong purpose, and is to-day one of the leading repre- sentatives of trade interests in Ivyland. T. S. WORTHINGTON, one of the most progressive farmers of Bucks county, living in Warwick township, w'as born in Buckingham township, February 19, 1840. His paternal grandfather, Ben- jamin Worthington, was a leading agri- culturist of his community arid cared not to take an active part in other interests outside of his business and his church, he being a devoted member of the Friends' Meeting. His political endorse- ment was given the Democracy. In his family were four children: Benjamin, Amasa, Hester and Mary A. Amasa Worthington. born in Bucks county, was reared to farm life, and when he was married settled upon the old homestead in Buckingham township, but later sold that property and removed to W^rightstown township, where he pur- chased a farm and devoted his attention to its further improvement until his death. He engaged in general agricul- tural pursuits and in driving stock from the west, and he handled many droves of cattle, finding that business profitable. He also attended the Philadelphia mar- ket where his produce found ready sale, many of his customers giving him their patronage for years. His early political support was given the Democracy, while later he voted with the Whig party, and on its dissolution became a Republican. He never had political aspirations and served only as school trustee. He mar- ried Amy Spencer, a daughter of John Spencer, who was an enterprising farmer, 46-3 belonging to one of the old and valued families of Bucks county, of Quaker faith. His children were : Sarah, Sam- uel, Amy and John. Amasa and Amy Worthington had seven children: Sarah, who married James Slack, a soldier of the One. Hundred and Fourth Pennsyl- vania Infantry in the civil war; Louisa; T. S., of this review; Benjamin, who died in early manhood; Lucretia, wife of H. Buckman; John, of Philadelphia; and Anna, at home. T. S. Worthington, reared upon the home farm, acquired his early education in the public schools and afterward at- tended Carversville Seminary. On at- taining his majority he began merchan- dising at Rush Valley, where he re- mained for five years — a successful' epoch in his business career. He after- ward had a commission w-agon and did a general business. Following his mar- riage, in December, 1870, he returned to the old homestead and engaged in farm- ing for a year, after which he purchased the farm upon which he has resided con- tinuously since 1871, this being known as the Hart Jamison farm. It contains one hundred acres, well improved, and in fact is one of the best farm properties of the county, for its owner is a most progres- sive and practical agriculturist. He has made an addition to the house and other- wise remodeled it, has built a barn, and keeps all his buildings and fences in good repair. The fields are under a high state of cultivation and he sells his products in the Philadelpiiia market, which he has attended since locating on this farm. There is much fruit upon his place, and altogether there are ten groves of forest or fruit trees. He uses the latest im- proved farm machinery and attached to the barn are large silo tanks, with a gas- oline engine furnishing the power for cutting the fodder, for pumping water, for making cider and for grinding tiie feed for himself and others. He is in ad- vance of most farmers in the methods which he follows in his chosen field of labor, and while he is quick to adoj^t new methods, he is so practical in all of his labors that his judgment is rareiy if ever at fault in determining upon the utility of a new invention or method of farm work. He is both a successful farmer and market man. In his political views Mr. Worthington is a stanch Re- publican, taking an active interest in all public questions connected with the wel- fare and progress of his community, but he has never aspired to office, preferring to devote his undivided attention to his business aflfairs. The only office he has ever held is that of member of the school board, in which capacity he served for mau}^ years. He was reared in the Friends' Meeting and yet adheres to that denomination. Mr. ^W^orthington married Miss Jane- Powell, who was born in Delaware ^22 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. count}^ Pennsylvania, in 1845, ^ daugh- ter of Thomas and Sarah (Parsons) Powell, both descendants of early fami- lies of Delaware county. They were members of the Friends' meeting, and Mr. Powell followed the occupation of farming to provide for his family. His death occurred in Delaware county and his wife, yet surviving him, still makes her home there. His political views ac- corded with the principles of the Repub- lican party, and he was an honored citi- zen 01 his community. In their family were seven children: Anna, wife of L. Hill; Jane, wife of T. S. Worthington; Owen and William, who follow farming; Emily, the wife of G. Dutton; Linton, a farmer; and Hannah, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Worthington have two sons and two daughters: Amasa, who is farming on the old homestead, was born May 6, 1873, and married Grace Jones, a daugh- ter of George Jones, a prominent rail- road man employed as machinist boss, having charge of a gang of men for the Cumberland Valley Railroad. Amasa Worthington has two children — Sarah J. and Helen M. T. Powell Worthing- ton, the second son, died at the age of twenty-three years. Ethel has completed the Normal Teachers' course at West Chester, and is now teaching. Amy S. is now attending the West Chester Normal School. BANES FAMILY. The Banes and Beans families of Bucks county are de- scended from the old Yorkshire family of Baines, the main branch of which have resided at Baines Hall, Knowesthorpe, Yorkshire, for over seven hundred years. According to Burke, the founder of the Yorkshire family came from Scotland and located in Yorkshire in 1182, and they as well as the Bayne, Bane, and Bean families, of Scotland, representa- tives of whom have found their way to America at different periods since 1650. claim descent from Donalbain, son of Duncan, King of Scotland, and brother to Malcomb Canmore, with whom and his son he several times contended for the throne of Scotia, and has been im- mortalized by Shakespeare in "Mac- beth." The Yorkshire family of Baines have been knighted at several different periods and has produced many famous men. Sir Edward Baines, M. P., the owner and editor of the Leeds Mercury a century ago, and whose descendants still edit the paper, and his distinguished brother, Hon. Mathew Baines, M. P., were of this family. Among the earliest converts of George Fox in Yorkshire were Joseph and William Baines, of Stangerthwaite. The former, born in 1633, became a landholder in Bucks county in T683, and through his daugh- ter Hannah, wife of Daniel Jackson, to whom he conveyed five hundred acres of land in Buckingham township in 1699, has descendants in Bucks county at this day. The pioneer ancestor of the family of the name of Bucks county was Mathew Baines, of Weyersdale, Lancashire, sup- posed to have been the son of William Baines, the convert above mentioned. Mathew Baines, of Wyersdale, husband- man, was married at Lancaster Monthly of Friends, England, 10 mo. 22, 1672, to Margaret Hatton, daughter of William Hatton, of Bradley, Lancashire, and the records of that meeting show the birth of four of their children: Thomas, born 1675; Eleanor, 1677; Timothy, 1678, and William, 5 mo. 14, 1681. In the year 1687, Mathew Baines sailed for America with his family, but he and his wife and possibly two of their children died at sea. On the arrival of the vessel in which they sailed at Chester, the two children Eleanor and William were taken in charge by Friends, and the records of the orphans' court held at Chester, i mo. 6, 1687, show that Francis Little, prob- ably a fellow passenger, was directed to pay over to John Simcock and Thomas Brasse, trustees, to William and Ellin Baines, the sum of twenty-eight shillings in his hands. The date of the court minute being old style, was probably l\Iarch 6. 1688, as indicated by the fol- lowing letter of Phineas Pemberton, written to John Walker of Lancashire, from which it would seem that Mathew Baines carried a letter to James Harri- son, of Bucks county, one of Penn's commissioners, an'd father-in-law of Phineas Pemberton, called by Logan, the "Father of Bucks County," or that one had been sent to Harrison in his behalf. The letter is as follows: "Pennsillvania, fron ye fifalls of Dell- aware, in ye County of Buckes, the 13th day of ye ist Mo., 1688: My very deare love to Hen: Coward & his wife, I reed, his letter to father, concerneing Mat : Banes but have not time now to write him how: He died att sea & desired father in Law might have the tuition of his children but father died be- fore the children came in: however I went to see after them, they inclined to stay at Chester County where they landed to wch I was willing p'vided Friends would see after them, els if they would not I told ffriends I would. Ye boy is put out to one Joseph Stidman who is said to be a very honest man. Ye girle is withe John Simcocke & hath 40 or 50S. wages per annum. The boy is to be with sd. Stidman until he comes to ye age of 20 yeares wch is ye customary way of putting forth orphans in these partes. My deare love to ffriends att Lancaster Remember me if thou hast opportunity to Judith Hunter and to old Tho: Rawiinson if living." "Phinehas Pemberton." HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 7'^3 Elinor Banes, the daughter, married 7 mo. 26, 1694, Thomas Duer, of Bucks county, where are left numerous of their descendants. In the Duer family bible is found the record of the birth of the three eldest children of her brother William Banes. William Banes, probably soon after the termination of his term of service with Joseph Stedman, married and lo- cated in Southampton township, Bucks county, where a tract of land is marked with his name on an early survey, though no deeds appear of record to or from him. He died prior to May 23, 1729, when letters of administration were granted on his estate. His widow Eliza- beth, maiden name unknown, survived him many years, her will dated Decem- ber 27, 1768, being probated September 16, 1771. The children of William and ElizalDeth Banes were ten in number, and as follows: I. Joseph Beans*, born Sep- tember 24, 1708, died 1771, married May 17) '^733, Esther Evans, and had children: John, James, Mathew, and Seth. 2. Mathew Beans, born December 10, 1709, died in Buckingham township, Bucks county, in April, 1791, married first, May 2, 1734, Margery Paxson, daughter of Henry, and second. May 18, 1763, Elizabeth, the widow of Edward Rice; had three children by first wife; Jonathan; Ann, wife of Amos White; and David. By the second: Aaron, Eliz- abeth and Moses. 3. James Banes, born about 171 1. died July, 1749, was a blacksmith in South- ampton, married October 22, 1742, Eliza- beth Sands. Had children: Phebe, Jesse and Elizabeth. 4. Timothy Beans removed to Sole- bury in 1738, joined Buckingham Friends' Meeting and married Rebecca Paxson, sister to his brother Mathew's wife. Re- moved to Tinicum township in 1755. and in 1783 removed with his family to Fair- fax, Virginia. 5. Thomas Beans lived in Southamp- ton township until within a short time of his death, in Abington township, Montgomery county, in March. 1792. He was a large landowner in Southampton, Warminster and Abington. He married April 9, 1739, Jane Sands, daughter of Richard, and granddaughter of Stephen and Jane (Cowgill) Sands, and they were the parents of five children: Nathan, born June 3, 1740, died April 5, 1828; Isaac, born January 17, 1742; Thomas, born Oc- tober 3, 1744, see forward;' Stephen, born Julv 8, 1753; and Jane, born December 8, 1758, married Griffith Miles. The family were members of Southampton Baptist church, where Thomas and Jane were ♦The name for some reason became early corrupted into Beans, all of the children of William, except James, signing it in that manner, though the children of Joseph and the grandchildren of some of the other sons later spelled it Banes. The name is spelled in this narrative in the form used by the person referred to. baptized April 15, 1749. Thomas mar- ried second, November 25, 1772, Eliza- beth Hollingshead, who survived him. 7. William Beans removed to Bucking- ham in 175s, died there May 23, 181 1, leaving an only son Joshua, the grand- father of the late Joshua Beans, Esq., of Doylestown. 8. Jacob Beans, born 1729, died No- vember 13, 1807, in Solebury township. Became a member of Buckingham Meet- ing in 1745, and married Sarah Hartley, by whom he had eight children: Han- nah and Rachel, who died young; Jo- seph; Benjamin; Tamar, married David Newburn; Asenath, married Robert Walker; Ann, married Benjamin Taylor; and Mahlon. Sarah, the mother, died July 29, 1795, and Jacob married, second, Han- nah I den. 9. Elizabeth Banes married November 2, 1749, Richard Sands, and left numer- ous descendants. 10. Elinor, who died unmarried. Thomas Banes, third son of Thomas and Jane (Sands) Banes, born in South- ampton township, Bucks county, October 3, 1744, died January 23, 1828. He was a member of Captain Folwell's company , of Southampton Associators in 1775. He succeeded to the Southampton home- stead at the death of his father, and also owned other land in Southampton and Warminster. His widow Mary died April 7, 1836, at the age of eighty-five years. Their children were: William Banes, born August 4, 1770. died Janu- ary I, 1803, married Ann Miles; Samuel P. Banes, married Ann Dennis and lived and died in Churchville. Southampton; Elijah, see forward; Elizabeth, inarried Elias Yerkes; and Sarah married Thomas B. Worthington. Elijah Banes, youngest son of Thomas and Mary, born on the old Southampton homestead in 1790, inherited the greater part of it and lived thereon all his life, dying September 10, 1861. He married Ann Evans, and they were the parents of nine children: Elizabeth, marriea William Garwood; Margaret C., died in infancy; Jonathan C., died in Moreland in 1897; Isaac D.; Angeline, married Levi Antrim; Jane C., not married; Elmira, married John Knowles; Gustavus A. B., not married, has visited many of the countries of Europe and all of America; and Dr. Samuel Thompson Banes. Ann Banes, the mother, survived her hus- band and died October 10, 1871. DR. SAMUEL THOMPSON BANES of 845 North Broad street, Philadelphia, is the youngest son of Elijah and Ann (Evans) Banes. He was born in South- ampton township. Buck county, April 16, 1846. His early education was ob- tained at the Southampton school and at the Loller Academy, at Hatboro. He later took a course at the Carversville Normal Institute, Carversville, Pennsyl- 724 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY vania, wlicrc he graduated in 1865, and where he was engaged as an instructor. He studied medicine with Dr. Charles W. Seary and Dr. Gordon, of Philadel- phia, after a full course in the University oi Pennsylvania. He immediately began the practice of his chosen profession in his na- tive village of Southamptonville. In 1872 he removed to Camden, New Jersey, and accepted the position of surgeon to the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Com- pany, .which position he filled until the company was absorbed by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company's system. He then took a course in the Jefferson Medi- cal College, and, graduating in 1882, was appointed assistant on the stafif of Pro- fessor William Thompson, of the depart- ment of the eye and ear. He was also assistant under Professor Gross of the surgical department of the Jefferson Medical College. In 1886 he located at his present home, 845 North Broad street, Philadelphia, where he has since prac- ticed medicine and surgery. In 1893 he was appointed special examining sur- geon of the pension department of the United States, and still holds that posi- tion. He is a member of the Medico- Legal Society, Philadelphia County ]Med- ical Society and the American Medical Association: also the National Associa- tion of U. S. Surgeons. He is a mem- ber of Crescent Lodge, No. 493, F. and A. M., and Harmony Chapter No. 52, R. A. M. Dr. Banes has been twice married; his first wife. Carrie, daughter of Frederick and Mary Ellinger of Bucks county, died in 1877. He married for his second wife, in 1887, Eliza S. Nicholson, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of Judge Nicholson, of that city. To the doctor and his wife has been born one child, Elizabeth D. The family are aftiliated with the Broad street Presbyterian church. THE TORBERT FAMILY of Bucks county is descended from Samuel Tor- bert, who came to Pennsylvania in 1726. from Carrickfergus. Ireland, and located at Newtown, Bucks county. His family sought refuge in Ireland during the re- ligious persecutions in Scotland and, when the same contest of argument and arms that had wasted Scotland sprang up in Ireland, he joined the many Ulster- Scots who poured into this country after the period of Antrim evictions in Ire- land. He was for some years associated in the tanning business at Newtown with John Harris, Anthony Teate (Tate) and David Lawell, all compatriots of his, and purchased of the London Land Com- pany a tract of land in Upper Makefield townsliip, which he named Sylvan Re- treat, and which remained the property of his descendants until 1873. being owned by his son James Torbert, his grandson James Torbert and his great- grandson John Keith Torbert. He mar- ried Elizabeth Lamb in Ireland, and his children were six sons and two daugh- ters: William, James. Lamb, Thomas and Benjamin; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Anthony Teate, a Provincial sol- dier and officer, who was one of the largest landowners about Newtown, and one of the most prominent men of his day; and Jane, wife of John Henderson, who removed to the west. James Torbert, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lamb) Torbert, was born at Carrickfergus, Ireland. Tradition relates that he did not accompany his parents to America, but remained in Ireland with his grandmother until ten years' of age, and then accompanied relatives to Bucks county. These relatives were probably the Polks of Warwick, Bucks county, as an -old paper filed in the common pleas court of Bucks county in 1752 shows that there were busines dealings between his father, then of Carrickfergus, Ireland, and the Polks, in 1725. James Torbert married Hannah Burleigh (or Burley), daughter of Johii Burleigh, an- other Ulster-Scot, who settled in Upper Makefield at about the same date as the McNairs and Torberts, and died there in 1748. James Torbert became a consid- erable land owner in Upper Makefield, and died there in 1813. He and his wife Hannah were the parents of nine chil- dren, as follows: i. Samuel, married Elizabeth Keith; 2. James, married Mar- garet McN^ir; 3. Abner, married Jane Gibson, and removed to Ohio; 4. Lamb, born May 9, 1769, and died in Lower Makefield August 23, 1849; his first wife and the mother of his nine children was Jane Slack, daughter of Cornelius, of Makefield. 5. Elizabeth, married Abra- ham Slack. 6. Alice, married James Slack. 7. Ann, married John Hare. 8. Amelia, married Christopher Search. 9. Anthony. James Torbert, Jr., son of James and Hannah (Burleigh) Torbert, was born in Upper Makefield, March 14, 1760, and died there. On April 2, 1792, his father convej'ed to him 128 acres of land in Upper Makefield, which had been con- veyed to James, Sr., by the heirs of Will- iam Keith in 1775. He married, Febru- ary 6, 1787, Margaret McNair, born Feb- ruary 8, 1767, daughter of James and Martha (Keith) McNair, and grand- daughter of Samuel McNair, born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1699. of Scottish parents, and came to this country in 1732 and settled in Upper Makefield. His son James was born in 1733, and married Martha Keith, daughter of William Keith, who came from the north of Ire- land, presumably with the McNairs, and married Margaret Stockton, of New Cas- tle, by whom he had nine children. None of his descendants in the male line now reside in Bucks. James and Margaret HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 725 (McNair) Torbcrt were the parents of eleven children: Absalom died in in- fancy; Martha, married George Bennett; Hannah, married John Craven; Ann, married Isaac Vanartsdalen; Alice, never married; James McNair, who married Mary Simpson, and for his second wife Elizabeth Dalby; Elizabeth, who mar- ried Thomas L. Wynkoop; Samuel, who never married; John Keith, see forward; Charles, who married Phebe Lanning; and Margaret, unmarried. John Keith Torbert,- son of James and Margaret (McNair) Torbert, was born in Upper Makefield in 1802, and died there March 20, 1875. He lived on the old homestead called "Sylvan Retreat," that had been the property of his ancestors since early colonial times. His was a quiet retired life in scenes that he loved. Deeply interested in all that pertained to the community in which he lived, he gave glad service as ruling elder in the Sole- bury Presbyterian church, as had his ancestors for two generations, both pa- ternal and maternal. He was also a pio- neer in Sunday school work, and deeply interested in all educational work. He served for over a quarter of a century as president of the local school board. He married Euphemia Van Artsdalen Car- ver, daughter of Job and Maria (Van Artsdalen) Carver, and a descendant of William Carver, who settled in Byberry in 1682. John Keith and Euphemia (Carver) .Torbert were the parents of the following children: Henry M. Tor- bert, rector of St. Stephen's church, Bos- ton, Massachusetts; Maria V. K. Tor- bert, of Newtown, who was for fourteen years principal of St. Mary's College, Dallas, Texas ; Margaret ]\IcNair Tor- bert, of Newtown; William Keith Torbert, deceased ; and Alfred Carver Torbert, treasurer of the Galveston and Santa Fe Railroad Compan3\ at Galveston, Texas. Alfred C. Torbert married Rosanna Labatt, of Galveston, May 7, 1891. and they have four children: John Keith, Emilv Constance. IMargaret Mc- Nair, and Alfred Carver. The Torbert family and the families with whom they intermarried, the Keiths, McNair or Macnair, Burley or Burleigh, were of the sturdy Scotch- Irish Presbyterian stock, strongly im- bued with a love of home, clan and land, which had its real root in the love of re- ligious liberty, which inspired a love of the country where freedom of conscience was recognized and made them among the most patriotic of citizens. They clung tenaciously to the Scotch Presby- terian faith-, and were devout supporters of the Newtown and Solebury Presby- tefian churches, one or more of the fam- ily in each generation serving as elders. The later generations intermarried with the Holland families of Wynkoop. Slack and others, who like them were devout ■supporters of the church and stood for integrity and the best interests of the county in which they lived, and those of the familj' who removed beyond our bor- deres were pioneers of Christianity, and became eminent in the affairs of the sec- tions where they located. OLIVER MYERS, a farmer and com- mission merchant living in Plumstead township, - represents a family of Ger- man lineage that was established in Bucks county more than a century ago. The first representative of the name in this country settled near what is now called Sumneytown, in Montgomery county. John Myers, the great-grand- father of Oliver Myers, was z. resident of Bedminster township, where he re- mained until his death. His paternal grandfather, Henry F. Myers, lived and died in Plumstead township. In early life he learned the mason's trade, which he followed for a number of years and eventually gave his attention to farming. He was a member of the Mennonite church. He married Miss Elizabeth Fretz, who was likewise a native of Bucks county and of German lineage. They became the parents of the follow- ing named: Henry; William, married Elizabeth Myers; John, married Rachel Myers; Joseph F., married Barbara Fretz; Reuben, married Hannah High; Catherine, deceased; Barbara, married Abram Nash; and Annie, the wife of William Fretz. .''"^ mX-^^' Henry F. Myers, '.^son^ of Oliver Myers, was born in Plumstead township, August 12, 1817. He was reared upon his father's farm and in his youth learned the mason's trade, to which he de- voted his energies for seven j'ears. He then began farming, which he followea for forty years, being one of the ener- getic, enterprising and highly respected agriculturists of his locality. As his financial resources increased he made judicious investments in real estate, be- coming the owner of three valuable farms. September 19, 1845, he married Miss Anna Krout, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wisler) Krout. They became the parents of seven children: Oliver ; John, married Sarah Myers ; Leidy married Sally Shelly; Nathan, died at the age of nineteen years; Susanna, wife of John K. Landus; Amanda, died at the age of eight years; and Elizabeth, wife of Abram L. Myers. f Oliver Myers, son of Henry F. and Anna (Krout) Myers, was born in Plum- stead township Bucks county. He obtained a common school education and in his youth assisted his father in the improvement and cultivation of the old home farm, re- maining under the parental roof until twenty-four years of age. In 1869 he purchased the farm upon which he now resides, and has since given his atten- 726 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. tion to general agricultural pursuits in connection with the commission business. During thirty-four years he has only twice failed to make a weekly visit to the Philadelphia market. His business affairs have been conducted with capa- bility, and he has so directed his labors as to gain a very desirable competence. Mr. Myers exercises his right of fran- chase in support of the men and meas- ures of the Republican party, and has been honored with a number of local offices, the duties of which he has dis- charged with promptness and fidelity. He was supervisor of his township for four years, was school director for six years, and has been the appraiser for the Dublin Protective Company for nine or ten years. His religious faith is indi- cated by his membership with the Old Mennonite church. Oliver Myers wedded Miss Catherine Leatherman and they have become the parents of five children, of whom one died in infancy. The others are Newberry L.', a resident farmer of Plumstead township; Harry L., who is engaged in the fertilizer bus- iness at Doylestown; Willis L.; and Clara L., at home. LEDNUM L. WHITE, agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and a representative of an English and French origin, was born in Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1841, a son of Charles A. and Alartha D. (Larue) White, natives of Falls township, the for- mer named having been a farmer and one of the early settlers of that place. Charles A. White (father) was a farmer and auctioneer by occupation, and resided on a farm in I>ower Makefield township from 1830 until his death, which oc- curred in 1862. He and his wife, who is also deceased, were the parents of seven children, nameh^: Caroline, Julia, Abbie, Ella, Anna, Martha, and Lednum L. White. Lednum L. White was born and reared on the farm whereon he now resides, and the house in which his birth oc- curred was used during the revolution- ary period as headquarters for a party of soldiers, whose meals were prepared in the large oven in the old fireplace which extended across the whole of one end of the structure, which is built of stone, and still standing. Since that time the house has been thoroughly remod- eled and equipped with more modern ap- pliances. For a number of years Mr. White dealt extensively in agricultural implements, this proving highly remun- erative, but for some years has served in the capacity of'agent for the Penn Mu- tual Life In.surance Company, one of the leading corporations along that luie. There is an extensive pond on his prop- erty in Lower Makefield township, which is used for pumping water for the Bound Brook railroad, and also in putting up ice in winter. He is one of the prom- inent and influential citizens of his com- munity, and has been chosen to serve in many political offices, among them being that of justice of the peace, in which capacity he rendered capable and efficient service for several terms. He is an ad- herent of the Republican party, anu a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In 1865 Mr. White- was united in marriage to Georgiana Scat- tergood, who bore him three children: Fretz E., deceased; Emma, and Helen. Mrs. White is a member of the Episcopal church. CHARLES MONROE DOLL, the cap- able and efficient station master at Elkins Park, near the city of Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, was born in Quakertown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November i, 1869, son of Charles and Amanda (Althouse) Doll, and grandson of Christopher and (Rosenberger) Doll. Charles Doll (father) was born in Milford township^ Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Charles M. Doll attended the public schools of his native town and graduated from the high school in the class of 1887. He then took up the profession of teaching at the Salem and Keystone public schools in Springfield township, Bucks county, in the meantime assisting as station agent in the employ of the North Pennsylvania Rail- road Company at various places until 1890', when he became station agent at Shelly Sta- tion, where he remained for a period of six months. He was then removed to Hat- field, later to Ashbourne, and May 15. 1899, at the opening of the station at Elkins Park, near Philadelphia, was promoted to that position and has since fulfilled the du- ties pertaining thereto with ability and zeal. Apart from his services as an employee of the railroad company. j\Ir. Doll takes an ac- tive part in local afifairs. He is a Republi- can in politics, and exercises a certain in- fluence in behalf of the party whose prin- ciples he advocates. He has served as dele- gate to county conventions, and in various other ways has aided its interests. He is a member of the McKinley Republican Club, at Ogontz, of which he is treasurer. He is actively identified with various fra- ternal organizations, and has attained the thirty-second degree in Freemasonry. He is a member of Philadelphia Consistory, Abington Chapter No. 245. of Jenkintown, and past master of Shiloh Lodge No. .:;!;8, of Lansdale, Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the Knights of Malta, of Quakertown. Knights of the Golden Eagle. No. 40. of Onakertown, and Lodge No. 63T, Junior Order of United Americnn Mechanics, of Philadelphia. "Nfr. Doll married. August 22. iqot, Car- oline Frances, daughter of John and Anna HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 7^7 (McLoughlin) Rouse, of Ogontz. where they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Doll are members of St. Paul's Episcopal church, at Ogontz, in the affairs of which Mrs. Doll takes an active interest, serving as teacher in the Sunday school connected therewith, and a member of the Order of King's Daughters. MARGARET WATER^IAN RICKEY, of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, is a de- scendant of early settlers in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Alexander Rickey, her great-great-grandfather, was born in Edin- burgh, Scotland, in the year 1688, and died in Lower Makefield township in 1758, at the age of seventy years. He came to Penn- sylvania when a young man, and married in 1715, Anne Keirl, daughter of Thomas and Julian Keirl, of Lower Makefield, and in 1725 with his wife and children brought a certificate from Abington (Philadelphia county) Monthly Meeting of Friends to Falls Meeting, Bucks county, and settled in Lower Makefield, where he was a prom- inent farmer and wool grower. Alexander and Anne (Keirl) Rickey were the parents of ten children: Thomas, born 2 nio. 15. 1716, married Hannah Dowdney ; John, born II mo. 17, 1717, married INlary Hutch- inson; Katharine, born 8 mo. 20, 1720, mar- ried, first, Randal Hutchinson, and (sec- ond) Joseph Milnor; Alexander, born 10 mo. 26, 1723; Rachel, born 12 mo. 26, 1726, married Sims Betts ; James, born 9 mo. 3, 1729 ; Anne, born i mo. 26, 1732, married Mahlon Kirkbride, Jr. ; ]Mary, born 10 mo. 10, 1734, married John Derbyshire : Sarah, born 5 mo. 24, 1737; Keirl, born 6 mo. 2, 1740. married Sarah Milnor. John Rickey, _ second son of Alexander and Anne (Keirl) Rickey, born January 17, 1717-18, died in Trenton, New Jersey, Sep- tember 3, 1798. He lived in Trenton during its occupancy by the Hessians in 1776. and several of them quartered themselves in his house. When they were attacked and de- feated by Washington's army on the morn- ing of December 26, 1776, a party of the Hessians surrendered to Washington's troops in John Rickey's orchard. John Rickey married ]\Iary Hutchinson, daughter of John and Sarah (Burges) Hutchinson, of Falls, born February 28, 1728. Her ma- ternal ancestry is given in this volume, in "The Burges Family." Her father, John Hutchinson, was for many years and up to his death in 1745 an overseer of Falls ?^Ieet- ing of Friends. He married first Phebe Kirkbride. and had children : John, mar- ried Ann Stanaland ; Thomas, married Eliz- abeth Higgs ; Joseph, married Esther Stanaland ; Michael, married A.nn Lucas ; Randal, married Katharine Rickey as his second wife, his first being Elizabeth Harvey; Hannah, married a Murphy. John Hutchinson married (second) 3 mo. 24, 1726, Sarah Burges, daughter of Samuel and Elenor Burges, of Falls, who died in 1748. They were the parents of four chil- dren— Samuel, Priscilla, Mary, above men- tioned, and Phebe. Thomas Hutchinson married Dorothy Storr, at Beverly, York- shire, England, and came to New Jersey in the ship "Kent" in 1677, and was one of the proprietors of West Jersey. He and his wife Dorothy lived and died at Hutch- inson Manor, on the eastern bank of the Delaware, above Trenton, New Jersey. He died about 1698, leaving a large landed es- tate to his son John, whom Miss Rickey claims as the John Hutchinson, before men- tioned, who settled in Bucks county. Randal Rickey, son of John and ]\Iary (Hutchinson) Rickey, was born near Tren- ton, New Jersey, December 4, 1766, and died at Trenton, December 3, 1802. He was a hardware merchant at Trenton, and a member of Friends' jNIeeting. He married September 11, 1794, Margaret Waterman, daughter of Benoni and Sarah Waterman, born at Barbadoes, West Jndies, and a member of the Episcopal church. Randal Hutchinson Rickey, son of Ran- dal and INIargaret (Waterman) Rickey,' was born in Trenton^ New Jersey, Feb- ruary 19, 1799, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6, 1855. He was for twenty years city and county engineer at Cincin- nati. In religion he was a Friend. He married in Philadelphia, March 25, 1825, Susannah jNIcAulley, and they were the parents of ]\largaret W.'i'prni-m Rickey. FRANK HEATON. In colonial days the Heaton family was established in Bucks county. Edwin Heaton, the grandfather, was born in Hilltown township, in 1795, and in early life established a grocery trade in Philadelphia, which he conducted with success up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1826. He married Miss Eliza jMathias, and they became the parents of two children; Mathias; and Mary Ann, the wife of John Henry Gile. JMathias Heaton, father of Frank Heaton, was born in Philadelphia, October 18, 1825, and obtained his education in a private school at Doylestown. Subsequently he engaged in teaching for a number of years in a school house that stood on a farm now occupied by his son Frank. Later he turned his attention to agricultural pur- suits, which he continued up to the time 01 his death, which occurred March 24, 1886. His political allegiance was given the Dem- ocracy, and his fellow townsmen, recog- nizing his worth and ability, called him to local office. He served as justice of the peace for a number of years, and also held the position of school director. He was a member of the Doylestown Presbyterian church, and served as one of the building committee when the new church edifice was erected. He married Miss Elizabeth Garges, a daughter of John and Margaret Garges, and they became the parents of three children : Nathan M., born Novem- 7^3 HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. : ber 21, 1850, died I"cl)riiary 21, i8e was ad- mitted to practice in the courts of the city and county of Philadelphia, and very shortly afterwards was admitted to prac- tice in the courts of Bucks county. IMr. Vv illiams has been a resident of Sellers- ville since the year 1879, and during the years of his teaching in the Peirce School and of his practice in the city and county of Philadelphia has made daily trips from his home at Sellersville to and from the city. His family residence is situated on North ]Main street in the borough of Sell- ersville, and is pleasantly located. In 1881 Mr. Williams was married to Harriet Newell Lippincott, youngest daugh- ter of Mr. Tyler Lippincott, a long time resident of Rockhill township, and later of the borough of Sellersville. His family consists of two children : Bessie L., born in January, 1885 ; and Martha M., born in July, 1891. i\Ir. Williams, in politics, is a Republican. He has never sought any political office, although he has been active in his work for the success of the Republican party. He belongs to the Presbyterian church, be- ing a member of the Old Pine Street ■church, located at Fourth and Pine streets, Philadelphia. EOIER P. WF.TSEL. The pionerr an- cestor of the Weisel family of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was Michael Weisel, who with his wife and family emigrated from the Palatinate to Pennsylvania in 1732, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Pink," which arrived at Philadelphia, October 17, 1732. with sixty-one Palatines and their families, making in all one hundred and sixty-nine persons, from Rotterdam. On the list of these Palatines appear the names of Michael and Frederick Wyssel and their wives and children. ^Mi^hael Weis'^l was accompanied by his wife Susanna and three sons, Jacob, Michael and George. The family probably found their way into Bucks county within a few years of their arrival, followed the trend of German immigra- tion up the Schuylkill and her eastern tributaries into upper Bucks county, then alreadv partly settled by their compatriots. "On February 15, 1743, there was surveyed to Michael Weisel two tracts of land in the northwestern part of Bedminster town- ship, near Tohickon church, one of the earliest German Reformed churches in Bucks county, then just being organized, and fronting on the "Swamp Road," then (as now) the line between Hilltown and Bedminster, one of one hundred and fifty acres, and the other one hundred and thirty-one acres. The Weisels were among the earliest members of Tohickon church, and several generations of the family lie buried in the churchyard adjoining. They were also pio- neers in education, as the first land alien- ated from the family was set off the original plantation for a school house in 1767, with Jacob and Michael Weisel among the trus- tees, and upon which a school house had been already erected. This primitive school house and its humble successors continued to do service as a "temple of learning," supported by the Weisels and their neigh- bors, until superseded b}^ the common schools, supported by taxation, the land being sold by Samuel Weisel as agent for the surviving trustees and converted to private use on April 2, i86r. The date of the death of i^Iichael Weisel, Sr., and his wife Susanna has not been definitely ascer- tained. They conveyed the paternal acres to their eldest son Jacob in 1757, and he in turn conveyed a portion thereof to his brother ■Michael, George, the other brother, having settled in Richland township. All that is definitely known is that he was de- ceased in July, 1767, when his son Jacob made the conveyance of the school house lot. Of the children of Michael and Su- sanna Weisel, Jacob, the eldest, survived- his younger brother, living until 1797, and to the age of about eighty years. He was a lieutenant of militia during the Revolu- tionary war. He and his wife Margaret were the parents of five children : Freder- ick, born April 21, 1751 ; Anna Catharine, born March 18. 1756; John, born July 6. 1758: George, born June 29, 1761 ; and Maria Elizabeth," born in September, 1769. George Weisel, the youngest son, died in Richland in 1798. leaving sons John, Peter, Jacob, and Joseph, and several daughters. Michael Weisel was born in the Pala- tinate in the year I7'20, and was therefore twelve years of age when he accompanied his parents, IMichael and Susanna, to Penn- sylvania. He married Magdalena , and was a resident of Bedminster township, Bucks county, until his death, June 24, 1796, at the age of seventy-six years. He was a member of Tohickon Reformed church, and the baptism of three daughters appears of record there in 1733-1756 and 1758, respectively, but they probably all died young, as no daughters are mentioned in his will. He purchased 253 acres of land adjoining the Bedminster homestead on the south, of Chief Justice William Allen, and also received a conveyance from his brother Jacob for a part of the 281 acres purchased by his father in 1743, and con- 7ZO HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. veyed the greater part of both tracts to his three sons, IMichael, Henrj' and George, during his lifetime, devising to them at his death what remained. Of these three sons, Michael, the eldest, was twice married, his first wife being Catharine and his second, whom he married August 19, 1794, being Mary Sorvcr. He purchased of his father a portion of the homestead, and also pur- chased a portion of his grandfather's origi- nal purchase of his uncle Jacob, but later sold his Bedminster land and located in Tinicum township, where he died in 1830, leaving four sons, Michael. Daniel, Tobias and Samuel, and five daughters, who mar- ried into the families of Smith, Bissey and Swartz. George Weisel, the youngest son, born March 11, 1773, married ]^Iargaret Sheib, April 19, 1796. He received from his father a portion of the old homestead, butOater sold it and removed to ]\Iont- gomery county, and late in life purchased a farm in Warrington township, lafer occu- pied by his son George and grandson Sam- uel, where he died April 19, 1862, in his ninetieth j^ear. Henry Weisel, second son of Michael, Jr., and Magdalena, born in Bedminster about 1765, married Eve Shellenberger, a grand- daughter of Johannes Shellenberger, who came from Germany in 175 1 in the "Queen of Denmark" and settled in Hatfield town- ship, Montgomery county, later purchasing large tracts of land in Hilltown, Bucks county, upon which his son Conrad, who married Eve Leidy, settled about 1775. Michael and Mjlgdalena \^'ei5el on June- 28, 1790, conveyed to their son -Henry Weisel, 198 acres of the Allen tract in Bedminster, and he was devised another portion of the homestead by his father's will in 1796. In addition to these he purchased a portion of the land devised to his brother George, and about twenty acres across the Swamp road in Hilltown, the site of the old Green Tree hotel, near Hagersville. In 1S22 he conveyed sixty-five acres of the homestead to his son George, and died seized of most of the other tracts in 1831. Henry and Eve (Shellenberger) Weisel were the par- ents of six children: Susanna, born 1789, married Philip Fluck ; George, born March 28, 1790, married I^Iarch 31, 1812, Catharine Fluck; Joseph, born July 10. 1793, pur- chased the homestead at his father's death ; Henry, born January 29, 1796, marriecf Sep- tember 3, 1820, Elizabeth Seiple, and re- moved to Franconia, IMontgomery county ; INlary, born 1802, married Henry Eckel, of Bedminster; and Samuel, born August I, 1804. Samuel Weisel, youngest son of Henry and Eve, was a lifelong resident of Bed- minster and adjoining parts of Hilltown. and died in Hilltown, August 9, 1889. He married. May 24, 1829, Catharine Solliday, born June, 1807, daughter of Peter and Magdalena (Godshalk) Solliday, grand- daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Loux) Solliday, and great-granddaughter of Fred- erick and Barbara Solliday, who came from Switzerland and settled in Bedminster about 1740. Frederick Sallade (as the name was originally spelled) was a clockmaker and armourer, and tradition relates that he rendered efficient service to his adopted country in the trying days of the Revolu- tionary war in the making and repairing of firearms for the use of her patriot soldiers. He settled on a farm purchased of William Allen, near Deep Run Mennonite meeting house, and died there at an advanced age, June 24, 1804. He was a noted clock- maker, as was his son Jacob, and several of his descendants down to the present day, and many specimens of his and their handi- work are still in use in Bucks »county. He and his wife Barbara were members of the Tohickon Reformed church, and among the earliest records of baptisms there is that of their son Jacob, born January 22, 1748, baptized July 17, 1748. Their eldest son Frederick was born in Germany, and died in Bedminster several years before his father. The children born to them in America were : Jacob, before mentioned ; John, baptized >May 20, 1750; Emanuel, baptized February 4, 1753; and Elizabeth, born April 26, 1758; and possiblj' others. Jacob Solliday, like his father, was an eminent clockmaker and followed that vo- cation in connection with farming in Bed- minster for many years. On arriving at manhood he purchased a farm near the Weisel homestead, and lived thereon until 1812, when he sold it to his son Peter and removed to IMilford township, where he died April 15, 1815. aged seventy-seven j-ears. He married June 10, 1773, Barbara Loux, born April 24. 1754, died August 23, 1829, daughter of Peter Loux, born 1706, who came from Rotterdam in the "Friendship," September 20. 1738, and set- tled in Bedminster, where he purchased a farm of 175 acres adjoining Frederick Solli- day, which became the property of his grandson, John Solliday, clockmaker, eldest son of Jacob and Barbara, in 1790. The children of Jacob and Barbara (Loux) Sol- liday were: John, born 1775; Peter, born September 24. 1783, of whom presently; Samuel, born July 27, 1789; George, Cath- arine, Nancy, ISIary. Peter Solliday, father of Catharine Wei- sel, was the second son of Jacob and Bar- bara (Loux) Solliday, and was born in Bed- minster, Bucks county, September 24, 1783,. and died there rvFarch. 1859. He was also a clockmaker, and followed that vocation all his life. He remained on the farm with his father, and in 1812 purchased the home- stead and 150 acres, which he conveyed to. his son Peter G. Solliday, in 1857. He married, October 6, 1805, Magdalena God- shalk, born April i, 1785. died January 12, 1851, daughter of Michael Godshalk, of Bedminster, and they had issue : Jacob, born April 15, 1806, married December 6, 1829, Maria Hartzel : Catharine, bornjune, 1807, married May 24, 1829, Samuel Weisel ; Barbara, born September 21, 1809, married HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 73^ Charles Gerhart, of Hagersville ; Anne, born July 21, 1S14, married Henry Ochs ; Elizabeth, born September 20, 1816, mar- ried Samuel M. Hager; and Peter G. Sol- liday, born December 8, 1823, married Anna Stover. The children of Samuel and Cath- arine (SoUiday) Weisel are: jNIagdalena, born June 4, 1830, died young; Francis S., born October 27, 1832, of whom presently; Elevina, born December 17, 1835, wife of David H. Bean, of Allentown ; Caroline, born December 17, 1835, wife of Levi Shel- lenberger, of Hagersville; Eve, wife of George Swartz. of Souderton ; and Mary, wife of Samuel Rotzel, of Perkasie. Francis S. Weisel. now residing in Phila- delphia, was the only son of Samuel and Catharine (Solliday) Weisel, and was born in Bedminster, three miles above Dublin, October 27, 1832. On March 30, 1868, his father conveyed to him the farm and hotel in Hilltown, known as the Green Tree hotel, on the Swamp Road, opposite the old Weisel homestead, and he was the pro- prietor of the hotel for five years. In 1873 he removed to Telford borough, where he owned and conducted a hotel and was the postmaster of Telford for ten years. He then removed to Doylestown and purchased the Railroad House, which he conducted for four years. In 1887 he removed to Philadelphia, where he has since lived a quiet and retired life. He was a member of the Reformed church until his removal to Philadelphia, but for the past eighteen years has been a member of the Presby- terian church, he and his family being now members of North Broad street Presby- terian church. He married in 1866 Annie E. Bowers, born near Jamison, Warwick township, Bucks county. August 28, 1847, daughter of Charles and Franey (Veronica) Delp Bowers. Charles Bowers, her father, was born and reared in Philadelphia, his father, a native of England, having lived and died in that city, where his son Charles was born in 1803. On arriving at manhood 'Charles Bowers located in Bucks county, and on his m&rriage in 1842 settled in' Hatboro. ]\Iontgomery county. In the spring of 1849 he purchased about twenty acres of land at Jamison, Bucks county, and resided there until his death, De- cember 31, 1S71. He married Franev Delp, daughter of George and Margaret (Eydem) Delp, of Bedminster, Bucks county, born 1820, died INIarch. 1850, and they were the parents of five children : Annie E., now the wife of Francis S. Weisel ; Sarah, unmar- ried; Oliver, died in Warwick in 1874; Margaret and Elvyood. George Delp, the pioneer ancestor of the Delp family of Bucks county, came from Rotterdam in the ship "Thistle," arriving in Philadelphia, October 28, 1738. He located in Franconia township, now jNIontgomery county, and became a large landowner there as well as in Hilltown township, Bucks county. He and a number of his descend- ants lie buried in an old burying ground known as "Delp's Grave Yard," in the northwestern part of Franconia township. George Delp, son of the pioneer, located in Hilltown township, where his son George, the grandfather of J\Irs. Weisel, was born. The latter removed to Bed- minster township in 1S06, and died there about January i, 1830. He married Mar- garet Eydem, who survived him twenty years, dying in Bedminster in 1S50. They were the parents of tive children : Samuel, who died before his father, leaving a daughter JNIagdalena ; Jacob, who married a Barndt and was the father of Reuben Barndt Delp, of Allentown, before referred to as the husband of Catharine Weisel; Magdalena, who married Ulrick Hockman, both she and her husband dying before her father ; Margaret, who married Daniel Bartholomew ; and Franey, who married Charles Bowers. Francis S. and Annie E. (Bowers) Weisel are the parents of two sons : Elmer P. and Oscar W. Weisel ; and a daughter, Florence, w'ho died in infancy. ELMER P. WEISEL, of 1132 Green street, Philadelphia, was born in Bedmin- ster township, Februarj^ 23. 1867. His early education was acquired at the public schools of Telford, Montgomery county, and at Sellersville, Bucks county. At the age of fourteen years he entered West Chester State Normal School and graduated from that institution four j-ears later. After three years spent in teaching in the public schools of Bucks county he went to Phila- delphia, and entered the employ of the well known firm of Hood. Bonbright & Co., later Hood, Foulkrod & Co., and remained with that firm until 1894. when he became connected with the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, 700 Walnut street, wdiere he still holds a responsible position. He joined the Presbyterian church of Doylestown, and during his residence there was a teacher in the Sunday-school connected with that church. Since his residence in Philadelphia he has been a Sunday-school teacher and active church worker there, and has also officiated as organist. He is prominently associated with the ^Masonic fraternity, be- ing affiliated with Lodge No. 2, Harmony Chapter No. 52, R. A. M., and IMary Com- mandery No. 36, K. T.. of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Young Republican Club, of the Crescent Boat Club, on the Schuylkill river, and of Philadelphia Chap- ter of the American Institute of Bank OSCAR W. WEISEL, of 1132 Green street, Philadelphia, second son of Francis S. and Annie E. (Bowers) Weisel, was born in Hilltown township, Bucks county, July 22, 1870. He was educated at the public schools of Telford and Sellersville and at the Doylestown Seminary, and later took a two and a half years' course at West Ches- ter State Normal School, and then entered Peirce's Business College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1887. He en- tered the employ of Hood, Bonbright & Company, where he remained until 1890, 7^'2' HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. when he went with the Western Savings Fund Society, of looo Wahiut street, and for the past three years has been the man- ager of Branch Office C of the society at Kensington, Philadelphia. While residing at Doylestown he joined the Presbyterian church there, and has been an active church worker in Philadelphia for the past eighteen years. He is a member of Lodge No. 2, F, and A. M. ; Harmony Chapter No. 52, R. A. M. ; and Mary Commandery, No. 36, K. T., of Pennsylvania. He is also a mem- ber of the Crescent Boat Club on the Schuylkill river, and of -the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Bank Clerks. S" >\Uu i ^ '*'"«'